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.
Library Treasures
What did you add to your stash this week?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Ooh The Nazi Hunters!
ReplyDeleteI have already finished the one by Bascomb - it was a YA read, which I did not realize until I had it in-hand. But I usually like reading a YA on about a topic I know a lot about, because I can get a good feel whether or not I would recommend it for a younger reader just starting to learn about the topic. It was pretty good. I am not looking forward to the Nagorski one, which will probably be much more details on the heinous crimes of such a murderous regime.
DeleteGood to see you're relaxing with some Summer Holiday reading... [grin]
ReplyDeleteOddly I almost bought 'Triumph' this weekend (as its been on my Wish List since I saw the movie of the event 'Race'. I bought a difficult to get naval fiction book instead.
Not a bad week for me this week:
Fiction:
Buller's Guns by Richard Hough
Never Tell by Lisa Gardner
Heroes by Stephen Fry
Careless Love by Peter Robinson
Cold as the Grave by James Oswald
Non-Fiction:
Footnotes - How Running Makes Us Human by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
Fleeing Hitler - France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
You know me, any heavy reading and I just can't handle it, lol. I am undecided about how I feel about Triumph. It's an important story, and certainly one that should have dealt a heavy blow to the whole aryan-superiority thing, and even as the massive crowds cheered for him, it did not translate to the wider world outside of the Olympics, and the Holocaust still happened. I would recommend getting it from the library instead of purchasing. There was some repetitive-ness also.
DeleteThis is getting to be like true confessions but I do thank you for getting me to keep track. I bought 5 books, two by Richard Powers for my challenge: Gain and Galatea 2.2. The good thing is I am sure I will read them over the next two months. Then someone's blog post made me remember I had been meaning to read the final two books in Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Cemetery of Lost Books series, so since I was in a bookstore for one of my reading groups I bought them in paperback: Prisoner of Heaven and Labyrinth of the Spirits. Finally my subscription book club, The Nervous Breakdown put the July book in my mailbox: A Girl Goes Into a Forest, short stories, not my favorite, we'll see. So far this week I have only finished one book but I am ripping through the final Harry Potter book. That will be two library books finished. I respect your library haul!
ReplyDeleteThank you Judy - we must keep each other on track or we will get buried by our stacks. I enjoy your responses to this post each week, because we have so many similar interests and points of view. I am so glad you stumbled upon my blog, thanks to CK!
DeleteIronically, Nazis featured in my week too, reading Valkyrie!
ReplyDeleteI saw that you had just read a book about Valkyrie! We must be on the same wavelength this week.
DeleteI read the Nazi Hunters by Nagorski. Really excellent book.
ReplyDeleteI have heard good things about it. I stopped reading about the Holocaust for a long time after my daughter was born, I simply could not handle the trauma and cruelty, I was constantly crying. But I am slowly wading back into the pool, because we have to remember these horrors, or they will continue to happen over and over and over.
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