Buying is so much easier than reading. In the meantime I hardly dare to enter a bookstore anymore, because of the reading backlog. In the permanent stack, the main distinction is ‘self-bought books’ and ‘received books’. Self-purchased novels – lately there have been a few by Rafael Chirbes – usually take precedence, so the rest will have to wait. The new translation of Winnetou is pure youth sentiment, I read it in between. No, it is not yet the turn of the biography of Erasmus (780 pages) that you received.
