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Five of my eight grandbabies visited on Saturday afternoon and because the To-Be-Read pile is right next to the toy box and the computer and where the kitty resides, there was an accidental shaking up of the pile which is a good thing because books tend to disappear down to the bottom of the pile too far for too long.
Some people have their piles on neat shelves, I know. Mine tremble in four stacks along with my challenge books for the year. The pretty kitty likes to rub her chin on them and see if she can bump a few off the top of the pile.
I am very happy with the books I have right now and many of them are books that my readers at Bookflurries have recommended. Thank you!!
There are fantasy, science fiction, mysteries, romances, general fiction, YA, and non-fiction stories just waiting for me to open them. Ten of the authors are completely new to me. Sometimes it is easier to grab an author that I know and let a new one slide down the pile. That is not good. So a shaking up is a good thing with the books that have been ignored too long coming up to the surface.
On the pile right now:
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Thus Was Adonis Murdered and three more mysteries by Sarah Caudwell
The Rhetoric of Death by Judith Rock
Miss Wonderful and Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
Dreamer’s Daughter from the Nine Kingdoms series by Lynn Kurland
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Coming Home by Jack McDevitt
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Alien Zone with two stories, Roadside Picnic and Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Over the Wine Dark Sea by H. N. Turteltaub (Turtledove)
The Just City by Jo Walton
Primary Inversion and two sequels by Catherine Asaro
The Madman of Piney Woods and Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (YA)
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (YA)
War Brides by Helen Bryan, non-fiction
I also am rounding out my Winston Churchill books about WW II so I will have all six, but I don’t know what year I will start them. If I finish my challenge books early this year, I might read the first one in the set.
I am always interested in what you have on your To Be Read Piles. Have some of the books been lingering there a long time? What is on top of your pile waiting to be grabbed next?
Do you have some of the same books on your pile as I have? Do you claim credit for getting me to try these stories? What books are you going to get me to add to my pile? Have you been disappointed by books on your pile so you put them back for later?
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