I am so bad.

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I've unpacked the books I brought home from Smith, but giant stacks of them haven't made it to the bookshelves yet, because there is no room on the bookshelves. Nevertheless, I am a shameless book whore and just spent upwards of $70 on:

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver
- The Confusion
- The System of the World
Temeraire vol. 1-3 box set by Naomi Novik
- His Majesty's Dragon
- Throne of Jade
- Black Powder War
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Faust by Goethe (in a nice bilingual edition no less)
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier

Which, for that price (including shipping) is a pretty good haul, but--BAD. Do not need more books. Except I've been wanting all of these like burning for months, so I guess that partially excuses it.

My summer reading list includes all of these, a book and a play by George Sand (La Comtesse de Rudolstadt and Les sept cordes de la lyre), the rest of the Temeraire series if I like the first three, and possibly some Stoppard if I have time. Due to the general impossibility of finding anything by Sand at a reasonable price online, I'm going to be relying on the Smith library, which has her complete works.

It's going to be really weird reading all these things that weren't written in the 19th century.

Edit: Have been doing some page counts. Stephenson averages 900 pages per book, Novik averages 400, American Gods is 600 and change, Faust is 500, Mlle de Maupin is 300 and change--5500 pages total, plus about a thousand pages of Sand all told, and some miscellaneous light reading. I'm looking at about seven thousand pages to read this summer. :D