Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Marg and myself 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!
Everyone at home is flirting with an illness, all separate and distinct, of course, as befits our mulishly autonomous personalities. Willing away runny noses, ticklish throats and sore heads, we remain stupidly confident that stubbornness will win out over our compromised immune systems and spend our days attempting to convince ourselves that we’re in the pink of health, running about our business as normal, taking hearty walks of ridiculous length, and murmuring to one another how important it is to stay positive in the face of imminent threat. And then we all sit around at night with no energy left for the usual, mindless family prattle and simply stare at walls, exhausted but unable to sleep because of aforementioned runny nose/ticklish throat/sore head. It’s all very thrilling. All of this has sapped my energy for blogging (I’ve been awful about leaving comments or even responding to the lovely ones left here) but not reading – I’ve been on a delightful Angela Thirkell binge. And yes, even though I’ve lots of past loot to keep me busy, I took a quick weekend trip to the local library just for a bit of a browse with no intention of checking anything out…that ended up as well as could be expected. But what could be more comforting to an ailing reader than new books?
Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell
Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell
What Did It Mean? by Angela Thirkell
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror by Susan Nagel
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Hope you will all be well again soon.
Behind Closed Doors is a delight and, more recently, it formed the basis of a TV series with Amanda Vickery, its author.
Re Angela Thirkell: several years ago I bought a series of almost-mint orange & white paperback ‘Penguins’ by this author. They sat on the shelf, year after year, and then I thought, “I’m never going to read these …” and I parted with them. Now, regretfully!
Margaret P
I’m quite keen to read the Sissinghurst book after reading Robert SVW’s Inheritance…
Hope you all feel better soon.
Three Thirkells should make you feel better! 🙂 At least I hope so. Seeing the Angelas makes me want to start re-reading them (or at least finishing my read-through, if I could only figure out where I left off…) I’m so happy you’re enjpying them. Maybe we could do a read-along someday!
Did you know that there are one or two ‘guides’ to her Barsetshire? The one I have is called ‘Going to Barsetshire,’ by Cynthia Snowden (and there’s another one that I’ve seen). It’s just such a hoot that such things exist.
The rest of your loot looks wonderful, too. I’m hoping to dig out and get to the library tomorrow, or the day after…
I really fancy Behind Closed Doors and The Ruling Caste so will make a note of those. Excellent selection all round!
Yet another tempting and gorgeous – great covers! – haul. Your post is encouraging me to toss back the tissue-strewn covers and trudge to the library!
Erm, maybe tomorrow.
Feel better soon!
Coop has been on my tbr list for a long time.
I hope you’ll all feel better soon.
That’s wonderful looking loot – Marie Therese and Sissinghurst appeal to me.
Happy reading!
You finally got the Marie Therese book, hooray! I’m finally over my cold, but now I’m just in a slump with Virago week being over and am desperately wishing I had big libraries and bookshops nearby again!
Sorry to hear you’re feeling unwell, but hey, at least you’re getting plenty of reading done!
So sorry y’all are dealing with illness up there – it sounds much like my house. So far I haven’t succumbed to the kids symptoms, but that’s only because I spend much of my time saying things like, “don’t breathe near me, please,” “you are sitting too close to me to be sounding like that,” or “can’t you cough somewhere else?” 🙂 Try those out on your family, it seems to be effective in keeping germs at bay. (Just kidding!) Seriously, I hope you are feeling better soon, and are able to continue enjoying your books until you’re back to 100%.
Sorry to read that you are unwell. Here’s oping you and yours feel better soon.
Now to the loot. Behind Closed doors sounds fascinating. I always enjoy reading about the realities of other periods dispelling some of the more romantic notions we hold about the past
We’ve been fighting a nasty something here as well.
Feel better.
I’ve loved every Oliver Sacks I’ve ever encountered but that one is unfamiliar. Heading to the library catalog this minute.
I bet you are unaware that there is an entire group devoted to Angela Thirkell. The Angela Thirkell Society originated in the UK but has a thriving North American branch. Check us out on the web at http://www.angelathirkell.org.
Feel better soon! I love a new book when I’m feeling under the weather.
Oh hope you feel better soon! Your LL looks great, love the Sacks and the books about Georgian England and the Victorian Raj!
For some reason, Coop catches my eye out of everything in your stack.
I love Angela Thirkell and what fun covers! Hope the books help you to feel better!
Got my post up.
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