Yeah, my new books are Bookshops & Bonedust, the prequel novel to Legends & Lattes, so I know that's a popular one, then I have a newish Brandon Sanderson that might not be popular yet, but will probably get popular becauase it's Sanderson. But it also might be old enough by now that the craze has died down, idk.
And then I have the second book in the Unorthodox Cronicles by James J. Butcher, which probably won't have any holds ever. I think the first book was severely underrated, but it's urban fantasy with, so far, no "spice", so that's ultimately unsurprising. And then I have two new thriller/horror books and those are always hit or miss for how in demand/popular they end up.
And then I have 2 assorted not new fiction and 2 craft books.

wow, that's a few books!

I also definitely forgot a couple others that I didn't have sitting with the rest of the checkouts too... ;>.>
Did return the look knitting books and tbh will probably just buy one of them as there were too many patterns I wanted, but still have too many books. xD
This is why I say I shouldn't check things out, lol.

LOL, i get that!
i have a book out that's next on my pile to read that has rituals for the various sabbats on the Wheel of the Year (Samhain, Yule, Beltane).... and something tells me that I'll probably want to buy a copy of it for myself! XD

The old try it before you buy it. Libraries are great for that.

yep, that's exactly it. :D
libraries are... enablers! XD

read a few books and updated my list back on page 1.

did more reading, and now goodreads says I'm like 8 books ahead of schedule to meet my goal o_O

I keep forgetting to update goodreads. xP
...and my list here...
lol

i update goodreads and instagram. i forget to post here XD

Just gonna say, Goodread's page counts always being off bothers me. I know it's copy specific probably and impossible to keep up with all that, but...my current book is WAY off. (Possibly has the page count for the original Japanese text instead of the English translation.)
Goodreads: 220 pages
Literal book in my hands: 315 pages

i don't pay attention to that, actually.
i just use it to keep track of my books.

I like watching the percent read go up. If the page count is off by 10-30, it's not an issue or if it's higher than the page count of the book copy I have, it still works.
Even this one, being almost 100 pages under on GR is mostly just a minor annoyance. Like, it's not the end of the world or anything, though it will make the end of year stats fairly inaccurate.
Which is also just a minor annoyance, but still...
XP

everyone's different. i like the book count going up. XD

haven't seen the Golden Compass, but i think i heard something about people getting offended. yeesh.

I'm still reading Cold Curses, I'm about halfway through.