Southern Vampire Series

I finished "Dead to the World" last night, which is all I've got available right now for the Southern Vampire Series. There is one more, "Dead as a Doornail" but it's on local-holds-only in my library network and my home library doesn't own it. I know a sneaky way to get around that, even from home, but I think it's about time to give the vampire books a break for a while...I caught myself actually noticing the fact that dark was falling last night.

I've been finding a lot of ideas on what to read next from the Fiction_L digest that I signed up for at: Morton Grove Public Library Readers Services. So far I'm just lurking on the list, reading the posts without adding to them, but I'm getting lots of ideas of books to read.

Add that to my normal review of my favorite book catalogs:
Chinaberry Books
Bas Bleu
Book Page (Ok, so that one is a newsletter)

And of course, when I work the circulation desk I put on hold every single interesting book that goes by. Yesterday the list was quite extensive. This is why a) the stack of books next to my chair is much too high and b) I have to hijack the hold lists of my children and my husband. (OCLN only allows 15 books on hold for any one user-can you imagine?)

My excuse for having so many books on hold is that they're not all for me...I act as the personal librarian for everyone in my house, reserving and bringing home books that I think they'll like. This summer, along with typing their own project reports, and cooking the family meal once a week, I'm going to teach my children how to put their own books on reserve. I'm also thinking about teaching them how to blog...given that it's so easy (at least so far.)

This evening's job is to pick a book from the pile to start next.