I LOVE the Nashville Public Library system. There are so many reasons why, and I intend to write a post about them all. But now - right now - I only have time for a quick lament.
Friday is when the library sends out circulation notices - a friendly little e-mail telling me that the book I have requested is available for pick-up at the closest branch. And Friday is when that branch is closed. So I get all excited, only to remember that I have to wait a whole, entire day to retrieve the book.
It's Friday, and I just got the e-mail.
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- Ali O
- wife. mama. friend. extrovert. bibliophile. perpetual harmonizer. left-hander. dabbler in several creative avenues. admirer of Creation and its Creator.
{currently reading}
{recently viewed}
{Alison...}
{the hubby's tunes}
{mixed bag of fun}
- andy o
- angry chicken
- anna maria
- annie blogs
- baja burrito
- compassion
- dalit freedom
- design mom
- dreams of genevieve
- dreams of simple life
- etsy
- hair in my coffee
- hatcher family dairy
- kirtsy
- lovely little things
- midtown fellowship
- nashville public library
- nashville zoo
- a net for catching days
- oh happy day
- people mag
- queen anne's lace
- rabbit room
- sarah's juniper tree
- simply glowing candles
- something glorious
- soule mama
- tales of a music mama
- the bird and the dragon
- the supermanns
- tracymicheleunplugged
- walk slowly, live wildly
- 963 coffee
{2009 reads}
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (reread)
- A Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg
- The Private World of Tasha Tudor - Tasha Tudor and Richard Brown
- These is My Words - Nancy Turner
- The Son of Laughter - Frederick Buechner
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
- The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
- Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender - Louise Bates Ames
- Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- A World Lost - Wendell Berry
- Home - Marilynne Robinson
- The Well and the Mine - Gin Phillips
- A Mercy - Toni Morrison
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 - Dave Eggers
- People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
- To Be Told - Dan Allender
{2008 Reads}
- Same Kind of Different As Me - Ron Hall and Denver Moore
- March - Geraldine Brooks
- Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
- Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyers
- Eclipse - Stephenie Meyers
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
- New Moon - Stephenie Meyers
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyers
- The Scent of Water - Elizabeth Goudge (reread)
- The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 - Joan W. Blos
- The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
- Green This!: Greening Your Cleaning - Deirdre Imus
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (reread)
- How Far She Went - Mary Hood (book of short stories)
- Gift of the Red Bird: The Story of a Divine Encounter - Paula D'Arcy
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- Mudhouse Sabbath - Lauren Winner (reread)
- The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups - A.A. Milne
- Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella (guilty pleasure)
- The Bird in the Tree - Elizabeth Goudge (reread)
- Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure - Sarah MacDonald
- The Mammy - Brendan O'Carroll
{2007 reads}
- Hannah Coulter - Wendell Berry
- Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
- Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling (re-read)
- Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire
- Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou
- Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas - Maya Angelou
- Gather Together in My Name - Maya Angelou
- The Mistress's Daughter - A.M. Homes
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Wicked:the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
- The Five Love Languages of Children - Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell
- A Long Way Gone:memoirs of a boy soldier - Ishmael Beah
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
4 comments:
Actually the library sends out reminders M-F, the morning after the books arrive at their destinations. Alas, all but downtown are closed on Friday.
That is rather cruel to do to book-lovers.
Um, why are you not on goodreads, by the way?
:)
Oh I HATE that. Countless times I have loaded up the kids to rush out and pick up our reserved books. Only to be reminded by a smart(er than me) 5yo that it is indeed FRIDAY. Personally, I think SAHMs have far too many things to remember. Remembering the current day of the week is clearly not on the top of my list. :)
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