Library Loot: September 25 to October 1

September 25, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

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.

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill – a collection of Athill’s short stories, originally published from the 1950s to the 1970s. I read this on the weekend and really don’t have anything nice to say about it.

The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge – Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life – a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father’s elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The gradual unfolding of her understanding of herself, of the now-deceased woman who has bequeathed her home to Mary, and of the people of Appleshaw, all weave together in a most memorable story of love’s redemptive power.

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig – the newest “Pink Carnation” novel.

What did you pick up this week?

Posted in Library Loot | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on September 25, 2013 at 07:36 | Reply Pat @ Posting For Now

I hope your other books are better. Have a great week.
- on September 26, 2013 at 20:04 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  They are. Athill and I just don’t get along, whether she’s writing fiction or non-fiction.
on September 25, 2013 at 08:42 | Reply Linda

Enjoy your loot!
- on September 26, 2013 at 20:04 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  Thanks!
on September 25, 2013 at 12:45 | Reply Susan in TX

I have The Scent of Water sitting on my TBR shelf – I’ll be interested in what you have to say about it. I’ve seen a few of her other titles being reprinted lately.
- on September 26, 2013 at 20:04 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I’ve never read anything by Goudge before but I am excited to start this and see what I think.
on September 27, 2013 at 05:24 | Reply Margaret Powling

Not read any of these, but by post this morning I received The Beau Monde by Hanna Greig, about fashion and style in Georgian England.
- on September 27, 2013 at 05:57 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I saw that over on Elaine’s blog. It looks great!
on September 30, 2013 at 01:42 | Reply Natalie

I think you’ll really enjoy The Scent of Water. Elizabeth Goudge has a real feeling of place – I sometimes think her work is like Amberwell by DES.
on September 30, 2013 at 12:11 | Reply sagustocox

Looks like you got some good ones, and all new to me. I got a poetry anthology
on October 6, 2013 at 08:18 | Reply geraniumcat

Elizabeth Goudge is one of my all-time favourite writers. The Scent of Water is lovely – the book it reminds me of most is Mary Stewart’s Thornyhold. Do hope you’ll like it!