As I was already planning on posting about my latest library finds, the meme I spotted over at Susan's fits in perfectly (and gives me a chance to make another list, which I am so very fond of doing). What do I have checked out from the library? Oh, too many books. Here is the last batch (see photo) I took home this past week from the public library:
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson--I did start this one! It won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and promises to be a very good read if the first few chapters are any indication.
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones -- This is one of the Booker shortlist titles. I've never read Great Expectations--I hope that doesn't matter.
Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen -- This looks like a very fun cozy mystery set in 1930s London. Jacqueline Winspear has given it her thumbs up anyway.
The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy -- This is set in 1930s and '40s Chinatown, Vancouver.
Keeping the House, Ellen Baker -- And this is a multigenerational family saga set in Wisconsin.
I recently discovered the place in the library's catalog where you can request books for the library to buy. Generally they will buy them if they have been published within the last two years. I suggested three titles, and they have ordered all three (two novels and a crafting book). The Petterson and Choy are the two novels I requested.
That stack joins:
Summer at Tiffany, Marjorie Hart -- There's something about New York in the 1950s. It sounds like the perfect time to have lived there.
Snobbery with Violence, Marion Chesney
This Time of Dying, Reina James
Angelica, Arthur Phillips
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
Shadows and Lies, Marjorie Eccles
The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani
Those are all from the public library. And these are from the library where I work:
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury -- It has the short story I am reading this weekend.
The Woman Who Waited, Andrei Makine -- The next Slaves of Golconda read, which I had better start soon.
High Rising, Angela Thirkell
Equal Love, Peter Ho Davies
I know you've seen some of these before (which is why I didn't want to bore you with more descriptions of them). Either they've been rechecked out or it's renewal city baby! (I'm very good at working the library system). Yes, I really do want to read each and every one of them. I know. I am being very optimistic, aren't I? They do look like rather a lot all listed here on the page. When they're scattered all over the house (as they are in my home), it doesn't seem like much at all...Anyone else willing to own up to your pile(s)?