Sorry kids, no feet.

All year my goal has been to purge my physical bookshelves. I have all of these books I have never read. I'm continually telling myself, I can't get any new books until I work my way through some of the ones I already own. There's also some honky out there about how 10 books is the proper number of books required to spark joy in your life. Clearly the person who came up with that number doesn't read. 

Today I went to the library. My oldest has blitzed through her pile of books. Next week she is slated to spend a few hours on the bus for various school activities. She needed a refill. While she was checking her books out, the librarian informed me two of the books I ordered are in. Those two books were added to the two I already found on the new release shelf. When I got them home and added them to my library book shelf, the total number of library books came to 11. I never have that many books checked out from the library at one time. 

So the real questions is, what am I avoiding? If I can't get new books until I read the old books, isn't it in my best interest to read what I already own? Why am I getting all of these books from the library if I already have plenty at home? Is there some small part of me that just doesn't want to achieve my goals? My mother would say, yes. She's probably not wrong but I think that's an entirely different rant. 

This leads me back to my original thought. Can you call it procrastinating if it involves books? Would referring to it as shifting my focus be the same thing with a less negative spin?