It's library day! What'd you get?

Thanks for asking! Yes, Friday is library day, we try to go every week. Often one of us has a reserved book to pick up, and we've often finished our books anyway and want new ones.


This week I had one book to pick up, Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs. I love the Mercy Thompson books, and this is a spin off series, the opening novella of which I read recently. Same universe, different main characters and I'm loving learning more about Charles, who looms menacingly in the back ground of Mercy's life.

Because I knew I was going to be writing this, I went on a wonder through the shelves as well, which I sometimes do and sometimes don't. The second of the Alpha & OMega series was not there, only the third, but I picked up a couple of Kelley Armstrongs, as I rememered reading another of hers and enjoying it as brilliant fluff. So I have Omens (woman discovers she's secretly the daughter of serial killers with hilarious consequences) and Otherworld Nights, a collection of shorts.
Then I noticed a Cecelia Ahern I hadn't read, The Year I Met You, as I passed the 'quick picks' shelf (basically, popular books that are put in a separate display so you can grab one quickly while dashing through or supervising your children in the children's section) so I grabbed that. I've enjoyed Ahern in the past - both her fantastical books like If You Could See Me Now and her more prosaic books like PS I Love You so I guess I'll see.

As for the children, I routinely keep a list of the books they borrow, and then I buy their own copy when between them they've borrowed a book 5 times. That's how we got our Winnie the Witchcollection, a perenniel favourite; How Many Sleeps?, popular at birthday time, several Peppa Pig and That's Not My... books I'd never have chosen, and various other acquisitions. this time, I notice that Tip Tap went the crab now fits this category.

Today, Judith was busy at home, so we left her and Andreas & I chose her books.

A was in a touchy-feely mood, and chose lots of toddler books with textures:

My first gruffalo
Toddler Touch Out and About
Betsy Goes to School
My first playtime


For J, he chose:
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Green queen by Nick Sharatt
Mr Monkey and the Birthday Party by Linda Chapman
all from the early readers section,

and I picked up The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey because I thought she might like it.