Library Loot - 05/16/12

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.

I haven't done one of these posts in a while, because I've been reading so slowly that trips to the library have seemed wasteful.  I've had a couple really great trips though and have some great books on deck...


New Loot:

A coal miner's bride : the diary of Anetka Kaminska / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
1001 cranes / Naomi Hirahara.
Following Atticus : forty-eight high peaks, one little dog, and an extraordinary friendship / Tom Ryan
We need to talk about Kevin : a novel / Lionel Shriver.
Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life / Sandra Beasley.
Little Bee / Chris Cleave.
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
When Captain Flint was still a good man / Nick Dybek.
Red ruby heart in a cold blue sea / Morgan Callan Rogers.
The flame alphabet / Ben Marcus
The night circus : a novel / Erin Morgenstern.
The end of normal : a wife's anguish, a widow's new life / Stephanie Madoff Mack ; with Tamara Jones
Silver like dust : one family's story of America's Japanese internment / Kimi Cunningham Grant.
Some assembly required : a journal of my son's first son / Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott.
What teachers make : in praise of the greatest job in the world / Taylor Mali.
Ninety days : a memoir of recovery / Bill Clegg.
Running away to home : our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from,
The taste of salt : a novel / by Martha Southgate.
Trauma : my life as an emergency surgeon / James Cole.
This beautiful life : a novel / Helen Schulman.
In Zanesville : a novel / Jo Ann Beard.
Up : a mother and daughter's peakbagging adventure / Patricia Ellis Herr.
F in exams : the very best totally wrong test answers / Richard Benson.
Talk-funny girl : a novel / Roland Merullo.
The night strangers : a novel / Chris Bohjalian.
Gypsy boy : my life in the secret world of the Romany Gypsies / Mikey Walsh.

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Library Loot - 04/02/12

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

New Loot:

Joy for beginners / Erica Bauermeister.

The end of country / Seamus McGraw.
The end of normal : a wife's anguish, a widow's new life / Stephanie Madoff Mack ; with Tamara Jones
The orchard / Theresa Weir.
Lamb : a novel / Bonnie Nadzam.
We the animals : a novel / Justin Torres.
Greasewood creek : a novel / Pamela Steele.
Oliver Pepper's pickle / John C. Picardi.
The Winters in bloom / Lisa Tucker.
Carly's voice : breaking through autism / Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann.
The golden hat : talking back to autism / Kate Winslet ; with Keli Thorsteinsson and Margret Ericsdo
The orphan sister : a novel / Gwendolen Gross.
The local news : a novel / Miriam Gershow.
Before I go to sleep : a novel / S.J. Watson.
Battle hymn of the tiger mother / Amy Chua.
In stitches : a memoir / Anthony Youn with Alan Eisenstock.
More room in a broken heart : the true adventures of Carly Simon / Stephen Davis ; photographs by Pe
Unmeasured strength / Lauren Manning.
A smile as big as the moon : a special education teacher, his class, and their inspiring journey thr
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
The end of everything : a novel / Megan Abbott.
Stuart Little / E. B. White ; pictures by Garth Williams.
Pippi Longstocking / by Astrid Lindgren ; translated by Tiina Nunnally ; illustrated by Lauren Child
The house at Pooh Corner [by] A. A. Milne. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
I know this much is true / Wally Lamb.
The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy / Jeanne Bi
Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption, from South Central to Hollywood / Ice-T and Douglas
Shucked : life on a New England oyster farm / Erin Byers Murray.
Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer.
What teachers make : in praise of the greatest job in the world / Taylor Mali.

What are you reading this week?

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Library Loot - 03/02/12

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

As always, brought home all but the kitchen sink. Only time will tell how many of these I actually get too...

