In this week’s stack I have some real gems, some real curiosities, and some books I’m just plain looking forward to.
There are several pretty covers this time around. My personal faves are The Night Ends with Fire, The Price of Redemption and Rough Pages. Rough Pages is also the book I’m most looking forward to because I’ve adored the Evander “Andy” Mills series so far, especially in audio.
The books I’m seriously curious about are The Mercy of Gods, The Secret War of Julia Child and The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society.
I’ve never read (or watched) The Expanse. By the time it got to be a big thing it was already several books in, they are none of them short, and I just couldn’t make myself pick it up in the middle. The Mercy of Gods is the first book in a new series, so I’ll finally get to see what all the fuss is about and get in on the ground floor, so to speak. I picked up The Secret War of Julia Child because I loved Mastering the Art of French Murder and now I’m just so curious that I could not resist this one. I got The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society for the title. Really, truly. When I read the description of Buffy mixed with Murder, She Wrote featuring a librarian as the amateur detective, I was all in.
Yes, this stack is huge. And…they’re going to be like this for a while. Because…reasons. I’m on a book judging committee for one of the American Library Association’s Book and Media Awards. Which committee has changed over the years, but the deluge of books is a constant. I review a minimum of five books every month for Library Journal – sometimes more if I’m lucky. This is one of the ‘lucky’ months. And then there are the books I pick up because I simply can’t resist, which generally explains the rest of any given stack. In the end, I review about half of what I get, for a ‘long tail’ definition of eventually. But upfront it always looks like a LOT – only because it is.
For Review:
The Amen Effect by Sharon Brous
Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-il Kim
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Elusive (Scarlet Revolution #2) by Genevieve Cogman
The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard
This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour
Investigating Babyn Yar by Martin C. Dean
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40 edited by Jody Lynn Nye
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
The Mercy of Gods (Captive’s War #1) by James S.A. Corey
The Night Ends with Fire (Night Ends with Fire #1) by K.X. Song
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love (Love’s Academic #1) by India Holton
The Price of Redemption (Tides of Magic #1) by Shawn Carpenter
A Revolution in Type by Ayelet Brinn
Rough Pages (Evander Mills #3) by Lev AC Rosen
The Secret of the Three Fates (Ruby Vaughn #2) by Jess Armstrong
The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot by Anthony Gad Bigio
Subculture Vulture by Moshe Kasher (Jan)
This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards
Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945 by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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That certainly is a deluge but good for you to be participating as a judge in these awards. Happy weekend and Happy reading!
Jodie @ That Happy Reader recently posted..Stacking The Shelves #81
That’s a huge haul of books but there are some really interesting titles there. I’ve got an ARC of The Night ends with Fire which I’m really looking forward to. I’m also interested in seeing what James Corey comes up with next. I enjoyed the first couple of books in the Expanse series but then didn’t bother with any of the others for some reason.
You read such a wide variety of books! Nice haul, I hope you enjoy them all. Have a great weekend!
Cindy’s Book Corner recently posted..Stacking the Shelves #114, Sunday Post #111, Sunday Salon #105
Oooh that is quite the haul of books! A few caught my eye – The Amen Effect, The Night Ends with Fire and We Are Only Ghosts. Looking forward to reading the reviews and checking them out for myself!
Buffy mixed with Murder, She Wrote featuring a librarian as the amateur detective sounds like an intriguing combination. That one certainly has my attention! I hope you enjoy them all and have a great week. 🙂
So many of those grabbed my interest. Enjoy! Have a great week!
Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews recently posted..The Weekend Review – March 23rd-25th
I loved Jess Armstrong’s first Ruby Vaughn novel, so I can’t wait to read the second one. The India Holton book looks good, too. So do The Night Ends with Fire, The Price of Redemption, and The Ghost Cat. I hope you’re able to get to all of these (or at least the ones you’re supposed to review!)
Lark @ The Bookwyrm’s Hoard recently posted..Sunday Post – 3/24/2024
Excellent stack! I love the cover for The Secret of the Three Fates. It looks interesting!
Happy reading!
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