holds

does anyone always have this dilemma?  i know it's really not a big deal, but I think it's ironic.

I love our local library and constantly put books I want to read on hold. The old me would just buy them, but I in an attempt to save money and only own books that are really good, I have been using the library.    Here's the pattern for me, it's just the way things go.

There is a waiting period because a lot of the books are ones that everyone else wants to read (like when I see that  I am 22 of 38 in the queue) and in that time period I read books I have had on the shelf but have never completed. Then I find a really good book I want to buy, so I get it and read the first few chapters, and then 3 of the books I have had on hold are available all at the same time.  So, I have to hurry and read them before they are due in 3 weeks. And then the waiting period begins.  It really shouldn't be hard to read a book a week, but sometimes life gets in the way.

Yesterday I picked up 3 at the library.  :) I just think it's kind of funny how it always works out.