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.
Just the one book for me this week, a biography of the architect and garden designer Cecil Pinsent: An Infinity of Graces by Ethne Clarke. This has been on my to-be-read list for ages but, after reading Caroline Moorehead’s biography of Iris Origo recently and hearing much of Pinsent through that, I am even more interested to learn more about him and the Italian gardens he helped create.
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Sounds very good
Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, which is now overdue at the library. Sigh. The Light We Cannot See is waiting, as well.
Enjoy your loot. (I loved Mrs. Mike many years ago.)
I’ve just started a biography of Francis Burnett, although that’s not a library book.
From your recommendation, I’m reading Iris Origo. Like it so far, but it has much smaller print than I usually like to read. Now, your post re “An Infinity of Graces” looks interesting also. Next in waiting is another older bio, “Diana Cooper” by Philip Ziegler. And, the library has ready for me a brand new book called “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” by Kate Bolick, one sure to create a lot of discussion among women everywhere.
I was given a book about Origo years ago, but passed this on, un-read. Now wish I hadn’t!
I also think that Ethne Clarke has written a book on cottage gardens which I once had …
Current reading are the three novels by Jane Thynne starting with Black Roses and continuing with The Winter Garden and then A War of Flowers. These are extremely well-written and well-researched novels about pre-war Berlin. Then it will be the latest Simone St James’ novel, The Other Side of Midnight.
On the non-fiction side, I’m reading The Fishing Fleet by Anne de Courcy.