The Books I'm Taking on Vacation

I know, I look overly optimistic. But here's how it breaks down.

• The top book, which has a blank spine, is a review copy of Charles Todd's The Walnut Tree: A Holiday Tale, to review for Shelf Awareness. This should be fun, since I'm a Charles Todd fan.
• Next is The Borrowers, for my not-so-secret secret October project.
• Next is Betsy-Tacy, ditto.
• Then Fire Study, which I waited for from the library for ages. I'm so excited to continue this series! Great young adult fantasy.
• Then, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power to review for Shelf Awareness.
• And finally, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , about which Anne and I got sidetracked. But we're getting back on track, and hopefully will be done with the synchro-read soon.

The reason I'm taking so many books is that the two Shelf Awareness ones and Henrietta Lacks are just to read bits of, to stay on pace. I don't need to finish any of them. The two kids' ones I expect to blow through quickly. And Fire Study is just fun, vacation-y reading.

I'm also quite proud of myself because Necessary as Blood and No Mark Upon Her aren't in that pile. I took back the two Deborah Crombies I'd requested from the library, unread. It felt very grown-up, to say "Nope, I already have enough fun reading for the vacation, I need to finish some review reading."

Plus, they're the last two in the series, and I'll be oh-so-sad when I'm caught up. So it's just as well to delay the inevitable a bit.

How many books do you take on vacation? 
Or are you all e-readers?

P.S. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Speaking of Amazon, I just looked up Fire Study, and realized it's book three in the Study series, not book two. D'oh!! I should've kept a Deborah Crombie after all!