Books. Books, Books Everywhere.....
I'm a voracious reader, since the tender age of 4. Funny No one else in my family was a big reader. My mom reads two different newspapers every day, pretty much every section, even the two that come to her house in Florida. and she just started reading Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series-which I'm the old pro at for years... But I'm talking many books and it gets expensive....unless I luck out at the Borders $1 section when they have dropped stuff to deep clearance.
So I've recently re-discovered the library. The reason my reading gets so expensive is summed up by saying I read 4 books in three days last weekend, one of those days being Friday and I was at work and only got to read during lunch and in the evening. So that was one on Friday, two on Saturday and one on Sunday. Yikes, That alone could put me in the poorhouse if it was not for the two big libraries by me, the one in my town and the one that I grew up in, next to the town I live now. They are both huge and carry many books. obviously, they are a library right?
But the point being, I have already paid for those books thru my taxes, so why not.
When I go in, I check out anywhere from 8-10 books at a time, most are long term, but I usually get one or two short term. So that is what I read first. I have overlapping batches too, since when I bring back that short term book, I go in and get more! So stamping is taking second fiddle to reading right now, since I haven't had a binge reading streak in a long time. Most are fiction, I went thru the smutty romance phase, and the detective or mystery phase, which I'm still kind of on the fringe of, but I'm digging the chick lit books right now: Meg Cabot, Jennifer Weiner, etc. I cannot even keep track of the books I've read in the past month, so I have to start, since they are all blurring in my head. So the last nonfiction short term I read was "How Starbucks Saved My Life" about a guy who was downsized out of his job at the ripe young age of about 58 (i think) and tried to start his own biz, but ended up working at a Starbucks and finding out he had been missing out a lot on his life. That was a cool book, Can't remember his name tho. and now I'm reading two books. A fiction book w/short stories by James Lee Burke called "Jesus Out To Sea" and the one that caught my eye from a display as I was walking in yesterday "A Year Without Made in China" by Sara Bongiorni. Now If you know me, you know I'm pretty adamant about checking labels...and spent the better part of hours searching for childrens gifts "Not Made in China" -so I just started this book and I'm already digging it on page 11. A family makes a vow to not buy anything made in china for an entire year. They don't purge their house and start over. It will just start on Jan 1. This was decided after Christmas and probably a lot of material needs were met by gifts made in china, but it sounds like a daunting task to me. I'll sum it up in my next post, since I'm sure I'll be done by then. And maybe I'll have a card made by then to show ya.....or at least a bookmark, since if I take the little card out to use as a bookmark, then the alarm beeps when I walk in w/the books to return!
til next time, I'll be stuck in a book vortex.....
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