Library Love, Family Edition: April 18, 2014

Library Love is a recurring post in which we share each week’s bounty from our public libraries.

Oh, y’all, it happened again. I already had a fairly good-sized haul from the libraries, when wouldn’t you know it – all kinds of books I had on hold came up for check-out. I hate to pass them up, too, so I went ahead and checked them out. Thus, we’re looking at a couple of weeks of a mad reading frenzy in the Pathologically Literate household! The Boy had a couple of books on hold, too, that became available – but two books are much more manageable than six, wouldn’t you say? Yikes, y’all. I hope I can do this. Wish me luck! Here’s a look at what we brought in this week:

Pathologically Literate Haul:

This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan
No Rest for the Dead by David Baldacci (et al)
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra McPherson

The Boy’s Haul:

’The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue (Oragami Yoda, #5) by Tom Angleberger

SO excited to read This Dark Road to Mercy! I loved Wiley Cash’s last book, A Land More Kind Than Home, and I’m hoping this one is just as great. Who Asked You? is Terry McMillan’s first book in quite a while – love me some Terry McMillan, y’all. She’s been a favorite of mine for years and years. No Rest for the Dead is going to be an interesting read: each chapter is written by a different bestselling author, featuring their corresponding famed “character” that they write about, yet each chapter is interrelated. Did I explain that well enough? I’m equally intrigued by The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls – I don’t know much about it, but I’ve had it on my TBR list since before it was released, so I’ll finally get to cross it off. But you know what, y’all, I will tell you what – no matter how many books I cross off my TBR list, it just keeps getting longer. And longer. And longer. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? You tell me…