Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners – From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.
Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso – …widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern realist fiction. Set on the windswept prairies, it is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction and survival, told with vigour and lyric beauty. It is also a poignant evocation of loneliness, which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond tragedy, “an endless quest.”
Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively – I did not have time to read this last time I checked it out so, even before I returned it, I put myself back on the hold list. Several weeks later, here we are. This time it is not going back unread!
As Green as Grass by Emma Smith – Smith’s memoir of her teenage and young adult years, during the 1930s and 1940s. I can’t wait to start this!
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer – The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed.
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick – Rachel raved about this back in January so on to my hold list it went!
What did you pick up this week?
I bought The Interestings last year just before my book buying ban came in to force, I really like the sound of it. Penelope Lively is an author I have never read but read so much about. I have a couple of her books in the 746 so I must get round to them soon.
Oh, your list is calling to me this week, Claire. I keep reading good things about The Interestings, and, of course, anything about gardening appeals to me.
Just linked up for this week! Honestly, every time I look at your library loot, I see about 5 different books that I need to read!
I’ve read 2 of Matthew Quick’s books recently. I need to read more of his books. Both have been fantastic. Enjoy your loot.
Wild Geese looks like it will be an interesting read, as do your other ones but that one really stands out to me. I hope you enjoy your books 🙂
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I second this request. I adore this picture!
I’m so pleased you both like it. It is Vilma Reading on a Sofa by T.F. Simon.
I hope you enjoy As Green As Grass as much as I did. She really captures that time in life when it seems that the world truly is your oyster, that all things are possible.
Penelope Lively’s memoir is wonderful! I wish she was my grandmother.