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 have a truly terrifying number of books out from the library right now (though I do like being able to count things by the dozen) so here’s a sampling of some of the most interesting looking ones:
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Oh, oh, Greensleeves! I loved that book when I was young, then my library got rid of their copy and I never found it anywhere again. I am almost afraid to read it again because it might not be as good as I remember.
I read it on a rainy, Sunday afternoon and it was the perfect light read to whisk me away. I suspect it would hold up well for a reread.
Yay for The Snow Child! I hope you love it as much as I did. Now I hope Eowyn Ivey keeps on writing after her first two books!
Agreed! I absolutely adored The Snow Child and loved To the Bright Edge of the World just as much when I read it last year. What a talented writer she is. Can’t wait to see what she comes out with next!
I am normally way behind the “good” books available as I have no access to them but this time around I’ve read three on your list!!!!
Excellent!
I want to read so many of these…especially Mother Tongue, Excellent Daughters, and Greensleeves. I know the feeling of having a terrifying number of books out — the good thing is that if you don’t finish them, you can always check them out again!
I haven’t started Mother Tongue yet but really enjoyed Greensleeves and found Excellent Daughters to be very interesting and informative while still relatively light. It’s a good overview of the region and makes me want to delve deeper into some of the more intense books about the Middle East already on my reading list.
Paris Letters is a fun book!
It really is!
Fantastic loot. Enjoy all those wonderful books.
Thanks, Linda!
Looks like another great set of books. “Mother Tongue” and the piece on Lenin and Rasputin look particularly interesting to me. Happy reading!
Thanks!
I fell absolutely in love with William Maxwell (was already in love with Eudora Welty!) when I read their letters.
I’m coming at it from the other direction – I already love Maxwell (from his letters to Sylvia Townsend Warner) and this is serving as my (very excellent) introduction to Welty. They both seem like the most delightful people.
What a fabulous haul! The Snow Child has been on my radar.
I’m currently immersed in The Light We Cannot See.
Oh Penny, I’ve finished reading The Snow Child and it is so, so, SO good. I’m sure you’d love it.
Some of these look like goodies including the one on Tolstoy and the one about Wanderlust.
The Way of Wanderlust is great!
So many books! I love it. Enjoy your loot!
Thanks!
I love Eudora Welty and have always been fascinated with her life. I have also read a couple of books by William Maxwell; but for me completely different authors.
I’ve never read any fiction by either Maxwell or Welty (though I’ve read another collection of Maxwell’s letters, the excellent The Element of Lavishness) so it will be interesting for me one day to encounter them as novelists. I doubt I could enjoy their fiction more than I enjoy these warm, friendly letters though, which reveal so much of each author’s personality.
Now that is one fine selection of books! I just finished Ivey’s latest, “To the Bright Edge of the World” and liked it very much. If you enjoy “The Snow Child” you’ll probably like it too.
I love it! I read it last year and it made my Best of 2016 list – as I suspect The Snow Child will this year.
Greensleeves is wonderful! I read it for the first time in 2015 and it made my top-ten list for the year, then re-read it this past December and enjoyed it all over again. Hope you like it too.
Your top ten list is where I first heard of it! Thank so much for the recommendation as I really enjoyed it.
I’ve wanted to read Bone Gap for so long! Hope it’s good! 🙂
I’m trying to get into it but it’s not really grabbing me. Hope you have better luck with it!