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With Nimona and the Small Heart of Things I managed to clear two books off my reading table. However, I picked up three books at the library yesterday. Two steps forward and three steps back.
The good news is that I shouldn’t be getting any more books at the library at least for a couple weeks. Though I just checked and I have moved from second position to first in line for Sorcerer to the Crown. Perhaps I am too hopeful that everyone who has it checked out now will be slow and I’ll have at least two weeks before my library sends me an email to come pick it up. Or I’m probably deluded.
Definitely deluded.
Nonetheless, my poor little table remains standing despite Bookman’s dire predictions regarding its load-bearing capacities. And, I have a three-day holiday weekend approaching for which the weather is forecast to be even colder than last weekend—we probably won’t even get above 0F/-18C! Get the coffee brewing and the quilts piled up, it’s going to be the perfect holiday weekend for reading! Hopefully I can convince Bookman to bake me up something delicious to nibble on too. I can hardly wait!
But wait I must.
The books I brought home from the library are ones I’ve had in the holds queue for quite some time. Months. They are Fates and Furies, Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume One: Squirrel Power.
Squirrel Girl is a superhero comic and our hero is part human, part squirrel. She has a squirrel sidekick named Tippy-Toe. I started reading it last night and it’s as crazy and frenetic as two squirrels chasing each other around the trunk of my maple tree. It’s cute though and there was a brief moment, and thank goodness it was brief because it worried me a little, in which I might have actually thought squirrels were cute and kind of cool. But then I remembered how they are not good garden sharers—I’ve had a hazelnut tree for ten years and have never gotten a nut off it because the squirrels eat them all first. Every. Single. One. I’m cool with sharing but the squirrels, not so much.
Anyway, Squirrel Girl, so far, wacky fun. Haven’t started the other books yet. Those will be for the frigid weekend ahead.
Love this post. Trying to balance what you can read in a timely fashion with what you should reasonably check out with what you’ve got on hold…the struggle is real!
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CJ, but it’s a happy kind of struggle! 🙂
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Is there a greater pleasure than books and coffee ??? My three day weekend is sometime away, but you have fun…I like how honest you are about yourself …that “delusional” part killed me. And Stephanie, you know I look up to you in EVERYTHING, but I have to say your beliefs are for sure delusional. LOL! Let me know how Fates and Furies was, I have heard a lot of things about it!
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cirtnecce, heh, thanks for your support on the state of my mental health! 😉 Books and coffee, the stronger the better, are two of life’s greatest pleasures. I will for sure let you know about Fates and Furies, I too have heard lots of things about it!
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Oh yes there is, I’m sorry to say, books and wine. Except too much wine and you fall asleep rather than read! So, hmm, perhaps we’ll go back to books and coffee.
You know, I hadn’t heard of Fates and furies – I really wonder where I’ve been sometimes – until my daughter mentioned the other day that she’d bought it because her friends had recommended it. I look froward to your review.
(BTW Ms Marvel: Generation Why arrived the other day ready for son’s birthday in two weeks. I hope he likes it. He can be picky, and I know this is the second in the series.)
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Whisperinggums, at least drinking too much coffee keeps one awake 😉 Fates and Furies is moving along wonderfully. Is better than I expected! I hope your son likes Ms Marvel too!
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I hope so too … And yes, coffee is probably the better proposition with reading.
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At least you were just doing damage at the library. I went for blood work on Tuesday and darned if there isn’t just the loveliest indie bookstore across the street from the clinic…
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roughghosts, you have a point there! But shopping at a conveniently located indie bookstore, well, one cannot be blamed for that! 🙂
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i wanna read that comic now! I am going through a comic phase. lol
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purplemoonmyst, Squirrel Girl continues to be ridiculous fun. Hope you can find a copy!
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I promise it isn’t an attempt at oneupmanship but rather a sign of sisterhood when I tell you that I brought home four books from the library yesterday and I have no idea when I am going to get round to them because I don’t have three day holiday coming up. I have to stop reserving books from the library, if only because they have a really nasty habit of all turning up at once. Do you think they only do it to annoy because they know it teases?
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Alex, heh, no such thing, just further evidence of how crazy we both are 😀 Stop reserving books at the library? I have tried many times and it is pretty impossible. However, I do think there is a library conspiracy to make sure all the requests show up at the same time. What else could explain it?
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The modify holds feature of my library account is my best friend (sometimes, when I remember to make use of it!)
Oooh! Fates and Furies! I loved it. By the end of the book, I mean. I wasn’t sure when I began it. I’m interested to hear what you think of it.
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Laila, my library has one of those modify holds features too but for some reason I have never considered using it. I guess I am a glutton for punishment! I remember your review of Fates and Furies and I am very much looking forward to reading it!
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Yay for three-day weekends! Books + coffee sounds like an excellent plan. I was pleased with myself a few weeks ago when I realized I’d planned for this weekend better than I remembered. My boyfriend and I are going out of town for a mini-weekend trip, but he has work Monday, so we’re coming back Sunday night – but I really like it when I’m away for a weekend and then have a day at home to myself before going back to work. It makes me feel less frazzled. Now I just have to figure out what books to bring with me to read on the train.
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Heather, excellent weekend planning! Have a nice trip, enjoy your reading and the extra day to recover! 🙂
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Ah, the ‘Squirrel’ one sounds great, Stefanie. Let me see if I can acquire a copy here.
I am also curious to hear your thoughts on ‘Fates and Furies’. And, I hope you will unload the table soon. 🙂
I cornered about 20 books in a shelf, and told myself that I would read only the ‘cornered’ books. But, I successfully breached my own pact. 😉
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I hope you enjoy your weekend of reading. I wonder what that history of American public libraries will be like?
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Ian, thanks! The public libraries book turned out to be a disappointing rah! rah! social history about how great libraries are and after the introduction and part of the first chapter I decided to not read it and send it back to the library. That’s one way of clearing things off my table!
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Deepika, it turned out to be great fun. Hope you can find a copy. So far Fates and Furies is going well. Good luck with your own 20 “cornered” books!
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That’s great that you get a three day weekend to enjoy your books! Maybe you’ll be able to knock off another one from your table. I am deluded too – I keep putting books on hold. I don’t know when I think I’ll manage to read them all! ha.
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Iliana, it is nice to know I am not the only one who is deluded! 😀
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See, I guess I cheat–when I clear off my night table I only count the book that have been languishing. New additions are entirely separate. I guess that is what you might call having your cake and eating it, too. And I am all for cake! 😉
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Danielle, ah, so that’s how it works! Clearly I’ve been doing it all wrong 😀
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