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.

The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler…autumn is definitely on its way.  Which, as all readers know, can only be a good thing as it means opportunities for curling up under blankets, reading by cosy lamplight, and generally embracing our default bookish behaviours.  I can’t wait!

The Switch by Beth O’Leary – Like everyone who enjoyed O’Leary debut (The Flatshare), I’ve been looking forward to her second book all about a grandmother and granddaughter who switch homes for a couple of months.  It was just released in North America last week and I was delighted to get my hands on it so quickly.  No surprise, I read it immediately. (Book Depository)

Writers & Lovers by Lily King – It is good for a book to be described as “a kind of gorgeous agony“?  I’ll find out.  (Book Depository)

My Year of Saying No by Maxine Morrey – 2020 has not been a year for keeping resolutions – keeping sane has taken priority.  But how fun to read about a normal world where that is possible.  (Book Depository)

Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O’Farrell – This needs no introduction, surely?  Intriguing, it’s published here as Hamnet and Judith but just Hamnet elsewhere.  (Book Depository)

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman – Autumn calls for epics and what could be more epic than 1,000 pages about the Great Patriotic War? (Book Depository)

A New Kind of Country by Dorothy Gilman – Gilman, the author of the “Mrs Pollifax” series, bought a home in a small Nova Scotian fishing village after her sons left for university and “began her life again“.  The Mrs Pollifax books have never been quite my thing but this sounds just right for me.

Once Upon an Eid – So excited for this collection of stories for children from 15 different Muslim authors, including favourites S.K. Ali and G. Willow Wilson. (Book Depository)

Well-Behaved Indian Women by Saumya Dave – A family story about three-generations of women trying to figure out what they really want out of life. (Book Depository)

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu – This looks like a fun light read about families, drama, and, of course, romance at a lavish Indian wedding. (Book Depository)

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel – I borrowed this as an e-book a few months ago but just couldn’t get into it.  I’m happy to have my hands on the hardcover edition now for a “proper” reading experience. (Book Depository)

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan – It’s extraordinarily unusual for me to read a crime novel but this was on so many “Best of” lists back when it was originally published that I’ve been keeping an eye out for it ever since.  (Book Depository)

Down to Earth by Monty Don – Calming gardening advice to dip in and out of (Book Depository)

What are you reading this week?