My Library Stacks

I am following Tierney's library stacks and sharing my own.  Today, I have not one, not two, but three library stacks to share with you today.

The first stack are the books I checked out this week. To highlight a couple of books from this stack,  Journal Sparks and Joyful Daily Stitching are books I have checked out before. Journal Sparks gives lots of great ideas of writing in a journal, and also has lots of beautiful visuals.  The Drawing School is one I will be following to get over my fear of drawing. It is very basic, kindergarten level drawing, which is here I need to start. It has a large variety of drawings, with step by step directions on how to draw each one.

This picture may look like last week's picture, but it shows that I haven't returned my previous books.  I have an overflow! I also have one ebook, The Forgotten Seamstress, which is an interesting historical fiction.

Lastly, this stack is books I was able to pick up for sale at the library! I didn't go to the Friends of the Library Big Book sale because it is just so dangerous, but there were quilt books for sale at my local library.

 It is making me nervous that they are selling so many of the quilting books, but it looks like they are reducing their book stacks in general. Maybe more people are reading e-books or giving up on books altogether. Some of these books are pretty skinny, so I had to lay them out for you to see the titles.  A lot of books didn't have library labels though so maybe a quilter is just clearing out her excess.

Quilts from El's Attic is by Eleanor Burns, and Quilting Those Flirty 30s seems like it has a lot of interesting patterns. The Uffizi is paintings from an art gallery. I was going to get a children's book so I could cut out pictures for a junk journal, if I ever get around to making one, but chose this one instead because it is bigger for the same price, and has more variety of paintings. It doesn't have the cutesy factor a children's book would have, so we'll have to see if I can cut it up.

Library Shelf #1

Tierney Creates gives you a view of the books she got from the library and I thought I might do the same. Let me tell you first that I find that it is risky to tell you what I have, because then you might request it from the library and I won't be able to renew it if you are waiting for it.  I thought that maybe I could show you a stack of books I am returning, and then I won't have that problem, but that would be too hard for me to keep up, so you will just have to promise me not to ask my library for the book until I am finished with it.

I will review some of these books at a future date.

I am excited about this stack because I spent the day at the library on Saturday for a genealogy conference.  They had all these genealogy books ready for us to check out, but I was more excited about the quilting books I hadn't seen and grabbed as many as I could carry. This shelf in my house is reserved for library books.

No other books are allowed here so I don't return any of my own books. No, I can't carry all the books on that shelf; some of these books were already on my book shelf. We are allowed to check out 50 books at a time. There are books on cooking, psychology, art, and of course quilting. Most of the children's books have been returned. I got them for the pictures so I could practice drawing but I didn't get around to that before the books had to be returned.

The other exciting about this shelf is the shelf underneath the one you can see.  There is half a shelf full of books I got this year at library sales, at less than $2 a book. Most of those are quilting books, which I thought was bad news because maybe they are buying fewer quilting books, but the shelves at the main library was promising.

There is a big library book sale this weekend, but I should probably avoid it.