Volumes and volumes …

… Ivebeenreadinglately: On the books, read and unread, on my shelves. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… then there are those days when by chance I turn away from the stacks of new books and walk my shelves. On those days, after I inevitably discover a forgotten volume that, on its initial entry into my life, brought a shiver of excitement, I resolve, however weakly, to curb my pathology and cut back on new books for a time.