Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries! Marg has the Mr. Linky here.
I haven't done this before, but I love the library. After a few years of buying all my books new, I realized just how much money I was spending on books. And I always had more books I wanted to buy. I started an experiment last fall to see if my library system could handle the different books on my Amazon wishlist. Well, the library did so well that I ended up taking almost all of the books off my Amazon wishlist and I created an Excel spreadsheet with all the books I wanted that I could get from the library. That list has grown to almost 800 books at this point. I've been slowly chipping away at my list, but it seems to grow faster than I can possibly read. The library is especially valuable to me now that I have all of my books in storage (temporarily).
I took these books out last week but I didn't get to the library over this last weekend. So this will have to do for this week.
This one is for book club with a few friends in a few weeks. I love The Little Prince. I read it in French when I was younger (for school) but I hadn't read it in English until a couple years ago. And I'm able to use this as an excuse to get together with friends and put together Christmas boxes for kids (think Toys for Tots). :)
I have no idea why I waited so long to get this. I love Neil Gaiman (I've read the first half of The Sandman series, as well as Stardust and Smoke & Mirrors - I'm working on the rest of it). I actually read this on Sunday in the airport and on the plane for a business trip to Massachusetts this week. And I loved every bit of it.
I remember liking the movie a few years ago, so I grabbed it. I'm a chapter in and I'm not sure what to think at this point. It's good but it's not really grabbing me. I'll likely hang on to this for a bit and read it here and there in hopes that I get more interested in it. If not, that's okay too because I can always borrow it again.
That's everything for now (aside from perviously read books that I haven't had a chance to return yet), but I have eight books waiting to be picked up on Sunday, so I'm pretty excited about them.
2 comments:
I started using my library for pretty much the same reason as you did! I realised how much I was spending on books.
Now, my first point of call when I hear about a book that I think I might like is my library website. If I really, really want it and my library doesn't have it then I will buy it, and there are a few autobuy authors, but other than that, library all the way for me!
Thanks for joining in on Library Loot.
I used to have a specific library list, but since I have access to books all through my state I've just turned it all into one list and there are very few they don't have. I'm even considering not renewing my Barnes & Noble membership in April because I just don't spend enough to make it worthwhile anymore.
And yeah, I do have a couple authors I will just buy (Neil Gaiman, for example), but things like the Sandman series I'll only buy at independent comic book shops to do my part in supporting them.
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