I’m not sure how consistent I will be, but I’m going to try to post my library check-outs every Monday. I’m a very heavy library user, and I am lucky enough to have access to two really great library systems. One of them belongs to the large library system adjacent to my home county – I primarily use this system for ebooks, because their catalog is so much bigger than my home system. There is also a branch about 20 minutes from my home, so I do from time to time check out print books from that system as well, if my home system doesn’t have them. I use my home library system for almost exclusively print books because the wait times for ebooks tend to be double or triple the wait times for the other system.
I manage my library activity on-line, placing holds on the books I want to check out. This transports them to my selected branch, so I can pick them up easily.
Having said all of that, let’s get started. For some reason, right now, I have a completely excessive number of books checked out. I meant to go through them over the weekend and drop a bunch of them in the return bin, but I didn’t get to it. I actually have two that are overdue as of yesterday, and I can’t renew them because they have holds. I’ll get to the library tomorrow & return them, so I haven’t included them in the list.
Ebooks:
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (due in 21 days)
- Small Angels by Lauren Owen (due in 21 days)
- A Libertarian Walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling (due in 20 days)
- The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews (due in 13 days)
- Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh (due in 12 days) (currently reading)
- Clariel by Garth Nix (due in 21 days)
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears(due in 17 days)
- Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger (due in 15 days)
Print books:
Maigret and the Judge by Georges Simenon (due 12.3)- Maigret and the Ghost by Georges Simenon (due 12.3) (on deck)
Maigret and the Killer by Georges Simenon (due 12.3)Maigret and the Reluctant Witness by Georges Simenon (due 12.3)- Maigret Enjoys Himself by Georges Simenon (due 12.3)
- Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer (due 12.3)
Home library print books:
- Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker (due 12.2) (on deck)
Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac (due 12.2)- Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart (due 12.13)
- The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr (due 12.13)
- The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong (due 12.13)
- Murder’s a Swine by Nap Lombard (due 12.13)
- Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (due 12.16)
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (due 12.16)
- All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie (due 12.16)
- The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (due 12.16)
- National Provincial by Lettice Cooper (due 12.19)
- Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (due 12.19)
I have 26 books checked out (of which, I have read 3), all of which are books that I would like to read, but it is really unlikely that I will get to them all. I am currently reading Wuthering Heights, a copy from my personal library – this is a reread, and Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh. I do plan to get to all of the Maigrets and Murder after Christmas by Rupert Latimer finished before I have to return them.