Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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
Only one book for me this week: The Garden at Highgrove. I’m just finishing up War and Peace, which I’ve been reading almost non-stop since last Thursday, and I’ve been too absorbed in it to want to look at any other book. I haven’t even been to the library this week except to pick up this hold! Usually, because the library is only a few streets away from my house, I wander in three or four times a week on my way to do the shopping, but this week it was all business. I went straight to the holds shelf on Saturday, grabbed my book, and signed it out, all without so much as a glance at the displays. I can’t think of the last time that happened.
As a relief from Tolstoy’s Russia, nothing could be better than these lovely photos of the garden at Highgrove, Prince Charles’ family home (I haven’t had time to read much of the text yet). Highgrove: Alan (Titchmarsh) Meets Prince Charles was on television here a few weeks ago, which inspired me to place this hold after seeing how completely stunning and intriguingly unique the garden is. And when do I not welcome a new gardening book?
What did you pick up this week?
This looks to be a beautiful book to read and one that I would love. I wonder if this was on before. There was a wonderful PBS presentation early last year on public broadcasting about Prince Charles’ garden.
What did I pick up? Classic Irish Stories edited by Michael P. Quinlin, though not from the library but, instead, a charity shop. I’m looking forward to spending some time reading the stories.
Hi Penny, the television programme was originally broadcast in 2010 so I imagine it was the same one you saw last year!
I haven’t been since for last Saturday, mainly because the public transport system conspired against me! Oh well, at least I picked up loot last week.
I imagine this book could be quite interesting. Hope you enjoy it!
Sneaky public transit! Hope you have better luck with it going forward!
Can’t believe you are almost done with War and Peace…that gives me hope that I’ll devour it as well.
War and Peace is so wonderful that I really can`t understand how people can bear to read it slowly, over the course of several months or even a year! There is nothing challenging about the writing (at least in the P&V translation I`m reading) and the story is layered but never confusing. I`m having such a fun time with it!
I’m glad you are enjoying War and Peace. It have yet to tackle it yet.
I hope you end up enjoying it as much as I have once you do tackle it!
The cover of this one is amazing. I’m armed with lists of garden books for my next library run. I’ve been doing the Double Dare, so I was going to wait until after April 1 to venture to the library, but I may not make it. DH gave me a copy of Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey for Valentine’s and I’m not sure I’m going to wait until April for that! Once I crumble, library here I come! 🙂
The garden is beautiful and all the photos (just like the one on the cover) are lovely! If (let’s be optimistic!) you do crumble before the Double Dare officially ends, have a fun library trip!
You’re finishing up War and Peace in just over a week, wow, that is impressive! I wish I could read and devour books with half your speed and efficiency. You are an inspiration, indeed. 🙂
By the way, the cover for The Garden at Highgrove looks excellent!
It seems impolite to accept compliments for something I have no control over (I’ve been a fast reader since I started), but thank you! Reading only the one book for almost a week now has been very strange since I’m used to taking three days max to finish most of what I read. It’s been nice though, especially since I’ve enjoyed it so much!
How do you like War and Peace? I really prefer Dostoevsky to Tolstoy, but War and Peace is on my try-to-read-next-time-I-have-a-nursing-baby list. I always need lots of books then! 🙂
I loved it! It’s definitely a book I know I’ll be rereading for years to come!