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.
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams – I can’t remember where I first heard about this book but it’s come up again recently in pieces about the pending end of Game of Thrones, as it was an inspiration for George R. R. Martin’s series. I’m always up for epic fantasy but I’m going to be hard pressed to finish this 800-page door stopper before the due date (Book Depository)
Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings by Anja Dunk – I have been so, so, so excited to get my hands on this new German cookbook. And it’s completely lived up to expectations – I read it cover to cover the day it came in and now can’t wait to start cooking from it (Book Depository)
If Not, Winter translated by Anne Carson – I was in the mood for a bit of poetry and turned to this volume of Sappho, which I enjoyed when I read it a few years ago (Book Depository)
What did you pick up this week?
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I’ve read the Dragonbone Chair! It’s very dense but I remember liking it a lot. I never was able to get through the rest of its series, though.
It’s definitely large but I’m finding it easy and engaging reading. A whole series of books this length is a little daunting though!
I’ve never read anything by Tad Williams before but I’m not sure that I want to start with an 800 page book!
(Then again I just looked up some of his other books and a lot of them seem to be in the nearly 800-page range!!)
I think it’s a hazard of the genre (and the era) – not a lot of brief epic fantasy novels out there! Still, it’s very engaging and I’m enjoying it so far.