Library Loot: November 4 to 10

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. The Eye of God by Ludwig Bemelmans – I didn’t manage to get this novel about life in a Tyrolean village during the Second World War in time for the 1949 Club but it’s here now thanks to an interlibrary loan. I’ve read Bemelmans’ travel writing and of course the Madeline books as a child but this is my first encounter with him as a novelist. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman – the first book (from 1964) in the Rabbi Small mystery series. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser, translated by Hildegarde Serle – this featured on a number of “Best of 2025” lists but I missed…

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