The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Thought this might be a really interesting thread to set up.

Personally, I'm a massive library but. I've volunteered in libraries for most of my teenage years, so while all my fellow freshers are running round terrified about not being able to find books, I'm happily spurting off the Dewey Decimal system!

What books do you have out on loan? Waiting for many?

Right now, I've got Thrones, Dominations and The Madness Underneath. There are also 2 ebooks and 8 audio books on loan from the library. Library = My Happy Place! :-)

I was a frequent visitor to the library when I was still in school, but these days I mostly read from my own library or download ebooks online.

Right now I only have an audio of Reached. Very unusual of me. Typically I have lots.

Man, audiobook loans sound awesome. Don't think anywhere nearby does them...

The university is like insanely big, and they don't have any modern editions of things, so most of them are really old and dusty and lovely. (Totally going weird now...).

So it's really amazing browsing the sections (800s in Dewey hell yes).

But currently I have The Study of Language, for my Introduction to Language module, Manhattan Transfer and The Book of Illusions are for my American Lit module, and Dracula, The Castle of Otranto and Maurice
for my personal reading!

It's max 25 books... I could reasonably hit that...

We have a 5 max on digital downloads but no max at the library. I know because I asked once. I had 15 books checked out (some were for the kids) and I was worried I wasn't going to get the one I was on hold for and they told me as long as you don't owe any money they don't stop you from checking stuff out. I love my library!

I only do the digital library through our county library system, just because the library I like is out of the way. Plus, no late fees. We can check out a max of 6 ebooks at a time and a time limit of 21 days for each e-book. I have just one e-book out on my Kindle right now Between the Spark and the Burn and one on hold right now Carrie. I would put more on hold but I find that no matter how many people are on the wait list before me, they all coincidentally become available at the same time. I mean, there are times where I'm 50th in line for a book and will get it at the same time as the one where I was the only one on the waitlist.

My library has a "wishlist" where I can flag ebooks to remember which ones I want to check out. When one book comes off of hold, I put another one or two on, so I almost always have a library ebook on me unless I am planning on a stint of physical book reading.

That's a truly insane list, Iasa!

Iasa wrote: "I have access to six libraries (one of which has 7 branches) so I usually have quite a number of books. I know at least 4 of them have 50 item limits, I've never had that many out. Right now I've..."

Wow! I've recently started reserving books via my virtual library account on-line and I'm loving it! I have most of the Richard and Judy books for autumn i.e

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Under a Mackeral Sky
The Devil in the Marshalsea
The Martian
Someone Else's Skin

and a few more like The Inheritance and Antiques Roadshow: World War One in 100 Family Treasuresand have about another 6 ordered and hope to get in the next week. Last book I reserved was A Monster Callsyesterday.

I'm borrowing Party Games and will be starting it tonight.

Sandy, you could always make a Goodreads shelf to keep track?

Sandy-
Oh My God! That happens to me all the time!!

Sandy wrote: "
Books

Stoner
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
The Night Watch


E-books

[book:The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen|1193413..."


I created a shelf in goodreads for the library. If books on my to-read list are available at the library (paper or ebook), I also add them to the library list. After I have read a library book, I remove it from that shelf.

I think there must be an unwritten rule somewhere that ALL books on hold become available on the same day!

I think my library shelf grew just for the readathon.

Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
The Charioteer
Peter Pan
The Child Thief
Dark Places
Into the Darkest Corner
Washington Irving's Tales Of The https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2028402-what-books-do-you-have-on-loan-from-the-library#Supernatural
The Invisible Man
Different Seasons
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays
High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006
The Turn of the Screw
The Haunting of Hill House
A Monster Calls

Becca, I like your idea for creating a library shelf, I think I'll steal your idea. Thanks! :)

I went to the library earlier today and picked up the books I'm planning on reading during the Halloween Readathon.

Ticktock
Doctor Sleep
Pet Sematary

Melissa wrote: "I think my library shelf grew just for the readathon.

Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
The Charioteer
Peter Pan
The Child Thief
[book:Dark Plac..."

I've also made a library shelf and I'm amazed at how many brilliant books you can get for free! I also have 'A Monster Calls' ready and waiting for the Halloween week challenge!

Topazriver, I cannot believe how many interesting books and classics that count for Horror. This month has been my biggest surprise starting with Dracula. Love it!! I'm having a hard time not peaking into 'A Monster Calls.' I can here the monster calling me. :D
The book that I did not realize that was a classic is 'The Haunting of Hill House' so another book that is hard to put aside till the Big Thon!

Sandy, the Great Speeches on Gay Rights sounds fascinating! I'll definitely check this out!

Most of my books come from the library (either physical books or through their Overdrive ebook lending program). In my library basket right now-
The Troop (starting this today)
This House is Haunted

and then I have three books on hold that I'm impatiently waiting on to come in :)

Ohh, only just saw this thread! Yay libraries!! :D

I've got...

