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Mar 03, 2014 10:25AM
I thought it might be interesting to see what books which are part of our collection are currently being read by our group members. (That is, the copy that you're reading doesn't have to be checked out from this library to post about it here; it just has to be a book that we have a copy of!) I'll start that ball rolling by noting that I'm currently reading Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
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On Friday, I pulled three books from our Juvenile section, Werner. I haven't had a chance to start yet, but they are:Dead Man in the Stacks by G.B. Miller
A Question of Destiny by Pamela F. Service
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At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant
With any luck, I'll have a chance to start reading them this week.
Right now, I'm reading Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. I checked out the library's free-standing copy; it's part of our Yale Shakespeare series, which includes every play the Bard ever wrote. (We also have two omnibus editions of all the plays in one volume.)
My current read, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, is a checkout from this library. I've had my eye on it for quite awhile!
From perusing this thread, it looks like most of us generally get most of our reading from other sources than this particular library collection. But it's good to know that it's here when we need it!I'm currently reading one of our newer books (though it's not from the "new books" section): Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan of Palm Beach Atlantic Univ. (Paula, were you acquainted with him during your time there?)
No, Werner. I don't think so. According to his CV, he came the same summer I left. I have looked at his book, though. I thought the title was interesting and glanced through it. I'll be interested to read your review.
I'm hoping to have that review up sometime next week, Paula!
The Pirate Vortex by Deborah Cannon, the book I'm reading right now, is one of the newer YA novels in our Juvenile collection. It looks like I'm the first person who's checked it out, which mildly surprises me!
In our Christian Fiction section, we have the book Fire Storm by Mackenzie Dare, which I'm now listed by Goodreads as reading. In fact, though, although it has the same title, cover and ISBN, the book I'm reading is actually a new version of the older one, rewritten to benefit from constructive criticisms in my review and others. (I promised Mackenzie I'd read it sometime and update my review, a promise I'm finally fulfilling.) When I'm finished, I plan to donate the copy I'm reading, which I purchased through Hearthside Books, to the library, so that we'll have the latest version on our shelf.
This morning, I started "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani. I laughed out loud three times in the first twenty minutes. I take this as a good sign. ;-)
Let us know how you ultimately like it, Paula!
The book I'm currently (re)reading, Willow by Wayland Drew (the 1988 novelization of the movie with the same title) is a check-out from Easley Library's Leisure Reading section. (It's actually one that I donated to the library myself, a few years ago.) There's a lot of potentially great reading in that collection, IMO; if you're not familiar with it, you should definitely explore it! I have my eye on a few more books there myself.
Easley Library owns the book I'm reading right now, Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, but it's never been on our shelves yet, because the cataloging and processing isn't completed. In fact, I brought it home to read in the hope of getting a better idea of how to catalog it (the call number assigned by the Library of Congress is pretty clearly a device of desperation). I know how to classify it now, but nevertheless I can't stop reading it until I'm finished with it!
Paula wrote: "Too funny, Werner. That sounds great!"Some of my best reads have been books that weren't on my radar at all before I picked them up, and this is turning out to be another of those cases! :-)
The book I'm currently reading, The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, is an Easley Library check-out.
Now, I'm reading another Easley Library book, this one from our Leisure Reading collection: Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell.
Easley Library has the book I'm currently reading, The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (and in fact I checked it out from the library). It's from our Mystery collection, and is Tey's best known work.
Although I have it on my read shelf, I'm not sure now that I actually read all of our copy of A Casebook on Henry James's The Turn of The Screw the first time that I checked it out. I checked it out again last week. It has the full text of the James novella, which I'm currently reading; when I finish that, I plan to read and review the rest of the book separately, in its own right.
The book I'm reading now, The Politics of God and the Politics of Man by Jaques Ellul, is checked out from our library.
Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past, the book I've just started reading, is another check-out from here in the library.
My current book, Miracle on 34th St., is another Easley Library check-out. I'd seen it on the shelf for years, and always assumed it must have been the book the movie was based on; but it's actually a novelization of the film.
It's unusual for me to read three books in a row that are checked out from our stacks (I usually read a high proportion of my own books); but my current book, Martin Eden makes three in a row this time!
Easley Library has a young adult series of books based around a young orphan girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets sail for the high seas. I'm presently reading the first book in this series, "Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy." How is that for a name?!! :-) The stories are by L.A. Meyer, and so far, I'm enjoying this book greatly.
