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.
Garden People: The Photographs of Valerie Finnis by Ursula Buchan – I finished The Virago Book of Women Gardeners over the weekend, after dipping in and out of it over the last few weeks. I am now solidly in a gardening frame of mind. As there is only so much physical gardening I can do (most of the garden is overrun with tulips not quite done showing themselves off), I am turning instead to books. I love this book and reread it frequently, delighting in all of the gardeners – and gardens – Finnis captured with her camera.
Maria Theresa by Edward Crankshaw – a biography of my favourite Hapsburg.
Jane’s Parlour by O. Douglas – after just about throwing The Day of Small Things across the room when I finished reading it (I’m still waiting for my blood pressure to come down so I can review it), this was a lovely return to the calm, pleasant sort of book I think of when I think about O. Douglas.
What did you pick up this week?
Oh no! What happened with The Day of Small Things? Seems to me I mostly loved it (must go & peek at my review – I think I wrote one – it’s been a year or two since I had my Anna Buchan reading binge) so very curiously wondering what put you off…
I do hope Jane’s Parlour will soothe your troubled O. Douglas relationship! 🙂
What? O. Douglas making your blood pressure go through the roof? I’m not sure that’s Anna Buchan’s intent, though I have to admit to drumming my fingers occasionally and saying, Oh, really? But she comes from a world with a less evolved set of social values.
Spoiler alert….
Hmm, actually what I recall about DOST was being afraid Nicola (was that her name) was going to throw herself away on the unsuitable suitor, and was relieved when she didn’t. Am I misremembering? Or did you like him better than I did?
I have Jane’s Parlour on the O. Douglas shelf, TBR, because I acquired 2 at once, and like to spread them out. And I just picked up Taken by the Hand the other day at Berry and Peterson’s in Kingston, way in the back room, on a top shelf.
Ursula Buchan? Another of the Buchan writing clan?
I love the look of Garden people, We’ll finally be able to get into ours this weekend and I have some container garden that I’ll be doing until our landscapers come to till our veggie patch and get it ready for us.
Hope you enjoy your loot Claire!
Enjoy your loot!
Just checked. Yup, Ursula is granddaughter of John and great-niece of Anna.
(I wonder now if Crankshaw is connected too. :^))
I have a couple of Anna Buchan’s on the shelf (O. Douglas) but not read them – I bought them just because the covers are so pretty! Daft, or what?
I have “picked up” the latest Simone St James, and very good it is too (Silence for the Dead.)
The gardening book looks really interesting – I’ll have to see if my library has a copy.
I’ve checked out far too many books this week – Little Men by Alcott and Virginia Woolf: A Biography of Place among others.
Any mention of O. Douglas/Anna Buchan in the blogging world makes me so envious! I wish my library had her books. 😦
I have never heard of O. Douglas but love the look of the cover of Jane’s People! Doubt any of our libraries will have it!
Oh gosh, Not Jane’s People—-Jane’s Parlour! No wonder I can never find books!