Well, it happened. A book from a branch library went through the Transit Hold system faster than Rumspringa. Actually, two managed: Gone With the Windsors and The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry. I'll pick them both up tomorrow or the day after--I still have 20+ unread library books here, so no shortage of things to read.
So what am I reading now? Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and More Poets by Donald Hall. I'm also eyeing A Pelican In The Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries And Recluses by Isabel Colegate and Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio.
On the other hand, I might just pick up Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses; I just finished her An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain. One of the many things I loved about that book was her pure relish in the information she was conveying, her excitement and idiosyncratic joy in what she had to share. I'm still delighting in her remark that what excited neurons mostly communicate is how excited they are. I love that.
And someday, Rumspringa will finally arrive, and that's what I'll be reading...
1 comment:
Katy,
Rumspringa should not be on transit hold that long. Did you ask them to check the shelves at both branches? It sounds to me like they sent it from it's home branch to your branch and it never got checked in. Now it's back on the shelf at your branch. Or possibly the home branch, but that would be more of a longshot.
Let us know,
Kim:)
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