Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality all about sharing the books we are adding to our shelves, whether physical or virtual. This week, I'm sharing two ebooks and two NetGalley ARCS that I've downloaded recently. I've been wanting to read Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen for years,... Continue Reading →
After what felt like an endless February, March seemed to fly by didn't it?! I'm not super thrilled with the amount of reading I accomplished this past month, but I'm just grateful to be on the other side of the nasty reading slump that struck with a vengeance during the second half of February. Here's... Continue Reading →
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality all about sharing the books we are adding to our shelves, whether physical or virtual. I've added four new gems to my shelves this week: I took advantage of two great Kindle Deals for books I've been interested... Continue Reading →
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality all about sharing the books we are adding to our shelves, whether physical or virtual. I haven't participated in STS since early January, so this is a roundup of all the books I've acquired since then. Physical Books: I've only... Continue Reading →
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin Published January 9th, 2018 During a quiet summer day in 1969, the four bored Gold siblings make a trek through New York City's Lower East Side, on an ill-fated mission that will forever change the course of their lives. Varya, thirteen; Daniel, eleven; Klara, nine; and Simon, seven, seek out a... Continue Reading →
Snowdrift and Other Stories, Georgette Heyer Published: October 2017, Originally Published: 1960 Note: This collection is a reprint of Pistols for Two with the addition of three previously unpublished stories. For me, Georgette Heyer is as comforting as a steaming cup of tea in one of my favorite mugs; as cozy as a soft and warm blanket;... Continue Reading →
Seven Days of Us, Francesca Hornak Published October 17th 2017 Imagine a Christmas in which you are housebound with your family for an entire week, forbidden from having outside contact with any other people. This is precisely the situation the Birch family find themselves in, when they are quarantined for seven days at their English... Continue Reading →
The Silent Companions, Laura Purcell First Published: October 5, 2017 Expected US Publication: March 6th, 2018 The Silent Companions is a well-crafted historical ghost story told in multiple timelines. It's an eerie, evocative novel that brilliantly blends the supernatural and the psychological. During the mid-nineteenth-century, a newly widowed young woman is sent to wait out her pregnancy... Continue Reading →
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality all about sharing the books we are adding to our shelves, whether physical or virtual. Another week, another ARC haul... Sugar Money by Jane Harris I loved Harris' previous novel Gillespie and I, and thought it was worth checking out her latest.... Continue Reading →
The Medievalist, Anne-Marie Lacy Expected Publication: October 31st Historian Jane Lyons has been having recurring nightmares about her distant ancestor King Richard III for years. She has dedicated her academic career to finding evidence to prove that Richard did not in fact murder his young nephews-the Princes in the Tower-as is commonly believed. When she... Continue Reading →
Dwell in Possibility 