Thursday, January 10, 2013

Library Loot

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

Only two this week - I'm making good progress reading my January pile but want to avoid overloading so keeping library borrowing to a minimum.



Effie: the passionate lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper.....I felt like reading some non-fiction and a scandalous love story and the woman who inspired some of the greatest paintings of the Victorian era should prove interesting.

Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay.....in a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal..

What did you bring home from the library this week?

4 comments:

  1. Both of those books sounds really good.

    I have the same problem with overloading at the library that is why I try to keep it down to about 5 books, although I never seem to read them all.

    Enjoy your loot!

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    1. I think it's a problem we all have! I hope these two will be good because I certainly didn't need them on my toppling pile.

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  2. My mom adores Elizabeth Hay but I haven't read any of her books since A Student of Weather, which I loved. Definitely have some catching up to do!

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    1. That's good to know because I have never read any of her books. It was the cover that caught my eye and being a Canadian author for the challenge.

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