Changing schedules and our library list.

This school year is slowly changing from the last few.  That's to be expected, of course.  :-)

Youngest's voice coaching started up again yesterday.  She got a CD player for Christmas and has been practising a lot on her own time, which is pretty fantastic.  Things are working out quite well on that front.  The teacher has a small recital at the end of the school year for those students that want to participate, but Youngest won't be taking part this year.

Eldest is signed up for a Junior Authors online course.  This morning was a "meet the teacher" meeting.  A good time to figure out the online software that's being used.  It turns out she's the oldest person taking the course, so the teacher has said she'll be giving Eldest more challenging stuff.  She's really looking forward to it.

The course is on wednesdays, which is our usual library day.  That's something else that we want to change.  Not library day, exactly.  Youngest and I will probably still go out - not necessarily to the libary, though - to let Eldest have her class time without distractions.

The girls are both telling me we need to cut back on the library days quite a bit.  We have our personal library again, plus the books for Christmas and other books we've been aquiring.  The girls are finding they just don't have time to read everything they want.  Because library books are time dependent, they tend to take priority over other things they'd want to read.  Throw in music cds and dvds, and there's just no time to see them all.  So we'll have to back off on the library trips a bit. Well... they will.  I'm still borrowing craft books, craft books, etc. 

With that in mind, here is today's library list.

Actually, I'll include titles from our returns, too, since I haven't been doing library lists in a long time...

Dvds include...

The Color of Pomegranates

Jaws

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Jacquou le Croquant

Of these, the kids only had time to watch one - Jaws.

Eldest's books included:

Uncommon Dissent: intellectuals who find Darwinism unconvincing

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

These are the last two a a large number of evolutian related books Eldest has been borrowing.  She never got to Politically Incorrect and hasn't finished Uncommon Dissent yet.

Youngest has been working on Legendary Fictions of Irish Celts for quite a long time.  A lot of her recent withdrawals have been books on mythology and folklore plus lots of dvds.  I think she's worked her way through most of the libraries Film Noire collection.  Since she's also working her way through the Harry Potter books, among other things, it's been slow going.  She didn't take out anything at all today.

Some of my previous loans, most of which I still have, include:

Uselss Arithmatic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

Poirot: The Perfect Murders (a compilation of 4 books)
Secrets of a Healthy Middle Eastern Cuisine (a disappointment - turned out to be just another diet cookbook)
Shakespeare's Kitchen (one I've taken out a couple of times already)
plus a bunch of crochet books.

In the new stuff, I have:

The Myths of Human Evolution 

Consuming Culture: What You Eat What You Eat

Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly (I *really* hope this one doesn't turn out to be preachy...)
Creep Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots and More (Youngest has been making the Ninja but got stumped on a couple of parts)
Wrap Style: Innovative to traditional, 24 inspirational shawls, ponchos and capelets to knit and crochet (not a lot of crochet, but I'm already thinking of how I can make modified versions of some of the knit patterns)
Woman's Day Prize Winning Afghans (a mix of knit, crochet and embellisments.  I don't think it'll be as useful as I thought it would be)

Eldest only took out the one book she had on hold - On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears, but she grabbed quite a few cds and dvds.

Dvds:

The Brave One

The Collector

I Wake Up Screaming

National Geographic - Atmospheres: Earth, Air Water

It Came From Outer Space

Apocalyps Now

Cds:

Thrice - Beggars

Leona Maess - Comatised

Scribble Mural Comic Journal - A Sunny Day in Glasgow

The Sundays - reading, writing and arithmetic

The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows