Library Loot #4

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

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
I'm continuing my journey through all of Hemingway's works.  This is his first collection of short stories.


True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
A fictional memoir published posthumously and edited by his son, Patrick.  It was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953 and chronicles his last African safari.


The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway
In 1959, Hemingway returned to Spain both the revisit "the country he loved more than any other than his own" and to see a series of bullfights that promised spectacular performances by two famous rivals.  He was commissioned by Life magazine to write a short article about his trip but he became so absorbed that he wrote a book-length manuscript.  It was the last major literary undertaking of his life.



Time Was Soft There: a Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer
Jeremy Mercer, a crime reporter, fled Canada in 1999 and ended up broke in Paris.  He stumbles upon Shakespeare & Co., the current incarnation of Sylvia Beach's famous bookstore of the 1920's owned by George Whitman.  The book "winds in and around the streets of Paris, the staff fall in and out of love, straighten bookshelves, host tea parties, drink in the more down-at-the-heels cafes, sell a few books, and help George find a way to keep his endangered bookstore open."

The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
 A thriller set during WWII which involves a code that is embedded in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca!

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
This was Capote's first novel.  From the jacket:  "...a novel of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South."

From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus
Set in Cagliari, Sardinia, the novel relates a story which spans three generations, focusing on women from two families who are joined through marriage. An unnamed contemporary speaker feels particularly connected to her paternal grandmother, and as the speaker pieces together this woman's life from what she herself recalls about her and from the family lore which has survived through the memories of the rest of the family.  She creates a woman who not only searches earnestly for love but is absolutely determined to experience it in all its splendor, believing that it is "the principal thing in life."