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.
The Debatable Land by Graham Robb – I find borderlands fascinating and there is one border in particular that is always fashionable to write about: the one between Scotland and England. I’m intrigued by this much-praised book (it sounds wonderful) but I’m interested to see how it compares to Rory Stewart’s The Marches, which I adored. This sounds very similar and Stewart set a very high standard to live up to.
Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent – On the other end of the spectrum, we have the rarely written about region of Arunachal Pradesh. This sounds like the perfect sort of travel book, about somewhere truly foreign to anywhere I’ve been or experienced for myself. And, it must be said, I’m delighted to see that it’s by a female traveller. Travel writing of the adventurous sort is all too often an all-male domain.
Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville – I’m not a mystery reader by nature but I keep seeing others talk about the British Library Crime Classics series and I am nothing if not suggestible. The intro discusses Melville’s love of A.A. Milne (is this perhaps why he, christened William Melville Caverhill, included Alan in his pen name?) and the similarities of this country house mystery with Milne’s The Red House Mystery. After that, I how could I resist?
What did you pick up this week?
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I have a copy of The Debatable Land waiting for me at the library. Maybe I should see if they have The Marches as well.
Yes! You really, really should. I adored The Marches and it was one of my favourite books I read last year. And in addition to having fascinating things to say about the Scottish-English border region, it is also a wonderful portrait of Stewart’s extraordinary father. A real keeper.
I love reading Library Loot posts. It’s a good way to discover books which I might never hear of otherwise. Have linked my Library Loot post. Thank you.
So glad to hear you enjoy the posts! Thanks for linking.
As an avid mystery reader, I’ve read a handful of the British Library Crime Classics and found them a mixed bag (as mysteries go): some were just average and some were really pleasant surprises. But a mystery influenced by Milne? Sign me up!
I am generally not remotely interested in mysteries but the Milne influence was impossible to resist. And the results were very enjoyable (I finished reading it over the weekend).