Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading 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.
Sharlene has the Mr. Linky this week.
Two VERY exciting books for me this week:
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal – When I picked up The Calculating Stars last week, I wasn’t sure how it would go given my mixed feelings towards Kowal’s previous books. By the time I was a third of the way through it, I was hooked and racing to place a library hold on this sequel. Kowal has created such a fascinating world, with the exploration of space completely reimagined in the wake of a meteorite hit in the early 1950s that speeds up global warming and forces humankind to look for ways to colonize space as the planet becomes uninhabitable. I am so excited to read more. (Book Depository)
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden – IT’S HERE!!! Originally scheduled to be released last August, I feel like I’ve been waiting ages and ages for this final book in Arden’s Winternight trilogy. The first book, The Bear and the Nightingale, was one of my favourite reads of 2017 and I sped through the second book, The Girl in the Tower, early last year. I can’t wait to see how Arden concludes the series. (Book Depository)
What did you pick up this week?
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I still have The Fated Sky to read, and there are also a couple of novellas, available only as ebooks I think. I’ve read two of her Glamour books and enjoyed the second more than the first.
The Glamour books were a bit meh for me but this series is really fascinating. It’s a bit too consciously politically correct at times but there are worse sins. The other book of hers that I really enjoyed was Ghost Talkers.
Ok now I really have to go read the Kowal books!
You really do! I think you’d enjoy them.