Suggestions, Please
You probably noticed I haven't written in here much lately. I don't remember if I wrote about it already or not, but I just got a library card and have been like a kid in a candy store. I live in a small town outside of the library district, so since I don't pay any library tax they get their money by charging $65 a year for a library card. I was able to get a free card since my mother-in-law bought a house in the library district. I love the library. It can be hard to decide which books to take home and which books to leave behind.
I remember when I was younger I wouldn't read hardly anything but fiction, and now I have to force myself to walk away from the non-fiction section. Why read something made up when there are so many fascinating things that are real to read about? Non-fiction doesn't really mean dull and boring, you know. So now when I go to the library I try to get a varied diet of fiction, non-fiction, and biography books. This week the non-fiction book was Parasite Rex, and I just finished the fiction book, Comet Disaster, about people who survive a comet impact about 50 years in the future. Now my biography book is Carl Jung. He was a really interesting man. I can't wait to read it. Depth psychology is my favorite kind. Not that I've ever had any kind of treatment or counseling or whatever you call it, but I have taken classes and that was always my favorite part of the class.
I am already looking forward to what I will check out next. I plan on Lizarding Jung when I'm done with him, but don't have much to say about the comet book. It was good, but not great. There was another book I read a long time ago about a group that survived a nuclear war or comet or something that I liked a lot better, but now I can't remember what the name of it was, so I don't feel like writing about either of them.
I would like suggestions about what books to check out next. I have checked on the books Mom mentioned, but they are usually checked out, or not in the same branch. I really want to read the Curious Incident in the Nighttime or whatever it was called, but all 10 or so copies were checked out. Does anybody have a favorite author, or a book that really left a deep impression on them? I think for my next fiction book I'm going to take a ride in the Wayback Machine and read Anne of Green Gables. I can't decide about the non-fiction book, but I'm thinking about reading a book named Alien Invasion. I used to be a real science fiction fan, but this book isn't about space aliens, it's about plants and animals that have invaded like kudzu and whatever those clams or snails or whatever it is everybody is so upset about. I read it a couple of years ago, but would like to Lizard it here.
So, any suggestions or requests? Comments, please.
1) Yeah, the Jung book is a pretty thick one. So far I've gotten to his high school education.
ReplyDelete2) No, the book I'm thinking of wasn't On the Beach, but I did read that one, too. It was set in France. What I remember was some people survived in a big wine cellar, and then the area they were in was spared most of the radiation fallout by the shape of the valley they were in or the weather in that area or something. The only thing I really remember is something about the Royal Lippizanner Stallions being part of the story. I wish I could remember the name of it. I think the title was the name of the estate with the wine cellar where the main characters holed up.
3) Yes, my library has the internet renewal system. I just think it's better to only check out 4 or 5 books that I might actually read in 2 or 3 weeks than check out 15 books that will take 3 or 4 months to read, no matter how awesome the 15 books sound like. I've done that and ended up keeping some of the books so long they wouldn't let me renew then any longer.
4) If there was a book I really really really had to read right away I would put my name on the list, but usually I just figure there are thousands of other books in the library that I could get right then, so the book I'm looking for can wait until the next visit. The only time I tried the interlibrary loan, they still couldn't get the book I wanted, but I think they only checked the St. Louis library system. Isn't there some way to borrow books from libraries across the country?
5) Actually, I'm thinking about cheating. I have a VCR tape of Anne of Green Gables. I might just watch it instead of read it.
6) Alien Invasion is a good book. I think they talk about a couple of species that are causing trouble in Texas. I remember something about wild boars, but that might have been California. Aren't tumbleweeds native to Texas?
6) Cudgel your brain for some author named Woodhouse or Wodehouse. I heard something about him on NPR, about him being put in a Nazi concentration camp and agreeing to do a radio special for them. After that everybody pretty much hated him, but now some people are starting to appreciate his writing again. I'm not sure about his name, and don't know any books that he wrote. I hate NPR because they always have interesting guests pushing their interesting books, and I'm always driving so I can't write down the name of the books or who wrote them.