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.
Amazon First Reads - April
![What We Forgot to Bury by [Montgomery, Marin]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41nIV5qxWpL.jpg)
Publisher Gift
Library Treasure (ebooks only 😭)
Kindle Unlimited
NetGalley ARCs
I went on a major NetGalley bender. Oops.
Might as well take advantage of the trial before it expires; almost none of the books on my TBR are ever available on KU though.
Do you have much luck on KU or Prime Reading, finding books that interest you or are already on your TBR?
Happy Reading!
Happy Reading!
Sarah
There are some really intriguing nonfiction titles in your lists, I’m looking forward to learning more about 5:41 and Administration of Lunacy from your reviews
ReplyDeleteI started 5:41 but was unable to finish it. The formatting was super off and the paragraphs were not paragraphs, sometimes there would only be two or three words per line and it was just all wonky. I would gladly give it another chance if the formatting issues were fixed!
DeleteA healthy 5 for me (with a few more en route). All non-fiction:
ReplyDeleteNew World, Inc - The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman & Simon Targett
The Weather Detective - Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs by Peter Wohlleben
How Music Got Free - The Inventor, The Mogul, and The Thief by Stephen Witt
Birthday Presents:
Self Comes to Mind - Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
The Rules of Contagion - Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
Aha! How Music Got Free is already on my TBR!
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I've seen 'How Music Got Free' recommended a few times & I wanted to try something different so.... Plus I was a VERY small part of the revolution so it'll be nice to see what was behind the curtain on this one!
DeleteOoooh, how so?? I was definitely one of those kids using Napster, and later LimeWire. I am super excited to read this one.
DeleteOh, nothing dramatic... just downloading stuff from certainly dodgy European websites only to discover a week or so later they'd been taken off-line because - you know - laws and such.... [lol] Napster was on my radar but I used something else... [muses]. It was great one day when I heard a song being played as a car drove passed me, got home, and inside 5 minutes had a copy on my PC. It seemed VERY cutting edge at the time.
DeleteAh, and here I thought you were about to tell me that you were part of creating one of those, lol! And yes, it was such a cool thing to be able to do, to hear the song, then find it and play it without spending $17.99 on a cd when you just wanted one song! I mean, okay so technically it was stealing, but can you arrest a WHOLE GENERATION for all committing the same crime, multiple times?
DeleteWow, Institutes of Lunacy does sound intriguing - what a subject. I am adding this to my TBR (so much for comfort reads!) Have you read A History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter? It also takes a look at this subject - Racism and How We Got Here. Another: An Imperfect God by Henry Wiencek, which looks at Washington's views on slavery; in the first few chapters Wiencek gives a brief history of how and why attitudes changed as a result of slavery. So many seem to take these views for granted, but they are pretty recent in our history, and the more we are aware of this, the better.
ReplyDeleteI have one new read this week: The Operator by Gretchen Berg on audiobook. Two books above sound interesting as well: New World, Inc and Weather Detective. As they say, so many books, so little time!
- Donna
Thank you for all those suggestions, I have added them to my TBR. I think Washington is such a complex figure because for so long he was so revered and now it's like, Oh wait, he owned people. That is something that can't be ignored so I am interested to see how that book addresses it.
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wild seeing all those net galley arcs. i hope they are all good ones. i'm waiting for some library books.
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So far, so good! These were just my snags from the history section. There are also six more waiting to be approved or denied. So much for reading books I already own, lol
DeleteI'm going to need to refrain from reading these posts from you. I keep growing my TBR list!
ReplyDeleteNormally they are not this massive, this is COVID-19's doing!
DeleteWhat We Forgot To Bury has me SUPER curious. And what's up with The Need? I'll haveta take a look...
ReplyDeleteI hated them both, lol. My review of What We Forgot to Bury is up, I think you commented on it? I have not posted a review of The Need yet because I am trying to figure out how to say I hated it without saying the actual words, "I hated this book."
