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.
Uprooted by Naomi Novik – after months of anticipation, it finally came! Can’t wait to get started on this (and am rather shocked that I haven’t yet, to be honest).
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport – a few years back Rappaport wrote an absolutely marvellous book about Queen Victoria’s reaction to Prince Albert’s death and it more than convinced me that I should try anything she writes.
John A by Richard Gwyn – I spent four years in Kingston, aka the town where every second building is required to have a plaque in honour of Sir John A. MacDonald (the first Prime Minister of Canada). Anywhere he lived or worked or drank has a plaque. Want to know where his sister lived? There’s a plaque for that, too. There are also, inevitably, statues. These plaques led to Sir John A burnout quickly so, when it came out while I was still living in Kingston, I was not particularly eager to read this much praised biography of MacDonald’s early years. Now, having had a few years to recover, my former fondness for Sir John A has returned and I’m looking forward to reading this.
What did you pick up this week?
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I just got Uprooted as well! But the week before I had been visiting a friend, and I started on her copy, and I ended up getting the ebook so I could finish it on the way home. But my paper-preferring son is enjoying it.
Nice! Glad to hear you enjoyed it, too.
Ooo, thank you for the reminder to put a hold on Uprooted at my library 😀 I’ve heard such good things; I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!
I finished last night and can assure you I did enjoy it! Hope your library’s wait list isn’t too long.
I have …in my hot little hands.. a copy of KITCHENS OF THE GREAT MIDWEST by J. Ryan Stradal.. and am looking forward to reading another book by Mardi Link. All her books are currently checked of out the Pentwater, MI library 😦
Enjoy the Stradal, Marcia!
All your selections look great. I’ve been interested in reading The Romanov Sisters and will look forward to your thoughts. This week, I’m reading a book of novellas by Edith Wharton and This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart.
Wharton is one of those writers who I feel I should one day give another try. I read her in my teens and didn’t like her at all but so many of my favourite blogging friends love her.
The Romanov Sisters is a wonderful read. Stirring, emotional and profound.
Glad to hear it! I started listening to it on audiobook a few months ago and thought it started wonderfully but would be better suited to reading. Now I can finally get on with it!
Hooray for Uprooted! Enjoy it!! I hope it hasn’t been so hyped that you’re not able to enjoy it. I think I caught it RIGHT before it became overhyped for me, so I still enjoyed it, but maybe not quite as much as if I’d gone into it with only one rave review (rather than infinite).
I finished it last night, Jenny, and really enjoyed it. I’d only read one or two reviews before I read it (though saw many, many more people buzzing about it( so no fear of overhype. I didn’t find it life changing or anything but it was entertaining and wonderfully paced and that’s more than enough for me in summer. I do love fantasy books that incorporate fairy tales and anything set in Central Europe is always appealing. Mostly what Uprooted did is remind me of how much I love Enchantment by Orson Scott Card and make me want to reread that.
Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans and I couldn’t be more excited! Remember way back when, Claire, when Our Finest Hour and a Half was making the rounds? Same author….
I’ve been eagerly reading reviews of Crooked Heart since it came out and anxiously checking my library catalogue so see if they’ve got it. Not luck yet, I’m afraid. Enjoy it for me!
I just saw this post but yay! You got Uprooted!
I’m always on the lookout for books on the Romanovs. I don’t think I’ve read The Romanov Sisters. Have you started it yet? How is it?