Based on the bookshelves lining the walls of the room we alternately call the dining room, office, and library, I might be a bibliophile. I am susceptible to an interesting title, book cover, and synopsis, though I have a test that I do before bringing anything home: after being pulled in by the title, cover, and synopsis, I start reading the first page. If I am not grabbed then I skip ahead deeper in the book, if I am still not grabbed, I put the book down.

Reading all these books I bring home in a timely manner, is another matter entirely. I really don’t. But I have been making some progress this past year or so, thanks to friends inspiring good habits. I feel compelled to list them out:

• Witch by Christopher Pike
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Things I Did for Love by Ellen Conford
• Hurry Up, America, & Spit by Pearl Bailey
• Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

I feel like there is a better method of commemorating the read. Perhaps I need to get back into the 100th page comics challenge. Of course some of this friendly inspiration has been book-club like, so my goal to read through the books I’ve already acquired is competing a little with reading books that a book club has decided to address.