DeleteThat would make it the shortest review.... EVER. [lol] Although you'd have to "say it" in the voice of the Comic Book guy!
DeleteHa, right?! I will add a few more details I suppose...
DeleteOh did I? See how discombobulated I am now lol? Oh yeah that was the "everyone lied, the end" one. Lol some more!! *shakes head at self, pours drink*
DeleteLOL! I know exactly how you feel, I can't even remember what day it is! The only reason I knew today and Friday is because our Good Friday church service was online, and then of course today is Easter. Usually this does not happen until the summer, and it is glorious. But it is a pain in the butt right now, when there are online meetings I am supposed to be attending for school, and contact to make with my students. AAUUGGHH!
DeleteThat was an impressive NetGalley binge! I've been pretty good with NetGalley lately but I've been snapping up author freebies and 99p sales like nobody's business so my TBR has taken a hammering... about 50+ books in three weeks. Ooops.
ReplyDeleteI'm super lucky with KU. A lot of authors/books I want to read are available on it but I don't take as much advantage as I should.
I know right?! And this was only what I snagged from the history section. I had to stop myself because finally because my ratio was tanking FAST. Luckily I am still over 80%. I was at 96% but now I am at 85%. Whew. I have never had such good luck - so far all my requests and wishes were granted. There are six left that are still pending, so we will see if I can get those too. Fingers crossed, because among those are two that I REALLY REEEEEEALLY want.
DeleteI went to cancel KU, as my free trial was ending the next day, and was offered another month of it. Oi. Apparently they want to keep us well- supplied with books while we are safe at home!
Wow, what a haul! I'm curious about the one about Mesopotamia -- I love reading history/archaeology books, and I feel like that's a big gap in my knowledge... Hope you enjoy all these! :)
ReplyDeleteMy weekly post.
I kind of went on a bender...haven't requested an ARC in aaaages, and was going to use this time to read everything I have on my shelves and Kindle already. Obviously that worked out well, lol.
DeleteThe Mesopotamia books is really great so far. I just wish I had known it was PDF only and can't be sent to my Kindle. Sitting at my laptop to read is so not fun. Even so, I am enjoying it!
I read a review for The Need earlier today and like the sound of it. Everyone needs a good NetGalley bender every once in a while. I hope you enjoy all of these!
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely loved the ARCs I have plowed through so far. As for The Need, I kind of hated it :-| BUT you may like it. So, don't let me deter you!
DeleteYou have an interesting pile of books to read through. Good luck and happy reading
ReplyDeleteThank you Sharon! I have plowed through a few already and they have not disappointed me!
DeleteWow, and I thought I had NetGalley self control issues!!
ReplyDeleteA fascinating looking stack of books here. Invisible Women got several favourable mentions in another feminist book I recently reviewed, Difficult Women. It's an area of healthcare I'd not considered before so I'll be interested to see what you think
I have not gone on a NetGalley binge like this in a loooooooong time. Who wrote Difficult Women?I ended up DNF-ing Invisible Women, not because it was bad, but because it truly just made me so angry, that I thought my head might explode. It is a fantastic book and I highly recommend it.
DeleteWell, I feel better. You beat me! I ordered 9 books from my local indie bookstore to help them out and picked them up the other day. They are all fairly recent releases that I very much want to read, that I would usually have gotten from the library, but as there is no way to put books on my library hold lists until who knows when, I used that as my guideline on what to order:
ReplyDeleteThe Reckless Oath We Made, Bryn Greenwood
In the Country of Women, Susan Straight
The Sweetest Fruits, Monique Truong
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
The City We Became, N K Jemisin
The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
I am excited to read them all! If you go to my Twitter feed you can see a photo of the stack of books.
Hope you enjoy all your new treasures! I have not had a huge haul like this in a really long time, it is kind of amazing but also the complete opposite of what I intended to do with this quarantine. My plan was to read what I already had...Ha!
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