Library Loot: February 11-17, 2009

February 13, 2009

I just moved a couple of weeks ago, so last night was my inaugural trip to my local library. I got all registered and received my library card. (It still gives me a thrill to get a new library card.) It is a very new library that has only been open for about four months, so their collection is small. Still, the patronage is also small, so I got several books I really wanted to read. So, with no further ado, here’s my loot from the library this week:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas Herbert Johnson
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb
Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson

(I’ll bet the hold list for The Hour I First Believed is 50 people long at my old, more established library.)

Tagged as: Library Loot

{ 12 comments }

1 Michelle February 13, 2009 at 4:51 am: Wow. The hold list for The Hour I First Believed is incredibly long at my library as well, I’m impressed it was just there on the shelf..
2 Kathy February 13, 2009 at 6:42 am: Our local library is a branch of a big system and it’s small, but it has tons of patrons.
3 Loren Eaton February 13, 2009 at 8:03 am: Glad to see someone reading poetry now and again!
4 gentle reader February 13, 2009 at 8:15 am: That’s some great library loot! The hold list at my local branch for The Hour I First Believed is really, really long, too :)
5 Alyce February 13, 2009 at 12:44 pm: I love Emily Dickinson. I bought a book of her poems in college – it was one of the few books I bought that was not for my classes.
6 Matt February 14, 2009 at 6:54 pm: The hold list for The Hour I First Believed is impossibly long here as well. I didn’t even get in the queue.
7 Alessandra February 15, 2009 at 12:27 pm: Thank you for joining Library Loot! I hope you enjoy Emily Dickinson.
8 Sharon February 15, 2009 at 1:08 pm: I love “Hattie Big Sky”. It is one of my favorite books. Hope you enjoy it.
9 Natasha @ Maw Books February 16, 2009 at 5:42 pm: I loved Hattie Big Sky. Kirby Larson is awesome. You’ll really like it.
10 trish February 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm: Dude, you got The Hour I First Believed! Lucky duck, you!

From the comments, I take it Hattie Big Sky is pretty good. Think I’ll put it on me own list.
11 Toni Gomez February 18, 2009 at 10:29 pm: wow…what a great little library. My very good friend Jenn would be getting goosebumps from your library experience. Glad you got acquainted with your library. Oh how I want to gey my hands on that Lamb book. great poost.
12 Toni Gomez February 18, 2009 at 10:31 pm: Did I write great poost? ha no more poosting from the phone. ha ha