It should have been a quick trip to the library just to return one book. It ended with me grabbing four more. Even though my nose has been buried in Tony Judt’s 950 page tour de force Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 and there’s a special TBR pile on my desk set aside and ready to go I could not resist borrowing a few more library books. As we all know when it comes to libraries I have no self control.
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading to encourage bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write-up your post, steal the Library Loot pic and link your post using the Mr. Linky on Sharlene’s blog.
- I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer – Both a National Jewish Book Award finalist and an NPR Best Book of the Year, I’m thinking about applying this towards Rose City Reader’s European Reading Challenge.
- Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel – Another National Jewish Book Award finalist, this book caught my eye a few years back and this time around I wanna give it a try.
- The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler – For whatever reason this one appealed to me and I had to grab it. If I end up liking it I’ll have to read her earlier books The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty and Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America’s First Imperial Adventure.
- Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman’s Journey into the Heart of Africa by Brad Ricca – I’ve seen this one prominently displayed during my last three or four or library visits but never borrowed it. Now is the time to give it a chance.
With the Omicron variant starting to hammer us and winter weather arriving in full force, fortunately I have no shortage of quality reading material. Can’t wait to get back to my reading.
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Libraries are very clever how they turn certain books out to face us so we’ll check them out. I am usually pleased with those I randomly get from that trick.
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Oh yes. I’ve been steered towards some great books over the years. Looking forward to finally reading this particular one! Happy reading and Happy Hew Year!!
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I like the sound of all of these–and was reminded in your sidebar of Living With a Dead Language which has been on my TBR forever. My only library book (print, physical, whatever book–not ebook) is https://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Leon-Uris-audiobook/dp/B07LB5Z3QR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GH3DJJX01CAB&keywords=armageddon+by+leon+uris&qid=1641610598&s=books&sprefix=armageddon+by+leon+uris%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-1
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An interesting selection i return to my library this week first time in a long time
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Agreed. I’m looking forward to diving in and reading away. Hope you find some wonderful books during your library visit. Thanks for dropping by and commenting! It’s been a long time, Stu!
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Too long
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All of these are new to me and I’m especially intrigued by Olive the Lionheart. Happy reading!
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Thanks! So far I’ve read 1/3 and hoping to get it finished soon. I’ll be sharing my thoughts as soon as I do.
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