Thursday, March 18, 2010

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!

12 comments:

  1. A nice set of books. I have The Girl in the Blue Dress, and I've heard good reports. If I ever catch up with my library books I'll read it!

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  2. You picked up some great books Avis.

    I will have to check out the graphic novel one. Sounds interesting.

    Enjoy :)

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  3. Nice loot - I really enjoyed The Chosen One.

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  4. Too bad about the Deadly Slipper. It's such a pretty cover.

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  5. I'm adding The Chosen One and Girl in the Blue Dress to my TBR on Goodreads!

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  6. I like the sound of The Chosen One.
    I had Girl in a Blue Dress from the library last year but unfortunately it ended up having to go back unread....I still plan to read it sometime.

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  7. The Chosen One is on my TBR list. It sounds really good so I hope you enjoy it!

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  8. The cover of The Chosen One is almost exactly the same as The 19th Wife! Probably the same model, before and after fixing her braid! :--)

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  9. I thought The Chosen One was rather good (audio version) --enjoy all of your audio books.

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  10. The Chosen One is really good...enjoy all of your loot!!!!

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  11. Too bad Deadly Slipper didn't live up to the promise of the cover! Girl in a Blue Dress sounds really quite good.

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  12. Te Girl in the Blue Dress really sounds good. I'll have to check in my library if they have it.

    BTW, thank you for visiting my blog and keeping in touch for the past couple of months even though I wasn't all that active myself :)

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