The libraries in England are open again and I have already been along to borrow some books. Visiting the library is still the same sterile experience that it was last summer but I am just grateful to get some different books to read. During the lockdown I have been re-reading some of the books I have on the shelves but over the past year I have been through most of them for a second reading and I don't want to start on round three. Unusually, I decided to look for a specific title, and luckily I found it straight away as the shelves are still very well stocked. Marilynne Robinson is one of my favourite authors and I absolutely love the Gilead series that tell the same story from the perspective of different key characters. Some years ago I found Home in a charity shop and I loved it so much I read it through twice. On the cover it said Home was a follow-up to the original novel Gilead , so of course I had to go and find that. We wer...