A thing happened.
After that whole accidental library card acquisition thing, I swore I wasn’t going to go crazy with the holds queue. Just a couple of holds at a time – I promised myself – and I’m really only going to put in for things that have long lines. I’m not ready to go back to near-exclusive library reading. My own shelves are still calling me! Yeah, yeah, yeah… clearly, it didn’t work out.
In my defense, I only added about eight books to the holds queue, and most of them (the Kakutani and the Ellis Peters excepted) did have long lines. And I am determined, determined I tell you, not to add any more holds until this bunch is cleaned out. And then only one at a time. I mean it this time.
So I guess I’ll be reading Ex Libris, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and The Splendid and the Vile in the next couple of weeks. Then back to my own shelves, really. The pile of Furrowed Middlebrow titles seems to keep growing. I don’t know how.
Why, WHY, am I powerless to resist the library holds system?
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I read The Splendid and the Vile a couple of months ago and it was very good.
We are moving in May and I am very excited about our new library system. My small-town one now is not particularly good and I spent a little while looking at the new one and oh my! I am going to have to exercise a lot of self-restraint in order not to be inundated with books.
As vices go, I suppose a library addiction isn’t the worst one to have! Ha. Or that’s just what I’m telling myself, since I now have six books checked out and eight on hold. I just finished The Splendid and the Vile – agree, SO good! I can’t wait to see what you make of your soon-to-be new library system. 🙂