interlibrary ecstasy...

I am a book addict.  I know it.  If you know me, you know it.  I seem to always have 10 things checked out at the library, but that doesn't stop me from picking up something new at Costco if it is just too irresistible to me.  And then there's Inter-Library Loan. It's an ENABLER!

I recently read The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman.  This wonderful little gem was about a young woman from 1599 England, kidnapped by corsairs near Constantinople and sold into a harem.  I adored the intelligent writing, the history, the complete ability of the author to make me feel the very suffocating isolation of the women's quarters at the Topkapi Palace.  Enabler!

So, of course, I had to know if Ms. Hickman had written anything else.  She had.  In 1992, she published The Quetzel Summer.  I looked at my library's website.  Nope.  No Quetzel Summer there.  Amazon?  Nope, only a couple of used copies and those were over $20 each for an old paperback.  So, I turned to Inter-Library Loan.  Searching their website, I found that there was only one copy on file in the country...at the University of North Carolina.  So, I asked for it and voila!  Today it arrived.  So, I now have about 5 books that I am reading.  Check out the sidebar where it says:  What is she reading? 

She is reading:

• Dancing to the Precipice, non-fiction

• An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander series)

• The Quetzel Summer by Katie Hickman

• South of Broad by Pat Conroy

• The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville

So many wonderful worlds to enter, so little time!

Comments

[Amber]

I just added this to my goodreads and I'm excited to get going on it. Sounds fuN!

[Barbara]

Now you're enabling me. Added to my wish list. :)

[Margaret]

I love to read too and am never without a couple of books. I get jittery if I start to run out of stuff to read!!