Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Library Loot: January 25 to February 1


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!

I wanted to start this week by saying thanks to Claire for hosting Mr Linky for the last couple of weeks as a result of my unexpected time away!

Taking an unplanned week away does really bad things to your library queue! To be fair, so many books had come in at the same time I wasn't really going to be able to pick them all up, but there were a whole heap that had come in and were sitting there forlornly waiting to be picked up but had to go back to the shelves instead. I will rerequest them eventually (if I can remember what they all are!).

Here is the loot that I did get when I finally ventured to the library on Saturday:



Down by the River by Robyn Carr - the third book in the Grace Valley series.


Twice Tempted by the Rogue by Tessa Dare - Second book in the Stud Club series.



Decent Exposure by Philippa Ashley - Recently I read Carrie Goes off the Map by this author and thought that her brand of British chick lit was quite good. I seem to prefer British chick lit to American chick lit a lot of the time.

Duet by Kimberly Freeman - I have borrowed this before but returned it unread. At the end of last year I read her latest book, Wildflower Hill, and now I am determined to work through her backlist!

What loot did you get? Share your loot by adding your Library Loot post link to Mr Linky below:

17 comments:

  1. Enjoy your loot! I am trying to keep my library books down this year. Yesterday I brought 4 books back and only picked up 4. Go me! It means only 10 checkouts. :)

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  2. I can't imagine only having 10 checkouts. I do however need to get the total of my checkouts down!

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  3. I really want to read the Robyn Carr series.

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    1. Tea, I would recommend starting with the Virgin River books!

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  4. I haven't heard of any of these but I definitely agree that British chick lit trumps American. Enjoy your loot and good luck placing holds on the books you missed while you were away!

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    1. I am not sure why that is though. I always attributed to the fact that we got to see a lot of British comedy growing up and that I lived in the UK for 5 years but I am not sure if that is what the actual difference is!

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  5. I've been limiting my checkouts too and it certainly makes for more relaxing reading. Enjoy your loot and at least you know those left behind will always be there for another day.

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    1. They might be there for another day! I have had books that I have let go and then they have been taken off the catalogue!

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  6. I have totally been overdoing it on the library holds, and now I have a huge attack of books here that I feel the pressure to read RIGHT NOW! I need to get a little more judicious about how often I hit that library website!

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    1. Maybe we can work on that resolution together! lol

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  7. Lots of good looking loot there! Enjoy!

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  8. oh, I love Robyn Carr. Let us know if you enjoy that one. =D

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    1. It was a good ending to the Grace Valley trilogy. Now I am planning to try and read some of her standalone books.

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  9. I'm looking forward to acclaimed Australian short story writer Paddy O'Reilly's new novel, The Fine Colour of Rust, which apparently is out in March. Gorgeously written country town romantic comedy.

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  10. I just linked my very first Library Loot blog!! Im excited to start doing this.

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  11. This is my first time joining the Library Loot after seeing it on Becky's blog! After listing all my books I realized I should try not to keep renewing books I just don't get around to starting.

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