I'ma go to hell.

If you are, I'll be next to you, clutching the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo, which I was the only one to read in a ten-year period, so the school library didn't even deserve to have it.

A boyfriend gave me a set of leather bound books when we ware in high school. My favorites of the set were the Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, complete Edgar Allan Poe and 5 Agatha Christie stories. The books were nicer than he turned out to be. I still have the books, too.

I'ma go to hell.

I'll be there, too, holding my copy of Lord of the Flies and All Quiet on the Western Front. The second one I read for a US History assignment and kept forgetting to return.

I'ma go to hell.

Yeah, save me a seat on that bus, too. My first copy of Heartbreak Hotel came from the high school library. When that got lost, my second copy came from Florida State's library.

What? It had last been checked out something like ten years before I checked it out. I seriously doubt they're missing it to this day.

I seriously doubt they're missing it to this day.

very true.

Two summers ago I found books up in the stacks at the Strozer that were marked "Florida Girls College" and hadn't been checked out since 1920. I felt like swiping a few of them just to give them a change of scenery and because they really looked interesting.

Erin, I would recommend not reading the final book of that trilogy. I'm not sure Meredith Ann Pierce can write trilogies. I tend to love the first book, think the second is okay, and end up going WTF? at the third.

Interesting tidbit about Dark Angel gleaned from wikipedia:

Published in 1982, The Darkangel featured a story that Pierce claims came to her all at once while she read the account of a dream recounted to Carl Jung,

Two summers ago I found books up in the stacks at the Strozer that were marked "Florida Girls College" and hadn't been checked out since 1920. I felt like swiping a few of them just to give them a change of scenery and because they really looked interesting.

BWAH!!!! Setting up the Old Books Home

John Jakes

Ooh, I'd forgotten all about John Jakes! I used to glom those, too. I was a sucker for historical sagas--Belva Plain, Alexandra Ripley, Celeste de Blasis.

I had an event over on main campus today which ended late enough I could reasonably say there was no point in going back to the hospital...so naturally I went to the library to get some research materials for the WIP. All of which I intend to return eventually, though I do love the long checkout periods and near-infinite renewals at a university library.

And I know I've mentioned this before, but is there anything in the world that smells as wonderful as the stacks of a university library, that old book scent?

And I know I've mentioned this before, but is there anything in the world that smells as wonderful as the stacks of a university library, that old book scent?

there are very few things, indeed.