So many books! (How many is too many?)

Last week I drafted a post about reading too many books at once. (I was reading seven, at the time.) But I procrastinated, over-thought it, and now ... I'm reading more. DOH!

Bookmarks. Don't judge me.

How many books are too many to have "open" or bookmarked at one time? (Um, you remember bookmarks, right? the ones you can touch, feel, and ... oh never mind. You either do or you you don't, and if you're reading this, I'll assume you do.) 

Here's my RIP* list - share yours?

• Checklist Manifesto (almost done!)
• Your Negro Tour Guide (most likely to quit before I finish; just not as captivating as the title)
• The Photoshop Elements 9 Book for Digital Photographers
• POP!
• Chiropractic First
• The Tower, The Zoo, and the Tortoise
• The Paris Wife
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor
• Who Am I?
• White Water (ok, I finished it - all 32 pages! - but must re-read before reviewing it)
• The Sword Thief/39 Clues series (with my 8yo- this counts, right?)
• The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog (most likely to land on top of the pile - it's Dave Barry!)

*Reading in Progress

A Moveable Feast -> The Paris Wife

I've tried to like Ernest Hemingway's writing at least once per decade for the last three. I'm 0-3 now, but at least this time I feel a sense of accomplishment.

I read A Moveable Feast to provide a backdrop for the highly recommended A Paris Wife; now I'm looking forward to hearing what Hadley might have had to say, according to Paula McLain. When she wrote A Paris Wife, McLain (who lives in Cleveland) re-imagined the Hemingways' 1920s-era summer in Paris. For what it's worth, McLain was honest enough to label her account "fiction."

Hemingway was coy about just what and how much of A Moveable Feast was real and how much imagined, but he put a nice spin on it:

For reasons sufficient to the writer, many places, people, observations and impressions have been left out of this book. Some were secrets and some were known by everyone... . ... If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact. 

 ----- from the preface of A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway (c) 1964

Unfortunately, the preface was my favorite part of this work of probably-mostly- nonfiction. I'm hoping I enjoy what McLain's 'feast' offers... 

Have you read The Paris Wife and/or A Moveable Feast? If so, please dish! (Groan)