How is it that something that is so ubiquitous it is literally called ‘the common cold’ manages to make a person feel so uncommonly miserable with so little warning? You’d think I’d get plenty of reading done while I’m sniffling and coughing, but looking down to read just makes everything worse. I think it’s finally […]

My murder-y mood continues – so when I saw book 5 in the Nell Ward series, A Trace of Hares, come up on Edelweiss I decided to just go for the whole series. I’ll be reading the first book in the series over the weekend, so hopefully I’ll have a chance to get caught up […]

So I picked up a couple more books this week than I did last week. What’s a few extra books between friends, amirite? Especially since Enlightenment absolutely ran away with the ‘pretty book cover’ award for this week’s stack! For Review: The City of Marble and Blood (Chronicles of Hanuvar #2) by Howard Andrew Jones […]

For some reason this stack LOOKED way bigger than last week’s stack – but it’s not. Just one more title. Also, they are nearly all pretty in their own ways, with the exception of The Atlas Complex. That whole series has had sort of bland covers, the excitement has always been BETWEEN the covers on […]

I finally found cover images for two books that I’ve had forever – but without the art. It feels like a bit of a milestone. Also, the covers are gorgeous. I’m speaking of Blood Jade and Fiasco both of which have fascinating covers and whose first series books were both terrific. So I have very […]

I have been trying to figure out Instagram and #bookstagram this week, meaning that this is my both my first Stacking the Shelves post of 2024 and my first stab at doing it on insta. (Check it out!) I believe I’ve reached the point in my learning curve where I’ve flipped from 1 step forward […]

This stack is a bit taller than I expected, but then I didn’t expect Amazon to dangle triple kindle points in the Kindle Rewards Beta in front of me this week – and I probably should have. But that’s what brings the remainder of the Barker & Llewelyn series into my Kindle app – not that […]

I’m not sure pretty is even the correct word for this bunch of covers. The West Passage takes that prize, although there honestly isn’t a lot of competition. Very much on the other hand, there are three books in this stack that I am eagerly anticipating, one of which I didn’t even know was going […]

I keep playing with these stacks because I keep expecting that one of these holiday week stacks is going to be empty – and then what? But so far, there’s always been something. Actually, there are a couple more somethings than are showing here because there are some books coming up next spring that may […]

This stack of covers isn’t so much pretty as it is evocative. The Barker & Llewelyn covers do an excellent job of invoking the time and place and projecting the sense of dark mystery, the London Ladies’ Murder Club covers pretty much scream the 1920s while the cover of Paladin’s Faith fits right in with […]