Library Loot: February 8-14

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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!

E-books:
• Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman
• Maman's Homesick Pie

Audiobooks:
• The Kitchen Counter Cooking School

Video:
• The Help
• Freedom Riders (likely to get it within the next few days)

Books:
• The Paris Wife

Library Loot: February 1-7

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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!


E-books:
My Life in France by Julie Child
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Audiobooks:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling; read by Jim Dale

Video:
Mrs. Brown (also released as Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown)

Library Loot: January 25 to February 1

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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!

Here is what I picked up from the library this week:

Videos:
Upstairs Downstairs
Fourth season of The Big Bang Theory
Jane Eyre (the one that came out a few months ago)
Crazy Stupid Love
Maid in Manhattan

Books:
The Marriage Plot (ereader)
Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
11/22/63 : a novel
Death comes to Pemberley
A thousand lives : the untold story of hope, deception, and survival at Jonestown

I don't know which of the 4 books that came in paper form I will read, but probably will read at least 11/22/63 and possibly Death comes to Pemberley.

Library Loot: January 11 – 17

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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!

Haven't done this in a while, but here I go.  Since I am restricting myself to picking up books on the weekends, even though I don't have a heavy week day schedule,  I am going to be posting this on Saturday afternoon or evening, depending on when I have gone to the library.

Here is what I picked up:

From Surrey Public Library (SPL):
• Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson

From Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL):
• Season 3 of Castle
• When Harry Met Sally
• The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
• House of Secrets by Tracie Peterson

Library Loot: August 31 - September 4

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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!

Here is what I got from the library:


• The Soldier's Wife
• Methland: the life and death of an American small town
• Birth: the surprising history of how we are born
• Rebel Angels
• The name of the wind

Library Loot November 14 - November 20

I don't know what happened this week, but I went a little bonkers with the library.  On Sunday, I picked up a couple of books from my church library.  And then on my way home from work on Monday, I picked up a bunch of materials, including a DVD, from the public library and then on my way home from an event later that evening, I got a few more books. 

Yesterday, Saturday, I picked another handful of books from the public library, when I was just going to drop off a couple of books.  But I couldn't help myself.  And then when I was volunteering at my church library, I picked up Her Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers.

All told, I think I borrowed about 15 materials.  And while I would love to put down all the titles that I borrowed, it would just take too much time.

Library Loot November 7 - November 13

Got a number of books this week.  While I didn't obtain anything during the week, I did get quite a bit last Sunday due to a Christmas reading challenge.

I got The Gift, Promise Me, Christmas List, Grace, and Finding Hope, all of which are by Richard Paul Evens.  I also got The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Christmas Promise and Christmas Beginning, all of which were by Anne Perry.

Library Loot October 31 - November 6

For a week that ended up being in the crapper, it was a week that I didn't really go to the library all that often.  But I did end up with some things.


Video:
Faith Like Potatoes
I was volunteering in my church library on Saturday evening when I saw this available on the DVD carousel.   I had seen this video a number of times when I had been shelving DVD's or taking them back to the desk to be checked in. From what I can understand its a pretty good movie and I hope I will enjoy it just as others have.

Books:
Picked up a bunch of books on Sunday afternoon, but for some reason, I don't want to turn the light on to see which ones I got. I know I got the newest Shopaholic book and from what I can gather, there seems to be another one in the works. Don't get me wrong, I have loved Sophie Kinsella's books, but for some reason I have the feeling that the adventures of Becky Brandon are getting a little tiresome for some. There are meant to be a light amusement, but after reading "Twenties Girl", I feel like I am going to be disappointed with the newest Shopaholic book. Maybe I should just bring the book back and see how I feel about borrowing it at a later date.

While most times I go to visit the library in Surrey are pretty much uneventful, last Sunday was quite the adventure, as I decided after my quick lunch to go the main Surrey mall and look for a tea ball. While I did eventually find one, I don't understand why I even thought it would be a good idea to go there, especially knowing the nature of the traffic there. I probably should have either looked around a little more for a tea ball (I found one that I preferred to the one I got on Thursday morning at a tea shop in my local mall) or should have gone straight home after having lunch. It was almost like I was obsessed to find that tea ball (essentially it is a small strainer to strain tea leaves for individual cups of tea, like they did before tea bags were developed) and there was nothing to stop me from finding that tea ball. Oh well, so is life and hopefully I learn from that.

I realize the purpose of the post is to post what you found at the library for the week, but it does some what relate to a library pickup, as I did do a library pickup before going to the mall.