Library Haul, No Problem!

Sound the trumpets! I checked out no extraneous items today. Not only that, but we got no new music and no new picture books, because it's almost time for non-stop Christmas carols and my kids are going away for Thanksgiving week. I did have four books on hold, but most of them are kids books so I can probably read them very quickly the day before they are due

• Isabel and the miracle baby, by Emily Smith Pearce. I saw this recommended on BookNAround.
• Someday my prince will come : true adventures of a wannabe princess, by Jerramy Fine. Again, I blame BookNAround.
• The grounding of Group 6, by Julian F. Thompson. This one is for the Shelf Challenge.
• To take a Dare, by Crescent Dragonwagon and Paul Zindel. Another Shelf challenge book.

Technically there are a few other books I checked out on my card, as well as a plethora of movies, but those were for my kids. Who are leaving on Saturday, so I'm not sure when they plan to watch these, but hey, not my problem. Things they got involving paper include:

• Meteor shower messenger, by P.J. Rudi. I believe this is a Sonic the Hedgehog monstrosity.
• Transformers : stormbringer / story by Simon Furman ; art by Don Figueroa. N likes the Transformer graphic novels. I don't imagine the stories suffer because he can't read yet.
• Transformers animated : how to draw, by Sadie Chesterfield ; illustrated by Carlo LoRaso. I highly suspect N expects ME to master these, while I think it is time he stepped up to the plate. We'll see whose will is stronger. Better get good odds if you bet on me, though.

I am hoping not to read these books, although that hope may be unrealized for that last one.

I'll go sign up at A Striped Armchair to celebrate this day of glorious restraint. Oh sure, I was tackled twice by my burly offspring when they saw me heading for the new books section, but that's why I had kids, so it is all part of the Master Plan. My library list has me at 66, but that includes a stack of books I finished but didn't return because I haven't reviewed them.