Curiously it’s “elf” in German

I don’t know what I was thinking.  Or maybe I did, but I didn’t realize the magnitude of my actions.  I volunteered to read some entries for a contest looking for Excellence in Romance Fiction.  I did this many months ago and I’m sure the draw was that I would get all these free books to read.  As it turns out, I received my readers package at my writer’s group meeting on Saturday.  I have 11 books to read by March 24th.  11!  Eleven.  Onzi.  Undici.  Once.  That’s 11 in French, Italian and Spanish respectively just so you get the magnitude of how many we’re talking about.  I did the math and that has me reading 1 book every 5.8 days which isn’t so bad since I’m sure I do that anyway.  I’ll often read 3 books a week.  Nevertheless, the pile looks very intimidating.  I’ll keep you posted on my progress.  So far, I’m only on page 68 of the first one.  I don’t see a lot of writing getting done while I do this marathon reading assignment.