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libraries song of years by bess streeter aldrich probably the weakest of aldrich s books that i ve read so far but i still enjoyed this story of pioneers in iowa in the 1850s and 1860s the unselected journals of emma m lion volume one by beth brower i ve been hearing about these books for a while online but now finally have access at least to the first one through the library grasping the nettle by tamsin westhorpe spring is time to both be in the garden and to read more gardening memoirs the pretender by jo harkin time for a bit of historical fiction this featured on a number of best of lists last year and i m intrigued the measure of progress by diane coyle i m going to assume most of you aren t interested in economic statistics but for those of us who are this is fascinating when i picked up a pile of books over the weekend this was what i chose to start reading first on the bus home the traitors circle by jonathan freedland more non fiction this time about a german resistance group during the second world war and its downfall what did you pick up this week posted in library loot 6 comments library loot march 11 to 17 march 11 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 empire of ai by karen hao i have been stalking this book across libraries for a few weeks now checking to see where fast read copies 7 day loan period no holds were available and then dashing to each location only to discover someone had gotten there before me but not this week i used the time change to my advantage and showed up at the library right at 9 30 on sunday morning when the door opened it pays to be a morning period when the clocks move forward an hour and no one else wants to be up cabin by patrick hutchison a memoir about building a cabin in the pacific northwest buckeye by patrick ryan i am really struggling with contemporary fiction right now e f benson was ideal though but i ve been looking forward to this for a while so i hope i can settle down to it what did you pick up this week posted in library loot leave a comment library loot march 4 to 10 march 4 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 harold nicolson diaries and letters 1930 1939 volume 1 edited by nigel nicolson as warned last week reading nicolson s some people was the nudge i needed to go back to his diaries and letters i loved the condensed single volume so am interested to see what else is in this three volume collection mr teddy by e f benson simon put this on my radar last year and i d forgotten much about it by the time it arrived via ill by kismet i started it just after turning 40 the same birthday the hero is experiencing as the book opens a house in corfu by emma tennant i have my first ever trip to greece specifically corfu coming up in may so am excited to have something to get me in the mood and the crowd went wild by susan elizabeth phillips phillips newest romance novel in her chicago stars series no matter what by cara bastone i ve loved bastone s last two novels ready or not and promise me sunshine and am excited to read this newest release officially it came out yesterday but my library miraculously had it ready for me on friday bricks and mortality by ann granger continuing with this cosy cotswold set mystery series what did you pick up this week posted in library loot 5 comments library loot february 25 to march 3 february 26 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 i m reading again not only do i have new books to share i ve already managed to read all three of them some people by harold nicolson delightful collection of fictionalized portraits of characters nicolson encountered in his wide roaming youth and early adulthood any time i read nicolson i can t help remember my favourite passages from his diaries perhaps it is time for a reread of those maybe even the full three volume set this time rather than the single collected volume the sherwood ring by elizabeth marie pope an excellent recommendation from nancy pearl this is the kind of ghost story that even i can stomach after her father s death peggy arrives to live with her uncle at the family s home in new york state while her uncle remains aloof peggy begins encountering the ghosts of the men and women who passed through the house during the revolutionary war and learning about the family s history through them rack ruin and murder by ann granger a nice easy mystery that i sped through on sunday afternoon it is the second in a series but makes absolutely no difference if you haven t read the first i did but it was 16 years ago and i remembered nothing what did you pick up this week posted in library loot 5 comments library loot february 18 to 24 february 18 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 two weeks later and not much has changed i m continuing to struggle with my reading i am optimistically checking things out hoping they will be just what i need but i m definitely having more misses than hits part of the problem is absolutely the olympics i am having too much fun watching all the various events and my usual early morning pre commute reading time is now taken up watching cross country skiers or curlers or whatever else i can find that doesn t completely terrify me like flying off ski jumps flipping around endless times and landing backwards thankfully for my productively the olympics will soon end and maybe then my powers of concentration will return adventures in the louvre by elaine sciolino lifelines by julian hoffman vigil by george saunders and then there was the one by martha waters what did you pick up this week posted in library loot 5 comments library loot february 4 to 10 february 4 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 january was intense wasn t it in addition to the geopolitical stress my work life has been extremely busy i m hoping for more balance in february and more time to read these high green hills by jan karon karon s mitford books about father tim and his friends are exactly the right speed for my tired brain right now muybridge by guy delisle translated by helge dascher rob aspinall a graphic biography of eadweard muybridge creator of time lapse photography by the always good delisle race of scorpions by dorothy dunnett i was racing through dunnett s books last year at an alarming rate and forced myself to put this aside then to pace myself now i m ready and eager to jump back into the adventures of nicholas what did you pick up this week posted in library loot 3 comments library loot january 21 to 27 january 22 2026 by claire the captive reader 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 up a road slowly by irene hunt i can t remember a year when i ve been so fast to act on so many recommendations from year end best books lists but here s another one this time from elisabeth grace foley s list my father s house and the ghosts of rome by joseph o connor set in rome and vatican city during wwii i enjoyed my father s house enough when i read it on saturday that i quickly picked up the sequel so i could keep reading the jukebox queen of malta by nicholas rinaldi an old nancy pearl recommendation about the awkward coming of age of corporal rocco raven a young brooklynite assigned to an intelligence unit based on the island of malta under german and italian air attack in 1942 the tears of autumn by charles mccarry continuing the adventures of paul christopher following the miernik dossier patchwork by maddie ballard this sewing memoir been on my radar since kate wrote about it last year under its original title of bound and it s 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