So, I've been on a reading rampage. I haven't had much time over the past couple years to read much, and I miss it. This summer, I started making sure to carve out time to read, and flew through some pretty great books. Erik Larson is officially one of my new favorite authors - I read both In the Garden With Beasts and The Devil in the White City over the summer, and they were incredible. He has a new book coming out soon about the sinking of the Lusitania, and I'm really excited to get my hands on a copy.
I told you all recently that I had an incredible amount of time on my hands after work, now that I live so close to the office, and picked up reading again. I finished All the Light We Cannot See, and loved every bit of it. In between working out, unpacking, (yes, unpacking...my den is still somewhat of a disaster...) and carving out time during work at lunch, I've managed to keep up my rediscovered love of reading.
A few weeks ago, while trying to figure out what book to read next and how I was going to afford all these new books I had to read, it hit me: the library.
One of my first orders of business when I moved down here was to get myself a library card. One of the local branches is literally two blocks away, so one morning, to get away from all the unpacking, I walked over and got a library card. Fun fact: most local libraries now have an ebook catalog, and you can check out books for your e-reader online - you don't even have to leave your house! You may have to download software to allow the books to be transferred to your e-reader (I have an ancient nook from B&N, one of the first gen editions, and the books transfer perfectly, so you don't need one of the up-to-date new-fangled things to have it work), but it's really simple and totally worth it.
You should have seen me that night when I remembered I could do that. OMG. I was like a kid in a candy store....only I was a nerd at the library website instead. (sigh)
Some of you had given me great book recommendations, so I went searching for the ebook versions of all of them. They're not available - they're all checked out - but you better believe I got myself on the holds list!! I went crazy - I currently have 6 ebooks on hold, and that's because I've read 2 that became available already.
First up was In the Woods. A great suspense novel that I highly recommend if you like those kinds of books.
Second, The Language of Flowers. One of the ladies at my LNS back home told me about this book, and it was very good. Definitely not what I expected based on the title and the story that transpired, but still very good.
Currently, I'm on the hold list for the following books: Orphan Train, Broken Harbor, The Miniaturist, Girl on the Train, A Spool of Blue Thread, and Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker. I'm sure that list will grow as I devour every single one!
What are you guys currently reading? Do you have any suggestions for what I should add to my ever-growing holds list at the library? Have any of you read the books I mentioned above?