Paula, the title is deliberately modeled on the style of novel titles that were in vogue around the time this tale is set. :-) This book has been on my to-read list for ages (I actually own a copy, which I picked up years ago at a thrift store up in the Shenandoah Valley); I really want to read it eventually, and would have started it before now except that I want to first bring some kind of closure to some of the other series I'm juggling. I hope you'll review it when you finish; I'd be very interested in your take on it!
Thanks, Werner. I thought that was the case with the title, but it still makes me grin every time I look at it. I'll be sure to let you know what I think when I finish it!
We have the book I'm currently reading, Newbery Award winner From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, in our Juvenile collection. However, as I explained on another thread, the copy I'm reading isn't ours; it's a loaner from my 11-year-old oldest grandson Philip, who likes it and gave it his recommendation.
Easley Library doesn't actually have a free-standing copy of the book I'm currently reading, The Book of Enoch. However, it is included in our copy of the massive two-volume collection The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English with Introductions and Critical and Explanatory Notes to the Several Books, 2 Vols, edited by R. H. Charles; and the second volume of this is what I checked out to read the book from.
Although I own the copy of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, that I'm reading now, Easley Library has one, too. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a serious, "canonical" British author, so we've tried to make sure we have all of his fictional works in our collection.
Staff Sergeant Belinda Watt, by Tom Holzel, isn't a book that appears in our catalog (yet). But one could argue that it's a book we have, even though it's not processed for the shelves yet, because the author donated us a copy earlier this year. I borrowed it to read off the processing cart, because I knew it would take awhile for it to be cataloged, and I felt it was about time somebody besides the author gave this one a Goodreads review!
Like my previous read, my current one, The Collection by Lance Charnes, was borrowed from one of our processing carts, having been recently donated to us by the author, whom I'm proud to claim as a Goodreads friend.
My current read, Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft, is a book the library has, and in fact is checked out from this library.
The book I'm reading now, Lord of the World, is a check-out from the Easley Library science fiction collection. (Our copy is actually a different edition than the one Goodreads shows as the default.)
I'm currently reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, another checkout from this library.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace, the book I started today, is also a check-out from our library (and a very handsome edition, that we can be justly proud to own!).
The book Barb and I are reading together right now, Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past, is a library check-out. I read it last year as a holiday-themed read, so I'm sharing it with her now.
Barb and I are reading another library check-out together, Henry Van Dyke's
The Story of the Other Wise Man (1895). We're hard on paperback books when we keep them in the car (the covers tend to get very bent --not sure why), so where library books are concerned, I try to stick with hardcovers for our "car books." Fortunately, this one and the previous one were on our shelves in that format.
James Fenimore Cooper's
The Deerslayer, which I started today, is a library checkout. We have all of his Leatherstocking Tales novels, and after I finish this one, I hope to read the other two that I've missed so far.
As I noted in my preceding post, we have the entire Leatherstocking Tales series here at Easley Library. Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and check out
The Pathfinder; and that proved to be nicely timed, since I started on it today, before I'd expected to!
On another thread, I mentioned that I intended to take part in a common read in another group during the month of May. But it was unexpectedly rescheduled for July. So, I'm continuing my Leatherstocking Tales reads instead, with what will be the last one,
The Prairie; and again, it's checked out from this library. Having worked here so long, I'm often guilty of taking for granted what a wonderful collection of quality fiction is available on our shelves!
My current read, Pride's Children: Purgatory didn't come from Easley Library's shelves, but we have it nevertheless. It's a generously donated copy from the author, which hasn't been cataloged yet; I took it off of one of the processing carts for the time being.
As I mentioned on another thread, right now I'm taking part in a common read of The Mysteries of Udolpho. My copy is an Easley Library check-out --and it looks like the only previous check-out was 50 years ago!
Again, the book I'm reading now, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, is a check-out from this library. This is another one that's been neglected; it's been in the collection as long as I've worked here (and judging from the accession number, a lot longer), but I have the honor of being the first person to check it out!
The book I'm reading now,
Black Creek Crossing by John Saul, comes from our Leisure Reading collection. If you haven't checked out that particular special collection, you need to! It's a cornucopia of fascinating reads, both fiction and nonfiction, that may not support any particular BC class, but have much to offer you in terms of enjoyment, edification, or education --and perhaps sometimes all three together.
My current read is another Easley Library checkout:
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, a posthumous collection of Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Although, unlike most public libraries, we don't shelve all of our fiction in a special collection of its own, we have a LOT of quality fiction in the main collection; and REH is one of the greatly underappreciated writers represented there.
I checked my current read,
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas, out from this library. That makes three library check-outs in a row, which I think is probably unusual for me --though I'd have to go back and check my posts/records to see for sure if it is.
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