My Library Checkout July/August 2018

Have you been using your library over the past month? What did you read? What didn’t you read? What are you waiting on? These are the questions of a meme called Library Checkout, led by Rebecca Foster of the blog Bookish Beck. Becca skipped July for personal reasons and wasn’t using her local library, but I am including July too because I was using my libraries for both months.

Library Books Read

Five:

1. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
2. The Cruelest Month, the third Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, by Louise Penny
3.  Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
4. Rebound by Kwame Alexander
5. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

On Hold

Five:

1. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
2. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
3. Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer McGaha
4. The Good Son by Youn-Jeong Jeong
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Returned Unread

Seven:

1. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of An American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
2. Booked by Kwame Alexander
3. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
4. Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
5. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
6. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
7. Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda

Most of the books I read and returned unread were part of two back-to-back readathons in late July: the 24in48 Readathon and Dewey’s Reverse Summer Readathon. The best books of the past two months were Behold the Dreamers and The Poet X, the latter of which I listened to on audio on loan on the Hoopla app from the Free Library of Philadelphia.

What did you check out from the library this past month, put on hold, return unread, did not finish? Or if you don’t use the library, what was the best book you read from this past month? Share in the comments.

Since talking about libraries, I would be remiss in mentioning my recent post about a fundraiser to rebuild the library in the small town where I grew up. Read the post and if you are able, click through to contribute. Thank you.