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.
I have only one book to highlight this week but it’s one deserving of a drum roll:
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes (Book Depository)
A new book from Keyes is always worth celebrating and I managed to snag this the day it arrived in my library’s e-book catalogue. Keyes’ has always been a writer I find totally absorbing. I remember reading Rachel’s Holiday during my first week at my first post-university job, laughing and sobbing over it in the sad business apartment I was renting until my lease started the next month. And I’m still a little wrecked by her last book, The Break, which I read partly in Italy and partly in Poland (and partly on the plane between the two) during my long visit to Europe in 2017. Simon and Rachel were discussing sympathy versus empathy on their most recent episode of Tea or Books. Usually I’m more sympathetic than empathetic but Keyes turns me into someone different. I will never forget the way my stomach dropped at a certain point in The Break. I wasn’t sure if I could continue reading, it hurt so much.
Essentially, this is a long winded way of saying I really, really, really like Keyes’ books so no surprise I stayed up until midnight on Saturday to finish this one.
What are you reading this week?
The Captive Reader 
This sounds very good but sadly archived on Netgalley.
Too bad!
I’m reading The Making of Home by Judith Flanders – on library ebook – but my other library holds are sadly backed up.
Ah, I’m familiar with that. After having e-books flooding in they’ve now suddenly dried up. But there are signs that our physical library hold system might resume in the coming weeks and that would be AMAZING.