Looks like my audiobooks are popular through library services, which I love.

Libraries mean a lot to me.

Around 6AM this morning, I was out riding my Rivendell Roadeo (it’s heatwave time, so an early ride not only spares me from getting heat stroke, but the air feels amazing when it’s humid but not yet stifling) and rode past my old elementary school. They’ve changed it into a middle school (though I still prefer back in the day when we had junior high school) and made some changes to the building itself, but the corner that used to be the elementary school library still stands. Man, that place holds some memories.

My favorite room in the school, from the time I was in kindergarten. Shelves and stacks of doorways: doorways into other worlds, into other minds, into other realities. The first books I ever found and chose on my own came from that library. Rainy recesses spent there. Perfect weather recesses, too.

There was one book series I loved—and I can’t for the life of me find a trace of it online! I searched for it a few years back and game up empty. In my memory, the title was Mister Monster and featured a protagonist who sort of looked like a dinosaur. But was a monster. I loved those books! Unless I dreamed them. But, no. They were real. I will summon some Google-fu and see if I can’t turn something up. And the Danny Dunn series. A few Hardy Boys books.

My mom used to hit the public library every week. For all her adult life. Bring home a canvas shoulder bag full of books, mostly mysteries, though not only. She devoured books, one of those people who can rip through a book in a night. She died ten years ago. One other library memory: a freezing January morning, bringing back her final stack of borrowed books, sliding them into the drop-off drawer a week after her funeral.

Like I said, libraries mean a lot to me.

So I love it that so many people have been checking out my audiobooks from libraries.

The Halls of Midnight is almost wrapped up with the recording and should be out there by the end of summer. Ghost at Dusk is underway, too—should be on the same timeline.

If you’ve listened to one of my audiobooks through a library service, which have you used? Curious which the best service is, or if you’re getting them at your local library.

Either is great. Libraries rock.