16 thoughts on “please someone stop her before she borrows even one more library book”
Whoa, I thought I was bad 🙂 Looks totally healthy to me though! I think the library is the greatest place on earth. Still so amazed by it – you mean I get to take this book and this book and this book HOME – for FREE?! The Links + search tool is also epic. Can say enough good things about the library.
LOVE LINK +!! I feel the same way every time I leave the library — waiting for someone to stop me and say, excuse me ma’am, you can’t just walk out of here with those books (now that I think about it, this is also how I felt when we left the hospital with our firstborn).
I don’t consider myself in trouble unless I have more than 25 books out… Unless those are all due at once, in which case someone should’ve stopped you sooner. 😉
Oh dear, I’m not sure what the grand total is. But no – they’re not all due on the same day (whew!). The problem is how I go to the library 3 or 4 times a week to write and every time I go I see another book or two that I just *have* to read!
I got to the point where I was renewing books the maximum number of times, and driving to the library to return them literally a half-hour before close on the day they were due.
Now I have a growing To-Read list which I use as a sometimes-futile exercise in self-control…
Perhaps you should add the books to a list, and check them out later, too? I keep telling myself delayed book-gratification won’t kill me.
I’m just such a prairie dog when it comes to books. Every time I see one it’s like: OH, I HAVE to read that. The list grows ever longer. For now, I accept it as one of my flaws 🙂
LOL. You’re going to throw your shoulders out! Do you take a rolly-cart or personal assistant with you? 🙂
Haha ohh you look like my kind of person! I got through weird stages of borrowing from the library. I will either get out epic proportions or I won’t go for months! 🙂
I totally do this! As if I’ll ever have the time to read them all, but what if that particular book, and that one too, are not there the next time I come? I’ll NEVER remember to even look. Best grab ’em while I can… since I’m already here to pick up my ILL requests. 🙂
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Whoa, I thought I was bad 🙂 Looks totally healthy to me though! I think the library is the greatest place on earth. Still so amazed by it – you mean I get to take this book and this book and this book HOME – for FREE?! The Links + search tool is also epic. Can say enough good things about the library.
LOVE LINK +!! I feel the same way every time I leave the library — waiting for someone to stop me and say, excuse me ma’am, you can’t just walk out of here with those books (now that I think about it, this is also how I felt when we left the hospital with our firstborn).
I don’t consider myself in trouble unless I have more than 25 books out… Unless those are all due at once, in which case someone should’ve stopped you sooner. 😉
Oh dear, I’m not sure what the grand total is. But no – they’re not all due on the same day (whew!). The problem is how I go to the library 3 or 4 times a week to write and every time I go I see another book or two that I just *have* to read!
I got to the point where I was renewing books the maximum number of times, and driving to the library to return them literally a half-hour before close on the day they were due.
Now I have a growing To-Read list which I use as a sometimes-futile exercise in self-control…
Perhaps you should add the books to a list, and check them out later, too? I keep telling myself delayed book-gratification won’t kill me.
I’m just such a prairie dog when it comes to books. Every time I see one it’s like: OH, I HAVE to read that. The list grows ever longer. For now, I accept it as one of my flaws 🙂
LOL. You’re going to throw your shoulders out! Do you take a rolly-cart or personal assistant with you? 🙂
Oh, both, both! If my 11,9, and 7 year-olds count as personal assistants. 🙂 And the rolly cart is, of course, indispensable.
Haha ohh you look like my kind of person! I got through weird stages of borrowing from the library. I will either get out epic proportions or I won’t go for months! 🙂
Sometimes I think I should avoid the library. But then, I can’t. I’m addicted!
Uh oh! Teetering. (I have 3 on request thru interlibrary loan….)
Could not live without interlibrary loan 🙂
“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me…” – Dorothy Parker
I knew I liked that Dorothy Parker….
I totally do this! As if I’ll ever have the time to read them all, but what if that particular book, and that one too, are not there the next time I come? I’ll NEVER remember to even look. Best grab ’em while I can… since I’m already here to pick up my ILL requests. 🙂
Yes, yes, exactly!