SFPL "Lucky Day" Book x2
I have no idea what the odds were on getting THE SAME "Lucky Day" book — on a San Francisco Public Library book that currently has a hold/waitlist of 80+ people on it, but if this doesn't count as a genuinely lucky moment for me, I'll eat my cap. ::chuckle::
That is the self-satisfied smile of someone who knows he has been most fortunate indeed.
A little over a month ago, I'd serendipitously grabbed a book that was on the Lucky Day shelf at the Marina branch of the SFPL. As any regular library patron knows, one has just a few weeks to read any such LD book before having to return it (it can't be renewed, as those titles already have waitlists and holds on them).
But as is my wont, I read multiple books concurrently, Books I'm Reading at the Moment In no particular order (even if this list is numbered ::chuckle::) ... 1 Gravity and Grace | Simone Weil 2 Living on Earth | Peter Godfrey-Smith 3 Memories, Dreams, Reflections | C. G. Jung 4 Wanderlust: A History of Walking | Rebecca Solnit 5 The Genetic Book of the Dead | Richard Dawkins 6 Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain | John Darwin 7 The News from Dublin | Colm Toibin 8 Flutes of Fire | Leanne Hinton 9 A World Appears | Michael Pollan 10 The High Sierra | Kim Stanley Robinson 11 Figuring | Maria Popova 12 Last Light | Richard Lacayo 13 San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries | Beth Winegarner and so if I don't focus on any LD book straight through, chances are I'll need to return it before finishing it. Which is exactly what happened with this one, Michael Pollan's luminous A World Appears. I hadn't even gotten through the first chapter when the email notification arrived in my Inbox precisely 3 weeks after borrowing it, instructing me to return it promptly for the next reader to enjoy.
[ in progress... ]