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.
Just one book for me this week but it is the book of the month (of the year?). Turns out that obsessively monitoring the library’s “On Order” list and placing holds in January pays off because this ended up in my hands within days of publication:
Margaret Atwood takes us back to Gilead in The Testaments to answer the question “how did Gilead fall?” (Book Depository)
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
I’ll have to wait to find this. Atwood keeps me on edge!
This isn’t her greatest word but it’s very readable and an interesting companion to The Handmaid’s Tale.
I see you were “underwhelmed” by this one, though not nearly as unimpressed as Rachel: https://bookssnob.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/atkinson-atwood-and-boyd/#comments
I have never felt drawn to Atwood. The only novel of hers I have read was Alia Grace, some years ago, which I found hard going. That said, Librarything tells me I gave four stars to a book of essays she wrote about debt, even though that does sound like a compelling read.
Atwood has written so much and in so many different styles over her career that I find I love some of it and hate some of it. Alias Grace isn’t one of my favourites, while I think books like The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin are masterpieces that should be read by everyone.
As you saw, I didn’t think this fell into the masterpiece category but it was still an interesting read.