Oh my gosh, I know, I love it. My favorite thing is to take all my books and pile them around me on a picnic blanket outside and sit in the sun and sample all my new library books.

I liked it! You must have been the person who recommended it, then, if you loved it? (I need to be better about tracking this.) I was a little sorry that we didn’t get to see more of the son’s plotline, and I’d have liked it if the granddaughter had come to live with them slightly sooner, but otherwise I enjoyed it a lot.

Guapa! I liked it! It was nice because there are so many kind of recurring tropes in stories set in the Middle East, and Guapa felt like something I’d never read before. It wasn’t, like, life-changing or anything, but it was vivid and interesting. I’d reup on that author.

That’s not bad at ALL, Bina. You are an inspiration. :p

This is the problem with buying books! It’s the reason why I rarely do it! When a book first comes out, I’m so so so SO excited to read it, but then there are other new shiny things vying for my attention. Plus if I own a book (versus having it out from the library), I feel less of an urgent push to read it because there’s no deadline.

Oh, yeah, no, I’m done lending other people my library card. Those days are over. My sister is the greatest human being but when I used to let her check things out on my library card, she’d just forget about them and stress me out horribly as I tried to chase her down to find and return those books. Now I am very hard-hearted about it all.

How many times does your library let you renew?

Hahaha, I honestly was going to not check it out on this library trip? I was going to save it for next time. But then, completely inexplicably, it was misshelved in exactly the place where I was looking for another book, and I was like, welp, it’s a sign, and checked it out after all. :p

Aw boooo, that’s the worst. I usually don’t have to return books for that reason (although LaRose is due back on Saturday and cannot be renewed due to holds); it’s usually just that I ran out of available renewals before I had a chance, or it’s that I started the book and wasn’t madly into it and decided to save it for another time.