Library Loot is a weekly event that encourages bloggers to share the books they've checked out from the library. The event is co-hosted by The Captive Reader and The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. Library Loot has quickly become one of my favorite events to take part in. I heart my library so hard.
This was a FANTASTIC library week for me! Fantastic I say!
My local library held their annual Friends of the Library used book sale and I came home with a stack of books that made my arms ache. Check out my post on the sale and see all the fab reads I came home with.
While I was there I picked up a few books that I had requested (Descriptions per Indie Bound):
Besides the difference in skin color—many will assume that headstrong, impulsive Kamryn is Tegan’s nanny—there’s the inconvenient truth that Kamryn is wholly unprepared to take care of anyone, especially someone who reminds her so much of Nate. With crises brewing at work and her love life in shambles, can Kamryn somehow become the mother a little girl needs her to be?
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world.
But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.
Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue’s gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer—and approaches a deeper understanding of what’s really happening to our planet in the process.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
Acclaimed as “extraordinary” (The New York Times) and “a classic” (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the taboo on bodily waste—something common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk about it, but we should—even those of us who take care of our business in pristine, sanitary conditions. Disease spread by waste kills more people worldwide every year than any other single cause of death. Even in America, nearly two million people have no access to an indoor toilet. Yet the subject remains unmentionable.
Moving from the underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York (an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen) to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people, The Big Necessity breaks the silence, revealing everything that matters about how people do—and don’t—deal with their own waste. With razor-sharp wit and crusading urgency, mixing levity with gravity, Rose George has turned the subject we like to avoid into a cause with the most serious of consequences.
I'm so happy with my library loot this week,
I hope you had as much luck!
I hope you'll take a look around my blog and if so inclined follow me as well :)
I hope you'll take a look around my blog and if so inclined follow me as well :)
The Sandcastle Girls is on my list. Hope you like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Harvee :) I'm really looking forward to that one
DeleteI am waiting for The Sandcastle Girls as well. Great Loot! Enjoy@
ReplyDeleteThanks Jen, I really scored big this week!
DeleteFantastic indeed! The Sandcastle Girls sounds great and The Big Necessity and Visit Sunny Chernobyl both promise to be really interesting too. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks Claire! I'm just wrapping up Sunny Chernobyl now..whew what a read!
DeleteI read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children! (A mouthful of a title, there.) Heading over to your review now!
ReplyDeleteVisit Sunny Chernobyl snags my interest -- looks promising! Hope you enjoy the rest of your books (:
Thanks, so far so good! And thanks for stopping by as well :)
DeleteLove your Library Sale loot! Some great titles there and the Chernobyl book here looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteHappy reading!
Thanks Cat, I was very happy with my haul!
DeleteHope you enjoy all your books this week. I really liked Miss Peregrine and have heard good things about Sandcastle Girls.
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So far I'm loving my selections! Nothing better than a great day at the library :)
DeleteThe Big Necessity is the one that takes my eye. Great cover. I think I'm attracted to it because I'm in a country where thrones are making inroads, but there is still that dogged attachment to the squat toilet.
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to that one myself. I hope it's as good and informative as I expect it to be!
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