Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

I've changed up my display again this year.  It makes for a really cute design, but it was a pain to print on the paper bags. Click here for past year's displays.

Here's  my post from last year  with the displays from my first two years of Blind Date with a Book. Since I noticed a number of patrons checking their checkout slips for book titles and then returning the books unopened I changed things up this year to try to cut out that habit. I picked 10 books all about the same size, wrapped them and numbered them. When they get checked out it will be by number only until they get it home and unwrap the book. This year's books are: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Persuasion by Jane Austen A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare The Blind Side by Michael Lewis Blockade Billy by Stephen King One for the Money by Janet Evanovich The Glass Castle by Jaennette Walls Abraham Lincoln by James McPherson A Slice of Murder by Chris Cavender

Last year I put together a book display called Blind Date with a Book.  I found the idea through another librarian's post and thought it was great.  Last year I wrapped 19 books and 15 books were checked out.  We asked that people reviewed the book but unfortunately only two people returned reviews. Last year's books included: In the Hot Zone by Kevin Sites Night by Elie Wiesel Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by Daivd Michaels Macbeth by Shakespear A Million Little Pieces by James Frey Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore Under the Dome by Stephen King Lawless by Nora Roberts The Sinatra Files by Tom Kuntz The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl Ford County by John Grisham The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Postmistress by Sarah Blake A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar Hide & Seek by James Patterson A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolf Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi Most of these books w...