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.

We’ve made it to May!  Inside there are books and outside there are flowers and that’s reason enough to celebrate this month.

Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell – somehow this Canadian classic about depression-era boyhood on the Prairies never made it onto my school’s reading list but it’s just the right thing for my current mood.

Waterlogged by Roger Deakin – the classic “swimmer’s journey through Britain”.

City Dreamers – I don’t often share the DVDs I pick up but I really intrigued by this portrait of four female architects and their impact on urban planning.

Homebrew and Patches by Harry J. Boyle – On the weekend I was browsing the list of books that have won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (as you do) and this winner from 1964 caught my eye.  It is an autobiographical novel about growing up in southern Ontario between the wars.

The Potting Shed Papers by Charles Elliott – a collection of essays on gardening (there can never be enough!).

Courting Samira by Amal Awad – Very excited to have tracked this down through the inter-library loan system!  There have been a flurry of recent romcom novels with Muslim protagonists but this Australian book – almost ten years old now – used to be one of the only ones around and impossible to find.

What did you pick up this week?