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 Night Stages by Jane Urquhart – I spent a lunch hour last week browsing at a local bookstore and Urquhart’s newest book was front and centre when you came in. It sounds very intriguing.
A Small Death in the Great Glen and A Double Death on the Black Isle by A.D. Scott – me! Reading mystery novels! Will wonders never cease? These are the first two books in Scott’s “Highland Gazette” series, set in 1950s Scotland. I read A Small Death in the Great Glen last week (excellent reading for when you are up sick with a cold at 4am in the morning) and am quite looking forward to reading on. It’s not often I say that of mystery books.
Ingrid Bergman: A Life in Pictures edited by Isabella Rossellini and Lothar Schirmer – a “visual biography” of Bergman.
Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page by Stuart McLean – the newest collection of stories from McLean’s popular radio program.
A Beginner’s Guide to Paradise by Alex Sheshunoff – Another discovery from last week’s lunch hour bookstore browse (yes, I am one of those people who wanders around bookstores taking notes, buys nothing, and then rushes to the library catalogue to place holds. It works). This is the story of a guy who had a quarter-life crisis and reacted by quitting his job in NYC and moving to a small island in Micronesia. As you do.
Okay, bad things have happened since I read Bath Tangle last week. I’ve remember how much I love Georgette Heyer, which has inevitably lead to a binge. I’m reading Venetia right now but, recognizing that I cannot be reading all the time, I’ve also borrowed audiobooks so I won’t have to go without Heyer during my non-reading hours. Healthy.
The Grand Sophy read by Sarah Woodward
The Convenient Marriage read by Richard Armitage
Cotillion read by Clare Willie
What did you pick up this week?
All of these are library books you’ve borrowed? I used to borrow tons but I recently moved and my library isn’t super close by anymore so I can only go on the weekends- when I have time on the weekend that is!
Hi Claire, yes, they are all library books. I’m lucky that my branch is only a few blocks away from my house and is open late one day a week plus being open on both Saturday and Sunday – definitely makes it easier than trying to rush home on a weekday after work.
Oh that’s so cool. I wish mine did that 😦
Off for some library loot of my own (why, oh, why, do reserves always arrive in clumps!?) but I wanted to say that I’m greatly enjoying Antonia Fraser’s memoir…thanks to you! (before this, I had only read her…gasp… mystery novels1)
So glad you’re enjoying the Antonia Fraser. It’s such a lovely memoir and has so many excellent book recommendations!
I’d like to get hold of some GH. Have them all but they are in a house far away. Those are lovely selections!
I have an entire bookshelf just devoted to GH and it always makes me happy to look at it. I’m also very lucky that my library’s e-book collection has so many of Heyer’s titles (including her mysteries) so I can check them out for my e-reader when I travel.
Enjoy!
Thanks, Linda!
Enjoy your loot!
Thanks, Pat!