{"id":8203,"date":"2018-07-25T01:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T06:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2018-07-25T03:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:37:28","slug":"ten-books-currently-checked-out-from-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"ten books currently checked out from the library"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t particularly feel like writing about this week’s Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> topic, so I decided instead to tell you ten books I currently have checked out from the library and why I borrowed them. (I am a big library borrower. I have 16 print books out from the library, as well as five audio books checked out via Overdrive.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Murder Games<\/em> by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, because Instinct<\/em> is one of the few tv shows we watch that was renewed for the coming year and I’m always interested in literary inspirations for tv adaptations.<\/li>\n

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  2. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora<\/em> by Pablo Cartaya: It was a Cybils Award finalist in the middle grade category this year, which is probably the category I like the best; a 2018 Pura Belpr\u00c3\u00a9 Author Honor Book; and an Earphones Award winner from AudioFile.<\/li>\n

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  3. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin: Eight years ago a list of 100 best kids books came out from the School Library Journal<\/em> and I decided to finish reading all the titles on it that I had never gotten to<\/a>. Recently I realized I’d never finished that laudable goal, but that it was accomplishable over the next summer or two. This is one of the books from the list. (Plus, I loved her When the Sea Turned to Silver<\/em>.)<\/li>\n

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  4. The Thief<\/em> by Meghan Whalen Turner: This is another one off that list.<\/li>\n

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  5. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase<\/em> by Joan Aiken: And another one.<\/li>\n

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  6. Refugee<\/em> by Alan Gratz: This was the Cybils winner in the middle grades category this year and is particularly relevant to the moment, but starting it just feels like work, which is why I haven’t started it.<\/li>\n

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  7. The Room<\/em> by Jonas Karlsson: I really liked his book The Invoice<\/em> several years ago, so when I needed a couple books by foreign authors set in foreign places for my summer book bingo sheet, I decided to see if he’d written anything else my library had in stock.<\/li>\n

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  8. The Problim Children<\/em> by Natalie Lloyd: The last time I was at the bookstore, I saw Lloyd had a new book out. I loved A Snicker of Magic<\/em> and liked The Key to Extraordinary<\/em>, so decided to check this one out and see if it was one that I could like and move on from or if it was one I needed to own.<\/li>\n

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  9. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World<\/em> by Ahsley Herring Blake: Another book I saw the last time I was at the bookstore, this one had a striking cover and was on their recommended reads table.<\/li>\n

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  10. The Refugees<\/em> by Viet Thanh Ngyuen: This was the 2018 D.C. Reads title. I’ve had it out for months. I read the first story, it made me cry, and I was loathe to pick it back up again. Plus, it’s short stories, which I don’t especially love. I’m just having a hard time taking it back even though I don’t want to read it anymore because I think I should read it. I hate doing things I should.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How about you? What do you have checked out from the library at the moment and what made you pick it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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