First, Amazon had a sale. Second, I got tempted by someone’s recommendation into getting the Relic Runner series. You can see how that worked out in my review of the first book, The Courier, earlier this week. And I got tempted by a few things. More than a few. It’s not as if this week is different from any other week, after all!

For Review:
Bronze Drum by Phong Nguyen (audio)
Cruz by Nicolás Ferraro
The Daughters of Izdihar (Alamaxa Duology #1) by Hadeer Elsbai
Fenian Street by Anne Emery
Haven by Emma Donoghue (audio)
Hidden Pieces (Misty Pines #1) by Mary Keliikoa
The Hookup Plan (Boyfriend Project #3) by Farrah Rochon
In the Shadow of a Queen by Heather B. Moore
Signal Moon by Kate Quinn
TITAN by Mado Nozaki
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick
Wolf (Sentinel Security #1) by Anna Hackett

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Any Witch Way (A Witch in Wolf Wood #3) by Lindsay Buroker
Charmed and Dangerous (A Witch in Wolf Wood #5) by Lindsay Buroker
Country Roads (The Relic Runner #3) by Ernest Dempsey
The Courier (The Relic Runner #1) by Ernest Dempsey (REVIEW!)
Heavy Lies the Crown (The Relic Runner #4) by Ernest Dempsey
Mind Over Magic (A Witch in Wolf Wood #1) by Lindsay Buroker
Moment of Tooth (A Witch in Wolf Wood #4) by Lindsay Buroker
Spell Hound (A Witch in Wolf Wood #2) by Lindsay Buroker
Two Nights In Mumbai (The Relic Runner #2) by Ernest Dempsey

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I had to go an look at the covers together before I could figure out anything to write about this week’s stack. Because seriously, this bunch couldn’t be more random if I’d tried. Which I didn’t.

The prettiest covers are The Terraformers and Violeta, although they aren’t pretty in remotely the same way. But still, temptingly pretty. The one I’m looking forward to the most is Untethered Sky, because Fonda Lee. Even though it’s not Jade City, I still can’t resist. If you’re surprised I’m not saying Encore in Death, that’s because as much as the In Death series are comfort reads for me, I do pretty much know what I’m going to get when I pick one up. If I didn’t, it wouldn’t be a comfort read. Fonda Lee, on the other hand, whatever I get will be both fascinating and unexpected.

For Review:
Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
The Boys by Katie Hafner
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Encore in Death (In Death #56) by J.D. Robb
The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
It Rides a Pale Horse by Andy Marino
Light on Bone (Georgia O’Keeffe Mystery #1) by Kathryn Lasky
A Matter of Happiness by Tori Whitaker
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Nona the Ninth (Locked Tomb #3) by Tamsyn Muir
The Return of the Duke (Once Upon a Dukedom #3) by Lorraine Heath
Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear #3) by Marcie R. Rendon
Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley
The Sleepless by Victor Manibo
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown

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The books I want to highlight in this stack are the two I bought, 1632 and 1633 by Eric Flint. I read them back when they came out in 2000 and absolutely loved them. The premise is just so damn much fun, that an entire town in West Virginia on the cusp of the 21st century gets transported across the Atlantic and back in time to the middle of what will eventually become Germany in the year 1632, which happens to be about the midpoint of the Thirty Years’ War. The transport mechanism isn’t dealt with seriously at all in the novel, because it’s not the point. The point is what happens next when 3,000 or so people with late 20th century ideas and attitudes get stuck in the 17th century. It’s about people mostly rising to the occasion and changing history and the ways that history changes are fascinating. Flint passed away last Sunday, so I decided to see if at least the beginning of the series I remembered so fondly still held up over 20 years later. The answer is that it does, it’s still thoughtful and it’s still an awful lot of fun. The author will be missed, but he thankfully left behind a HUGE body of work in this series alone, so I’m looking forward to comfort reads for a long time to come.

And if you’ve ever had a yen to read alternate history, or if you read this series way back when and also remember it fondly, it’s definitely worth picking up now, whether again or for the first time.

For Review:
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
Demon Dagger by Russell James
The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
Heartbreaker (Hell’s Belles #2) by Sarah MacLean
I Remember You by Brian Freeman
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1) by Moses Ose Utomi
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
The Red Palace by June Hur
Take My Husband by Ellen Meister
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
What She Found (Tracy Crosswhite #9) by Robert Dugoni

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
1632 (Ring of Fire #1) by Eric Flint (2nd ed.)
1633 (Ring of Fire #2) by Eric Flint & David Weber

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Several books in this stack are the latest entries in ongoing series, so they are the ones I’m most looking forward to. They are Haunted by the Past and What Song the Sirens Sang by Simon R. Green. I have to admit that Green’s snarkitude is an acquired taste, but it’s one I acquired so damn long ago that I’m not stopping now. Speaking of series I started a long time ago, Candace Robb’s Owen Archer series is one I picked up decades ago, thought was dead for a while, but am now terribly happy to see continuing with A Fox in the Fold. And last but not least, I picked up the third book in Stephen Spotswood’s Pentecost and Parker series (Secrets Typed in Blood) just this week. If you like period mysteries – and/or if you have fond memories of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series, Pentecost and Parker are a real treat that starts with their first outing, Fortune Favors the Dead. As that series is only three books in, there’s plenty of time to get caught up!

