My Amazing Bookshelves

If you’ve ever been to my house, you’ve seen the amazing bookshelves the Hubby built in what we call “The Back Room”. It’s a combination office-play room-library space that we all love, and the bookshelves are my favorite part.

Those bookshelves are also incredibly full.

I know, I know, why am I killing all those trees and putting their carcasses on my shelves? I could keep them on my Kindle app and they would weigh a heck of a lot less!

Yes, thanks. I know that. But I love books. I love books the way a fat kid loves candy. If you want to lose me forever (and lose a few hundred dollars in the process), take me to a bookstore. I may never come out.

My husband obviously knows exactly who he married, and he’s the DIY king, so I have plenty of room for all my books!

I feel like Belle in the Beast’s library.

To quote another Disney Princess…

Look at this stuff!

Isn’t it neat?

Wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete?

Wouldn’t you think I’m a girl… a girl who has everything?

Except I’m not…

This is my running library. All of it.

It’s shameful. I’m a natural researcher. I love reading about the things that interest me. I have bookshelves full of everything else I have ever gotten even slightly curious about, but I have a grand total of 3 books on running. It’s a travesty, I tell you.

So I’m working on it.

Since I decided I need to write a blog on running, I decided that it is officially time to start researching my favorite hobby. Here are my additions to my running library.

Every week, I hope to be able to give you my thoughts on at least part of each of the books I read about running. I will probably also re-read my other books too, since it has been a while since I read them.

Right now, I’m working my way through Rise & Run by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky. Shalane Flanagan, by the way, is a 4 time Olympian, so if anyone knows how to make running fun, she’s our girl. This book is part cookbook and part guide to not hating mornings. Considering how frequently I hit my snooze button, I need all the help I can get with mornings.

I am only 19 pages in, and while I envy them their time in the mornings, I’m not sure I’m convinced that mornings will become my thing. But, who knows? Maybe this book will be the key to getting me out of bed on time to go run and not feel like I’m racing the clock. I’ll let you know.

Expect to see a post every Friday updating you on my reading. For now, here’s the book if you want to pick it up. (I may receive commission from affiliate links.)