Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we're talking about the books we've added to our shelves recently. I'm going to break mine up into two parts: hard copies and Kindle editions. I'm trying to add more of the latter lately as I've completely run out of room for more of the former!



Hard Copy

The Half-God of Rainfall: I used a Christmas gift card to buy myself one of my wished-for books that I didn't get from anyone else!

Evolving in Monkey Town: I picked this up secondhand! When she passed last year, I heard great things about Rachel Held Evans's writing about her faith, so I'm looking forward to reading this.

Courtiers: I am always a sucker for royalty and royalty-adjacent stories, and anything that refers to "splendor and intrigue" in its subtitle tends to find its way to my bookshelf.

News for all the People: I saw this on a list of books that were recommended if you wanted to read about the way the media deals with race issues, so I grabbed a secondhand copy because that sounds fascinating to me.

The House Next Door: I was definitely #influenced here...Nicole Cliffe tweeted a couple times about how much she likes this book and though I don't usually go for scary books I decided to take a chance on this one.


Kindle

The Woman Upstairs: I've read several "best of the decade" lists within the past month, and this showed up on one and seemed interesting enough to grab.

Lady Jane Grey: Eric Ives has a very well-regarded book about Anne Boleyn that I own but have not yet read, so when this book about Lady Jane Grey came up on a Kindle sale I figured it seemed like a good add to my Tudor reading list.

Prozac Nation: Elizabeth Wurtzel just passed, and I realized I'd never actually read this, her most famous work. It went on sale this week so I snatched it up!

Kushiel's Dart: This was another book I got influenced into, as writer Rachel Hawkins recommended it on her twitter feed.

Save Me The Plums: I haven't always loved books about cooking and/or eating, but enough people have said good things about this one that it's worth a try!

8 comments:

  1. What an interesting mix of books. Haven't read any but sure want to. Enjoy your books!

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    1. Thank you! My reading tastes are really a little bit of everything, I guess!

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  2. Lady Jane Grey is a fascinating if rather tragic figure in history. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/01/ttt-012120_21.html

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    1. I've read some historical fiction based on her life before and am definitely curious about the actual reality!

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  3. Save Me the Plums!! My mom and I have a passion for food memoirs, and Ruth Reichl is one of the best in the business. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!

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    1. I tend to be either hate or love with food books, but enough people have sung its praises that I'm going for it! I hope I like it as much as you did!

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  4. I read The Woman Upstairs with my book group several years ago and it really stuck with me. I'm interested to hear what you thought of it! I'm also kind of intrigued by Kushiel's Dart and Save Me the Plums. I read Ruth Reich's Garlic and Sapphires and thought it was great!

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    1. I'm definitely looking forward to The Woman Upstairs!

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