Library Loot: February 26 to March 3

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Library Loot: February 26 to March 3

February 26, 2020 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

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.

So many books and so little time to write about them! I was off to see Roxane Gay speak last night so this is being written in a mad rush after that and will doubtlessly do disservice to most of the books, so let’s focus on the only one that matters:

Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp – Yes, I have tracked down a copy. It’s the first time I’ve ever paid for an interlibrary loan but at only $15 came in far, far cheaper than any edition I’ve ever seen for sale (the cheapest one on AbeBooks right now is $280 in comparison). Barb, always my guide to Margery Sharp, enthused about it years and years ago and I’m excited to finally get to try it for myself.

Now onto the rest:

At the Pond (Book Depository)

Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska (Book Depository)

Solo by Signe Johansen (Book Depository)

Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik (Book Depository)

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (Book Depository)

My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas (Book Depository)

Aria by Nazanine Hozar (Book Depository)

The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa (Book Depository)

Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean (Book Depository)

What did you pick up this week?

Posted in Library Loot | 9 Comments

9 Responses

on February 26, 2020 at 11:50 | Reply Wendi Lee

Roxane Gay! I’m so jealous, hope you had an enjoyable time!
- on March 7, 2020 at 13:43 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I had a very interesting time but left feeling rather frustrated. I think Gay is an entertaining writer but it was challenging to see her talk about how she views inflexibility as a curse of the current political climate and then within a breath go on to voice her own rigid opinions. I wish it were possible to have more balanced, informed, and less emotionally-fraught conversations. Also, she made some frustrating remarks at the end about the hiring of faculty at the university that really bothered me and were driven entirely by her own agenda rather than the challenges of the community she was speaking to.
on February 27, 2020 at 02:15 | Reply Marg

Lots of good sounding books there.
- on March 7, 2020 at 13:36 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  Thanks!
on March 6, 2020 at 12:23 | Reply Sharlene

Polaris Rising and Aria are definitely catching my eye there!
- on March 7, 2020 at 13:35 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  I read Aria in a few hours and found it very absorbing. Polaris Rising, sadly, ended up being not to my tastes so I set it aside.
  - on March 9, 2020 at 09:10 Sharlene
    
    Thanks for that. I’ll still check both of them out anyway!
on March 6, 2020 at 14:39 | Reply Judith

I simply loved All for Nothing. I so appreciated the German point of view in this 1945-early postwar novel, told from a young adolescent boy’s perspective. Would read it again in a heartbeat.
We in the U.S. have a longer wait for Aria, but it’s been on my radar for a while, so I’m looking forward.
- on March 7, 2020 at 13:34 | Reply Claire (The Captive Reader)
  
  Glad to hear you loved it! I’m certainly enjoying it so far and always enjoy reading novels which give the German perspective. If only more of his work was available in translation!