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30. Use the Humboldt County mobile library once or twice a month.

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 03:07 AM

7 hrs ago

Comes to the tiny village I live near on Tuesdays twice a month. Sets up in AM in parking lot of Tribe IHS clinic and senior center then afternoon goes to parking lot of the elementary school. I go to senior meals several times a week, most consistently on mobile library days. Gets my jones out for looking at shelves of books.

Recently finished reading Walter Mosely's East Rawlins and Leonid McGill books published since 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mosley

So far in 2026 also borrowed the History of Klamath County (California county disbanded in 1874) that was then checked out by several others at senior meals. Realized in recent years that could order books not actually in the mobile library. In 2025, borrowed a bio of Janis Joplin, Chaos (a newish book about Manson), books by Umberto Eco and Jonathon Lethem and books by Raymond Chandler and Dashell Hammett (I like old detective novels).

The woman employed by Humboldt County library is a saint. When the mobile truck was in shop for repairs, she came in her personal vehicle with boxes of books and several card tables to set up shop. I live more than 80 miles from a bookstore. Can't ever move because have so many books, few purchased after 2003.

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