{"id":27900,"date":"2015-01-22T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27900"},"modified":"2015-01-22T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T23:29:17","slug":"my-tbr-stack-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/my-tbr-stack-today\/","title":{"rendered":"My TBR Stack Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the great things about being on holiday is having the time to catch up on your reading so lately I’ve been visiting all my favourite bricks’n’mortar bookstores, for the sheer delight of browsing amongst shelves of books that I can purchase and take home with me forever when I finally make a selection—which can be difficult. I’ve also been rediscovering the joy of second hand bookshops, where you can often pick up out of print titles.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d give you a sample of what’s made it home with me so far.<\/p>\n

You already know I’m reading and enjoying Jo Walton’s “Among Others”<\/a>, which I shall complete and post on shortly.<\/p>\n

Also on the stack are:<\/p>\n

\"Of<\/a>Isabel Allende: Of Love and Shadows<\/em> (Black Swan)<\/h4>\n

Because it’s been on my “want to read” list for years. So now I shall.<\/p>\n

\"Life<\/a>Kate Atkinson: Life After Life<\/em> (Doubleday)<\/h4>\n

After When Will There Be Good News<\/em> and Started Early, Took The Dog<\/em>, I am a Kate Atkinson fan. Also, the Costa Book Award 2013 , Good Reads Choice Award for Historical Fiction 2013, and The South Bank Show award for Literature 2014…Just sayin’…<\/p>\n

\"Doubt<\/a>Paolo Bacigalupi: The Doubt Factory\u00a0<\/em>(Little, Brown)<\/h4>\n

I am also a huge fan of Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl<\/em> and Shipbreaker<\/em> and with a title like The Doubt Factory<\/em> how could I pass this one by? I didn’t.<\/p>\n

*Supplied by the publisher, also my UK\/Aus\/NZ publisher, at my request.<\/em><\/pre>\n
\"Cry<\/a>Patricia Briggs: Cry Wolf<\/em> (Orbit)<\/h4>\n
Because everyone I know who is a fan of the Mercy Thompson novels, like me, has assured me that I will like this series (Alpha and Omega) just as much if not more. So I’ve started with the first-in-series.<\/p>\n
\"Storm<\/a>Jim Butcher: Storm Front<\/em> (RoC)<\/h4>\n
I have heard so much about these books I’ve decided it’s time to give them a go.<\/p>\n
\"River<\/a>Guy Gavriel Kay: River Of Stars<\/em> (HarperCollins)<\/h4>\n
“Because” Guy Gavriel Kay. That is all. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
.<\/span><\/p>\n
\"Ancillary<\/a>Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice<\/em> (Orbit)<\/h4>\n
As with Atkinson’s Life after Life<\/em>, when a book has caused such a stir among reviewers and on the awards’ circuit, especially in one’s own wider genre, it behooves one to find out for oneself what the buzz is all about…<\/p>\n
\"Ghostwritten\"<\/a>David Mitchell: Ghostwritten<\/em> (Sceptre)<\/h4>\n
I’ve seen Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas<\/em> widely praised and recommended, but the author avers that he is writing an uber-novel—so I thought I’d better start at the beginning, with the debut novel.<\/p>\n
\"Causal<\/a>Hannu Rajaniemi: The Causal Angel<\/em> (Gollancz)<\/h4>\n
This is the third and final novel (I believe) in the trilogy and I loved the first two books, The Quantum Thief <\/em>and The Fractal Prince<\/em>, so I am very keen to see how it all works out.<\/p>\n
*Supplied by the publisher, part of the same group as my UK\/Aus\/NZ \r\npublisher, at my request.<\/em><\/pre>\n
\"The<\/a>Donna Tartt: The Little Friend<\/em> (Bloomsbury)<\/h4>\n
Again, an author I have heard a great deal of, but never gotten around to reading, until now. Tartt is a Pulitzer Prize winner so I have high hopes—but then again, we all like different kinds of stories and storytelling, right, so there can be no guarantees.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Pretty much equal time for gender balance between authors as well. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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