My library sends email alerts 3 days before they are due.
The library would have waived the long dormant fine except they'd already waived a fine that was almost the same amount so I couldn't get 2 waivers. Really it was my fault, I kept books and then lost them and never returned them so I was just paying the costs for replacing.
The library also has a policy that if you lose a book and pay for it and then find it within a year you can get your money back. Which happened to me a few months ago.
I go to the library every Sunday now. The parking is free and the crowd isn't too bad and I always know the day a book is due (even if I can't remember which Sunday). And Interlibrary Loan is free, I need to hit that up.
I saw the library had the latest Laurell K Hamilton AND the graphic novel, I wasn't even tempted to look at the summary of the book. I was there to pick up Patricia Briggs's latest about Mercy, I don't know if the series has a name. I like Mercy, it's nice that 1) she's not hung up/ashamed/freaked out about her abilities and 2) she's not hung up on/freaked out about sex. And I like her version of werewolves and vampires and fae.
I am OK in a groove, too. Also, finally the library is as close to me as it was when I was a child. As in, it would be no trouble to go every day as it is a 5 minute walk.
My problem is that I often bite off more than I can chew-- I want every book RIGHT THEN. So I take 20 books out and then the fines are astronomical for even a days lateness. And then they are so late that I can't possibly return them, except in the dead of night. And then I move, and they somehow get lost.
This is where I confess:
I work at the library. I take home one to three to 5 books every time I work. I always have somewhere between 20 and 50 books out.
It is not possible to read them all. They do add to the decor.
And now that I work at a library where the staff has to pay fines ... I have to give my job money 1 - 3 times a year so I can take out more books.
Yep. What bookmooch.com has cost me in postage it has more than saved me in library fines.
I'm pretty sure I've read this: Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious To 'Quantum Flux'
A reading of Gabriel Fournier's The Eclipse Of Infinity reveals that the new science-fiction novel makes more than 80 separate references to "quantum flux," a vaguely defined force the author uses to advance the plot, resolve conflict as needed, and account for dozens of glaring inconsistencies.
A reading of Gabriel Fournier's The Eclipse Of Infinity reveals that the new science-fiction novel makes more than 80 separate references to "quantum flux," a vaguely defined force the author uses to advance the plot, resolve conflict as needed, and account for dozens of glaring inconsistencies.
So it's a book about flobotanum?
I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention in this thread that I am currently reading Moby Dick.
Ooh. How is it? Most of what I know about Moby Dick I learned from MC Lars. (thanks, P-C!)
I'm really enjoying it. It's a very dense book, though, which is why I couldn't finish it in Canada - it's just impossible to read in a room full of other people.
I am currently reading
The Thirteenth Tale.
I'm over halfway through and have been wanting to just quit. It's not really doing it for me like it ought to. I normally love stories about stories, and I enjoyed the books this book
reminds
me of, but I can't get into it. All the characters annoy me, and I don't think I really care about Vida Winter's demented childhood. Although I think I've just figured out the Big Twist and am mildly curious to see how it plays out and whether it really matters. I'm reading quickly now since I just want to know if anything cool awaits me at the end; I am not getting as lost in the prose as the author wants me to. Only 140 pages to go! I can do this!
How is it? Most of what I know about Moby Dick I learned from MC Lars. (thanks, P-C!)
Heh. I really liked it, actually. And I think I liked the interstitial whaling parts more than the actual book. "The Whiteness of the Whale" was awesome.
