Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading 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.
So many books and so little time to write about them! I was off to see Roxane Gay speak last night so this is being written in a mad rush after that and will doubtlessly do disservice to most of the books, so let’s focus on the only one that matters:
Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp – Yes, I have tracked down a copy. It’s the first time I’ve ever paid for an interlibrary loan but at only $15 came in far, far cheaper than any edition I’ve ever seen for sale (the cheapest one on AbeBooks right now is $280 in comparison). Barb, always my guide to Margery Sharp, enthused about it years and years ago and I’m excited to finally get to try it for myself.
Now onto the rest:
At the Pond (Book Depository)
Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska (Book Depository)
Solo by Signe Johansen (Book Depository)
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik (Book Depository)
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (Book Depository)
My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas (Book Depository)
Aria by Nazanine Hozar (Book Depository)
The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa (Book Depository)
Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean (Book Depository)
What did you pick up this week?
A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro – I went to see 1917 over the weekend and, while I enjoyed it, it did make me think about how little we see/read about what that war was like for the soldiers of the Central Powers. I had great-grandfathers fighting on both sides but I know so, so much more about what my English-Canadian ancestor’s experience would have been like. I’m hoping this book helps fill in some of the gaps for me. (
