An Ambitious Goal (to say the least): Read Every Book We Own

As you can imagine, this post is going to be about books. It is not, however, going to be about A Critical History of the Mission and Ministry of the Christian Church in Hawaii.

I know, I know. You're disappointed. Unfortunately, my fingers just don't have the stamina to type that title more than once. Plus, I don't have a clue what that book is about - I've never so much as touched it except to put it on the shelf. And herein lies the reason for a life goal I hope to eventually accomplish: I want to read every book we own...


This sounds ambitious, to say the least. I suppose I could quickly achieve this goal by simply throwing all of our books out. Unfortunately, our garbage can isn't that large. Maybe some other time...

For now, then, I am faced with these ominous shelves packed with books I don't even know that I own:

Daunting, to say the least. These shelves tease me every day, knowing full well that I don't have time to read anything I don't get a grade for. I was able to read a few of these books this summer, but since I have left Taiwan, I haven't so much as glanced at any of these books.

Someday, though. Someday...

***EDIT/UPDATE***

In case anyone was wondering (c'mon, you know you were), here's the book I'm working on reading right now:

Ambitious, right? Baseball Pals was originally copyrighted in 1956 and had its copyright renewed in 1984 by Matt Christopher, the author of the copy I own. I have probably owned this book since at least 2000 and it's just now getting read. Talk about procrastination...