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I am intrigued by that cover for 1491. I hope you enjoy these books and have a fabulous weekend. - Katie
ReplyDeleteMy STS post if you care to visit - https://justanothergirlandherbooks.blogspot.com/2023/02/stacking-shelves-february-11-2023.html
The topic is really interesting to me but I am always cautious about "new ideas" presented by anyone other than a historian. Journalists do not necessarily have the training to discern from historical records what may have been going on. Still, I am looking forward to delving into this one.
DeleteI've been meaning to read The Villa, it seems so popular on the blogs. Hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI plowed through it pretty quickly and liked it a lot. Reckless Girls is still my fave and I hated The Wife Upstairs. The Villa is a worthy third novel.
Delete1491 is interesting to me. The Villa too actually since Reckless Girls kinda stuck with me. 1491 though reminds me of another book I was gonna read and never did- it was a re- evaluating of the early arrival in the Americas. It was similarly named too, I think- something like 1492 lol. Oh well, maybe I'll just read this one of you enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteYou'll like The Villa. I loved Reckless Girls but hated The Wife Upstairs. The author of 1491 has a follow-up called 1493. I wonder if I have also seen the one you are talking about, because I distrinctly remember there being some big controversy about some ideas an author put forward in a book similar to this one - so much so that I thought this was the actual controversial book and one of "my" librarians (yes, I have my own, because they are my most favorite people at our most favorite branch, lol) searched online for what we could find. But I also could have sworn that I deleted that one (ideas basically came down to big racism, and you know I don't have time for that shit), yet this one was still on my TBR. Alas, I guess we will find out once I start reading it!
DeleteI wish I could remember the 1492 book I'm thinking of. It was super well known at the time, but I'm too lazy to dig deeper (I did acursory search but none seem to match)
DeleteOI! I need to know!! Lol. You'll find it eventually I am sure.
DeleteI didn't add much to the stack this week either. I hope you enjoy both of these. Have a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe quiet weeks are good, it (supposedly) lets me catch up on the weeks where I had massive hauls. Happy Wednesday!
DeleteAdded The Villa to my TBR making it the second Rachel Hawkins title on my list. Better get busy! :) Have a terrific week - happy reading.
ReplyDeleteTerrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/sunday-post-37
I really liked The Villa a lot. I loved Reckless Girls, but hated The Wife Upstairs. I hope you love The Villa, too. Hapy Reading!
DeleteHope you enjoy both of these!
ReplyDeleteThe Villa was GREAT! Haven't started 1491 yet. Hopefully by the weekend.
DeleteWell..... I *was* going to visit my fave Indie bookshop next week, but it's predicted to be raining off & on. So, I went this week. I hope you've got your big girl pants ready...! [lol]
ReplyDeleteFiction:
Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman
Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
The Doomed City by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
The Snail on the Slope by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Non-Fiction:
The Greatest Raid - St Nazaire 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot
Brolliology - A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine
The Spy in Moscow Station - A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat by Eric Haseltine
First Steps - How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy Desilva
Two Minutes to Midnight - 1953: The Year of Living Dangerously by Roger Hermiston
The Burning Time - Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London by Virginia Rounding
Toxteth Tales - Growin' Up in Liverpool 8 by Ken Hayter
So... Not TOO bad... Probably.... [grin]
Ugh. You are my WORST FRIEND! lol.
DeleteInterested in The Greatest Raid, Brolliology, and The Burning Time, but library has none. Obviously went on my sub-CK-TBR. Requested First Steps. OI!
I really enjoyed The Villa. Probably my favorite thriller from Hawkins so far.
ReplyDeleteI really loved it, but Reckless Girls was so much fun! Maybe fun is not the best way to describe it? But I loved it all the same. The Villa was really good though, and I have definitely ben recommending it to everyone who reads the way we do.
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