Library Card
Got my first library card today in years and years and years. I can walk through every bookstore in a several mile radius of this apartment blind-folded, but except for a author talk field trip with my class last year, this is the first time since we moved to Richmond Hill last March that I've been to the library only a fifteen minute walk away from where I live. I've passed the building more times than I can count on my various walking challenges.
It's a very big library on a main corner of downtown Richmond Hill and it'll probably take me a few leisurely visits to even discover all that's there. I was pleased to find hiking and running books and foreign language tapes and bunches of CDs and videos and DVDs and, of course, enough paperbacks and hardcovers to keep me reading forever. Heck, there's even a coffee shop for browsing through your books once you're done searching. And I discovered that you can even reserve books and renew books on-line, something I don't think was possible the last time I had a library card :).
John and I are going to make it habit of swinging by this library every two weeks or so. Also, now that the warm weather is here getting to this library will be a nice summertime walk. Funny, we were also in two bookstores today, but even having the library card in my pocket made me think twice about buying any books. I suspect it will make me far more discriminatory about what I buy. Should save me a chunk of change.
I realized browsing the shelves today that I could spend the rest of the year just reading the entertainment/pop cultural/media section alone (guilty pleasures), plus some of the cultural, travel and science stuff I'm interested in right now, but in light of the "50 Book Challenge" I am still going to continue to at least alternate non-fiction and fiction books. Today I borrowed a book on hikes in the Oak Ridges Moraine area north of us. Reading and hiking, two of the best things in life.
It's a very big library on a main corner of downtown Richmond Hill and it'll probably take me a few leisurely visits to even discover all that's there. I was pleased to find hiking and running books and foreign language tapes and bunches of CDs and videos and DVDs and, of course, enough paperbacks and hardcovers to keep me reading forever. Heck, there's even a coffee shop for browsing through your books once you're done searching. And I discovered that you can even reserve books and renew books on-line, something I don't think was possible the last time I had a library card :).
John and I are going to make it habit of swinging by this library every two weeks or so. Also, now that the warm weather is here getting to this library will be a nice summertime walk. Funny, we were also in two bookstores today, but even having the library card in my pocket made me think twice about buying any books. I suspect it will make me far more discriminatory about what I buy. Should save me a chunk of change.
I realized browsing the shelves today that I could spend the rest of the year just reading the entertainment/pop cultural/media section alone (guilty pleasures), plus some of the cultural, travel and science stuff I'm interested in right now, but in light of the "50 Book Challenge" I am still going to continue to at least alternate non-fiction and fiction books. Today I borrowed a book on hikes in the Oak Ridges Moraine area north of us. Reading and hiking, two of the best things in life.