I only use my Kindle when I travel, so I don’t have to schlep heavy books. But I still prefer to read real books, with pages and the like. I frequently go back to an earlier section to refresh my memory, and it’s difficult to do on a Kindle.
You do know that when you finish Kushiel’s Avatar you have to start Imriel’s Trilogy, right? You’re not finished with that world until the third book in that second trilogy is done. (Imriel’s Trilogy is quite good; you’ll be happy you read it.)
Yes, unfortunately I seem to be stuck in this world for a while!
I can only read one book at a time. I just finished Beartown. I had a love-hate relationship with the book. I liked the ending, which I didn’t read ahead of time.
I read the Kushiel Trilogy, but never read the Imriel Trilogy. @ignatius, it sounds like I need to put it on my list. I think you suggested them before, but I never got around to reading them.
I am number 102 on our library hold list for Pachinko. I suspect I won’t have the patience to wait that out. It was a BookBub special a few months back and I didn’t buy it, as I was being very disciplined at the time, telling myself that I wasn’t going to spend another penny on a book until I read the 20 stacked by my bed. Self-discipline is highly overrated.
(FYI, I posted the new thread.)
Interesting. I’m first on the Hold list and there are seven copies of the book. I expect I’ll have it sometime next week.
I use two libraries close to me. One is in the town where we lived for 25 years and where my kids grew up. Affluent, intelligent people in that town. In that library, I would be 23rd on the Hold list. My second library (where I’m first) is in a much more diverse town, less affluent. I find it’s much easier to get the books I want at that library!
^ I would have expected the opposite – that the affluent would just buy the book and the less affluent would, out of necessity, end up on library waiting lists. I live in a blue-collar suburb with a large immigrant population and our library gets tons of use. I always have to wait for a popular title, which doesn’t bother me because I love seeing the place so busy. (My daughter is a librarian, so I’m a particular fan of libraries 
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Ha first place in queue for book- tells you a lot about our area ! Yeah, but hoped for ebook version and isn’t in system -
Congrats, @mary13 for raising a librarian-your dinner conversations must be lively !
I started Jane Harper’s Force of Nature today. I think I’m going to like it.
Lucky that you have it in your library system. Our library system of 8 small town libraries doesn’t have it at all. E-bay is my friend!!!
In the affluent town, I’m sure lots of people do buy the book, but I also think they’re simply more aware of recent best sellers, and those who don’t buy run to the library to read them. In the less affluent, more diverse town, I think there are fewer people overall who want to read these books in the first place.
Sometimes, however, the less affluent, more diverse town’s library doesn’t even have a book I want to read, while the richer town does. It’s interesting to see.
We are among the most affluent counties in the country with a very large library system. Hence the 47 copies of the ebook. They do not even offer the hard copy on wait list right now. I think awareness has a lot to do with it not necessarily affluence.
I guess I’m equating affluence with education.
My library system has Pachinko in eAudiobook (Overdrive); audiobook (CD); ebook; hardback; large print. I’m #30 for a hardback and #7 for large print. I’ve found the numbers misleading though because my location also pulls titles from the neighboring county, so I can be listed as #30 in line but get the book tomorrow from the next county.
(My daughter is a librarian also. 
Though I have to add that my eldest daughter - attorney - rivals her in number of books read each year.)
^ but I bet you have them both beat in that department!
FYI “The Twelve Lives of Samuel Harley” is a Goodreads deal - $2.99 today only 4/15/18
^ Yes but not by much (and only because I have more time).
It’s been interesting to watch them rate books (Goodreads). One gave The Handmaid’s Tale five stars; the other gave it two stars; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children got four stars from one and two from the other. And so it goes.
Our small town library gets $1000 a year for acquisitions.
$1,000?? OMG. I hope there’s a bigger library near you, @silverlady.
There is not a library that is much bigger than ours from which we can check out books. I purchase books for the book club here. Those that I don’t want to keep I donate to the library. They have donated and removed from circulation books for sale. $1.00 for hardbacks, 50 cents for paperbacks. That money allows them to purchase more books. We are a part of a regional system, but books that are from other libraries are brought to our library once a month.
I will often purchase paperbacks from the sale because then I can read them and don’t have to bring them home when we are traveling.