Love Your Library ~ My Starting Point ~ Jan 18/25

This should be done on the last Monday of the month but I wanted to have a starting point!

Here's what I've read from our public library this month:

1. The Reading List
2. The Comet Seekers
3. The Red Chesterfield

What I'm currently reading from the library:

1. Inheritance
2. And the Birds Rained Down

Checked out (To Be Read):

1. The Library
2. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
3. And the Birds Rained Down
4. Inheritance
5. Last House
6. The Trouble With You
7. Denison Avenue
8. Frankie

Here's what I have on hold at our public library this week:

1.  Goth Girls of Banff - in transit
2.  The White Princess - in transit
3.  Long Island - in transit
4.  Captain Solitude - 1/4 (1st in line/4 copies)
5.  Crosses in the Sky - 1/2
6.  Jane Austen at Home - 1/1
7.  Isola: A Novel - 2/3 - on order
8.  Cardinal: A Novel of Love and Power - 3/3 - on order
9.  The Stone Witch of Florence - 3/3
10.  Fisherman's Gift - 4/2 - on order
11.  Impossible City - 4/2
12.  How to Take Smart Notes 5/2 - on order
13.  The In-Between Bookstore - 5/2
14.  Solenoid - 5/1
15.  Eleanore of Avignon - 6/2
16.  The Sunflower House - 6/2
17.  Hope: The Autobiography - 7/5 - on order
18.  The Champagne Letters - 8/2
19.  How to Read a Book: A Book - 8/3
20.  Value(s) - 8/7
21.  Slewfoot - 9/3
22.  The Stolen Queen - 9/4
23. The Book Swap - 10/3
24.  Consent: A Memoir - 10/3
25.  Library of Lost Dollhouses - 10/3 - on order
26.  The Pull of the Stars - 11/12
27.  Etta and Otto and Russell and James - 12/9
28.  Still Life - 16/5
29.  Becoming a Matriarch - 19/4
30.  Girl Runner - 19/4
31. What's the Point? - 19/6
32. The Collected Regrets of Clover - 20/4
33. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - 32/11
34.  Death By a Thousand Cuts - 35/4
35.  The Things We Do For Love - 51/5
36.  The Mirror - 65/18

#LoveYourLibrary

@bookishbeck

What's On Hold?

 Here are the books that I currently have on hold at our library:

• The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris - in transit
• Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory - in transit
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - #1 on 1 copy
• Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch - #2 on 2 copies
• What Happened to You? by Bruce Duncan Perry and Oprah Winfrey - #4 on 13 copies
• The Netanyahu's by Joshua Cohen - #16 on 2 copies
• The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - #18 on 5 copies
• Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk - #19 on 6 copies
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick - #20 on 6 copies
• What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo - #25 on 4 copies
• After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid - #27 on 7 copies
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus #85 on 24 copies

Now this list is just a moment in time, and subject to change. I often put books on hold and then take them off after giving the book a bit more thought. "Do I really want to spend my precious, limited time left in my life reading a book simply because it was recommended by someone I don't even know?" Also, once the book is in my hands and I give it a flip through I sometimes realize it's just not for me and off it comes from my list. Life is too short to waste it on books that I won't enjoy. Also, if I've waited for a really long time I sometimes lose interest in reading a book.