So Many Books, So Little Time

  Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by Tynga's Reviews .   I picked up a couple really good books this week!  I can't wait to get started on them!   For Review:   Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan by Robin Maxwell This is for a blog tour and was so good.  My review will be posted on Thursday and a guest post from the author will be up on Tuesday.   From the Library:   Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning     The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift   Won in a Giveaway:     The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman Many thanks to Melissa at Confessions of an Avid Reader !

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish .   This week's topic:  Top Ten Series I Haven't Finished    1.) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin -I loved A Game of Thrones and I can't wait to continue with the series, I just have a ton of other books to read first. 2.) Eve series by Anna Carey 3.) Delirium series by Lauren Oliver       I read both of these books around the same time and I feel bad for not continuing with either of these series but I didn't love them enough to feel like I HAVE to read the next book right now. 4.) The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare- I was very disappointed with book 4 and have heard mixed reviews of book 5.  I will read it eventually, I just am not ready to be disappointed again. 5.)Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire- I have read 3 of the 4 books and have checked out the 4th book twice from the library. I really want to read it but obviously not eno...

Because Les Miserables is so long, I have decided to read and write about it in chunks.  So far, I have read through page 300 and I am enjoying it.  Most of what I have read so far has been about Fantine and Jean Valjean and I have to say that I really like Jean Valjean as a character.  He was not a very nice person at first but as the story progessed, he completely redeemed himself. I don't know much about Victor Hugo but it seems to me as though this book is a social commentary.  Hugo includes his opinions on poverty, the legal system and society in general.  He talks a lot about how poverty affects people and the lengths they will go to in order to stay alive and feed their families.  He also discusses the injustice of the legal system and condemns the harsh punishments inflicted on the poor by the legal system.  He definitely has some strong opinions regarding the society at that time and I am eager to see what he else he has to say....

  Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by Tynga's Reviews .   I am trying to limit the number of library books I have waiting for me so I only picked up one book this week.   From the Library: (Click on picture for link to goodreads.com)   This book looks really good and I can't wait to read it!!   Did you get any good books this week?

From Goodreads:  England's Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for generations of English political prisoners. A Dangerous Inheritance weaves together the lives and fates of four of its youngest and most blameless: Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Jane's younger sister; Kate Plantagenet, an English princess who lived nearly a century before her; and Edward and Richard, the boy princes imprisoned by their ruthless uncle, Richard III, never to be heard from again. Across the years, these four young royals shared the same small rooms in their dark prison, as all four shared the unfortunate role of being perceived as threats to the reigning monarch. My Thoughts:  I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I really wanted to love this book.  Alison Weir is one of my favorite authors and I usually enjoy her books.  This time not so much.  It's not that I disliked this book, I just didn't connect with the story very well.  I...

From Goodreads:  Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and whose heirs would otherwise probably be ruling England today. Born into aristocracy, the Grey sisters were the great-granddaughters of Henry VII, grandnieces to Henry VIII, legitimate successors to the English throne, and rivals to Henry VIII’s daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Lady Jane, the eldest, was thrust center stage by greedy men and uncompromising religious politics when she briefly succeeded Henry’s son, the young Edward I. Dubbed “the Nine Days Queen” after her short, tragic reign from the Tower of London, Jane has over the centuries earned a special place in the affections of the English people as a “queen with a public heart.” Bu...

  Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews .   This week I picked up a couple of ebooks.  They all look pretty good and I am excited to read them.   Purchased ebooks:      Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati     Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith     The House at Riverton by Kate Morton   Have you read any of these?  What books did you pick up this week?