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These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024
NPR ^ | December 29, 2024 | Neda Ulaby

Posted on 12/31/2024 6:37:16 AM PST by fwdude

Some of the most checked-out books in public libraries across the country in 2024 include Kristin Hannah's The Women, Rebecca Yarros' Fourth Wing, and Emily Henry's Happy Place.

These books landed on the year-end wrap lists of public libraries in New York City, Cincinnati, Seattle and other cities.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, was the most checked-out adult book in New York City and the second-most popular adult fiction book in Denver. There, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store was number one; that novel by James McBride also made the most-borrowed lists at libraries in San Francisco, Westport, Conn., and Louisville, Ky.

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To: Larry Lucido

RE: Henry Miller books

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Every man has his own destiny...the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads.”


“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

“It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!”
- Tropic of Cancer
—Henry Miller


21 posted on 12/31/2024 7:24:47 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MNDude

Glad I gave up on most fiction long ago. Such a waste of time.


22 posted on 12/31/2024 7:25:04 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: fwdude

Yeesh, danged NPR and old hippies. Never read any of them, again.
Remember my uncle sent me Bridges of Madison County 30 years ago, trash book.


23 posted on 12/31/2024 7:28:05 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Fai Mao
Often people borrow books that they want to read but disagree with so that they don’t support the author

Great point! Or books that you want to read but are so shallow that you can glean from it everything you need in one reading.

Public libraries are "reading libraries," or I call them "recreational libraries," and rarely have books that challenge or require work to get through.

I tried to find Issac Newton's Principia, a classical must-read, in my public library but it was not to be found. Not enough pretty pictures, I guess. But that might be one worth purchasing.

24 posted on 12/31/2024 7:28:51 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: MNDude

RE: progress on the reading list

The excellent vigilante justice film series with Denzel Washington The Equalizer has him working on reading the rest of the books on the list his beloved wife was finishing before she was murdered. He helps down and out people get justice and find hope in their lives.

Girl (hopelessly sinking into prostitution by a violent Russian mobster pimp), asking Denzel about The Old Man and the Sea he is reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcoE8mGOyw

Three movies I recommend. One synopsis line: “Aiding the exploited and oppressed by serving unflinching justice, he’ll need all of his skills to settle the score.”


25 posted on 12/31/2024 7:37:19 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: PUGACHEV

BTTT


26 posted on 12/31/2024 7:39:39 AM PST by nopardons
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To: frank ballenger; SaveFerris; gundog

I didn’t know this about Henry Miller:

“In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lover, Jean Kronski. He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department.”

Jerry’s cousin Jeffrey worked for the Parks Department too!


27 posted on 12/31/2024 7:44:37 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: TalBlack

I have a tablet computer with the Libby App.

Libby connects to the library that checks my library card and then allows me to check out as many books as I want. I seldom get more than one at a time but always have one.

So, just as I no longer need to physically go to Walmart to purchase what ever I want, I don’t need to travel to the library either.

The problem is that often, the book I want is already checked out.


28 posted on 12/31/2024 7:51:22 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: PUGACHEV
Is that what this is all about? They're written for women?

I've wondered about that. My wife reads popular fiction constantly. For the life of me, I can't get into it. I've tried.

One I really did like was Where the Crawdads Sing. That was good. The movie was good too--rare for contemporary movies.

My Father read constantly, but he read mostly classics. I'm the same way.

As for movies-- Most movies made in recent years are utter mindless trash. Filthy language. Pornographic sex scenes, themes. I'm no prude, and I have been everywhere, seen everything, and done just about everything, and I can cuss with the worst of 'em, but mindless trash is a turn off. Also I have no intention of watching pornography with my family--children--grandchildren.

Also, where movies are concerned--I hate explosions, car chases, gunplay, and sword fights. Mindless stuff like that is as boring as trash movies and chick flix.

29 posted on 12/31/2024 7:52:36 AM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America! Trump won because good TRiUMPhed over evil.)
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To: Soul of the South
...initiative is not rewarded...

Initiative to do what? There is very short list of things library staff can do or need to do.

30 posted on 12/31/2024 7:53:30 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MNDude

Not even on the list, I enjoyed the “Murderbot Diaries” series.


31 posted on 12/31/2024 7:54:47 AM PST by GingisK
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To: fwdude
I've downloaded the Libby app and use it to obtain e-books from my big-city library and its affiliates on a time basis. No libraries are even needed anymore.<\i>

That’s where I’m at. I don’t have any more room for fiction books at home (and I rarely reread them), so I’ve taken to electronic books. I’m currently on a Louis L’Amour binge so I can go through his books whenever I want for free without ever setting foot in a library.e

32 posted on 12/31/2024 7:54:48 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: fwdude

Public libraries are no longer needed, just another tax drain on taxpayers.


33 posted on 12/31/2024 7:57:14 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: larrytown

Me too. I get better stories, character studies, etc. from real people.


34 posted on 12/31/2024 7:58:05 AM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America! Trump won because good TRiUMPhed over evil.)
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To: Fai Mao

Women don’t think that way. That is a man’s way of thinking.


35 posted on 12/31/2024 8:02:08 AM PST by nwrep
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To: MNDude

You hadn’t heard of #30?


36 posted on 12/31/2024 8:04:40 AM PST by nwrep
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To: MNDude
76. **Don’t Fear the Reaper** by Stephen Graham Jones

I'll wait for the More Cowbell special edition.

37 posted on 12/31/2024 8:12:17 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: fidelis

A few years ago, I think some legislator slipped a requirement in a library funding bill that all Ohio public libraries have to be open to all state residents, so I’m a member of many libraries instead of just the local two where I work and live. Libby is good about allowing electronic check out from any of them.


38 posted on 12/31/2024 8:17:32 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: fwdude

The most interesting and scary thing is WHAT IS NOT BEING READ.


39 posted on 12/31/2024 8:18:44 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: fwdude

I liked Kristin Hannah’s “The Women.”

I saw “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” in the bookstores but never felt a desire to read it. Also saw “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” there and it seemed to scream of woke BS. No, thanks.

I think Emily Henry writes romance novels. Probably fine, if that’s your thing. It’s not mine.

I haven’t heard of the other ones.


40 posted on 12/31/2024 8:23:07 AM PST by Allegra (Less finger-wagging would be appreciated . )
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