Is there anyone with a Chapel Hill library card who would do me a huge favor? Since I'll be driving to Houston alone, I want to take some audio books with me. Unfortunately, books on CD are expensive, and the Durham library has very few.
The Chapel Hill library seems to have a better selection, but they don't give library cards to non-residents. If there's anyone reading this who'd be willing to go to the library and get audio books for me, I'd be eternally grateful.
On the bright side, my pre-trip library visit did yield a nice big stack of regular books. I always take more books than I can possibly read so that I'll have choices to suit any mood. This time I've got Dan Savage's new book, a couple of gardening books, two novels by Poppy Brite about the New Orleans restaurant biz, Miss Manners' wedding guide and a sociology book about weddings for balance, and a deliriously trashy novel about the cast of a soap opera "written" by Finola Hughes, who generously credited her ghost writer on the front cover. Not from the library but also on the packing list are Baudolino by Umberto Eco, and The Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe since I just finished The Book of the Short Sun and now I want to go back and make sense of things.
I think that pretty much covers all my possible reading moods. I'm not taking anything too highbrow because I know I'll be too tired to focus on difficult reading. Art car trip books need to be relaxing, not challenging. My worst mistake was trying to read The Last Temptation of Christ on a previous Houston trip. Brilliant book, stupid idea to read it under those circumstances. One night I found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, unable to focus long enough to figure out what it meant. Even the Eco is probably too much, but hope springs eternal.
sorry, i was out of town and just saw this--email me if you still need a chpl card!!
ps they do give cards to non-residents, they just aren't free (i think they're like ten bucks).
really? that's great! I'll go get a card this week.