Library Love, Wednesday, April 13th

It's National Library Week and what a great week to unveil my ridiculous haul of books from last week. I believe I've mentioned that I have a hold problem. Well, last week on top of my holds that had come in (a few of which get immediately returned to the system), I also remembered my pledge from last year to read all of the nominees for the reader awards of the Missouri Association of School Librarians (minus the K-3 books). 

Here are all the physical books that I checked out within the last week:

Adult Fiction (6)

• Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
• What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
• Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
• All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer

Young Adult Fiction (11)

• Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
• Mosquitoland by David Arnold
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
• The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
• Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett (Truman nominee)
• All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (Gateway nominee)
• In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters (Gateway nominee)
• The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston (Gateway nominee)
• The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Gateway nominee)
• Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown (Gateway nominee)

For the hubby or kiddos (6)

• Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• The Wee Free Man by Terry Pratchett
• Alcatraz Vs. The Shattered Lens by Brandon Sanderson
• The Fall by Robert Muchamore
• Death Weavers by Brandon Mull
• Ashley Bell by Dean R. Koontz

I also checked out several e-books and e-audiobooks. I am afraid that too many of my electronic audiobooks came in at once, and I will not get to all of them. Meanwhile my son ran out of Kindle books and started reading an adult book that I had purchased on the Kindle, The Magicians by Lev Grossman. When I told him it wasn't a kid book, he replied, "Oh, I wondered why they used the F-word so much." It was a magical parenting moment. Now I make sure he has at least 3 books waiting for him.

E-books (almost exclusively for my 9-year-old son who has appropriated my Kindle):

• The Battle Begins by Tony Abbott
• When Monsters Escape by Tony Abbott
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
• Krakens and Lies by Tui T. Sutherland

E-audiobooks:

• The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
• Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington

That brings me to a grand total of 70 physical items checked out and 18 electronic items, which really doesn't seem so bad when I look at it. I have 125 physical items and 29 electronic items on hold, most of which are currently suspended.