Choosing your next book

15 years ago

I was finishing up a book this afternoon, and even with a few more pages to go, I was thinking "I get to choose a new book later!" (simple joys...)

I went to my list, which I keep on my computer. The list has library titles, not the TBR stack I have in the house. Because I had to return DVDs to the library, I decided it'd be a library book. Usually I read one from the TBR stack, then one from the library, then back to the TBRs, etc.

My computer list isn't in any particular order, other than the series books (like Grafton books and similar).

I checked a few interesting titles against the library catalog database online. Three came up as available. Two did not.

Now, my question: Why did the unavailable ones suddenly seem more desirable? (Not that I wouldn't find them eventually, LOL!)

(I ended up with a Grafton and Evanovich. Hey, it's summer. I try to limit my "heavy lifting"!)

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jankin
15 years ago
I am really looking forward to 'Walking Home' by Lyn Schooler (which could also fit in nicely to the narrative non-fiction Post) I heard it serialised on Radio 4. It will also satisfy my lust for wilderness tales - will try to order from the library tomorrow but may have to buy.
rosefolly
15 years ago
Well, I have Wolf Hall from the library sitting on my night table. Next to it is The Woman in White which I read several years ago, but need to re-read for my book club in a couple of weeks. As yet I'm not sure which one it will be.

Rosefolly
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rosefolly
15 years ago
In the end I picked up a book of short stories by Peter S. Beagle, Mirror Kingdoms. The first one, "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros" was excellent. It seems that whim has as much to do with my decisions as plan, and whim works quite as well.
vickitg
15 years ago
I'm all about the whim, too. But to answer your question, pammyfay, I think it's just human nature to want the books that aren't available. It's "the grass is always greener" syndrome. It's the same thing that made my MIL always wish she had ordered what my husband ordered when we would go to a restaurant. :)

In addition to whim, I choose my books based on my mood. If my life is tense and chaotic, I prefer either a calm or a purely escapist book. If, to the contrary, things are going pretty smoothly for me and mine, I will choose something that might be a bit more emotionally affecting. That's just how I do it. Right now I'm reading Georgette Heyer's "Cotillion" and a thriller. So what does that tell you? I also almost aways try to avoid graphic violence if I can.
yoyobon_gw
15 years ago
I am trying to get into TIME AND AGAIN.
It hasn't grabbed me as I thought it might.
Perhaps I'll move on to A COOK'S TOUR by my favorite Anthony Bourdain.
THE HELP has been on my TBR pile for 6 months and I really want to read it. Something holds me back.
Has anyone else read it?
Can you encourage me to crack it open!?
rosefolly
15 years ago
I liked The Help. My entire book club did. It's not great literature, but it is a very satisfying, very human story, about people living through a horrible time that many of them did not recognize as being horrible. As long as you don't expect a novel on the level of To Kill a Mockingbird, I believe you will enjoy it too.

Tom (DH) likes everything by Anthony Bourdain. He loved Cook's Tour.

As for the book you are stuck on, I have been reading science fiction and fantasy both, ever since I was nine years old, back when girls didn't read that stuff. Here is some heresy: I didn't see what all the fuss was about Time and Again. It didn't seem all that clever to me, or moving, or wonderful in any way. In fact, I thought it was rather dull.

Life it too short to read books that don't engage you.

Rosefolly
carolyn_ky
15 years ago
I liked The Help, too. There was a thread here on it, and many people don't like it. One of my friends said it was a subject better left buried, but I don't feel that way. It is a story of its time, not extremely well written but for a first novel, not all that bad either.

I just finished As Time Goes By by Michael Walsh. It is the back story and the continuation of Casablanca. The author didn't do much in the way of description since, obviously, everyone has Bogart and Bergman fixed firmly in their minds. I was a little critical of the writing in the beginning but got hooked into the story and by the end was turning the pages as fast as I could. There was an afterword that said he dealt realistically with the Czech occupation and the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

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