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.

Sharlene has the Mr Linky this week.

The last library haul before the Christmas break!  It’s always a serious moment: time to consider how much time can be allotted to reading versus socializing (lots thanks to Omicron!) and how many books you can reasonably expect to read during that period (and then double it).  I have eight more books waiting for me at the library right now so don’t worry, the six here aren’t expected to last me through the holidays (especially as I’ve already devoured one) but they should be a good start.

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon – let’s be serious: I was never going to have the willpower to save this for holiday reading when it arrived at the library late last week.  I sped through (as much as you can speed through almost 900 pages) the newest addition to the Outlander series over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed being back in Claire and Jamie’s world.  The cast of characters is obscenely large and we don’t actually need to follow them all on all their independent adventures but the lack of judicious editing just means you can stay in their world that much longer.

A Divided Heart by Mathew Thorpe – I’m extremely excited about this account of walking the Jakobsweg (the way of Saint James, leading to Santiago in Spain) through Austria.

Dressed for War by Julie Summers – a biography of UK Vogue editor Audrey Withers, which I’ve been looking forward to since Sarra Manning named it her favourite non-fiction read of 2020.

And, for absolute mindless escapism over the holidays, I have a steady supply of Essie Summers romances: A Mountain for Luenda, No Orchids by Request, and The Lake of the Kingfisher.  I have a dream of the world being open enough that I can spend next Christmas and New Years in New Zealand but for this year books set there will have to suffice.

What did you pick up this week?