Monday, December 08, 2008

I finally decided to put the library employees to work

Since we got our library cards a month or so ago, I’ve just been ambling around the stacks, choosing books that strike my fancy, and not liking a whole lot of them.  Leigh-Ann has been smarter and has been going through her Amazon wishlist and requesting those books at the library.  She also sent me the NY Times list of top books for 2008, so I went through those and through my wishlist, then I put the library to work.  It’s great, you sit at your computer at home and request books and they find them for you (even at other branches), label them with your name, and then they shelve them in the room where you check-out.  So, I had all of these books waiting for me yesterday.

Beautiful boy: a father’s journey through his son’s addiction by David Sheff. Patient by patient: lessons in love, loss, hope, and healing from a doctor’s practice by Emily R. Transue, M.D. (I really liked her first book) Black fliesby Shannon Burke. My custom van: and 50 other mind-blowing essays that will blow your mind all over your face by Michael Ian Black Celebrity detox: (the fame game) by Rosie O’Donnell. There’s nothing in this book that I meant to say by Paula Poundstone. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. His illegal self by Peter Carey. Bright lights, big ass: a self-indulgent, surly ex-sorority girl’s guide to why it often sucks in the city, or who are these idiots and why do they all live next door to me? by Jen Lancaster Such a pretty fat: one narcissist’s quest to discover if her life makes her ass look big, or why pie is not the answer by Jen Lancaster The night of the gun: a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own by David Carr. Are you there, vodka? It’s me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler (these last two are waiting to be picked up today) Tweak: (growing up on methamphetamines) by Nic Sheff (this matches up with his father’s book, Beautiful Boy - I thought the different perspectives would be interesting)

Now, I had a wealth of books to choose from, but didn’t know what I wanted to read first.  It was between Paula Poundstone, Rosie O’Donnell, and Michael Ian Black, whose book I hadn’t requested, but just saw on the new books shelf.  Rosie O’Donnell won out, but I’ve been kind of sleepy on this wild and weird rainy day today.  Other than getting icky cramps and praying for a hysterectomy.

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1. What a great list.  I should do that, too.  I’ve been using the library a LOT lately, thanks to Anthony.  I’ll have to figure out how to get them to order books for me.  That’s a brilliant idea.  I loved the Jen Lancaster book I sent you and I definitely want to read more of hers.

   Nancy  on  12/09  at  08:08 PM

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