The haul

We are homeschoolers. Therefore, we love the library.

Seriously– I know that plenty of other families adore their local library. But homeschoolers, well … we take it to another level altogether, don’t we?

We are blessed beyond belief to be served by a system that goes above and beyond in its offerings. An exhaustive catalog. Family events. New release movies. Free holds. Themed kits. Ebooks. No fines.

Yes, you read that correctly. No fines. Feel free to hate me.

 

We probably hit the library three times a week, on average. Two of those trips (and any extras) are just to grab items from the hold shelves or drop off those books and such that we’re done with. But once a week, we descend, en masse, on the library proper. This is the trip we all love. This is the browse time.

Like kids in a, ummm … bookstore, we wander the stacks, sometimes alone, sometimes in pairs, sometimes as a whole crash of rhinos. It takes no more than an hour, but oh, how we all love this time.

At the end of the gleaning, we enjoy an almost silent ride home while we listen to our newest audiobook or music cd, or leaf through our literary finds. I can pretty much count on a very contented rest time on library days.

Books are good, good things.

 

So what are we reading or listening to right now? Here’s a (very limited!) selection of our latest haul.

Christopher– The Lowland by Jhumpa Lhairi and The Two-Year Mountain by Phil Deutschle, The Wolverine

Heather– 30 Minutes Knits: What Can You Knit in Half an Hour or Less by Carol Meldrum, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Frienkel, and A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion by Oliver DeMille

Mary Hannah– Understanding Genetics (The Great Courses),  The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, The Fray by The Fray and Chris August’s The Upside of Down, Group 1 Crew’s Fearless

Mathaus– Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone, Beast by Donna Jo Napoli, and Screen Teen Writers by Christian Hamlett, Outriders by Kathryn Mackel

Jack– Wierdos From Another Planet (Calvin and Hobbes) by Bill Watterson, and The Secret of the Old Attic (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene, The World Cup audiobook by Matt Christopher

John Mark–  Just So Stories audiobook by Rudyard Kipling, My Spring Robin by Anne Rockwell, Everything Spring by Jill Esbaum, Nate the Great audiobook

Phineas, Birdie, and Simon– Ten Little Fingers by Annie Kubler, Signing Time vol. 1, Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak, Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards

 

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