Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Library Loot - February 3 to 10


Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and me that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries!

Eva is taking a blogging break, so I'll be hosting Mr Linky again this week.

I don't know about you, but some times when I visit the library it's just a quick in and out visit, not a lot of talking, but other times I get to have a bit of a chat. There's one girl in particular who I have bonded with a little over certain books, and another lady who is always very friendly. There's a couple who just aren't but that's okay too. Anyway, I do have a point to my rambling. When I went into the library on Tuesday to pick up my holds, the librarian was one of the chatters. When she was checking out my books the notice came up which said that I had reached my limit of checked out items, and then she asked me if I had any idea how many items I had borrowed since I had joined the library. I have to say it is not something I have ever thought about. After telling me that the highest number of checkouts from an individual borrower was around 17000, she then told me that I had borrowed 1091 items in the four and a bit years I have been using the library. If I allocated an average cost of $20 an item which is conservative given that most of the books are hard covers, that means that I have saved just over $20000 by using the library. Is there any wonder that I love my library.

The latest five items that I borrowed were:


Lord Sunday by Garth Nix - The last book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Aussie author Garth Nix. This will be one of the books I will read for the Aussie Authors reading challenge.


Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - I have borrowed this one a couple of times before. I was so excited at the prospect of a new Lisa See historical fiction novel and yet I just can't seem to find the time to read it before I have to return it to the library each time.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett - This book has been getting rave reviews everywhere. I resisted for as long as I could, but couldn't resist any longer.

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett - Next book for my Terry Pratchett challenge.


Lament by Maggie Stiefvater - Another reloot. I am really hopeful of getting to read it this time!

So there we have it. What loot did you pick up from your library this week? Leave your link in Mr Linky so we can all be a bit nosy and see what you got!

20 comments:

  1. I picked up The Help in my loot this week too!

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  2. whoa Marg, those are quite the impressive library stats, how awesome that she shared those with you, i love those types of behind the scenes type info. i know i was surprised when i looked back at my "sources" for books and about 40% over a 6 month period were from the library. being a bibliophile can be an expensive hobby!

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  3. Last year 80% of my reads were from the library!

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  4. I almost checked out a Discworld book too. My post is here.

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  5. I love the library - almost everything I read comes from there.Now I'm thinking of all the money I've saved over the years.:-)

    The Help is wonderful! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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  6. No loot for me this week. I'm in the long library queue for The Help. I hope to get it this year!

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  7. Aren't library stats wonderful?! I regularly peruse my ticket's history. Another great set of books - I'm still waiting for The Help to turn up here.

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  8. How many did you say?? 1091? Did I hear that right? OMG!! That is sooooooo awesome, and yes a life-saving and wallet-saving number!

    Enjoy your reads! I hope you will be able to get into Shanghai Girls this time!

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  9. Lament is on my list! Can't wait to see what you think of it.

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  10. How funny! I just bought a copy of Equal Rites and The Help in the last month, so it looks like we will soon be reading the same things! I hope you enjoy all your new books and I will be interested in hearing what you think!

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  11. Oh, I loved Lament! I hope you enjoy it as well! :)

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  12. My first library loot Marg! I added my link.

    I really want to read The Help and Lament. Great loot!

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  13. I enjoyed reading Lament and Equal Rites. I hope you do too!

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  14. Shanghai Girls is pretty intense the beginning third or so, but I thought it was fantastic!

    I wonder how many books I have checked out since I joined my library in June...?

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  15. I should ask my library if they could tell me how many items I've checked out!! Granted, I don't read all of them (lack of time, some I just lost interest for whatever reasons, "forced return" when I can't renew) plus we have a decent DVD collection so a lot of them are DVDs too... the library definitely save me from buying books, particularly those I don't end up liking!

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  16. Equal Rites is one of my favorite Discworld novels, but then I've always been partial to the "witchy" ones!

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  17. The Help is sitting on my TBR shelf. I love my library!

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  18. The Help is on my TBR list too. And here I thought I might have been one of the last to read it. I just put my self on the wait/hold list at the library. I'm number 86. Ouch.

    You're other loot looks great to Shanghai Girls sounds like a good book and I loved Snow Flower and The Secret Fan.

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  19. What a great way of looking at it! You have saved alot of money borrowing instead of buying!
    I work at a library so it's always fun to read those kind of stats.

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