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.
My library has decided to kick off the New Year with a return to normality. The extra long loan periods we’ve been enjoying and moratorium on late fees are now a thing of the past. Ah well, they were good while they lasted (though I never got to test the late fee exception – I’m too well trained to break rules even with approval to do so). Our usual loan period here is 3 weeks, with the option to renew books up to 2 times if there isn’t a hold queue, so there’s still plenty of time available to read everything.
I don’t read mysteries but made an exception after hearing so much praise for The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan. It is superb and, after quickly passing it on to my mother to read, I immediately placed holds on the next three books in the series: The Language of Secrets, Among the Ruins, and A Dangerous Crossing (published as No Place of Refuge in the UK). I am now rationing them out so I don’t speed through the series too fast.
For something completely different, I also picked up:
Just Enough Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse – a collection of the best Jeeves novels: Right Ho, Jeeves, Joy in the Morning, and Very Good, Jeeves.
Off the Road by Jack Hitt – I was running errands on the weekend and dropped by a library branch I don’t usually visit. I found this during my brief browsing and was delighted. You know by now that I can never resist a travel memoir about a walk (though I wouldn’t complain if people wrote about journeys other than the Camino de Santiago).
Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher – Food-writer Fisher’s memoir of her move to Aix-en-Provence after the Second World War.
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
I have just checked The Unquiet Dead out from the library, thank you! Ours are still closed, and I miss browsing actual books on shelves so much.
Hi, Claire, I’ve been listening to Thinking on my feet: The Small Joy of Putting One Foot in Front of Another, by Kate Humble. She’s a BBC presenter who lives in Wales and writes about walking there and in other places she has visited. I’m really enjoying it and thought you might enjoy reading it or listening to it too.
Audrey
That sounds like something I would really enjoy. Thanks for the suggestion. It’s available by interlibrary loan so I’ll place a hold now!
I found a quaint little volume by Marchette Chutes—An Introduction to Shakespeare. For a younger reading audience, yet quite informative.
Nice!
Your post made me remember that I should check on the due dates of the books I had borrowed… and they were automatically extended! I suppose that’s one benefit of still being on “shelter in place” restrictions re the library.
Take an upside wherever you can find it!
Our library has removed fines for the foreseeable future to remove barriers! I am thrilled for some of our customers, as in the little ones whose parents looked at them with disappointment whenever they had to reach into their wallet.
No luck with my search for the MFK Fisher book though…..it looks interesting.
It’s an interesting idea to remove them for the long term and one I’d love for our library to investigate more.