I hate when this happens - I’m on the waiting list for several books from the library, and they all come in at once. Yes, I know you can inactivate your holds so this doesn’t happen. But if you’re number 80 on the waiting list for one book and number 3 on the waiting list for the other, what are the odds they’ll come in at the same time? Pretty good, as it turns out. Especially in the summer. Back in August, in addition to The Great Risk Shift, I also got Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas and a George Pelecanos novel. Also, season 3 of True Blood on DVD, and season 1 of Treme. (There's always a waiting list for current DVDs so you can't renew them.) Since I had to read Cleopatra for my book club, I never got around to the other two books, despite having them checked out for almost three weeks. Bonhoeffer is close to 600 pages, so there is no way I could’ve pulled that off.
Did I learn my lesson from having too many active holds at once? No, of course not. Just the other day I had three new books come in: The Descendants, by Kaui Hart Hemmings (soon to be a major motion picture starring George Clooney!), The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson and Predators I Have Known, by Alan Dean Foster (this one is about the 4-legged kind of predator, not the human variety). Plus, The Lacuna, which I had to return to one library and re-check out at another. Actually, these new books all look like pretty fast reads. Once again I will put aside The Lacuna and curl up with a good psychopath or predator. I am never going to finish that book.
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