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.
All fairly recent releases for me this week:
An Almost Impossible Thing by Fiona Davison – very much looking forward to this history about early female professional gardens.
Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears – looking for shades of Rosemary Sutcliff in this historical novel set in Roman Britain.
Begin Again by Helly Acton – I thoroughly enjoyed Acton’s sharp first two novels (especially The Shelf) so am looking forward to this, though the premise seems more conventional than her earlier books.
The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes – a novel about the daughters of Thomas Gainsborough that has been getting rave reviews (including from Hilary Mantel before her death).
The Point of the Needle by Barbara Burman – I don’t really sew but am still intrigued to learn, as the subtitle has it, “why sewing matters”.
The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie – after a long time in the hold queue, very excited to start this history/biography of some of the many varied and fascinating people who contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.
What did you pick up this week?
I thought I had a copy of The Painter’s Daughters – it does look good!