Excellent. I decided to start with Becky Chambers.

Ooh, those are both so good.

I really did try to think of a different way to work that, but dammit that is what I mean.

Currently reading Someone in Time: Tales of Time-crossed Romance. Short stories, which is convenient for picking up and putting down in between doing actual work, and authors I like, but kind of a lot of emotion to have to shove aside when I have to get back to working sometimes...

Only 6 books out from the library right now, possibly a manageable amount if no more holds become available too soon...

Nice! I decided to try for only three at a time this year if I can manage it. I always found that the holds I thought would take forever came way faster than my reading speed. Though, I do have a fourth on hold right now. I didn't think I'd find all three that I wanted on the shelves tonight.

I have no impulse control when it comes to putting books on hold, especially when they tell me I won’t get them for 12 weeks or something. But then they show up anfter only a few days. And my library switched up what happens when your hold does become available but you aren’t ready for it. Used to be able to kind of toss it back and just get back in the queue, now it gets suspended and you have to unsuspend it when you are ready. So I found myself with a bunch of suspended holds hanging over me knowing that if I don’t unsuspend within a year they will just, like, disappear? For some reason that prospect really stresses me out.

Exactly that flavor of stress! So I am trying a new thing this year with just not holding. And also pumping the brakes on my podcast fiction listening. So obsessed! No reading time! So. We shall see.