shopping in my own bookstore

Michelle at Overdue Books has conceived of a brilliant plan for this winter: the From the Stacks Winter Reading Challenge.

Here's the plan:

If you are anything like me your stack of purchased to-be-read books is teetering over. So for this challenge we would be reading 5 books that we have already purchased, have been meaning to get to, have been sitting on the nightstand and haven't read before. No going out and buying new books. No getting sidetracked by the lure of the holiday bookstore displays.

The bonus would be that we would finally get to some of those titles (you know you picked them for a reason!) and we wouldn't be spending any extra money over the holidays.

The time frame would be Nov. 1st until Jan. 30.

This is a great way to motivate me to read a number of books that I have purchased and then left to linger and collect dust on my bookcases. It's also very economical! Here's my list:

1. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
3. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
4. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
5. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Kylie Cat thinks it a marvelous scheme, for she is a very literary feline, naturally.