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.
Vacation time! I am taking this week off and, not having any grand travel plans, I am stocked up on some great books to help pass the time.
Pastoral Song by James Rebanks – published as English Pastoral in the UK, Rebanks looks at the ways farming has changed and the ways it needs to change again to be more sustainable.
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker – Parker’s London Celebrities series got me through the scariest bits of my health issues at the start of summer (discovery: the time it takes to read one relates exactly to the average emergency room waiting period) and I am SO excited to read this new release, the first of a new series. The perfect book to start my vacation with!
Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein – an entire book dedicated to beautiful pictures of people and their books, at home and at work. Guaranteed to induce unhelpful amounts of envy.
Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope – I felt like a bit of Trollope and have never read this one (though I’ve loved the radio play with Hattie Morahan). Tragically, my library has culled a lot of its Trollope collection so this had to come via inter-library loan.
MacBride of Tordarroch and No Legacy for Lindsay by Essie Summers – Speaking of inter-library loans, I’ve been making them work hard this summer to track down Essie Summers’ books. We’re reaching the end of the (too short) list of readily available ones so the true sleuthing will begin as we head into the fall. I may not be heading off to New Zealand for my holiday but it’s nice to escape there in Summers’ books.
What did you pick up this week?
Hope you enjoy your week off!
Thanks! I had a wonderful time – lots of relaxing, hiking in the woods, and looking out at the ocean.
You’re probably aware of this, but Internet Archive has about 40ish of Summer’s books available for borrow.
Intriguing. I’ve not used Internet Archive before so will look into this.
I’ve never heard of that particular Trollope. Our library has his most famous works on the shelves but mostly they are down in the basement where the librarians don’t like to venture
Lame, so lame! Our library used to have many, many shelves full of his books – all of them, with multiples of the most popular ones. I do not approve of the change.
Enjoy your vacation.
Thanks! I’m back now and had a wonderful break.
Morning, Claire….always a post I look forward to! I read this while working at the library yesterday and ran upstairs to find our copy of Biblio-Style. It’s a book to daydream over, but there might be some drooling….thanks for highlighting it!
It’s it gorgeous? The only time I’m happy I live in Vancouver and can’t buy a place is when I start to go over the top with my library dreams – no home ownership means no possibility of blowing the budget on bookshelves
I enjoyed Battle Royal before I left on vacation but the reserve list at the library was so long I really had to race through it. I thought it was good but not as good as her first two books.
Agreed. It was a perfect vacation read but isn’t about to replace Act Like It and especially Pretty Face in my affections. I also recently listened to the audiobook for Headliners and was reminded of how much I enjoyed it.
Thank you for Essie Summers. I’d not read her before, and am delighted.
So happy to have spread the word! I just discovered her this year and am having so much fun with her books.