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.

It is December!  I know I say this every year but, truly, how did the year pass that quickly?  Clearly I passed the time by reading – I’ve already read one hundred more books than I do in a usual (meaning pre-Covid) year.  That’s…alarming.  But I think we can all agree it’s been another weird year and there are worse things than having read too much.  So why stop now?

Outlandish by Nick Hunt – This is one of the 2021 releases I’ve most been looking forward to!  I’ve loved Hunt’s two earlier books – Walking the Woods and the Water, where Hunt follows Patrick Leigh Fermor’s footsteps from Holland to Istanbul and Where the Wild Winds Are, in which he tracks on foot the pathways of four European winds – so I’m delighted to follow this latest installment in his travels.  Here, he walks through four of Europe’s most unexpected wildernesses: the Arctic tundra in Scotland, primeval forest in Poland and Belarus, Europe’s only desert in Spain, and the grasslands of Hungary.

The Cabin in the Mountains by Robert Ferguson – a “charming, affectionate” history of the role cabins hold in Norwegians’ hearts.

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik – I started November by racing through A Deadly Education by Novik and was delighted to end it with this sequel.  Now to wait a painful year for the final book in the trilogy – an especially cruel delay given this book’s cliffhanger ending.

What did you pick up this week?