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 link this week.

Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes – a new release from Keyes is always exciting but the fact that this is a sequel to 1998’s Rachel’s Holiday (one of the greatest uses of an unreliable narrator I’ve ever read) only amped up the excitement.  I put down everything else when this came in on Thursday and sped through it.

Sea State by Tabitha Lasley – a messy-sounding memoir about life on a North Sea oil rig.

Reputation by Lex Croucher – Sarra Manning was very enthusiastic about this Regency novel with modern sensibilities (“think Bridgerton meets Fleabag”) when it was released in the UK last year so I thought I’d give it a try.

A couple of DVDs this week as well: I’ve been looking forward to the Czech film Charlatan and picked up Der Rosenkavalier on a whim.  I reread A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson over the weekend and, inevitably, all its mentions of the Strauss opera had me wanted to listen to it again.  My usual reaction is to borrow CDs so I thought I’d vary it up this time.

Which Way is Home? by Maria Kiely – Constance included this children’s book about a family fleeing Czechoslovakia in 1948 in her March reading round up and it immediately caught my eye.  How had I missed it before?!?  I am always interested in anything Czech-related and while my mother left in 1968, several family members were part of the 1948 exodus.

What did you pick up this week?