[Quiet Man Cometh]

Purchase requests are a thing, often with ebooks or articles. Otherwise, libraries generally have to guess going on their circulation statistics and regional demographic. (yup, librarian in training ;))

I do book reviews over on LibraryThing and it's been a dandy way to get free books if you aren't too picky about what you read. Hence, some of the young adult and kiddy things that are on my list. Found some good stuff though, and it amuses me to see a book I reviewed later on a shelf at a store.

I spend too much money on books, but I justify it as "building my library." Which is kinda true.

I've done reasonably well this year compared to last, I think. I'm creating one of those "read an x book" lists for my student association. Haven't thought about the year you were born one though. That's a good idea! I'm still working on a list I started in 2016. Eventually I'll knock that off. I'm currently on "book with a red spine,""book written by a celebrity," and "collection of poetry."