Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature co-hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality. It is a chance to showcase all the goodies you've collected throughout the week, whether they're bought on-line or in-store, an ARC or a final copy, borrowed from a friend or the library, physical or digital, etc. Never has my addiction been more obvious than when I am now keeping track of every single book I acquire.
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What did you add to your stash this week?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Wow you got a lot of books! I hope you enjoy them!
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Thank you! I have finished a couple already and so far, so good!
DeleteWow that's awesome!
DeleteThank you! I am really trying to work on my TBR and get it back to a manageable number. And reading is really the best way to de-stress for me, so I have been reading quite a lot lately.
DeleteI picked up "Dealers of Lightening", a book about Xerox's PARC project, the genesis for graphic user interfaces that Apple and Windows both were inspired by.
ReplyDeleteUnsurprisingly, I may be adding that to my TBR!
DeleteHow did you even get all those books to your car? I hope you had a car with you. Just kidding. Some interesting titles there. I added a 1964 Joan Aiken novel, The Silence of Herondale bought used on line and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, lent to me by a friend. Happy Reading!
ReplyDeleteNever fear, these were accumulated over the week as my holds were delivered to my preferred library branch from around the city. I have finished a few already and so far my stack has been a winner again this week. Happy Reading!
DeleteOoh Chernobyl. I'm gonna watch HBO's show about it I think here soon (I only have HBO for Game of Thrones, which is arguably a wate of money haha but since the books are never coming out... wait, I digress) and the Obama book has curious.
ReplyDeleteYES! I am obsessed with Chernobyl! The Obama book was okay, but not my most favorite. Still, it was a solid three stars. I ended up liking the other book by the same author better, which I also picked up this week ("The N Word". It was well-written and researched, even if the subject was terrible.)
DeleteAn IMPRESSIVE 'Stack' as you mentioned last time.... [grin] The Chernobyl book is already on my 'interest' list so I'll look forward to your review. Presumably the Isabella book is about Spain and the 'Reconquest'? The Triangle Fire popped up on my list too recently: Triangle - The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle.
ReplyDeleteI did a MUCH bigger haul than expected this week.
Fiction:
The Way of all Flesh by Ambrose Parry
Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts
Lancelot by Giles Kristian
Down to the Woods by M J Arlidge
Ultimatum by Frank Gardner
Non-Fiction:
American Politics - A Very Short Introduction by Richard M Valelly
The American Presidency - A Very Short Introduction by Charles O Jones
Hello World - How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry
Wild Signs and Star Paths - 52 keys that will open your eyes, ears and mind to the world around you by Tristan Gooley
12 Rules for Life - An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
The Road to Somewhere - The New Tribes Shaping British Politics by David Goodhart
Exactly - How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Vietnam - An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
I am doing my best to not read any of your non-fiction titles because you know half of them will end up on my TBR!
DeleteThe Triangle book you mentioned is the first one I ever read on the subject and was fantastic. Such a horrible, tragic, and totally preventable scale of destruction, if we actually cared about people living deeply in poverty (but of course we can't, because they are not always like 'us' *eyeroll*) I highly recommend also 'See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire' by Ruth Sergel. Absolutely brilliant. Did you know that, each year on the anniversary of the fire, groups go around and write in chalk the names of the victims at the places they lived? Imagine seeing that as you are walking along a busy Manhattan street. Very powerful, I think.
Lol! I am assuming you have more than 2 weeks to finish these library borrows ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh yes! We get 3 weeks (I think, maybe 3.5? I can never remember), and can renew a book up to three times after that, unless someone has placed a hold on the book. And we can always renew more if needed, we just have to 'return' it and check it out again.
DeleteI was a bit disappointed by Into The Storm. I found some of Reed's adventures overly reckless! Hope you like it better! I plan to watch that new Chernobyl series on TV.
ReplyDeleteI ended up liking it, which surprised me because based on everything else I have already seen of Reed Timmer, I thought he was kind of just a dumbdumb who had rocks for brains and an unhealthy lack of fear. Seeing his perspective was interesting, and I have to admit that he is more intelligent than I gave him credit for. I do agree that he can be very reckless.
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