Library Loot

I’ve been meaning to post my latest library loot for a while but erratic blogging and internet problems have prevented me until now. Furthermore, I realise that my last three posts have been stacks of books but 1) I know how much you like looking at books 2) I have a few reviews scheduled for [...]

Library Loot: the débuts

If I stick to my resolve, this will be the last library loot I shall be posting about for a while as I attempt to tackle the overwhelming to-be-reads. Coincidentally these books are all débuts by female writers, three novels and one collection of short stories. I requested the top one, which reminded me to [...]

Library Loot

I haven’t posted a library loot post for some time as I have been consciously attempting not to borrow (nor buy) any books and work on the every-increasing to-be-read piles/stacks/shelves. instead I did collect a few requests this week though and noticed another that I had been wanting to reading so added that to my [...]

Library Loot: the scary

In honour of upcoming Hallowe’en my library loot takes a distinctly horrific hue this week. The Virago Book of Ghost Stories is of course intended to scare and The Complete Maus has a terrifying subject matter (the Holocaust) whereas Fun Home is a family tragicomic set in a funeral home. Wolf Home is a book [...]

Library Loot: the Good, the Bad, and the Uglier

This is an ugly pile of library books and now that I have collected them I feel completely uninspired to read them. Not All Tarts Are Apples by Pip Granger (doesn’t that name sound like a variety of apple?) in particular completely puts me off reading it; I requested this title after seeing the Roxanna [...]

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