Library Loot: May 20 to 26

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading 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. Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream by Alexander McCall Smith – I find McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street series so pleasant and am always pleased where there’s a new book (new for us at least – this came out last summer in the UK). There are no high stakes, there is plenty of time for rambling conversations about nothing that has anything to do with a plot, and, after twenty years, the characters are all old friends. American Fantasy by Emma Straub – clearly the safest way to take a cruise is in book form and this novel about a middle-aged woman on a themed cruise featuring a famous…