“Building the Book Fort” is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life.

Currently Reading:

• Recollections by Colette
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
• Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence

Finished:

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel

Total pages read this week: 414

Total books for 2022: 16 of 85.

I’m down to 5 books that won’t fit on my bookshelves. Also, I don’t know how I accomplished it, but I went to a bookstore and, for probably the first time in my life (at least willingly), I didn’t buy any books! It might have helped that the couple of books I saw that I know I want to read are still only available in hardcover, and I don’t want to read them soon enough to pay the hardcover price. In the past, I don’t know if that would’ve stopped me, but I also reminded myself of the overflowing shelves of books I still haven’t read and my current financial goals (I’m saving up for a car and trying to boost my retirement savings).

What are you reading? Let me know in the comments!