For Review:
After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Blitz (Rook Files #3) by Daniel O’Malley
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Dream On by Angie Hockman
A Fox in the Fold (Owen Archer #14) by Candace Robb
Haunted by the Past (Ishmael Jones #11) by Simon R. Green
Heart of the Sun Warrior (Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan
The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott
The Love Con by Seressia Glass
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Recruit by Alan Drew
Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker #3) by Stephen Spotswood
Too Soon the Night (Theodora Duology #2) by James Conroyd Martin
What Song the Sirens Sang (Gideon Sable #3) by Simon R. Green

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) by Becky Chambers (audio)
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers (audio)

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YAY! The lists are getting shorter. And YAY! The plague has left us! It’s been a damn long couple of weeks.

There are, as always, a few books in this list that I am REALLY looking forward to – not that I’m not looking forward to all of them to one degree or another. But especially Sweetwater and the Witch, because I adore the Castle/Krentz/Quick Harmony series in ALL it’s timeframes. And Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse because I love her work when I can catch the round tuit. This one looks fascinating and it’s blissfully short if you’ve meant to try her but have had problems with  your own supply of round tuits. Also Pulling the Wings Off Angels by K.J. Parker because I particularly enjoy the author’s line in snark.

And if you haven’t seen my Grade A Review of The Woman in the Library, that mystery was awesome both in text AND in audio!

For Review:
Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (audio)
The Book Woman’s Daughter (Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #2) by Kim Michele Richardson
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler
Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor (audio)
Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch #13) by Paul Doiron
The Immortality Thief (Kystrom Chronicles #1) by Taran Hunt
Keya Das’s Second Act by Sopan Deb
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays
Pulling the Wings Off Angels by K.J. Parker
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
The Sunbearer Trials (Sunbearer Duology #1) by Aiden Thomas
Sweetwater and the Witch (Harmony #16) by Jayne Castle
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (audio) (Grade A REVIEW!!!)

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This is being done ahead, because as you are reading this, I’m at the American Library Association Annual Conference, live and in person for the first time since COVID happened.

This particular stack is filled with a lot of familiar faces with new books. I’ve even already read a couple! Notably both Deploying Dragons (the followup to the fun Domesticating Dragons) Silver Queendom, and The Protector. I’m really looking forward to Ship Wrecked, the third book in Olivia Dade’s series after the utterly splendiferous Spoiler Alert and All the Feels. And a new Wayward Children book. This list is just full of win!

On a more somber note, I want to thank everyone who sent condolences last week on the loss of poor Freddie. I appreciated each and every message, and all of you as well.

For Review:
Crazy to Leave You by Marilyn Simon Rothstein
Deploying Dragons (Build-A-Dragon #2) by Dan Koboldt
Ex Appeal (Ponto Beach Reunion #2) by Cathy Yardley
External Forces (Marrowbone Spells #2) by Shannon Fay
House of Hunger (Bethel #2) by Alexis Henderson
Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
A Little Too Familiar by Lish McBride
Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children #8) by Seanan McGuire
Marmee by Sarah Miller
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges
Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai
The Protector (Norcross Security #9) by Anna Hackett
Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert #3) by Olivia Dade
Silver Queendom by Dan Koboldt
Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer
Terminal Peace (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #3) by Jim C. Hines
Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan #2) by Karen Odden

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen #2) by Aliette de Bodard
The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen #1) by Aliette de Bodard
The House of Sundering Flames (Dominion of the Fallen #3) by Aliette de Bodard
The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1) by Tasha Suri (audio)
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (audio)

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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” That’s just as true about staying in the emotional place where we are as it is about a physical location. I’ve always used reading as an escape, whether from the everyday, or into a time and/or place that no longer exists or that I am unlikely to live to see. All of that is to say why I pick up so many books and why they are such a comfort to me, even though I may not get to a particular book soon or even at all. All of which goes a bit towards explaining why my stacks are so tall and these posts can seem rather long.

I also read to put a bit of time and emotional distance between me and something that is just too hard to bear. Freddie went to the Rainbow Bridge on Wednesday after a month of increasingly puzzling visits to the vet and more than a few days where he seemed to be getting back to his old self. We’re both devastated and George keeps going to all of Freddie’s spots to see if he can find his buddy. He’s confused and heartbroken and frankly, so are we.

