I seem to have a never ending pile of library books lately. And I don't seem to ever make much of a dent in them either. So today I shuffled through the stack and decided what I really wanted to read, what I decided was not as great as it first appeared, and took back a stack of books. I had two books on hold, though, so I didn't return home empty handed. And this is the stack I have left to read.
This is not counting books from my library--we take off the dust jackets, so they are not as entertaining to look at. The problem with removing the jacket--you really have to know what you are looking for--there is no description of the book once it has been cataloged. Oftentimes I will see something new on the shelf and put a routing slip in it. But by the time it has been paid for, cataloged and I get to check it out, I might forget what it is about and there is no longer a dust jacket to remind me why I wanted it in the first place!
At the moment I am about halfway through A Season of Open Water by Dawn Clifton Tripp. This is the second book I have read by her. I think it is excellent. It is set in Massachusetts in 1922 and is about rum-running. Okay, sounds a little odd maybe, but it is well written. The story is told from various points of view--mainly by one family. If I could, I would happily sit and read it all evening. I am also working on Kiss & Tango by Marina Palmer. Interesting so far, but I haven't read this one in a few days. The author is pretty wild! Two books can't be renewed, so I have read the first chapters at least: Straight into Darkness by Faye Kellerman (I have never read her before--this is a mystery set in WWII Munich), and Widow of the South by Robert Hicks (set during the Civil War--not sure I will make it through this one as I am not a big Civil War history buff, but I thought the cover was really pretty cool). Well, that almost gets me half way through the stack...