Going once!

Some of our most recent discards.  Hmm, seems that the puppet circus craze has died down and the middle book there hasn't been checked out in over 10 years.  AND, there was a surprise in the card slot in the front of the book (for the old fashioned pen & paper check out) , but discretion prevents me from going into more detail.

Going, going, gone!

Often, people are surprised or express dismay/disapproval because we discard books.  Yet, if we didn't, we would have books that say, "One day, man will land on the moon..." (forgive my unimaginative example) taking up room on the shelf and where would our new books go?  The books with updated, current information?  (Fiction is another story before you debate, "But Paradise Lost isn't 'new'.)  So if you see a book with DISCARD stamped all over it in red, please leave it alone.  Stories of well meaning people finding discarded library books, in say the trash or river, going to great lengths to return them are nice in a people-really-are-good kind of way, but I'm over that at this point.



During my days in HEBISD, a janitor fished a paperback out of the toilet and returned it to me in a plastic bag.  The  Toilet Book was on my desk for I don't know how long. Thanks, but no thanks.


Out with the old, in with the new.  Allow me to highlight a few of our new titles:
Plane wreck.  Ocean. Sharks. Island.  Need I say more?

Old, but new to me (and MN).  Apparently, when published in the 70's Zoo Station was widely read in Germany, where Christian F. lives.  At the age of 13 she was addicted to H and would do anything to get her next fix.  Fans of Tweak and the like may want to check this out.  It's written in a more sophisticated way, and her story is much, much darker than Nic's, but it is certainly keeping me up at night.

I'm hoping Triggered is as good as The Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, I'll find out this summer when I have the time to read it.

Happy and safe prom, Mavericks - have a great weekend!
Oh wait, one more book, aptly entitled Prom.  A documentarian view of prom in America as a rite of passage of sorts.  If you're not the prom type, you may find this more interesting than most.