Library Loot: August 26 to September 1

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. Things are not noticeably calmer than last time I posted (another week, another friend in hospital with a mysterious ailment – surely this variety of excitement was meant to wait until we were senior citizens, not in our forties?), but at least I have books this time. That’s something. The Translator by John Crowley – this was wonderful and so beautifully written. I had it checked out before Crowley died (on August 8), which was clever because hold lists always grow as soon as authors pass away. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner – I finally finished my first Brookner! And gazed…