Library Loot – May 8th

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. So last night I went and picked up 16 things from the library.  Yes, I’ve already got 10 things out, many of which are due in a week and can’t be renewed any longer.  Yes, I’ve got a fairly heavy review schedule between now and when my baby is born that I REALLY don’t want to get behind on, because I have doubts about how many reviews I’ll be able to write once the baby comes; at least my husband will be home all summer to help, the benefits of being married to a teacher – oh, and my mother and mother-in-law are teachers too, so there will be LOTS of help this summer. Okay, so there’s clearly no way that all of these books are actually going to get read. I’ve been reading just over 20 books a month, and this is at least 30-40 between library books and review copies, and unfortunately the library books just can’t take too much precedence, although I will try to return unread as few books as possible.  Let’s just acknowledge now that I won’t be reading anything from my TBR pile(s) for awhile. Even though I’m a bit overwhelmed by the number of library and review books that I have at the moment, I’m pretty happy to be picking up 12 things off of my holds list.  I’ve been at the ceiling with 35 holds pretty much all week so I haven’t been able to add anything, everything I’ve wanted to add has had to be saved as a preferred search so I won’t forget to put it on hold.  Of course, there’s a good chance I’ll be BACK at the limit once I actually sit down and do that.

In order to get in some good reading time, I actually stayed at the library last night after picking up my books until just before they closed.  Much easier to get some reading done when my computer isn’t there to distract me (although I did occasionally check email on my blackberry).  I love my library.  I was sitting in a chair on the second floor next to a huge window overlooking a little river and a bike path that run behind the library.  Before it got dark I was taking full advantage of the wonderful natural light that comes in the windows at both ends of the building and the windows up at the ceiling:

Anyway, enough jibber jabber, I know what you really want is to see what I took out this time, and what all I have out period.

Fiction:
The Lost Hours by Karen White
Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
Nefertiti: a novel by Michelle Moran
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
House and Home by Kathleen McCleary
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Nonfiction:
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
Finding Oz: How Frank L. Baum Discovered the Great American Story by Evan I. Schwartz
Gardening Eden: How Creation Care Will Change Your Faith, Your Life, and Our World by Michael Abbate
Work Hard. Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America by JayMathews (I actually own a copy of this, but my husband is reading it and we’re going to do a co-review I think, so I’m getting a second copy from the library

DVDs:
The Business of Being Born
Ratatouille
A Day Without A Mexican
Daily Show Indecision 2004 – RNC
Daily Show Indecision 2004 – DNC

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