The Backlog
April 18th 2011 21:00
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Currently, I have a huge backlog of books to read. It is taking me about a month to read each book due to me working 60-hour weeks. It didn’t help that my favourite bookstore chain, Borders, is under voluntary administration.
Borders, as you might know, is owned by the same group as Angus and Robertson. On the day the closures were announced, which was on a Friday. I scanned the list. Phew! With the exception of the Rouse Hill store, all of the Sydney Borders stores were safe. But the A & R store in Town Hall station was closing.
The next day I fronted up at the A & R, not knowing what to expect. They were having a fifty per cent off everything closing down sale. Out came my hands to grab whatever cat and animal books were on the shelf. Out came my wallet. Out came my body, armed with a stack of books about animals and humans (there was a Grace Kelly book. She is the one of the few humans I want to read about.) This is to add to the pile of other books I have purchased from Borders that I still haven’t read.
At the rate I am going, it is going to be take a year before I finish all these books.
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