Image via WikipediaMy library website allows me to ensure whether a book is checked in at my local branch before I get there. I like to make a list of 8-9 books that claim to be checked in before I go and usually only end up walking out with 4-5 of those. I blame it on myself checking the website too many hours before actually driving over to the library and thus allowing someone else the chance to beat me to it.
I learned my lesson today and double checked right before and was totally rewarded. I walked out of there with 7 books.
The English Patient
by Michael OndaatjeThe Bell Jar
by Sylvia PlathBeloved
by Toni MorrisonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot DiazOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken KeseyThe Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret AtwoodRebecca
by Daphne Du MaurierOf course, now that I'm looking at this stack, it's quite intimidating. Luckily, the longest book in the pile is 380 pages so hopefully I can get through most of them before my three weeks is up. I do see a handful of renewals in my near future though.
So, I'll be finished with Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres in the next day or two. Let me know which of these should I tackle after that? 
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Oooooh--read The Bell Jar by Plath. It is coming up in my TBR pile!
The only one I have read so far from that list is The Handmaid's Tale, and I enjoyed it.
I love my library as well. My daughter and I go every Tuesday! Though I rarely ended up browsing the stacks because I have so many hold/transfers waiting for me! I really enjoy the days when I can go on my own and just wander around, I can spend so much time there!
I've read "Beloved" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and I enjoyed the latter much more than the former. "Beloved" is just weird, it's like "The Turn of the Screw" in that it's a ghost-story-or-is-it? kind of a book. Kesey's tale of the struggle in a mental institution between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched is much more entertaining and satisfying. I hope you enjoy all 7, though.
-Isaac
towerofstories.blogspot.com
I've read 5 out of 7 of these, but my method is always to start with the one that's the most different from what I just finished reading. Hard to choose what that would be in this case - they're all pretty different from Corelli's Mandolin!
Cuckoo's Nest is simply amazing. Kesey is part of the Beat Generation, so the writing comes across as trippy, but the imagery is so rich.
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