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.
You know who is off work all next week? Me!!! No work, no studying, just plenty of time to relax and read as much as I want. Bliss.
I’m Off Then by Hape Kerkeling – a travel memoir by a German comedian about his experiences walking the Camino de Santiago. I picked this up last week, read it right away, and really enjoyed it.
Almost Somewhere by Suzanne Roberts – Another book about walking, this time the John Muir trail in California.
What I Did While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman – Continuing with the travel theme.
Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Cooke – a group biography of pioneering women during the 1950s. Interested to see how this contrasts with/compliments Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes
The Promised Land by Pierre Berton – time for some Canadiana! Here Berton, who, for the ignorant among you who have neglected your studies of Canadian history, was the most wonderful writer of popular history we have ever had, focuses on the mass immigration to the prairies between 1896 and 1914.
Victoria Four-Thirty by Cecil Roberts – Thomas reviewed this earlier this month and it sounds wonderful.
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Just finished a reread of The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge. A singular writer of yesteryear when omnipotent pov was the going way of penning a tale.
The Victoria Four Thirty is the one which caught my eye. I agree it sounds very good.
What a great idea! Having just been writing a love letter to my local library (recently upgraded and got a lot more events on), here’s my Library Loot ready for the Easter weekend! https://edbucks16.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/library-loot-march-23-to-29th/
I love the cover image for Victoria Four-Thirty. Is that the one you actually got?
Victoria Four-Thirty sounds pretty appealing! We don’t stock it at my library but perhaps as an ILL….
I’ve frozen most of my library holds but I’m enjoying Pat Barker’s ‘Noonday’ at the moment.
Her Brilliant Career is excellent.
I have bought four books by Liza Picard – Elizabeth’s London; Restoration London; Dr Johnson’s London; and Victorian London. They come to you highly recommended. They are not histories in chronological order as such, but in sections, so you can dip in and out of them. Extremely interesting and very readable.
Margaret P
Great loot! 🙂
The Promised Land sounds interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!