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.
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What did you add to your stash this week?
Happy Reading!
Sarah
I had a pre-Christmas shopping trip yesterday so I picked up a few things (including Christmas presents for others which I won't mention). So:
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The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Non-Fiction:
Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by Mike Rapport
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia by Paul Dukes
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing can Change Everything by Becky Bond and Zack Exley
The Grand Prix Saboteurs by Joe Saward
Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr
France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror by Jonathan fenby
The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury by Sinclair McKay
I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOUR BOOK-BUYING SPREE! Midnight in Chernobyl is really good. I'll be adding The Lady in the Cellar to my TBR if it is not there already. it sounds really familiar so it might be.
DeleteWell, I had to take some time off work & it seemed a shame to waste it. There seems to be a 'thing' about Victorian crime ATM so it sometimes makes it difficult knowing what I have and what I don't. I picked up this in hardback for £2.50 so was very pleased with that. I hope the books I bought for my Secret Santa work out. I know the recipient reads books about cycling so I hope he hasn't read them.
DeleteOh no, I hope everything is okay.
DeleteI am not really interested in the Victorian era unless it has to do with their weird obsession with crime - isn't that funny? They were so funny about their reactions and reporting on it, and I think we today are so funny in our own reactions to their reactions. Poisonings especially. They just could not get enough stories about poison!
Good luck with Secret Santa!
Oh, no. Nothing bad! I get allocated a certain number of days leave each year and, as I'm leaving next year HAVE to use it all before next April - hence having to take leave from work. Use it or lose it!
DeleteAh, that is good to hear then. Vacations like that are wonderful! And to spend it reading, that's the dream. What happens if you do not take the days you have left? Do they pay those out in cash to you, or are they just gone?
DeleteI think I get paid for them - at about 2/3 the going rate... I think.
DeleteCertainly better than nothing and just losing all the days at the end of your employment!
DeleteOnly 1 this week. What is wrong with me?
ReplyDeleteMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem from the library.
Nothing is wrong, you are being RESPONSIBLE!
DeleteI'm really trying to focus on Reading What I Already Own for the rest of the year with the promise to myself of a buying splurge in January if I'm 'good' until then. Sadly it's not working as well as I had hoped!
ReplyDeleteI need to read what I own, I have a five shelf bookcase crammed with books I have not read yet. But darn these new releases that just keep distracting me. I am still very much a child when it comes to attention span I guess, haha
DeleteI added exactly zero, but I'm still working my way through a very long queue which I hope to finish by the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself to do the same, except then I end up finding new books on the library new release shelf...
DeleteCosby... grrr. What a skank.
ReplyDeleteWordslut though looks interesting!
The whole Cosby thing is so gross, and like Weinstein, EVERYONE knew and no one did anything. So many lives were totally wrecked by these assholes and who knows if there will ever be justice in the latter case.
DeleteWordslut was okay, the author's voice kind of grated at times, she had a habit of doing the :(but more about this later!)" kind of thing and it was annoying. But still, the content was good. I may even get a review up in the next two years lol
Man that Wordslut book looks awesome! I was home most of the week with a sick kiddo unfortunately! He's feeling much better today thankfully!
ReplyDeleteSo glad your kiddo is feeling better. I liked Wordslut in terms of content, though the author's voice was bothersome at times. Still, I would recommend the book for sure.
Deletei always add to my stash...no matter how hard i try not to. LOL Cosby...used to watch his sitcom and loved it. too bad this will be his legacy
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
I remember watching the show too, but I was so young that it did not have the impact on me that it has had on others. All the good he did in no way compares to the harm and trauma he caused, and it is so infuriating that people knew about it and did nothing.
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