Monday at the Library: 1.23.2023

Print books: (returned 6, checked out 1)

1. Migrations by Charlotte McConagh
2. All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
3. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen: I checked this out after listening to the Backlisted Podcast about it. I’m not sure I’ll get to it this time, but I definitely want to read it. It’s also on my Classics Club list!
4. National Provincial by Lettice Cooper: I confess that I am on my FOURTH renewal of this book; it looks wonderful, but I’m not in the right mood for it and I think it needs to go back to the library. I can always check it out again later.
5. The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
6. The Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart
7. Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
8. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of a Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer: I am not sure I will get to this one – I read it years ago, and then watched the series and wanted to reread it, but it was only a 14 day checkout and can’t be renewed.
9. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll: lost interest; maybe later.
10. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms and Profits are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty: lost interest; maybe later.
11. Marple: 12 New Stories, Multiple Authors: awful book, great buddy read
12. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
13. Murders a Swine by Nap Lombard: I loved this BLCC reprint.
14. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey: I haven’t had enough interest to pick up this novella, and decided it might be better as an audiobook, so I checked it out from my other library system.

Digital Checkouts (returned 11; checked out 7)

1. Killing the Goose by Frances & Richard Lockridge: this is 6th in the Mr. and Mrs. North mystery series and is next in line for me
2. Dead by Morning by Dorothy Simpson: currently reading
3. Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani: inspired by MBD, currently dipping in & out as my whimsy takes me.
4. A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson: Book 2 in the Inspector Banks series; hold just came up this morning
5. A Necessary End by Peter Robinson: Book 3 in the Inspector Banks series
6. The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard: impulse check out
7. The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan: since I have to wait for book 3 of the Cormac Reilly series
8. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill: I’m really excited for this one!
9. The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson: the final book in the Wax & Wayne installments of the Mistborn series; currently reading/listening
10. Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
11. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
12. They Knew by Sarah Kendzior
13. Ice Cold Heart by P.J. Tracey; audiobook; checked out on a whim. I’m trying to do more walking, so I’ll be listening to more books.
14. The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard: audiobook; also checked out on a whim
15. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey: Checked out the audiobook; under 4 hours long.
16. A Necessary End by Peter Robinson: returned because I’m not ready for it yet.
17. The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes: ran out of time
18. Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen: read & returned
19. Gallows View by Peter Robinson: read & returned
20. The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman: I’ve finished this one, but my mom is also reading it, so I’ll hold onto it until she is finished.
21. Stone’s Fall by Iaian Pears: this is the second time I’ve checked this one out and it’s not looking like I’ll get to it this time either; returned, unread.
22. Goldenhand by Garth Nix: finished, yesterday.
23. The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan; read & returned; so good!
24. The Old Silent by Martha Grimes: returned unread
25. Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh: ran out of time
26. The Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor: I’m just not in the mood for this one right now, and there are dozens of holds, so I returned it for someone else to read. Probably later in the year.