So I’ll be losing myself in a good book or two, or five, until the pain isn’t quite so sharp. With one or more cats in my lap at all times.

For Review:
Aphrodite and the Duke by J.J. McAvoy
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson Mystery #1) by Amanda Flower
Book of Knives by Lise Haines
A Broken Blade (Halfling Saga #1) by Melissa Blair
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
Ithaca by Claire North
Landslide (Mason Hackett #1) by Adam Sikes
Ledge (Glacian Trilogy #1) by Stacey McEwan
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay (Grade A REVIEW!!!)
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
Ocean’s Echo (Winter’s Orbit #2) by Everina Maxwell
A Quick Trip to Moab by Kevin T. Jones
A Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks
A Truth to Lie for (Elena Standish #4) by Anne Perry
The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris
The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Wrath by Sharon Moalem, Daniel Kraus
Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Black Box (Miranda Chase Origin Stories #4) by M.L. Buchman
Honor Flight (Miranda Chase Origin Stories #1) by M.L. Buchman
Island Christmas (Miranda Chase Origin Stories #2) by M.L. Buchman
A Very Jeremy Christmas (Miranda Chase Origin Stories #3) by M.L. Buchman

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OMG it’s my 500th Stacking the Shelves post! Goodness gracious this thing has been going for 10 years! Time flies when you’re have fun – or when you’re reading alot! My first STS post was on May 5, 2012 and it does look a bit different – but surprisingly not all that much! Although the stack was only about a third as high as this one. Clearly that whole “so many books, so little time” thing needs to be the tag line for this meme!

For Review:
Africa Risen: a New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renée Thomas,
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #3) by Mia P. Manansala
Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
The Color Storm by Damian Dibben
Daphne by Josh Malerman
The Decoy Girlfriend by Lillie Vale
The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman
Flight Risk (Booking Agents #2) by Cherie Priest
The Gatekeeper by James Byrne
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
The Ghost That Ate Us by Daniel Kraus
Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman (audio)
Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Longshadow (Regency Faerie Tales #3) by Olivia Atwater
Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (Dragons and Blades #2) by Aliette de Bodard
Our Gen by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The Picture Bride by Lee Geum-yi
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden (REVIEW!)
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras

Purchased from Amazon/Audible:
Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dragons and Blades #1) by Aliette de Bodard (REVIEW!)

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So many books, so little time, so tall the TBR pile. While this can’t all be laid at the virtual door of the “Overachievers’ Book Club”, a lot of it can. And the rest because they’re all just so shiny and picking up new books gives me joy.

For Review:
Across the Sand (Sand Chronicles #2) by Hugh Howey
Becoming Family (Dogwood County #3) by Elysia Whisler
The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London #2) by Mimi Matthews
A Death in Door County (Monster Hunter Mystery #1) by Annelise Ryan
A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family #4) by James Lee Burke
Extra Witchy (Fix-It Witches #3) by Ann Aguirre
The Island by Adrian McKinty
Lightning (Miranda Chase #10) by M.L. Buchman
Lucky Girl by Mary Rickert
Luda by Grant Morrison
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus , Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware
The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
The New Neighbor by Carter Wilson
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi
The Ones We Keep by Bobbie Jean Huff
The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy #6) by Ilona Andrews
Sand (Sand Chronicles #1) by Hugh Howey
The Second Cut by Louise Welsh
Shadow Flicker by Gregory Bastianelli
The Shadow People by Graham Masterton
Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham
The Shot by Sarah Sultoon
The Siren of Sussex (Belles of London #1) by Mimi Matthews
The Source by Sarah Sultoon

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I just downloaded my Hugo Voters Packet Friday afternoon. I’m not adding THAT pile to this one even though it will be part of my reading this summer. Because OMG this is already a lot. Howsomever, I will be reading a lot this weekend. I tweaked something awful in Pilates this afternoon and it hurts like blazes. And we’ll be watching Freddie like hawks to make sure he doesn’t relapse. He’s more than feisty enough to fight the meds at this point, so he seems fine. But better safe than sorry!

For Review:
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by André Lewis Carter
Beyond the Lavender Fields by Arlem Hawks
The Binding Room (Inspector Anjelica Henley #2) by Nadine Matheson
Cold Fear (Finn Thrillers #2) by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
Death Under the Perseids (Havana Mystery #3) by Teresa Dovalpage
The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Investigator (Letty Davenport #1) by John Sandford
Kaikeyi by Vashnavi Patel (audio)
Lark Ascending by Silas House
The Last of the Seven by Steven Hartov
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock
The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie by Rachel Linden
Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy
Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear #1) by Marcie R. Rendon
Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
Something in the Heir by Suzanne Enoch
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Vanessa Jared’s Got a Man by LaQuette
Would You Rather by Allison Ashley

Borrowed from the Library:
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis

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