Library Loot (March 18)

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva at A Striped Armchair and Marg at Reading Adventures 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! Want to share your loot? Eva has the Mr. Linky this week!

I had to go to the library this week to return books and pick up a couple I’d reserved, so here’s what I came home with:

I won a copy of The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams last year, but unfortunately never got the book, so when I saw it at the library I knew I had to read it finally!

I reserved Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk as soon as I’d finished reading Nymeth’s review of it at things mean a lot (even though this book has got to have one of the most unattractive covers I’ve ever seen!).

Deadly Slipper: A Novel of Death in the Dorgogne by Michelle Wan sounded good (and I thought it would count towards the POC Reading Challenge, which I haven’t officially joined yet); unfortunately, it failed the 50-pages test (more on that in another post), so I’ve already abandoned it. (I love the cover though!)

I first heard of Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens by Gaynor Arnold when the Concordia University Alumni Book Club read it last year; unfortunately, I couldn’t get my hands on a copy in time to go to the book club meeting, but I still wanted to read it!