Library Loot

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!

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
I read Mrs. Dalloway several years ago with a book club and I thought I would give Virginia Woolf another go.  This novel is inspired by her recollections of childhood summers spent on the Cornwall coast.  It is the story of the Ramsey family and their assorted house guests spending a vacation in the Hebrides on the island of Skye.
~ Frances

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
The book jacket reads:  "Being immortal is not all it once was.  Yes, the twelve Greek gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London town house--and are none too happy about it.  Even more disturbing, their powers are waning."  With Artemis (goddess of hunting) as a professional dog-walker, Aphrodite (goddess of beauty) a telephone sex operator, and Apollo (god of the sun) a TV psychic I couldn't resist it. ~ Frances

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The back of the book reads:  "In 1913, a little girl plays hide-and-seek on the deck of a ship while waiting for the woman who left her there to return.  But as darkness comes, the girl is alone as the ship leaves for Australia.  Upon the ship's arrival in Australia, the dockmaster and his wife take in the little castaway who is carrying nothing but a small suitcase containing clothing and a book of fairy tales."  The novel is a multi-generational story that uncovers the secret of the girl's identity. ~ Frances

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Grace, a ninety-eight year old woman in a nursing home is visited by a young filmmaker who is making a movie about the events of the summer of 1924 in which Grace played a part.  The novel is Grace's reminiscence of that fatal summer.  At a party held a Riverton House where Grace was a servant, a young poet shot himself.  The only witnesses were two sisters, Hannah and Emmeline, and Grace, who is the only one still alive.  It is a novel of secrets, suspense, and passion. ~ Frances

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
I have never read a Steinbeck novel. I have, however, seen the film version of East of Eden with Julie Harris and James Dean. Judging by how much I enjoyed the film, I thought that I might as well give the novel and Steinbeck a try. ~ Rose