Out of the Silent Planet
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian
Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story
Cultures of South Africa: A Celebration

Still waiting on...

Mere Christianity

Currently have

right now I have 4 Agatha Christie books out from the Library. Have a few on hold but I am in line for them. So Agatha until they come in.

Just picked up Raging Heat! Woot Woot! I get to shoot bad guys with Nikki Heat for awhile. :D

So jealous, Renee! I totally need to re-read that series!

(all the Firefly references hell yes)

crank, escape, triumph, and windblown world

I need to take a breath and read what I have now before I take out more.
oh, I forgot Divergent

and finally
sharp objects by gillian flynn--the author of Gone Girl

I went book loan crazy before i went into the rehab for a week

Samantha wrote: "Good gracious! How do you all have time for that many books being out at once? I've got The Rise & Fall of Great Powers which I'm loving. Also have We Have Always Lived in the Castle out and wai..."

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a good one, I loved it :)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Currently 2 out now:
The Red Pyramid

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America for our genre challenge


on hold:
Beloved

I have a delicious new stack...

Vimy
Dodger
Lost in a Good Book
Mere Christianity

Faye wrote: "I have a delicious new stack...

Vimy
Dodger
Lost in a Good Book
Mere Christianity"

Great list! Dodger was a great book :)

I braved the snowy roads yesterday and picked up several holds-

Quite the eclectic mix :)

I have 5 books out, 2 of which are done. I just ordered a book that isn't in our library system so this was my first inter library loan i just did. Looking forward to that read as it has been in my TBR pile since I started goodreads. #2 on the list will hopefully be in my hands late this month or next month!

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation and Grendel.

Blessings from the other side : wisdom and comfort from the afterlife for this life / Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison.

20701705713 DUE 03-02-15 Renewed 2 times 133.9 BRO
Horns / Joe Hill.

20702188207 DUE 03-11-15 Renewed 2 times FIC.
The wind through the keyhole : a Dark Tower novel / by Stephen King.

20702377220 DUE 03-11-15 Renewed 2 times FIC.
11/22/63 [text (large print)] / Stephen King.

20502981603 DUE 02-23-15 Renewed 1 time LP KING
The assassination option [text (large print)] : a clandestine operations novel / W. E. B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

21406225993 DUE 02-06-15 RENEWED
Now due 03-02-15 Renewed 1 time LP-GRI
Outlander [sound recording] / by Diana Gabaldon.

20502412688 DUE 03-03-15 Renewed 1 time BKCD FIC GABALDON
Divergent [text (large print)] / by Veronica Roth.

31216003536971 DUE 02-26-15 Teen Fiction Roth (Teen Nutmeg)
Pagan babies [text (large print)] / Elmore Leonard.

22201324457 DUE 03-04-15 Renewed 1 time LT F LEONARD
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I'm listening to the outlander
reading the assassination option and pagan babies

I may give up on pagan babies, its not holding my interest.
All 3 are library books

Normarly I get out about 10 books from my library but I ve got a bigger book out this time so jist stuck with one well untill I decied to try getting the e books from them. So I currently have.

Book
A Game of Thrones

Ebooks
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Princess Diaries
Battlefiled yorkshire

I have 16 books out right now, not sure what the max is for my library. No ebooks but the max loaned out for that is 6.

Might be returning some partially read and take them back out. Many are due back already.

Jodie, I hope you like a game of thrones. I thoroughly enjoyed that one, even as I have yet to finish it

Sonya wrote: "I have 16 books out right now, not sure what the max is for my library. No ebooks but the max loaned out for that is 6."

I still haven't figured out what my library's limit is, but I'm always testing it to see how far I can go. ;)

Faye wrote: "Sonya wrote: "I have 16 books out right now, not sure what the max is for my library. No ebooks but the max loaned out for that is 6."

I still haven't figured out what my library's limit is, but I..."

Our library's limit is 50 physical books and 35 ebooks/e audiobooks. I've maxed out my account and my husband's for physical books, but I've never had more than 10 ebooks become available at any given time.

Wow, 50! No wonder I haven't hit it yet, haha! I think the most I've ever had at once is around 20.

holy smokes, Faye! Do you manage to read them all?

I only have one on loan at the moment, and that's The One

Me 12 from different libraries

It has been many years since I've had a library card. Way back when my problem was I would read too slowly or would read the books so rarely that I would have to keep renewing the same books. I would usually limit myself to only having 2 or 3 books out. Now days I would have to make special library times in my schedule. They would also have to be fairly regular to avoid late fees. I'm not that regular with some stuff. Plus in recent weeks one of my favorite libraries in my area, which used to be my closest one till I moved 8 years ago, is closed for renovations which will take about 2 years or so to complete.

Right now, I have Villette by Charlotte Brontë out from my school library, and the Mysteries of Udolpho on my Kindle. I am also going to borrow the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I just returned Greyhound by Stefan Piper (great book!).