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.
Accent on April by Betty Cavanna and In a Mirror by Mary Stolz – two retro teen reads recommended in Nancy Pearl’s Book Crush.
My Place at the Table by Alexander Lobrano – I don’t officially participate in Paris in July but it strikes me this memoir by food writer Lobrano about his life there would be a perfect pick! I started it as an e-book a few months ago but only just before it expired. What I read then was excellent and I’m looking forward to getting back into it.
Legacy by Thomas Harding – Harding’s excellent history of his family’s one-time holiday home outside Berlin, The House by the Lake, looked at his father’s German branch of the family. In Legacy, he turns his attention to his mother’s far more famous family, the Salmons and Glucksteins who started as tobacconists and then founded J. Lyons and Co, of the famous tea rooms, food brands, and hotels. I read this in one day and found it absolutely fascinating.
Anna of Strathallan and No Roses in June by Essie Summers – more Summers!
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
I am a big Betty Cavanna fan – my favorites are The Boy Next Door, Spring Comes Riding, and A Girl Can Dream. I don’t remember Accent on April as well as some of the others although I seem to recall one bit where the siblings were squabbling and the mother was exasperated which rang more true than some moments in these 50s teen novels, fond though I was of them.
That scene really stuck out for me too and already is my main memory of the book.