Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
The original topic for this week was Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf, but I’m tweaking it a little bit as nearly everything I read comes from my local library.
Here are ten books with long waitlists that I hope to request from the library once the demand for them isn’t quite so high. Yes, I know I did this same topic a while ago, but might as well recycle it every now and again.
Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging by Angela Buchdahl
Wait Time: 12 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Earlier this year I met someone who is on the heart transplant list. I continue to think of him and hope he gets his transplant.
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
Wait Time: 12 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I generally enjoy her work quite a bit.
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters by Bonnie Tsui
Wait Time: 15 weeks
Why I’m Interested: The science of fitness is interesting and can change rapidly.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Wait Time: 16 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Terrifying vampires are the best sort of vampires if you ask me.
Wait Time: 16 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I like the idea of memorializing a child who died young a very long time ago (even if a good deal of this is probably fiction). Too often their lives were forgotten.
Ingram: A Novel by Louis C.K.
Wait Time: 2o weeks
Why I’m Interested: It predicts how climate change will affect us all in the coming decades.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Wait Time: 22 weeks
Why I’m Interested: It appears to be long and character-driven. If I’m going to read a long book, it needs to have excellent character development, so I’m hoping this will fit the bill.
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by
Wait Time: 22 weeks
Why I’m Interested: I may or may not have ranted about this phenomenon a few times this year.
Are You Mad at Me? by Meg Josephson
Wait Time: 23 weeks
Why I’m Interested: This is something I struggle with.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Wait Time: 25 weeks
Why I’m Interested: Climate change, seed banks, and literary fiction sounds like an interesting combination.