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.
I am hurtling towards a large exam this Friday but have been stock piling things from the library to launch into as soon as that is done. And maybe letting a few of them distract me from studying a bit more than I should have…
More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi – the famous garden writer’s memoir of her life in Central Europe immediately before and during the Second World War.
Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith – an epistolary novel about a group of naturalists – including a woman – working in Yellowstone National Park in the late 19th Century.
Cleopatra’s Sister by Penelope Lively – Thomas reviewed this recently and had me longing for a reread.
Walking to Camelot by John A. Cherrington – I am always up books about walking, in this case, a pilgrimage in southern England.
Love Notes for Freddie by Eva Rice – don’t know much about this but I’ve enjoyed Rice’s other books enough to try it.
I also checked out a handful of audiobooks:
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (read by Susan O’Malley)
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (read by Ariana Delawari)
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (read by Mia Barron)
And so, so many of Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody novels (these have been the dangerous distractions from studying):
Seeing a Large Cat
A River in the Sky
The Falcon at the Portal
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Lord of the Silent
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Yay on Cleopatra’s Sister. Although maybe I should talk it down a bit. I’m not sure how objectively good it is, but it sure ticked all my boxes.
I loved it. I’ve read it before but I think I loved it even more this time around. Definitely not a book that needs to be talked down!
What I read last week: Bird’s Eye View by Elinor Florence. Highly recommended novel about a woman from Saskatchewan who went to war as a photographic interpreter. Wonderfully readable story immersed in an intriguing historical backdrop.
http://elinorflorence.com/
Sounds intriguing!
The book by Eleanor Perenyi sounds like my kind of read. It’s an author I’be never herd of before.
She’s really only remembered for a single book about gardening so its interesting to learn so much more about her early life in this.
I’ve contemplated picking up The Nest. I’ll be interested to hear what you think.
Good luck on your exam!
Thanks! Exam is now happily behind me and my summer of energetic reading has begun.
As usual you have such a nice mix of reads.
Thanks, Mystica.
What a lovely stash to have awaiting your attention.
I certainly think so! Nothing nicer than having lots of tempting books waiting for your attention – especially when you have the time to read them all.
Great choices. Both Wrath and Dawn and Penelope Lively. I havent read both. But I have been heavily recommneded. As for Wrath and Dwan I will read it along with the next book Rose and Dagger
Thanks! Lively is always absorbing and I’m very intrigued by what I’ve heard of The Wrath and the Dawn.
More was Lost looks VERY promising!
I’m finished it now and it did fulfill most of its promise. Not an instant favourite but an interesting new perspective for me to consider.
!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE the Amelia Peabody series!!! They are SUCH FUN!
So much fun! I’ve just about reached peak Peabody now though, as I’m finishing off the audiobook of Lord of the Silent.
haha I was legit bereft when I finished those books. I really, really loved the characters, and loved the relationship between Amelia and her husband.