Aha!

How we digress. I was just starting my (long overdue) Friday Bookshelf. First, I wanted to share an aha moment.

Just before bedtime last night, I was browsing the Daily Beast and saw an article -- Spilling My Family's Secrets, by Frances Osborne -- about a book I'd wanted read about her great-grandmother, Idina Sackville.

I rarely buy books until I've read them. I check them out of the library, and if the book is one I want to re-read, I will buy it. So when this book was first published last year, I put a library hold on it. But I was out of town when hold came to library, and when I realized the hold expired, my enthusiasm had waned.

Though I was half-asleep when I saw the article in the Daily Beast, I immediately perked up. I wanted to read that book and I wanted it now! So I went to overdrive, found it on the virtual bookshelves, and checked it out. Lovely!

While I was there, I "returned" a few digital ebooks that had not yet expired. (Books are returned automatically at the end of your checkout period). Heading upstairs I told me husband, "I just went to the library and checked out a few books and returned some old ones. In my pyjamas!" Then I got in bed and started reading The Bolter by Frances Osborne.