I have a big ol’ stack of library books with me in Spain and I hope they have been good companions on the holiday, especially on the 20-hour ferry rides there and back (I’m scheduling this before we set off).
Margaret shared a lovely post about a grandchild’s early appreciation of the local library. And Naomi reviewed three novels she has recently read from the library, two I loved and one I’m partway through.
Since last month, here are my stats…
READ
- Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
- Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
- Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier (reread for May’s book club meeting)
- Bitch: The Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke (review pending for Shelf Awareness)
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
- French Braid by Anne Tyler
With loads still on the go, and a preposterous number of reservations pending and hopefully not all arriving while I’m away.
What have you been reading or reviewing from the library recently?
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Bookish Beck = Rebecca Foster. American transplant to England. Freelance proofreader and book reviewer.
Bookish Beck 
That’s a good library haul! The Sentence and The Exhibitionist are ones I really want to read. I’ve only recently begun properly using the local library and now don’t know how I managed before. My recent borrows are Anxious People by Fredik Backman, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef, Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, and about to start The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
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Thanks for reading and commenting! The Sentence and The Exhibitionist are both well worth reading, as is Rooney’s latest. I started The Dance Tree while on holiday and I’m about a third of the way through it now.
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Just reading Aldous Huxley’s late novel The Genius and the.Goddess in fits and starts, and hope to fit in a Simenon, also from the library, after that. They are a bit overdue but I haven’t got round to renewing them as I ought to have done.
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Tsk, tsk 😉 I’m at the library so often (twice a week for volunteering) that I don’t have that problem, but of course it’s not uncommon. Does your system charge overdue fees? There’s a debate as to whether those actually deter unwanted borrower behaviour.
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No charging since lockdowns but I suspect that might not last…
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Right now I’m reading Lisa Moore’s new novel – This is How We Love. 🙂
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Ooh, I’m keen to read that. It’s coming out a bit later in the USA and I’ve been offered an e-copy to review for Shelf Awareness (for which I get sent around 6 e-books per month and then have to choose 2+ to review — whichever I like best, or have time for).
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Pick Lisa Moore!
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I hope so! My choice often depends on how my deadlines clump together.
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Just went and read your reviews of Yinka (I also didn’t mind the religious content, in fact I was pleased it was portrayed positively and respectfuly) and French Braid (no, I couldn’t forgive her, either … and there was a gay character in another one but now I can’t remember which, but I thought it was a good return to form, too).
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I remember a character coming out to his parents in A Spool of Blue Thread, but then nothing really came of it.
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I’m just sure there’s another one somewhere that’s not just saying it for effect like him! Oh dear! I don’t really want to have to read them all again!!
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[…] Rebecca’s Love your Library, a monthly challenge for … of course, […]
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Here I am at last: better late than never, eh? https://margaret21.com/2022/06/08/love-your-local-library-in-catalunya/
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This is wonderful, thank you! Do you have enough Spanish to get by while you’re out and about?
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We do thanks. Catalan? Not so much, though we can understand written Catalan pretty well
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