Thank you, Katie!!! Libraries and I are unmixy. I have the tendency to do fine the first few visits and then BAM! suddenly I'm that girl that never quite makes it back to the library to return the books. (I'm good about mailing back loaned books, however.)
Wesley: Perhaps the whole point of this experiment is hair. Gunn: I vote he's not in charge.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Nicole - Mar 16, 2006 12:47:10 pm PST #155 of 28095
I'm getting the pig!
DavidS - Mar 16, 2006 1:02:55 pm PST #156 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and then BAM! suddenly I'm that girl that never quite makes it back to the library to return the books.
This is, of course, one of the defining Buffista traits. Shocking to me, but it's fairly widespread.
Aims - Mar 16, 2006 1:04:46 pm PST #157 of 28095
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have never ever ever in my life owned a liberry card.
beth b - Mar 16, 2006 4:06:55 pm PST #158 of 28095
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
you need one now, Aimee. It is the best way to keep a baby in books.
DebetEsse - Mar 16, 2006 4:16:57 pm PST #159 of 28095
Woe to the fucking wicked.
True fact. And then they go away, and you don't have to read them a brazillion times. Well, until she wants to get it again.
meara - Mar 16, 2006 4:44:10 pm PST #160 of 28095
I would never have survived childhood without the library. My mother also might not have survived my childhood.
However, I'm another one that does great for a few times, and then suddenly I"ve got five books that were due three weeks ago....
These days, I rely on Barnes and Noble, and the occasional used-bookstore binge. And the internet. Because I read a lot of internet. And without it, I'd need a lot more books...
beth b - Mar 16, 2006 4:49:39 pm PST #161 of 28095
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I work at the library. I am there 5 days a week. I don't pay fines on bboks owned by our system. however, I often bring home a new book or three every day. there is no way in hell I could ever read everything I have at home. so every other day I get an email notice saying something is overdue. or waiting for me to pick up. Believe me - the staff doesn't care if they are overdue ( unless you argue about the fines... again) Just don't let anything go to the collection agency, because we can't negotiate anymore.
Volans - Mar 16, 2006 11:52:55 pm PST #162 of 28095
move out and draw fire
I was lucky enough to grow up in a town that got a Carnegie library, and after I was 9 I lived in biking distance. We always went as a family once a week, and when I could bike I went more. I don't think I ever had an overdue book. And I don't know how I would've survived childhood without the library.
Then the long dry spell when, if there was a nearby library, it sucked.
Calli - Mar 17, 2006 4:18:11 am PST #163 of 28095
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
When I lived in Alpena, MI, I could bike to the library from age 9 or so. I practically lived there. We moved to a much larger city when I was 15, and biking places was no longer safe. But once I was in college the libraries (within easy walking distance) saw a whole lot of me again. I'm better now than I once was about getting books back on time.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2006 4:31:51 am PST #164 of 28095
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I was wee, I camped out in the Swiss Cottage Library, the one nearest school. Wonderful library, with computers and software for borrowing during the mid 80s. Never lived near one like it since. The main branch of the Detroit public library was pretty cool, as is the main branch here. But the branches near me are kinda sucky.
I need to check out the new Santa Monica library. I hear it's cool.