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Our library system is on a budget forced furlough until September 7th. I usually check my library account every day to see what's due back and what might be coming in so I am going through withdrawals.
I always hated it when we were in Seattle and the SPL went on it's "budget furlough." I tell ya, if I ever make gobs of money ... I mean really have money coming out of my wazoo ... DW and I have decided that libraries will always be funded, because a library should never have to close its doors like that.

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We listened to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events The Bad Beginning on our car ride out to Neah Bay this weekend. What a fun book. I think we'll have to check out the rest of them for dd, she got a kick out of the story. And dh and I really enjoyed listening to Tim Curry read the book.
Be aware that Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) reads books three, four and five and he is not the best of readers, especially after Curry. Though, stick through those three books, because Curry comes back strong for the final eight books and does an excellent job (plus the series really takes off with Book the Sixth.

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I can count that as a read right? If so #57 A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.
Of course you can ... I count audiobooks all the time. In fact, I came to post an audiobook I finished while on the road:

#48 How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (Audio)
by Daniel H. Wilson
read by Stefan Rudnicki

My review can be found HERE


#1 The King in Yellow, #2 Ghost Story, #3 Twilight (Audio), #4 Nice Work, #5 The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged, #6 Collected Poems 1909-1962 (T.S. Eliot), #7 New Moon (Audio), #8 Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams), #9 The Pearl, #10 The Blackwater Lightship, #11 100 Selected Poems (e.e. cummings), #12 The Grapes of Wrath, #13 Eclipse (Audio), #14 A Bit on the Side, #15 East of Eden, #16 As I Lay Dying: Redux, #17 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, #18 Breaking Dawn (Audio), #19 A Streetcar Named Desire: 25th Anniversary Edition, #20 The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author, #21 New British Poetry, #22 Brick Lane, #23 Maps for Lost Lovers, #24 The Silence of the Lambs (Audio): Redux, #25 Pride and Prejudice, #26 Poe: A Life Cut Short, #27 Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, #28 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obession in the Amazon (Audio), #29 Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, #30 The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Russia, #31 Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (Audio), #32 The Composer is Dead, #33 Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook, #34 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, #35 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, #36 The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists, #37 The Road, #38 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, #39 How to Draw Washington's Sights and Symbols, #40 My Hippie Grandmother, #41 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, #42 My Favorite Horror Story, #43 Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America, #44 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, #45 Dead Until Dark, #46 Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, #47 'salem's Lot (Audio): Redux, #48 How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (Audio)
post #162 of 168
I guess if I had to choose between paying for holds and my library going on a furlough -- I'll pay for holds!
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I guess if I had to choose between paying for holds and my library going on a furlough -- I'll pay for holds!
Yeah, it doesn't sound so bad now! Although, it is only a week, so not so terribly horribly awful. Just a little not fun.
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I always hated it when we were in Seattle and the SPL went on it's "budget furlough." I tell ya, if I ever make gobs of money ... I mean really have money coming out of my wazoo ... DW and I have decided that libraries will always be funded, because a library should never have to close its doors like that.



Be aware that Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) reads books three, four and five and he is not the best of readers, especially after Curry. Though, stick through those three books, because Curry comes back strong for the final eight books and does an excellent job (plus the series really takes off with Book the Sixth.



Of course you can ... I count audiobooks all the time. In fact, I came to post an audiobook I finished while on the road:

#48 How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (Audio)
by Daniel H. Wilson
read by Stefan Rudnicki

My review can be found HERE
Yes, we totally donate what we can to the library, and I'm happy to pay my fees when they accrue.

And thanks for the heads up on the Lemony Snicket audio books. Glad to hear that Tim Curry does most of them. He was really quite brilliant!

The robot book sounds cool!
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Yeah, it doesn't sound so bad now! Although, it is only a week, so not so terribly horribly awful. Just a little not fun.
Shoot -- when our library started closing on Mondays, I totally missed it. And on holiday weekends, it'd be closed on Tuesday too. Seemed like I always ran out of books on Sunday and then I'd be stuck.
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Shoot -- when our library started closing on Mondays, I totally missed it. And on holiday weekends, it'd be closed on Tuesday too. Seemed like I always ran out of books on Sunday and then I'd be stuck.

Yeah, the literature on the furlough said they considered closing the library system one day a week system wide, but figured out that the savings to the budget was just a bit more than the furlough, but the time lost to patrons was significantly more, so they went with the furlough. Small sacrifices for the great good I guess

The tough one for me is they are changing the limits on amounts you can check out and amounts you can have requested at one time. It was 100 for both, but they are changing check out limits to 50 and request queues to 25. Since I check out for all 4 of us in our house, it'll be tough to change for me! I guess it will save the library some money somehow though. Not sure how, but if it works, I'll do it
post #167 of 168
I finished one in August and forgot to post.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

It was pretty good. I know this is probably dumb, but the outdated styles were really bugging me. I kept thinking maybe it was written circa 1995, but it's more recent than that. I mean, banana clips? C'mon.

Other than that I thought it was relatively enjoyable. I did think it was strange though that Sookie couldn't figure out sooner who the killer was, what with her special gift and all.
post #168 of 168
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I finished one in August and forgot to post.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

It was pretty good. I know this is probably dumb, but the outdated styles were really bugging me. I kept thinking maybe it was written circa 1995, but it's more recent than that. I mean, banana clips? C'mon.

Other than that I thought it was relatively enjoyable. I did think it was strange though that Sookie couldn't figure out sooner who the killer was, what with her special gift and all.
Banana clips

That makes me think of that Sex and The City episode where Carrie's boyfriend writes a book with the main character wearing a scrunchie, and they have a falling out about it.
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