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.
Susan and Joanna by Elizabeth Cambridge – like all right-thinking people, I love Hostages to Fortune but have found Cambridge’s other books impossibly hard to track down. Finally, I’ve had success with this story about two young women and the early years of their very different marriages.
The General and Julia by Jon Clinch – with perfect timing, this recently released novel about a dying Ulysses Grant reflecting back on his life as he writes his memoirs arrived just as I finished Ronald C. White’s biography, American Ulysses. In a few short weeks I will have gone from knowing almost nothing about the man to being abnormally well-informed.
Ready or Not by Cara Bastone – a romance about a pregnant heroine falling for an old friend isn’t the easiest thing to pull off but Bastone has done it beautifully.
What did you pick up this week?
If you have room for more of the Grants in your reading life, his wife Julia Dent Grant also wrote a memoir, which I really enjoyed reading.
I might need a pause but I did really enjoy the excerpts from her memoir that were included in the biography, so will track it down one day!
I have read just one book by Cara Bastone which was disappointing, although I liked that the hero was a public defender.
As soon as I finished this, I tried some of Bastone’s earlier works and gave up on them. This one is definitely an improvement and worth trying even if you didn’t like her before.