Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Library Loot: July 28 to August 3

 First things first!

I have the great pleasure of announcing that the new co-host of Library Loot is .....

Claire from The Captive Reader

I will let Claire formally introduce herself next week and that will be when she will host Mr Linky for the first time. In the mean time I wanted to publicly say thank you to the other people who volunteered to co-host. I was pleasantly surprised to get so many volunteers and it was really hard to choose between everyone!

Anyway, enough of the formalities.

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire 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!


I am very excited about the two books that are waiting to be picked up from the library in the next couple of days, but I guess I should talk about the books that I picked up this week first!





Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich - The most recently released book in the Stephanie Plum series. I stopped buying the books at about book eleven in the series, and I don't regret that. I still like reading them, but not enough to actually want to consistently buy them.



The Dead of the Night by John Marsden  - Book no. 2 in the Tomorrow series. I am really excited at the prospect of reading this one.



The Black Pearl by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - The next book in the Morland Dynasty series. This one is set in one of my favourite eras to read about - The Restoration court of Charles II.




Duet by Kimberley Freeman - I remember looking at this book when it first came out, mainly because of the cover quote from Paullina Simons. I am not sure why I didn't pick it up. I was reminded about this author when Sarah from Reading the Past mentioned her upcoming US release. This was the book that was currently in, so I picked it up. It will also count for my Aussie Author challenge reads.



Goddess of the Sea by P C Cast - Now that I am up to date with the House of Night series, I thought it was time to read some other P C Cast novels. This is the first in this series. I actually own the second or third book. Not sure why given that I normally only like to buy whole series.



The Darkest Room: A Novel by Johan Theorin - I added this to my TBR list after Kerrie asked her readers what the best crime fiction title they had read this year was and this book came up trumps. A couple of weeks later and it won the CWA International Dagger award. I am looking forward to immersing myself in another Swedish crime nove.



Taste le Tour 2008 with Gabriele Gate - I posted a couple of Taste le Tour segments for my Weekend Cooking post last weekend. Not sure when I am going to get to watch this but I am going to try!

What loot did you get from the library this week? Add your link to Mr Linky below, so we can all come and have a look at your loot.

10 comments:

  1. I stopped buying Evanovich around book 8, and the library does have this one but of course someone beat me to it

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  2. Hey Marg,

    I can't truly participate in the Library Loot this week -cos I'm still getting though my last lootings- but I can say...

    Go Janet's Sizzling Sixteen!

    BTW: I've heard they're making a Stephanie Plum movie. Do you know anything about this?

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  3. I think Claire will make a marvelous co-host! :)

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  4. The Black Pearl and Goddess of the Sea look like incredible reads! I hope you enjoy all your new books and I look forward to hearing what you have to say about them!!

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  5. some interesting books !:D
    The P C Cast i've heard alot about.

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  6. Great loot.
    No LL for me this week.
    Yea for Claire!

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  7. I'll be picking up Sizzling Sixteen from the library later this week and am looking forward to my Ranger fix! :)

    Happy reading! Welcome to Claire!

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  8. Congrats Claire!

    I have up on the Plum novels around... Number 13 I think. It felt like she was just dragging everything out. I got tired of Stephanie not making any decisions and the lack of character development.

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  9. This puts me in the mood to read another Evanovich. I'm not as far into the series as you but I like what I've read so far. Enjoy your loot!

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  10. Enjoy the second John Marsden book. That is as far as I have gotten in the series but I keep meaning to borrow book 3 from the library.

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