Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischiefthat 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.
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers – for the life of me, I can’t remember where my copy of this is. Hopefully in storage. Until I locate it, the library has come to my rescue.
Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner – Bach! I’ve been looking forward to this universally-praised biography since it came out and can’t wait to get started on it.
Sissinghurst by Adam Nicolson – I’ve checked this out several times without ever actually reading it. Nicolson writes beautifully and I am looking forward to reading this eventually. Hopefully soon!
Young Money by Kevin Roose – I loved Roose’s first book, The Unlikely Disciple, so was thrilled when I heard he had a new one coming out, this one focusing on the experiences of a group of young people who started working on Wall Street after the 2008 crash. I read it over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton – there was a piece about de Botton in the Financial Times this weekend so when I saw this at the library Sunday afternoon, I thought I’d try it.
Bitter Almonds by Laurence Cossé – a “delightful story about friendship across racial and economic barriers set in contemporary Paris.”
What did you pick up this week?
I was hoping I could find Bitter Almonds and Sissinghurst from the resources available to me but couldn’t. Goes on my TBR
How frustrating! Still, good luck tracking them down eventually.
I have Sissinghurst on the shelf, still to read.
On order are The Summer of the Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin, which I started to read when it was published in the late 1970s and didn’t finish, for various reasons, and now I want to read it again. Have you tried Gaskin? If not, then she’s recommended. Try Edge of Glass.
Also have just read a Charles Cumming spy novel and have now ordered another. These are just what a lot of people would call ‘thumping good reads’, obviously written by a chap, lots of plot and action, a bit low on characterization and introspection. But who wants spy stories with those!
I’ve never heard of Gaskin before but I will have to look into her. Thanks for the recommendation.
Oo, did Young Money get better as it went along? I also loved The Unlikely Disciple, but I was a little bored of Young Money at the beginning. I returned it to the library without finishing it.
It’s a different style than Young Money, certainly, but I really enjoyed it. But that might also be because I have so many friends working in finance and I found it interesting to learn more about their world.
A fascinating selection, as always! The Bach book has caught my eye several times, but I know I’d probably end up not reading it if I checked it out.
But that’s the beauty of the library, is it not? That you can check things out in the hope of reading them, with no harm done if you don’t. Hopefully I will come back raving about the Bach, so enthusiastic that you’ll feel compelled to try it, too.
I liked Unlikely Disciple too. I’ll have to look for Young Money. Enjoy your loot.
I hope you’re able to find it and that you enjoy it!