Indulge me in a bit of nostalgia, please?

As a child, I loved weekend trips to the library. I read quickly then, and still do, and so every trip to the library with mom would involve me filling my backpack with books. So many books went in that thing, that a gentle shove would have sent me toppling.

When I got older, and began biking to the library, the weight of my chosen books would add significant length to the ride home (and cause me to have to stop at the ice cream place for a cone en route).

Why am I remembering this? Partly it’s because I have this theory that carrying around pounds of books is at least as effective as swallowing weight loss pills, and partly because when we came home from our trip to the east coast, we came home with pounds of books.

The books in question were gifts/loans from a friend, who does what I do – cleans out her bookshelves by handing books out to those who would appreciate them. And so, I came home with Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, which I’ve heard much about, but never actually read, and The Parish by Alice Taylor, among others.

I’ve started reading the first, haven’t yet begun the second, but am excited about another stack of books to wander through.

What’s on your to-be-read list these days? And where did you get them?

Tags: Angela's Ashes, Bookish Chatter, The Parish