Library Haul (1/2/16)

We went to the library today!

Between my husband and myself we managed to leave with 38 items.  Some were mine, some were his, some were for the kids.

I'll share what I took out for me and the boys.

1. Where's the Dragon 

2.  Albert the Fix It Man

3.  Teachers Pets

4.  The Three Triceratops Tuff 

1.  Growing Vegetable Soup (a board book)
2.  Olivia: A Special Day with Dad

3. The Perfect Clubhouse (my 6 year old picked this one out)
4.  Happy Valentine's Day Curious George

Now, for what I grabbed:

This book called "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People" was sitting on the end of an aisle just screaming out at me.  Because .. well .. Crafts for poor people.

The rest of what I grabbed today:

1.  They All Fall Down
2.  Timbuktu

3.  What Can(t) Wait

4. Summer Secrets

5.  This Isn't the Sort of thing that happens to someone like you.

6.  Seeders

So those, along with my christmas books (The Walking Dead Descent, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Go Set a Watchman) will be my reading material for the first few weeks of the new year.

Come check back for my reviews of each book as I finish them.

Library Haul!

Today we went to the library. Like most book lovers I am quite fond of the library.  After all, it is a place just FULL of books.  And they are all free!  At least for 3 weeks at the time anyway.

Sadly, our library system covers somewhere around 19 or 20 branches.  So the books are hither and yon.  And the branch closest to our house, being the one we go to for that very reason, has not had anything new.

For me half the fun of going to the library is browsing.  Walking up and down the aisles, seeing titles, touching spines, judging books ENTIRELY by their covers.

I think I've been looking at the exact same books in this particular library for at least a year now.

Of course it didn't help much today that we had the boys with us.  Parker was running up and down the aisle, and Spencer was screaming, and the Librarian though Parker was running AND screaming and told him, "We don't run and scream in the library."

So I switched kids.  I took the baby, gave him a board book, and tried to entertain him while I browsed, and gave Parker to his Dad who was browsing in the children section anyway.

I hardly found anything at all this time.  The 4 I did end up getting I just kind of randomly grabbed so that I could say I have something.  I'm not even excited about reading them to be honest.  Maybe one of them will be a gem.

First, I did find a few art/craft related books that were not there last time.  I think the Big Ass Book of Bling was one I put on hold that I never had a chance to pick up.  The other two just showed up there and made me happy to see them on the shelves.  I hope they are fun to look at.

1.  "Ideas and Inspirations for Art Journals and Sketchbooks"

2.  "The Big Ass Book of Bling"

3.  "Carve Stamp Play"

And then there were the 4 that I kind of randomly grabbed.  I liked the titles, or the covers.  I skimmed the jacket cover blurb on each.  One of them is by Ray Bradbury.  Surely at least 1 of the 4 must be a good read.

1.  "From the Dust Returned" by Ray Bradbury

2.  "Don't Die Draygonfly" by Linda Joy Singleton

3.  "The Uninvited"  by Tim Wynne-Jones

4.  "Shadow Creek" by Joy Fielding

I didn't browse the children section, but Robert picked out a few books for us to read to Parker.  He likes Star Wars, and he likes UmiZoomi.  Who knows if he'll like the dog one or not.

1.  "Drop it, Rocket" by Tad Hills

2.  "Team Umizoomi Top Cops" illustrated by Jason Fruchter

3.  "Star Wars Rebels Ezra and the Pilot" Adapted by Jennifer Heddle

And we didn't forget the littlest guy.  Well, honestly we probably wouldn't have checked out a book for him, but I had to give him one to play with to keep him from screaming  because we wouldn't let him pull the books off of the shelves.

1.  "Alice in Wonderland A colors primer" by Jennifer Adams Illustrated by Alison Oliver

2.  "Mirabelle and the Bouncy Red Ball" by Michael Muller

Library Day

Once every three weeks or so we take a trip to the library.

I don't usually go in with an idea of a specific book I WANT to read.  If there is a specific book I usually put it on hold and go pick it up.  When I actually VISIT the library I go to browse.  I walk up and down aisles until I find a book whose title or cover grabs me.  Then, if the back cover sounds interesting, I bring it home to read.

Today's haul (not counting my husbands books, just mine and the boys which I will read to him) includes

Fiction

The Gates by John Connolly
The Infernals by John Connolly
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
(The book of Lost Things was the first one I picked up.  It sounded really interesting so I grabbed The Gates because it was there, then The Infernals because it is a sequel to The Gates)
Every Visible Thing by Lisa Carey
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie

Teen Fiction

100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

 

(Yeah, I pretty much picked this one out just because the cover had an upside down horse on it)

Children's Books

Who's In Rabbits House retold by Verna Aardema Illustrated by Diane Dillon
Curious George Learns the Alphabet by H.A. Rey
Bug Patrol by Denise Dowling Mortensen Illustrated by Cece Bell
Zak's Lunch by Margie Palatini Illustrated by Howard Fine
When the Fly Flew In by Lisa Westberg Peters illusrated by Brad Sneed

Non Fiction

200 Creative Crafts for You & Your Home Edited by Megan Hiller
Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids by The Editors of Martha Stewart Living