BOOKS
I ventured solo to the library yesterday for the first time in ages. I usually spend time with one or the other of the girls while one or the other of them is dancing across the street. Jordan is still too sick to be out in public, so off I went. A full 45 minutes and I didn't step foot in junior fiction, flip through the orange binder of kids' DVDs or touch the carousel teeming with Raffi and his cohorts. Freedom.
I ventured solo to the library yesterday for the first time in ages. I usually spend time with one or the other of the girls while one or the other of them is dancing across the street. Jordan is still too sick to be out in public, so off I went. A full 45 minutes and I didn't step foot in junior fiction, flip through the orange binder of kids' DVDs or touch the carousel teeming with Raffi and his cohorts. Freedom.
I looked through each and every CD and came home with Blue Rodeo's "Small Miracles" and Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive the Cold Winter Away". I checked out the entire "NEW FICTION" section and lingered over some old favourites deep in the stacks without once hearing, "Mom, can we get....?!" Liberating.
In the end, I came home with only 3 books - okay I ordered one on inter-library loan, too. Oh, and I bought one from the $2 used rack. Fairly ambitious for the next 3 weeks, but there are always renewals, right?
The Bone Cage - Angie Abdou (written by a friend of a friend)
Signora da Vinci - Robin Maxwell
The Sportswriter - Richard Ford (coming soon, I hope)
All Aunt Hagar's Children - Edward P. Jones (a good score for $2 if I do say so myself!)
All Aunt Hagar's Children - Edward P. Jones (a good score for $2 if I do say so myself!)
There were some disappointed faces when I came home without anything for them, but then I pointed out the basket teeming with their library materials and they agreed that it should last them ... until next week.
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