Nothing brilliant to add about the books, just glad to see you're back blogging!

Marion

It's good to be back! Thanks for the welcome. It's going to take some work to get used to this new schedule, but I think I can do it.

Now what I really need to do is find the library!

I won't believe for a second that you moved house without knowing where the nearest library is.

Chad, I'm back in the Sacramento area after 8-1/2 years away, so I know where the main library is, which is a start (downtown on I Street). And I have a vague idea where the branch is in my town, even if I haven't been there yet. What I truly don't know is which branch in the county has the best collection of SF/F/H, which is critical! In San Mateo County, where I used to live, it was the Burlingame Library that had the smart librarian in those areas, so I started going to that library instead of the one in my own town. There's almost always one with a canny librarian who knows the genres -- it's just a matter of winkling it out.

I'm no help,except I can say with authority that the I Street Main Library is really pretty.

Marion

Yes, the I Street library is really lovely. I just can't remember how good their collection of SF/F/H is. It's actually fairly rare to find a library with the expertise to build a good collection in those genres, but I'm hoping at least one library in our area does.

In other news, Fred has unpacked most of the SF/F/H in our own library. I really don't need the public library on top of this one -- we probably have more SF/F/H than any branch in the Sacramento County system -- but there are always the books I desperately want to read that I don't own, and it's better to borrow than to buy. Or at least, it's better to borrow than to buy if you're saving up your money to travel about the world with some frequency, as we are.