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.
Interlibrary loan week here! My library is amazingly well-stocked but they don’t have everything. When that happens, it’s so nice to be able to use the (free!) interlibrary loan system to track down what I want.
Bowman of Crecy and The Hawk by Ronald Welch – two from Welch’s Carey series, which follows the fortunes of the Carey family from the Crusades to the First World War.
The Half-Crown House by Helen Ashton – Loved, loved, loved this novel about a day in the life of a family who, struggling post-WWII, have opened their stately home to tourists. It had been on my to-read list since Scott reviewed it last year and Ali’s enthusiasm for it last month finally spurred me to place my hold.
What did you pick up this week?
I’m really enjoying “A Desparate Fortune,” which I picked up on your recommendation. I just ordered a copy of “Half Crown House.” Looks good!
Three children’s beginning reader books, suggested to me by my 6 year old granddaughter, by Kevin Henkes, about a little mouse named Penny. “Penny and her Marble” is first up. 🙂
I live in a very small town (pop 600). There is a branch of the county library in town. I live on a ranch. I can order my library book thru the library web site and can also renew them, if necessary. I pick up, and return, my books to the library. Library books at home now: Defiant by Alvin Townley, As I Lay Dying William Faulkner, A Death in the Family by James Agee, Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, and The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty. As you can see I have been reading books set in the South with the exception of Defiant which is a non-fiction book about the POWs during the Vietnam War.
The Ashton book sounds like a dream read.
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Our libraries here in East Bay San Francisco Bay Area have been savagely cut, but our books “iFloat” among the county libraries so we reserve on-line and they `float’ to our branch. Thanks to our quarterly used book sales, the major source of funds for buying books, there are still new books to float my way.
However, I do sort of lust after such beautiful libraries. When we recently searched for a smaller house to move into we NEVER saw a single book shelf. Thank God for Ikea.
The Half Crown House sounds just my kind of book so I’ve sourced a copy on http://www.abebooks.co.uk and ordered it. My bedside TBR pile is already too high, but one more won’t make much difference, will it?
Margaret P
I immediately went to Amazon after reading about The Half-Crown House and bought a used copy. I received it and just finished reading it and found it delightful. Thanks for the recommendation.