Decisions, Decisions OR What Book Do I Read Next?

Every time I put a book back on the shelf, I choose a new one to read.  My problem is that I accumulate books faster than I can read them, so it's hard to decide what's next.  Also, by nature I don't like to make decisons if I don't have to.  (Don't ever make me decide where to go to eat!)  So when I need to pick a new book, I use the scientific method of eenie, meenie, miney, moe.  Basically, I put the completed book back on the shelf and start counting from the next book in line, working my way down the shelves.  Whatever book I land on, I read.

Of course, there are rules to this game.  First, I usually don't read two similar books in a row.  For example, I just read a book on Lincoln's cabinet, so I wouldn't read another Civil War era history or biography.  Second, sometimes I land on a book I've already read and don't feel like re-reading right now.  In either of these cases, I just go to the next book in line and apply the same rules.  When I land on a book that I haven't read, I must read it.  No excuses.

I know I could just pick whatever I felt like reading, but that never works.  I have too many books to choose from, and some might never get read if I did it that way.  With my method, each book has an equal chance of being read somewhere down the line.  It might sound crazy to you, but if you know me well enough you probably aren't at all surprised at how my mind works.  Ask me sometime how I go about eating a bag of M&Ms.  There's an order to everything!