A Little Porn Here... A Little Porn There...

So.... I was resisting posting this porn photo.  Only because I think I've finally gone overboard with my tbr pile.   I now have 54 books in my pile!

I am going to make a concerted effort to get the pile down and not let it get any higher!  I'm sure my amazon wish list will grow considerably.  Truth be known, I have about run out of room to put them.  I keep getting told to box up the ones I've read and put them in the basement.. and that's NOT going to happen!   Not even a consideration since the basement is very damp and would ruin the books.

Anyway.. you can see I have a variety here.  American Prince (Tony Curtis) is an autobiography and NIV (David Niven) a biography. In the Woods is a mystery, Dragonheart is Fantasy (not to be confused with the Dennis Quaid Dragonheart movie) and The Keystone Kid is a book about some of the very early movie actors in Hollywood.

I think the only reason I sent for the Tony Curtis book is that I saw him on the View talking about it. Although I've liked his movies (and he's also quite an artist) I never had that much interest in him.  Oh well, maybe it will surprise me! 

Right now I am reading another Mary Russell book by Laurie R King, Locked Rooms.  I thought I would do like the small meme that goes around and randomly open my book to any page, count down 10 lines and write the next few lines:

So I told him that someone I knew had died there, and with that his words began to flow.

It seemed that he was an insurance investigator looking into a death claim that might have been faked.  It also seemed that this corner was infamous as a killer of motorcars.

Indeed

He finished his cigarette, and by the looks of it the driver's flask, then with a tip of the grey fedora he climbed into the back of the van.  The other man slammed the door behind him and hurried around to the driver's side; in moments he had the van turned around and headed back north.

I'm glad there will be a new Mary Russell book out next April!!

On a totally different note..

We are having snow flurries!!   I do love to watch the first snow that sticks to the ground, but this is awfully early for snow!  Thankfully, it's just flurries and nothing is really sticking. We usually don't have a snow that amounts to anything much before Christmas, I hope it stays that way!