Books, where have you gone?

I made my 3rd trip to the Lee County Library yesterday, in search of more reading material. Going to Barnes & Noble this past weekend with my mom made me crave books. That's one of the dangerous stores I have to be careful in, otherwise I would come out with several bags crammed full of books. There's so many new ones out that I want to read, along with lots of classics--it's so hard to resist! I know that if I do this teaching thing, I'm going to have shelves filled with books in my classroom, and it will carry over to my house.

So the thing that made me sad about going to the local library is the lack of new books in their stacks. There were a few books that I wanted to read, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. But my search at the library was futile. I know that the taxpayers pay for the library to be in operation, so can we have some new books that aren't murder mysteries? I can only take so much of the same genre before it gets old. I was a little more successful yesterday, I picked up a few titles from the bestsellers list, past and more recent (gasp, they actually had books from a year ago!). So now I'm devouring this collection, until I finish and go back to get more books from my list. :o)

I guess I'm too accustomed to the gigantic catalogs of books that university libraries possess, hence my disappointment at the county library. College spoils us.