New Loot: 

Moby-duck : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea, and of the beachcombers, oceanographers,
The night circus : a novel / Erin Morgenstern.
Handle with care : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
You are not alone : Michael, through a brother's eyes / Jermaine Jackson.
Such a pretty fat : one narcissist's quest to discover if her life makes her ass look big, or why pi
The orphan sister : a novel / Gwendolen Gross.
Battle hymn of the tiger mother / Amy Chua.
Girl in need of a tourniquet : memoir of a borderline personality / Merri Lisa Johnson.
A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York / Liz Robbins.
Daughters of the revolution : a novel / Carolyn Cooke.
Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life / Sandra Beasley.
Tiger, tiger / Margaux Fragoso.
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
Miss Timmins' School for Girls : a novel / Nayana Currimbhoy.
The summer we came to life / Deborah Cloyed.
Joy for beginners / Erica Bauermeister.
Unmeasured strength / Lauren Manning.
The end of country / Seamus McGraw.
The end of normal : a wife's anguish, a widow's new life / Stephanie Madoff Mack ; with Tamara Jones
The help / Kathryn Stockett.
The orchard / Theresa Weir.
Lamb : a novel / Bonnie Nadzam.
We the animals : a novel / Justin Torres.
Greasewood creek : a novel / Pamela Steele.
Oliver Pepper's pickle / John C. Picardi.
The Winters in bloom / Lisa Tucker.

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Library Loot - 02/01/12

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

Its been a while, and I barely got through any of my loot from the last trip but they had to go back.  Here is what I grabbed this time around...

New Loot: 
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward. 
Water For Elephants / Sara Gruen
Men and Dogs / Katie Crouch
Its so Easy / Duff McKagan
The Fatal Gift of Beauty / Nina Burleigh
A Stolen Life / Jaycee Dugard
A Widow's Story / Joyce Carol Oates
A Smile As Big as The Moon /
Awkward Family Photos / Mike Bender
Last Men Out / Bob Drury
Moby-Duck /
The Summer We Came to Life / Degorah Cloyed
The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls / Wendy Delsol
The Book of Lies / Mary Horlock
So Much Pretty / Cara Hoffman
Lamb / Bonnie Nadzam
When She Woke / Hillary Jordan

Leftover Loot:
The children in room E4 : American education on trial / by Susan Eaton.
Shucked : life on a New England oyster farm / Erin Byers Murray.
Newjack : guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover.
Dying young / Marti Leimbach.
Monster / Walter Dean Myers.
Unmeasured strength / Lauren Manning.
You are not alone : Michael, through a brother's eyes / Jermaine Jackson.
Please look after mom : a novel / Kyung-sook Shin.
The orchard / Theresa Weir. 
My Green Manifesto / David Gessner

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Library Loot - 12/31/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

Starting the New Year with a big 'ole loot of new books to chose from:

New Loot: 
I hope they serve beer in hell / Tucker Max.
Drinking : a love story / Caroline Knapp.
The children in room E4 : American education on trial / by Susan Eaton.
Sugar in my bowl : real women write about real sex / edited by Erica Jong.
Shucked : life on a New England oyster farm / Erin Byers Murray.
Newjack : guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover.
A personal stand : observations and opinions from a freethinking roughneck / Trace Adkins.

Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam.
The burn journals / Brent Runyon.
My green manifesto : down the Charles River in pursuit of a new environmentalism / David Gessner.
One small boat : the story of a little girl, lost then found / Kathy Harrison.
This beautiful life : a novel / Helen Schulman.
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West : a novel / Gregory Maguire.
Twelve / by Nick McDonell.
Dying young / Marti Leimbach.
The Friday night knitting club / Kate Jacobs.
We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver.
Monster / Walter Dean Myers.
Unmeasured strength / Lauren Manning.
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
The taking of Pelham one two three / by John Godey.
Carry me home / Sandra Kring.
Up from the blue : a novel / Susan Henderson.
The jungle / Upton Sinclair ; with a new afterword by Barry Sears.
One of those hideous books where the mother dies / Sonya Sones.
Under the Watsons' porch / Susan Shreve.
You are not alone : Michael, through a brother's eyes / Jermaine Jackson.
Please look after mom : a novel / Kyung-sook Shin.
The orchard / Theresa Weir.

