Crazy at the Library

[gategrrl]

Ah, I love Alexander McCall Smith's Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency series...I went to the library yesterday to return a heap o' manga Mermaid has taken out (10?) and the Harry Potter book and a few Cornelia Funk books (Inkheart/Inkspell, Ghosthunters series) that my kids weren't interested in. I couldn't get into them either. The translation style didn't appeal to me at all.

But, like I said, I found the *newest* Ladies Detective Agency on the 7-day loaner shelve and snagged it - only to find there have been two or three new books out on the series list I knew nothing about! Argh! Reading his series is like visiting a comfortable home. It's contentment.

I also swung by the YA paperback metal shelves (the type that swirl around) and discovered Diane Duane's Young Wizard series. I found all but the second book in the series. I don't remember if I've read any of Duane's stuff, but it looked appealing. We'll see. 

Oh! And there was also a book on the Summer Reading shelf that I snagged, too, written by the Miles Vorsagian author (blanking on her name at the moment). I've heard about this book, I think. If I don't like it, I'll just take it back. But I do like her style, and the way her stories hang together.  

Comments

[mdhenry.livejournal.com]

I love Mma Ramotswe! I read the first one, but the remaining novels I listened to on cd. The reader is so awesome and fun, you really should check them out!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will. That's one format that I have trouble with, unfortunately: it's so damned noisy at my house, with so many interruptions, it's hard to keep on track with anything on an audiotrack.

But I'll look them up. Maybe I could even get my daughter to listen with me.

[planet-mel.livejournal.com]

I'll leave it to y'all then. I've had ever so many people reccie the series to me. I've tried twice, though, and cannot make it even through the first book. I've put them on my online list at the library so I will remember to try them again at some other time. I think maybe its me and not the books! Sometimes you're just not in the right headspace for a certain type of thing.

BTW can I just say I do love how my local library lets you keep an online account not only of what you have checked out, due, etc. but of books you want to get. Kind of like a Netflix queue. Wheee!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know exactly what you mean about needing to be in the right "head space" in order to read a series of books.

FOr instance, I would *love* to read Terry Pratchett's books, and I have gone through one or two, and I thought they were hysterical - but for some reason, I couldn't remain interested.

enjoy

[ndmzero.livejournal.com]

The author you blanked on is Lois McMaster Bujold, btw.

Diane Duane is good - and a better writer than Ms. Rowling.

I'd recommend Terry Pratchett highly - he's got several subseries, one of which might interest you more than the ones you read.

Have fun.