The Captive Reader

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader 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.

After many happy years, Linda has decided to cut back on the amount of time she spends blogging and so will no longer be co-hosting Library Loot.  She’s been a wonderful co-host and I will miss her!

What her departure does offer is an opportunity for another blogger to get involved with Library Loot.  I am looking for a new co-host so if you’re interested let me know!  Leave a comment or send me an email (check out my contact information).   All you need is a love of your library and a blog!

Until there is a new co-host, I’ll be continuing to share my loot every two weeks.  If you want to share weekly, you can use the most recent post to share your link (or, you know, volunteer to co-host.  Just an idea).

Yorkshire by Richard Morris – I love the very un-English bragging in this subtitle: a lyrical history of England’s Greatest County.  It also happens to be where much of my father’s family is from, so I’m biased enough to agree.

The Perfect Alibi by A.A. Milne – more Milne!

The Roy Strong Diaries: 1967-1987 – I think this marks the point where I give up any idea of finishing ACOB in one year.  I am simply drawn to too many very, very long books.  I’ve been looking forward to reading Strong’s diaries ever since I first encountered him back in 2012 (when I read The Laskett and A Country Year, adoring them both) and plan to savour every page.

Home and Garden by Gertrude Jekyll – I was inspired to pick this up (though it’s long been on my to-read list) after Penelope Lively mentioned it in her marvellous A Life in the Garden

Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse – I’m not expecting much from this very early Wodehouse but, completist that I am, I’m intrigued.

Martini Henry by Sara Crowe – Crowe’s first novel, Campari for Breakfast, was absolutely delightful and completely earned its comparisons with Love, Nina and I Capture the Castle.  I can’t wait to catch up with Sue and Aunt Coral in this sequel.

The Greek Escape  by Karen Swan – This doesn’t sound like something I’d usually try but it’s dark and starting to get cold here so anything that can aid in sunny travel dreams has some appeal.

The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson – A secret doorway into a magical world at King’s Cross station?  Eva Ibbotson beat J.K. Rowling to that idea with this children’s book from 1994.  I read Ibbotson’s adult novels (now rebranded as YA) throughout my teens but am only discovering her children’s books now and am loving them.

What did you pick up this week?

And, more importantly, would you be interested in co-hosting Library Loot? 

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