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.
Library Treasures
School started this week for students, so reading has been minimal - as has the acquiring of new treasures. Once we are back into a routine, this will be back to normal!
What did you add to your stash this week?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
I bought "Surviving Aggressive People", which I was introduced to via a podcast a year or so ago. I'd hoped to find a library to borrow it from, or a used copy to buy, but that never panned out so I just bit the bullet and bought the Kindle edition.
ReplyDeleteThe cover art for Favorite Daughter looks fun!
I am very intrigued by the book you mentioned, I may have to look at the library and see if we have it. The cover is interesting and I am dying to know what happened but the unreliable narrator is maddening to the extreme...which I know they are supposed to be maddening, but she is like, so obviously maddening and it is kind of taking the fun out of a perspective I usually enjoy.
DeleteThree books in from the library. Two from 1964: Last Exit to Brooklyn and A Moveable Feast. One from an author new to me: The Lonely Hearts Hotel.
ReplyDeleteI am slowly but surely dwindling my library books down to the last few, I have so many at home that I own and need to read...
Deleteenjoy your new treasures!
School here starts on Thursday, but all my library holds came in, and I bought a few books too. If I were wiser, I would have held off for a few weeks like you! Have a great week.
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It's been so hard to hold off though! Our summers are very full of library visits and now that school is back in session for both of us, we maybe get there once a week now. Sometimes less! I am trying to not request so many holds, and focusing on my owned books for the time being.
DeleteA pretty good week for me this week:
ReplyDeleteFiction:
The Secretary by Renee Knight
Run Away by Harlan Coben
Identity Crisis by Ben Elton
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott
Non-Fiction:
Winston & Clementine - The Triumph of the Churchill's by Richard Hough
The Next Book 'Blitz'
The History of Cinema - A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Hollywood - A Very Short Introduction by Peter Decherney
Film Noir - A Very Short Introduction by James Naremore
Looks good - though I must say that for once I am not adding any to my TBR...yet.
DeleteOoh I liked The Favorite Daughter!
ReplyDeleteReally??!! I knew the main character was an unreliable narrator, but she is seriously pissing me off and ruining a perspective I usually enjoy. You have an idea of my taste in fiction though, so I am guessing you will tell me to persevere?
DeleteYes! Although if you're not liking Jane... see for me the fact that she was a train wreck was entertaining. I mean the woman calls her own daughter a loser! She's so unfiltered and out there, and that was half the fun for me.
DeleteI've finished the book now, and my review will be up shortly - it will not be very kind, I'm afraid! Even so, I am glad you enjoyed it :)
DeleteI just added a few books that I realised hadn't already been put onto my TBR. I've not been being so many books this year which has really helped!
ReplyDeleteThat does make a huge difference! My in-take will slow down majorly, now that we won't be to the library nearly as often as in the summer.
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