Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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.
Marg has the Mr Linky this week.
I may not have received any bookish birthday presents yesterday but I did make an amazing bookish discovery: the library has been holding out on me. It turns out that there is a source for ebooks that, until yesterday, I didn’t know existed. The catalogue is partially but not fully linked to the main library website (I know, it’s ridiculous) so there are titles available that you can only see if you search directly in the ebook catalogue. Most excitingly, I discovered that I can access some of the Bloomsbury Reader ebooks that I have been eyeing for months and had given up hope of the library acquiring. Joy!
Another Part of the Wood by Denis Mackail
A Future Arrived by Phillip Rock – the third and final book in the Greville Family saga. While the first book was set during WWI and the second in the early 1920s, this one catches up with the characters in the 1930s.
Velvet Dawn by Rowena Summers
Closed at Dusk by Monica Dickens
The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
I am almost tempted by the Philip Rock books … however, have at least five books winging their way to me right now. I read about a graphic artist on another blog yesterday and I have since ordered three of her books. The artist is Rena Gardiner and I am sure since reading about her on the blog others, like me, will have been pouncing on her books like cats on mice, which sadly means that those which are still available on http://www.abebooks.co.uk are now, as the blooger has said, “eye-wateringly” expensive. But I’ve collared three of them and look foward to them arriving!
I have also bought and am reading the first of Laura Childs’ Tea Shop Mystery books. I opted for the first in the series, as no doubt she sets up the scene, with the tea shop, the owner, her friends and colleagues (I believe the term today is co-worker, or coworker, which always looks ot me like cow-orker).
I have also decided to have a bash at reading Dickens’ Bleak House if I can bear his long-winded prose style after the 20th and 21st century more concise way of speaking. I was put off Dickens at school (being given ‘classics’ to read at a too-early age and long before children can comprehend adult themes is totally wrong in my opinion – all I can remember is struggling to read David Copperfield and being bored witless, aged 13, when I’d far rather have been reading my lovely magazine Honey, or the latest issue of Young Elizabethan, the up-market magazine for ‘boys and girls’ of the day or Ideal Home and Homes & Gardens, for I always loved the interiors magazines.)
Given how you enjoy family sagas, I think you might like the Phillip Rock books, though right now it certainly sounds like you have enough to read!
Our library has all sorts on offer through ebook but I haven’t given it a try myself yet; I really should. The Dickens’ book sounds like something I would like as it’s set in a country house, I’m easily roped in that way.
My dining room table has Jennifer Worth’s Shadows of the Workhouse sitting on it but I don’t think I’ll get to it. I was jumping for joy last Saturday when I found Thank Heaven Fasting in a bookshop in Toronto!
The eBook offerings keep getting better every month. I’ve had my Kobo for almost a year now and have only bought one book for it (House of Silence by Linda Gillard) in that entire time; everything else has either been out of copyright or from the library. It has been wonderful, especially since many of the titles my library has as eBooks they do not have as hard copies.
And congrats on finding Thank Heaven Fasting! Very exciting.
Our library has recently added ebooks but unfortunately not for Kindle. Seeing the Monica Dickens makes me want to reread her books – lovely. Enjoy!
Our libraries here can’t offer books for Kindle yet either. It is the main reason I got a Kobo!
Hey, just wanted to let you know that I’m back to book blogging again, for now… I still haven’t replied to your letter yet, but maybe we can keep in touch via our blogs for the time being. 🙂
YAY!!!! I am so happy to hear that you are back blogging, Carolyn. And I am perfectly happy to keep in touch via blogs rather than letters for now.
What a happy discovery. I’m rather shocked that you didn’t receive any bookish birthday presents. I hope somebody gifts you with a book soon; there is no better present!
My family is too clever by half to give me books. Cash and the freedom to pick my own books is a much safer prospect!
Ah, I see. Cash intended for books is still a bookish present in my bibliophile mind. For a moment I was worried that the whole concept had been abandoned! Quel horreur! 🙂
And yes, my family has more or less given up on buying books for me. I’m too particular about it for their effort to be worthwhile!
I really want to read the Philip Rock books but my library doesn’t have them!
Enjoy your loot!
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I’ve checked out: Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin, Private Life by Jane Smiley; Miss Bunting and Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell; The Whole Truth by Nancy Picard; In Dublin’s Fair City, by Rhys Bowen.
I am so happy to find your blog because your interest in reading is almost exactly like mine. I can now read for pleasure, rather than for profession. I’ve lost tract of the the authors I used to love and need to find the ones I never discovered.
I just got hooked up with local library ebook system. Hope they have some of the books you recommend.