Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Library Loot

 Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Marg at The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader and Claire at The Captive Reader that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

I know it's been quiet around here but I became so fed up with the Blogger problems
I decided , in order to save my sanity, to not bother with blogging at all over our long weekend. Then someone suggested downloading Google Chrome, which I did, and hey presto! all is functioning as it should again.

My loot from yesterday morning's visit to the library.....


Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll................Urban fantasy - not quite my thing but I need to read something else for the Once Upon a Time challenge.
No Simple Passage by Jenny Robin Jones........."Keeping company with her ancestor Rebecca Remington, NZ author Jenny Robin Jones imagines herself on board and records life at sea on the London using the journals of the ship's surgeon and a cabin passenger." My other main interest is genealogy so I'm looking forward to this story of emigration to NZ.



The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (NF)


Hope you have some great loot this week too!

9 comments:

  1. I'm going to have to check out Chrome. Not being able to comment on blogs has been driving me crazy.

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  2. I will be interested to hear what you think about the Lee Carroll book. This is author Carol Goodman teaming up with her husband. I have enjoyed Carol's books so one day would like to get to this one.

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  3. I'm also interested in genealogy so No Simple Passage definitely intrigues me! It sounds a bit like what Alice Munro did with The View from Castle Rock a few years ago.

    Enjoy your loot!

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  4. Linda - only takes a minute to download and I'm wishing I'd it before now. Hope you'll try it and it works for you too.

    Marg - that is interesting and as a fan of Carol Goodman's definitely lifts my enthusiasm for this one.

    Claire - I thought it was fiction but its not although the way it's written it could be. I'm enjoying it.
    I'll check out the Alice Munro.

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  5. Hi Cat : )
    Black Swan Rising looks really interesting. I'm going to look for that one myself. I enjoy UF and stories set in Manhattan.

    I haven't seen that cover version to The Weird Sisters. I like it!

    Prisoner of Tehran sounds very good... but heavy on the heart, I'm sure.

    Enjoy your loot. : )

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  6. You've done it again :)... written about books that I want to read but can't find. No Simple Passage sounds wonderful. I have a friend traveling to Aus. this summer to visit family, maybe she can find the book for me.

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  7. You've done it again :)... written about books that I want to read but can't find. No Simple Passage sounds wonderful. I have a friend traveling to Aus. this summer to visit family, maybe she can find the book for me.

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  8. I have the first cover of Weird Sisters - it's plain white. Hmmm, trying to appeal to sexiness or what with this new cover?

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  9. Christine/Melissa - this is the UK cover and I quite like it although I haven't seen the other one.

    Mari - it's non-fiction and a history of the journey and the early days of settlement in NZ. Very easy to read and I found it very interesting . A fairly new release but I'm sure your friend will find it easily in Aus. bookshops.

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