Leftover Loot:
Handle with care : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the G
Salt marsh diary : a year on the Connecticut coast / Mark Seth Lender.
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
Take me home : an autobiography / John Denver with Arthur Tobier. 

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Library Loot - 12/14/11

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Sadly, no time this weekend for a library trip... I popped by to drop off a few finished books and am hoping to stop in some night this week:

New Loot:

Nada...

Leftover Loot:
What Alice forgot / Liane Moriarty.
Voluntary madness : my year lost and found in the loony bin / Norah Vincent.
Tiger, tiger / Margaux Fragoso.
Project Rebirth : survival and the strength of the human spirit from 9/11 survivors / by Robin Stern
Townie : a memoir / Andre Dubus III.
Handle with care : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
Unbearable lightness : a story of loss and gain / Portia De Rossi.
A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the G
Salt marsh diary : a year on the Connecticut coast / Mark Seth Lender.
Love at first bark : how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself / Julie Klam.
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
The dry grass of August / Anna Jean Mayhew.
Precious and fragile things / Megan Hart.
When we were friends : a novel / Elizabeth Joy Arnold. 
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread /
Take me home : an autobiography / John Denver with Arthur Tobier.
Scattershot : my bipolar family : a memoir / David Lovelace.
Losing my faculties : a teacher's story / Brendan Halpin.
Miss American pie : a diary of love, secrets, and growing up in the 1970s / Margaret Sartor.
The Brothers' lot : a novel / by Kevin Holohan.
These things hidden / Heather Gudenkauf.
Paradise road : Jack Kerouac's Lost highway and my search for America / Jay Atkinson.
Wrecker : a novel / Summer Wood.

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Library Loot - 11/30/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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 library staff must hate me. I always take way more books than I can read, but I like to have options... 


This is what I have currently:

New Loot:

What Alice forgot / Liane Moriarty.
Voluntary madness : my year lost and found in the loony bin / Norah Vincent.
Tiger, tiger / Margaux Fragoso.
Project Rebirth : survival and the strength of the human spirit from 9/11 survivors / by Robin Stern
Townie : a memoir / Andre Dubus III.
Handle with care : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
Unbearable lightness : a story of loss and gain / Portia De Rossi.
A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the G
Salt marsh diary : a year on the Connecticut coast / Mark Seth Lender.
Love at first bark : how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself / Julie Klam.
The road / Cormac McCarthy.
The dry grass of August / Anna Jean Mayhew.
Precious and fragile things / Megan Hart.
When we were friends : a novel / Elizabeth Joy Arnold.

Leftover Loot:
The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread /
Take me home : an autobiography / John Denver with Arthur Tobier.
Scattershot : my bipolar family : a memoir / David Lovelace.
Losing my faculties : a teacher's story / Brendan Halpin.
The great typo hunt : two friends changing the world, one correction at a time / Jeff Deck and Benja
A thousand sisters : my journey of hope into the worst place on earth to be a woman / Lisa Shannon ;
Miss American pie : a diary of love, secrets, and growing up in the 1970s / Margaret Sartor.
Shattered innocence : the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard : the untold story / Robert Scott.
Up in the air / Walter Kirn.
Give a boy a gun / Todd Strasser.
Stuart Little / E. B. White ; pictures by Garth Williams.
The Brothers' lot : a novel / by Kevin Holohan.
These things hidden / Heather Gudenkauf.
Paradise road : Jack Kerouac's Lost highway and my search for America / Jay Atkinson.
Happy accidents / Jane Lynch.
Wrecker : a novel / Summer Wood.

 

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Library Loot - 11/9/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

Currently, I have the following library loot on hand:

New Loot:

In the Woods / Tana French

Finding Jack / Gareth Crocker

The Secret Life of Bees / Monk

A Decade of Hope / Dennis Smith

Peter Pan / Barrie

The Tale of Desperaux

Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Kinney

I Am The Cheese / Cormier

Take Me Home / John Denver

Scattershot / Lovelace

Losing My Faculties / Brendan Halpin

The Great Typo Hunt / Deck and Benja

Damaged / Cathy Gladd

A Thousand Sisters / Lisa Shannon

Miss American Pie / Sartor

Shattered Innocence / Robert Scott

Up in the Air / Walter Kirn

Give a Boy a Gun / Strasser

Stuart Little / EB White

Queen of the Oddballs / Carlip

Girl in Need of a Tourniquet / Johnson

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance / Baker

Leftover Loot:
Charlotte's Web / EB White
After / Amy Efaw
Little House in the Big Woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life Is Not A Stage / Henderson
Little Women / Alcott

Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life / Sandra Beasley.

