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[thetofupirate]

I have a topic to write about, thanks to turtle_head!

What I will be reading at my new Friday job and how I choose it:

I read all sorts of stuff - non-fiction, fiction, young adult novels, pretty much anything really. I am more picky about magazines (I regularly read Bitch, BUST, and Real Simple, and then every once in a while I'll read Quill & Quire, UTNE Reader, and New Internationalist, among others), but I'll read just about any book (which is odd, since the time commitment for a book is much greater than for a magazine. And yes, I do continue to read books that I am not enjoying, probably because I hope that it will improve. It's rare that I actually give up on a book).

I have a list of books I'd like to read, and it's all over the map. Because my list is so long, I definitely have to go to the library for most of them (there are certain authors, however, that I do buy the book for, since I end up reading the books quite often). The only trouble with the library is that I do end up picking up random books that look interesting, so my list of books I want to read never really gets much shorter!

I am currently in the middle of a YA series, thanks to lagustar lending me the books. It's the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I've read the first two, and will start the third one shortly. They're pretty entertaining, although it took me a while to get into the first one (15 chapters, actually). I find that it's pretty hard for books about vampires to avoid being cheesey, but these aren't too bad in that way.

Next up, I'll read Everything is Illuminated, which was also lent to me by lagustar. I've been wanting to read it for a while, so it'll be nice to finally do that.

Also, I'd like to read Lock And Key by Sarah Dessen when it comes out on Tuesday, but her books have a way of making me bawl my eyes out, which would not be good at work. (I did read part of Just Listen on the bus ride to my other job a few weeks ago, even though I knew I was likely getting close to the place that would make me cry. And I totally did. At least it was sunny and I could hide the tears behind my sunglasses. And thankfully I didn't bawl, just leaked a little.) She is one of the authors I have to own books by, as I read them often. (I tend to do that with YA books. Why am I not a children's librarian?)

After that, I think I may need a non-fiction spree. I could attempt to keep going on Naomi Klien's The Shock Doctrine, but I have a hardcover copy, and if I don't have to drag it around with me, I'd prefer not to. Plus, I spent an awful lot of time swearing at the first chapter, because I found it so disturbing. Again, not the best thing to be doing on the job (but apparently it was okay to do so at a curling rink, which is where I was when I started reading it. But I was the only one watching, so it's not like anyone heard me). I'd really like to read The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists, or Rock On: An Office Power Ballad. I shall have to see if my local library has them. (And I should check if I can reserve things online. I doubt it, though. Or I can be bad, and use my Toronto Library card. I'd have to find the nearest library to my work besides the TRL, I'm guessing.) (Huh. I just realized that an awful lot of the non-fiction I read has to do with music, and especially punk music.)

And because I'm curious, my list of books I want to read currently consists of 45 books, of which at least 3 are not yet released. 11 are non-fiction. The rest are fiction, and a whack of those are YA books. That is a much shorter list than the list of movies I want to see. That is potentially sad.

Next substantial post: what I am planning to grow in my garden (thanks to starfishchick for that suggestion! I am always open to suggestions of stuff to write about, should you feel the urge to suggest/ask.)

Comments

[witch-kat.livejournal.com]

You can reserve online from the GPL, you can search books from any branch and they wil send your reserves to the one closest to you.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I will make sure to give the GPL more credit in the future.

And thank you for being the person who answers all my Guelph questions!

[witch-kat.livejournal.com]

Hey, no problem. Anything except driving directions and the location of anything in the 'burbs. :)

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not venture into the 'burbs myself, so we're all good there. :)

[lection.livejournal.com]

Are you on goodreads.com? I want to peruse your to-read list!

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Oh! Thanks for that. Now I am, although I haven't put anything in yet. I'm emiline there, too.

[lection.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out how to add you! Um.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Can you do it from here?

[lection.livejournal.com]

YES! Done!

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Now I just have to get my books and lists in there.

[starfishchick]

TPL will deliver holds to any branch, including TRL. (But if you want to browse, the Yorkville branch is just around the corner from TRL, on the west side of Yonge.)

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! I didn't realize you could send holds to TRL.

[thecherrybomb.livejournal.com]

i used this post as an excuse to add you to my good reads! i can also vouch that the TRL will accept holds. i had many of them directed there when i lived in the neighborhood.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Oh, when I lived in TO, I placed holds all the time. It's just that I don't live there anymore, and my friend is currently keeping my card active (he's a librarian), and I probably shouldn't use my card, but I probably will anyway (for books they don't have in Guelph, at any rate).

[thecherrybomb.livejournal.com]

Do you still work in Toronto? I first got my TO library card when I didn't live there - I just had to show them a pay stub with the company's address on it, I think. I still had to show them proof of where I actually lived but they didn't care that it was in Brampton at the time.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I do! So if they make a fuss, I can tell them that. Thanks. :)