books

ever since i got promoted a grade, i have been accumulating books at an alarming pace. this week i got at least one a day, free. i try to limit the amount of pleasure reading i allow myself, for otherwise i fear i would never finish my degree, but the number of good fiction books i have been given is staggering. i have a reading list that is practically a book long in itself.
this week i have been reading shantarum by gregory david roberts. or actually it would be better to say that i have been obsessively reading it. i have had to make deals with myself, like "ok i read 2 chapters of XXX (whatever i am supposed to read for school) then i get to read one chapter of shantarum" and so on. it is 900 pages but it goes by fast, and i have found myself desperate to know how everything ends, how he gets caught and forced back to australia and so on.
next up is a thousand splendid suns, the new book by khaled hosseini. it isnt out until 27 may, but i got an embargoed copy last week and i am really looking forward to reading it: i loved the kite runner, and this one looks to be good as well....then i have turkish gambit and some lighter stuff......the only problem is to find the time!