Not without my sister / Celeste Jones, Kristina Jones and Juliana Buhring.

The Road, Cormac McCarthy.
My stolen son : the Nick Markowitz story / Susan Markowitz with Jenna Glatzer.
Rush Home Road : a novel / Lori Lansens.

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Library Loot - 10/19/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

Currently, I have the following library loot on hand:

New Loot:

Leftover Loot:
No Way Down / Graham Bowley
The Talk Funny Girl / Roland Merillo
Sing Me Home / Jodi Picoult
The Central Park Five / Sarah Burns
Tiger, Tiger / Margaux Fragoso
Transition / Chaz Bono
Little Princes / Connor Grennon
Coraline / Neil Gaiman.
Daughters of the revolution : a novel / Carolyn Cooke.
Mosaic : pieces of my life so far / Amy Grant.
Loretta Lynn : Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, with George Vecsey.

The hour I first believed : a novel / Wally Lamb.

Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life / Sandra Beasley.
Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America / Les Standiford with Detective Sergeant Joe
Hope's boy : a memoir / Andrew Bridge.

Not without my sister / Celeste Jones, Kristina Jones and Juliana Buhring.

The Road, Cormac McCarthy.
My stolen son : the Nick Markowitz story / Susan Markowitz with Jenna Glatzer.
Crossing the water : eighteen months on an island working with troubled boys--a teachers memoir.
Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission.

The orchard / Theresa Weir.
Rush Home Road : a novel / Lori Lansens.

The truth is-- : my life in love and music / Melissa Etheridge with Laura Morton.

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Library Loot - 09/25/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg 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.   

I am one of those library types who always, always takes too many books and can never finish them all before they are due...even with 2 renewal periods!  So, my list changes often...and books go back unread sometimes.

Currently, I have the following library loot on hand:

New Loot:Coraline / Neil Gaiman.
Salvage the bones : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.
Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson.
Losing my faculties : a teacher's story / Brendan Halpin.
Daughters of the revolution : a novel / Carolyn Cooke.
Mosaic : pieces of my life so far / Amy Grant.
Loretta Lynn : Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, with George Vecsey.

Leftover Loot:

A race like no other : 26.2 miles through the streets of New York / Liz Robbins.
Travels with Charley : in search of America / John Steinbeck.

Tiger, tiger / Margaux Fragoso.

Up in the air / Walter Kirn.
The hour I first believed : a novel / Wally Lamb.
Don't kill the birthday girl : tales from an allergic life / Sandra Beasley.
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations... one school at a time.
The box: uncanny stories / Richard Matheson.
The diving bell and the butterfly : a memoir of life in death / Jean-Dominique Bauby.
A date with death / Michele R. McPhee.
Long drive home : a novel / Will Allison.
Witch-hunt : mysteries of the Salem witch trials / Marc Aronson.
My teenage werewolf : a mother, a daughter, a journey through the thicket of adolescence.
Inconceivable : a medical mistake, the baby we couldn't keep, and our choice to deliver the ultimate
Little princes : one man's promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal / Conor Grennan.
Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America / Les Standiford with Detective Sergeant Joe
Diabetes A to Z : what you need to know about diabetes, simply put.
Knowing Jesse : a mother's story of grief, grace, and everyday bliss / Marianne Leone.
Dewey's nine lives : the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions / Vicki Myron.
From this moment on / Shania Twain.
Inside scientology : the story of America's most secretive religion / Janet Reitman.

Which books did I decided to read next? You'll have to check out my blog at Shannon's Book Bag and see!

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