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.
Sorry for Your Trouble by Ann Marie Hourihane – a look a how death is handled in modern Ireland. I started reading this on the bus home from the library and couldn’t put it down.
Cousin Cinderella by Sara Jeannette Duncan – after enjoying Duncan’s An American Girl in London from 1891 (which I hope to manage a review of soon), I’m intrigued to see how this later book from 1908 about a Canadian girl and her brother in London differs.
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero by Paulus Hochgatterer – a novella set in Austria at the end of WWII, I’ve been wanting to read this for a while but had trouble finding a copy. University library to the rescue!
Confessions by A.N. Wilson – a memoir focusing on the biographer’s early years.
Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy – an intriguing look at “how a place becomes a home, what makes a family put down roots, and how hatred can tear them out” (from the Guardian review) and the friendship between Ramaswamy and a nonagenarian who came to Britain through the Kindertransport.
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington – My library has lost its copy of this so I was happy to be able to track it down from the university library. Recommended by Nancy Pearl: “A graphic designer who has given up on men and a monk who has lost his faith in God meet and fall – most tentatively – in love.”
What did you pick up this week?
The Captive Reader 
Oh, now I am curious about Cousin Cinderella! I remember enjoying An American Girl in London but not much else about it.
That’s probably a fair legacy for An American Girl in London – enjoyable but not memorable. I’d be happy if I feel the same about CC
Those first two are particularly intriguing, thanks for sharing!
Sorry for Your Trouble was surprisingly excellent. I’d highly recommend it.
Sorry for your trouble and The monk downstairs are the two for me which look intriguing. Thank you for the updates.
Glad to have caught your interest with those two!
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout. My local library has a nice coffee shop so I make a point of having my coffee and snack there rather than a Costa or Starbucks. I’d like to read the AN Wilson.
Wow, I’ve never seen a library with a coffee shop! Very cool.
Such interesting picks! And hooray for finding books at the university library!
Yes, this haul spans three different library systems and I’m thankful to have such wide borrowing powers 🙂