The other day I was visiting a used book warehouse.  That’s right. Warehouse.  My local Rotary club collects book donations and send a ton of books overseas and to some domestic organizations.  In order to support this effort, they sell a lot of books about 4 times a year.  The place is huge.  The variety of books is huge.

Here’s my problem.  I never know what to pick out.

Part of me says, “Go ahead and get the mindless, escapist reading – the mystery, the humor books.”  Yet, the other part of me – the part that wants to make a couple of bucks or become self actualized – says, “No, get the business books or the personal development books.”

I vacillate between picking up a biography or a straight novel or maybe an author I might have heard about but never read.  It’s a terrible dilemma.  The other part of this is the fact that unless a book is really well written and interesting, I put it down after about 50 to 75 pages.  If it’s the type of book where I get a little sleepy after 4 pages I go back to reading blogs and playing on Facebook or Twitter.

What do you guys think?  How do you do with picking out books to read?  What do you read?