The Holds Rush In
July 15, 2009
This always happens to me. Every book I've put on hold at the library arrives at once, just when I have a teetering stack back home to start with. I'll have to speed-read to work in all of these titles in the next three weeks, after I finish Laura Lippman's new mystery, Life Sentences. Not that I'm complaining.
The new stack:
Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver
The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana, by Rick Bass
Script & Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, by Kitty Burns Florey
Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island, by Christopher Camuto
A Mathematical Nature Walk, by John A. Adam
Summer World: A Season of Bounty, by Bernd Heinrich
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, by Maria Tatar
Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, by Lisa M. Hamilton
Book cover image borrowed from W.W. Norton
Wow, now I'm desperate to read at least five of those. You have a better library system than I do!
Posted by: Steph | July 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
geez Susie, now I feel like such a slug. Here I am just waiting for the new Dan Brown book and you're up there reading all that serious stuff about agribiz and handwriting. And poetry. BTW, I interviewed a poet named Susan Militzer Luther yesterday...do you know her?
Posted by: Cindy T. | July 15, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Steph, we are so lucky to have an awesome library here in town. It is a real hub of activity, and has a wide-ranging collection of books.
Cindy, the poet's name sounds familiar, but I can't place her.
I think I have to read the books that there are no other holds on first.
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | July 15, 2009 at 01:58 PM
The same thing happens to me every few weeks. I hate having to return some unread, but that's what it usually comes down to.
Posted by: adrienne | July 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Yeah, I sometimes have to do that as well, Adrienne. Lately I've been skimming a lot of books. For some reason I can't find any (adult) fiction that I'm into.
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | July 17, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Love the photo on the Acadia book cover. One of the prettiest places I've even seen. Let me know what you think of the book.
Posted by: Michelle | July 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Meechelle! I'm liking the book A LOT and am now dying to go to Acadia. The only problem I have with it is that much is it is written in second person & present tense, which gets a little tiresome. I can see why the author did it: immediate effect, putting the reader right into the place, but I think it's somewhat of a mistake.
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | July 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM