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.
Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn – the first of the Daisy Dalrymple books.
The Camelot Caper by Elizabeth Peters – I am really having fun discovering Peters’ early books.
Maeve Binchy by Piers Dudgeon – the first biography of the beloved author.
A trio of books recently reviewed by some of my favourite bloggers:
Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum – check out Maphead’s review.
Kate’s Progress by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles – check out Lyn’s review.
A Ram in the Well by June Knox-Mawer – check out Geranium Cat’s review.
And a couple of big, glossy books with pretty pictures:
Perfect English by Ros Byam Shaw
The Library by James W.P. Campbell
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Enjoy your loot!
Thanks, Pat!
Nice, Maeve Binchy’s bio sounds like it could be interesting.
I know so little about her so it should be interesting to learn more about her life.
Awww, The Camelot Caper, I love The Camelot Caper. It’s a fun book on its own merits, of course, and I also really enjoy the spoofy quality of it. Gothic novels are eminently spoofable. 🙂
They certainly are! I’ve never really enjoyed Gothic novels but I love spoofs of them.
Himmel! A biography of Maeve Binchy.
Every time I heard her interviewed on CBC, I would think, I sure hope she’s working on her memoirs, because she’s such a hoot when she talks about her life. I don’t expect someone else’s view of her to have that zing.
The book is certainly no where a good as something written by Binchy herself, but it is still interesting to learn more about her.
I’ve had a good month at the library thanks to those of you who have suggested loved books. I can only read large print books and I’m gradually adding books from the Talking Book and Braille Library because my vision is getting less reliable.
Sensible Kate by Doris Gates (a young adult story written in 1942)
The Innocent Traveler by Ethel Wilson and set in Canada with great characters
Good Books and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Gallery of Vanished Husbands by Natasha Solomons from the Talking Book and Braille Library
Bay of Fires by Poppy Gee and set in Australia
The Marriage Plot by Jeffry Eugenides
My Third Husband will be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline
Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
That is a good month! I adore Dorothy L. Sayers.
Great loot. Enjoy!
Thanks, Linda!
I love the Daisy Dalrymple stories! So much fun. And I’ve just discovered Elizabeth Peters for myself (although now that I’m getting into her stuff, I believe that I may have read ‘Borrower of the Night’ many moons ago). Looks like a great pile of loot!
Enjoy Iron Curtain!
Thanks! I am really looking forward to it.
what a fabulous mix. such intriguing titles here.
Thanks, I’m excited about them!
I’ll have to look for the Maeve Binchy book – I’m very interested in reading more about her. I’m glad you’re enjoying the early Elizabeth Peters!
Perfect English is simply .. perfect, as are all Ros Byam Shaw’s house/style books.
I didn’t know Cynthia H-E wrote contemporary novels … will look out for this.
I’ve read it a few times before since, as you say, is it simply perfect!
Aha! Now I know why the hits on my post about Kate’s Progress have just increased! Thanks for the mention.
No worries!
Love the look of The Library. Personally I would run a mile from the Maeve Binchy bio since I dislike her as an author intensely.
The Library is really beautiful in person, fully of lots of glossy photos of gorgeous libraries. I love it.