To Buy, To Read, To Listen

September 6 was National Read a Book Day 📚

📚 September 7 is National Buy a Book Day

Don't you think that should be reversed?

Buy a book, and THEN read it..!?!

Unless you are like me (and in honor of September is National Library Card Sign-up Month), and borrow most of your reading material from the library, buying is a rather big deal.

I have stacks of books next to my bed...gathering dust...while I gleefully listen to audiobooks and ebooks downloaded to my phone, and at least once a month I check out a book at the library, then sit down and read it in one go without leaving the building. 

Which is why I hesitate to purchase another book; seems wasteful to buy them, then let them sit.

My sister tells me that I need to support authors and bookstores and BUY MORE BOOKS!

I've just purchased an audiobook; does that count, sis?

Audiobook I am currently listening to:

-Secrets of the Lost Ledgers by C. J. Archer: Book #5 in the Glass Library Series

Next audiobooks queued:

-What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley: Book #11 in the Flavia de Luce Series
-A Swarm of Butterflies by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett: Book #6 in the Dr. Nell Ward Mysteries
-Vows & Ruins by Helen Scheuerer: Book #2 in the Legends of Thezmarr Series
-Viciously Yours by Jamie Applegate Hunter: Book #1 in the Fae Kings of Eden Series

Actual books that I have that I REALLY REALLY want to read, when I get time:

-Inductions Dangerous by John Bellen (I Have Three Cats Blog)
-Hidden in Blood, Place of Temptation, and Lake of Tears by Bilinda P. Sheehan, Books #5, 6, 7 in Hariet Quinn Series
...and many more!

For a bookish Caturday, here is Celestial Sweetie, with my stack of to-be-read books in the background.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Respect the Ging

#GingerCatAppreciationDay

September 1 is Ginger Cat Appreciation Day!

As Eastside Cats is currently unowned by a orange kitty, here are a few silly images swiped from social media for your entertainment since we have no pics of our own 😿:

Shout outs to my family and friends who current are or once were the servants of gingers; count yourselves lucky. ❤️

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And if you think I love cats, watermelon, and popcorn, please know that I am a devout Library disciple, and encourage all to walk into a library and ENJOY!

 

 A library card opens a doorway to many adventures, with books, with DVDs, with free lectures and seminars, to play with jigsaw puzzles, online games, tap into genealogy and history websites, phone apps for ebooks and audiobooks...for FREE.

Seed library, plant exchanges, tax prep assistance, free passes to local events and institutions, and the list goes on and on.

Please consider registering for your library card today, or use the one that's been sitting in your wallet for years to go out to explore.

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Read a Book Day

"6 September is National Read-a-Book Day, a holiday where book lovers, readers, writers, and illustrators can come together to celebrate prose. 

This holiday is wonderful because everyone can celebrate: children who are too young to read can curl up with parents during story time; teens can share their favorite YA tales. and adults can turn to their favorite chapters in romance novels or spooky Stephen King horrors."

Quote from esparklearning.com

Some of my favorite authors have books coming out in the next six months:

• Laurie R. King: Mary Russell series, Book 18 "The Lantern's Dance"
• Susan Hill: Simon Simon Serrailler series, Book 12 "The Sound of Footsteps"
• Nick Louth: DCI Craig Gillard series, Book 12 "The Body in Nightingale Park"
• Joy Ellis: Jackman & Evans series, Book 10 "The River's Edge"
• Elly Griffiths: Brighton Mysteries, Book 7 "The Great Deceiver"
• Richard Osman: Thursday Murder club series, Book 4 "The Last Devil to Die"
• Marion Todd: Clare Mackay series, Book 6 "A Blind Eye"
• Anthony Horowitz: Hawthorne & Horowitz series, Book 4 "Close to Death"
• Benjamin Stevenson: Ernest Cunningham series, Book 2 "Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect"
• Jim Butcher: Dresden Files, Book 18 "Twelve Months"
• C. S. Harris: Sebastian St Cyr series, Book 19 "What Cannot Be Said"
• Ashley Weaver: Electra McDonnell, Book 4 "Locked in Pursuit"
• Deanna Raybourn: Veronica Speedwell, Book 9 "A Grave Robbery"
• Robert Galbraith: Cormoran Strike, Book 7 "A Running Grave"
• Rebecca Yarros: The Empyrean, Book 2 "Iron Flame"
• Kelley Armstrong: Haven's Rock, Book 2 "The Boy Who Cried Bear"

 My cup runneth over with good writing, great authors, and terrific whodunits!

And do you know how much $$$ is spent on books?

ZERO!  ZIP!  NIL!

I get 'em from the LIBRARY.

September is National Library Card Sign-up Month

Get out, stay in, listen, turn a page, or swipe a screen; just read.

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National Library Card Sign-Up Month

September is National Library Sign-Up Month!

The modern library is not only books, but free wi-fi, games, classes, book groups, sewing clubs, jigsaw puzzles, quiet study, lectures, and so much more.

Visit your local library soon, and get your library card.

It's uses are endless.

And, you'll save yourself TONS of money by checking out books, audiobooks, ebooks, games, sewing machines, gardening tools, wifi hotspots, etc., instead of BUYING everything!

P.S. Laurie R. King and Neil Gaiman are two of my very favorite authors.