Library Checkout: November 2016

I’m winding down with public and university library books for the year and hope to get to the end of the stacks before 2016 is out. I read some terrific books this month! Some of them I’ve already talked about here, and others I may feature in a future post or two. (I’ve given ratings for all the books I finished, and added links to Goodreads for those I managed to review.)

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LIBRARY BOOKS READ

• Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood 
• Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes 
• Open City by Teju Cole 
• Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal 
• The Yellow House on the Corner by Rita Dove (poetry) 
• Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food across the Globe by Elisabeth Luard 
• Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann 
• Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich (poetry) 
• As We Are Now by May Sarton 
• The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler 
• Autumn by Ali Smith 
• The Pursuit of Happiness: Why Are We Driving Ourselves Crazy and How Can We Stop? by Ruth Whippman 

CURRENTLY READING

• Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss

CHECKED OUT, TO BE READ

• Cat Sense by John Bradshaw [to skim only, I think]
• Poetry Notebook, 2006–2014 by Clive James [to skim only, I think]
• A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• What Nature Does for Britain by Tony Juniper [to skim only, I think]

ON HOLD, TO BE PICKED UP

• The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Cleveland Amory
• The Cat Who Stayed for Christmas, Cleveland Amory

IN THE RESERVATION QUEUE

• The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
• Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body by Jo Marchant
• Family Life by Akhil Sharma
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

RETURNED UNREAD

• The Course of Love by Alain de Botton – requested; I’ll read it on my Kindle instead.
• The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge – I scanned the first few pages and wasn’t in the mood; I may try it again another time.
• Dear Mr. M by Herman Koch – I read the first 20 pages, but it wasn’t gripping me at all.
• The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace – same as for the Hardinge.

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(Thanks, as always, go to Shannon of River City Reading for the great blog idea and template!)