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.
I am off now and likely deeply jet-lagged (so very appreciative of the ability to pre-schedule posts) but I did have a few final books arrive for me in the days before I left. Luckily I’m a good speed reader!
Gerta by Kateřina Tučková -Tučková’s The Last Goddess was one of the most absorbing books I read last year, about a woman piecing together, both before and after the end of communism, her family’s cursed history and heritage as healers. Gerta, written earlier, looks at the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from the Czech lands in 1945 and the Brno death march. It’s not an event that was widely talked about for a long time and I think this is the first time I’ve seen it handled in fiction.
A Lamp for Jonathan and Autumn in April by Essie Summers – truly, my very, very last inter-library loan arrivals before my trip. These arrived days before my flight but helped me get in the mood (especially since one of them is set in the area I’ll be visiting first).
What did you pick up this week?
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