Library Loot: 24 to 30 November 2014

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief 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.

Getting back into the joy of reading. I have been in a slump for this year with the stress from work and studies that I haven't been really able to read for enjoyment. Hoping that it will change and this can be brought forward to 2015. 

3 Books this week:
1. My kind of Christmas - Robyn Carr
2. The Wanderer - Robyn Carr
3. The Sherlockian  - Graham Moor
    (Because I have been watching Sherlock  and Elementary)

Library Loot : 5 to 11 Dec 2012

 Looks really interesting. It's short snippets of what goes on in the mind and the manics and depression of a bipolar person. I'm interested in mental health so I'm always looking for book on the topic.

Another interesting book. Bought another of his book Madness explained a-while back and it's a very good book. Borrowed this and hope that I will read it.

I loved Marian Keyes books and saw this on a blog and decided to borrow it just to admire the pictures. (Doubt I will get around to baking!)

Always a must for me to read Chrismassy books in December!

Completed this book from my school's library. Please check it out if you like reading about food and cooking as it features food from Singapore! There are a few chapters on her ancestor's food in China as well as Italian bread making. However it does get a little confusing for me as her stories about her parents and family do jump around a little... I would prefer it if her chapters were classified according to food or something. Read some reviews here

Finally my first proper loot post in a year. I have been too busy and not reading as much as I like!

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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!

Library Loot - 08 Aug 2011

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!

On Natural Selection (Penguin Great Ideas) - Charles Darwin

Dead Even- Mariah Stewart

I was hooked on this series. Read the first 2 books (Dead Wrong and Dead Certain) and had to reserve the third to complete the series quickly!

FBI Special Agent Miranda Cahill has always played by the rules: always maintain a respectful professionalism, and never mix business with pleasure. Except when it comes to fellow agent Will Fletcher. Their on-again, off-again relationship has left painful scars even he has never seen.
Now, a series of murders has the two agents racing to outwit a killer before he can strike again. Miranda and Will know that lives depend on identifying intended victims and tracking them down before the killer does. But as they begin to unravel this homicidal agenda, it becomes clear that Miranda may be the last and final target in a twisted game. With the clock ticking, time is running out on a killer who is determined to cross Miranda’s name off his hit list . . . permanently.

Dead End - Mariah Stewart

The last in the series

Avon County, Pennsylvania, detective Evan Crosby is called in to investigate when several schoolgirls from well-to-do families are found murdered in the same manner. Then other girls are found dead, seemingly killed in the same way, but the new victims are Hispanic and unidentified. With the help of his girlfriend, FBI profiler Annie McCall, Crosby determines there are two killers and elects to concentrate on the case of the unclaimed girls. Crosby's romantic relationship with Annie is complicated by memories of her fiance, FBI agent Dylan Shields, who died during an FBI operation--his death unsolved. Evan, hoping to provide closure for Annie by reinvestigating Dylan's killing, makes discoveries that bear on the current cases. Evan and Annie make sympathetic leads, and Stewart effectively frames the fast-paced story with details of police investigation and profiling techniques.Sue O'Brien
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Lost and Found- Shuan Tan

Gorgeous illustrations. Read about this Australian author and I was deeply moved by his drawings. They are beautiful and dark and lonesome.

A collection of three jaw-dropping stories: THE RED TREE, THE LOST THING, and THE RABBITS, by New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Shaun Tan

A girl finds a bright spot in a dark world. A boy leads a strange, lost creature home. And a group of peaceful creatures loses their home to cruel invaders. Three stories, written and illustrated by Shaun Tan, about how we lose and find what matters most to us.

Puffin by Design - Phil Baines

Penguin by design- Phil Baines

I was infatuated by Penguin after visiting a penguin exhibition by Books Actually last month.

Library Loot: 30 Apr 2011

I admit. I have gone book crazy this week. I blame it on the newly opened library 2 weeks ago. Every book is new and it feels so crisp and I get all excited!

Here's my loot:



A reserved book.
1. A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness.




2. Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt- Beth Hoffman

3. Indelible - Karin Slaughter
4. Triptych - Karin Slaughter
5. Heart of the night - Barbara Delinsky
6. Garden spells - Sarah Addison Allen
7. The sugar queen - Sarah Addison Allen
8. The moment between - Nicole Bart
9. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins




10. Baby Blues: aren't Yeats and still in diapers


11. The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

Oh my! That's alot! I had to use my mum's card too. And you know what? When I got home last night and tried to keep the books in my TBR box, I found myself getting upset because I "should have gotten another book".

Don't you love new books?




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Library Loot: 6 Apr 2011

"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!"

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This is my first time doing a library loot. I was at the library last Sat and picked up these books.



My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City (As Remembered by Actors, Artists, Athletes, Chefs, Comedians, Filmmakers, Mayors, Models, Moguls, Porn Stars, Rockers, Writers, and Others
~ I have been following lots of TV series which settings is at New York. Law and order, Blue Blood, CSI:NY and an old drama Felicity. This book happened to be displayed and I picked it up and added to my husband's library card.


Every Last One: A Novel (Hardcover)
Anna Quindlen
~ this book was recommended by Margo at Joyfully Retired.


Lake of dreams
Kim Edwards
~ A new release seen at bookshop that I couldn't wait to reserve and now it's in my hands.


Kisscut
Karin Slaughter
~ I started with Broken recently and I like her style and the main leads. I'm now starting with her older books at the beginning of the series. I'm currently reading Blindsighted.


The girl who chased the moon
Sarah Addison Allen
~ I was drawn to the cover at a bookstore and it seems so delighting and magical. The word "Moon" caught my attention because there was a recent "supermoon" phenomenum and I'm fascinated.

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