Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Recent TBR Additions

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and the Bookish is Recent TBR Additions.  It's always fun to look at just what I've added to the TBR lately.  Most of my recommendations come from other bloggers who are very dangerous when it comes to trying to keep a manageable reading list.  Of course, I've given up on that ages ago!  Unfortunately, I tend to not remember where I've come across a particular book reference so I can't give credit where credit is due.

1.  Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips - I really enjoyed the first Percy Jackson (I'm sure I'll enjoy the rest - I just haven't gotten there yet!) and this has a similar idea though it's for adults.  I love the idea of Greek Gods having to survive in a modern world.  This book has them living in a flat in London and having to get day jobs.  It sounds hilarious!

2.  13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison - I've been in a huge Middle Grade mood right now and this somewhat darker tale about a girl with second sight.  There's dark spooky woods and a manor house with a rather intimidating sounding grandmother.  I'm looking forward to this one!

3.  Christmas on Candy Cane Lane by Sheila Roberts - I love the title on this book!  This may win the award for best Christmas-y title.  I've read one book by Sheila Roberts and really enjoyed it but have been wanting to read more.  This may be the one I choose next.

4.  The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - This is one of those books that's been on my radar forever but for some reason I've never even thought about actually reading it.  I've been trying to read more classics and I think it's time I finally read this one.

5.  Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie - I love a good spy book and this one sounds especially interesting!

6.  Pressed to Death by Kirsten Weiss - I loved the first book in the series about a haunted museum so I'm really looking forward to this book!

7.  Spelling it Like It Is by Tori Spelling - I have no idea why I want to read this - I'm not a big Tori Spelling fan, I've never watched her show - but I really really do!  I

8.  A Lowcountry Christmas by Mary Alice Monroe - Monroe is an author I've been wanting to read for ages but haven't managed it yet.

9.  Stalking Ground by Margaret Mizushima - I love a good police procedural and this one about a K9 unit and there's a snowstorm!  It sounds like a good mystery.

10. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson - This is a book about a cholera epidemic in London in the 1850s and while not the cheeriest subject I heard about it on a podcast and it sounds fascinating!

What have you added to your TBR lately?

24 comments:

  1. There are some promising books here. I am not a fan of Tori Spelling as an actress either, but I am intrigued by her as a person. She is a survivor, and she is interesting as a mother. I have it on my TBR too.

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  2. I read Gods Behaving Badly way back when it first came out and it was really fun! Not something I needed to keep to reread, but something that I enjoyed.

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  3. I laughed when I saw the Tori Spelling book because I read her other two and they were actually not bad. I mean for a Tori Spelling book. Gods behaving Badly sounds pretty good. Great list!!

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  4. Interesting list! Funny everyone is talking Tori Spelling lately. Maybe because she's pregnant again, when her marriage was challenged by cheating in the past couple of years. Good for her for going from billionaire's daughter to mom of a brood and a difficult husband. Now I'm intrigued, on the human interest level.

    I would enjoy reading more mythology fiction books in the future. I'm not so much into MG, but on an adult level I'll take any and all suggestions.

    Thanks for sharing a fun list!

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  5. All of these are new to me titles - I'm especially intrigued by the last book you've shared... That one may go on my TBR!

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  6. I love how eclectic your list is! Mine was heavily weighted with mysteries, for some odd reason. I don't think I've been leaning toward them more than the other genres I read, but some ARC approvals came through, and I found out about forthcoming books from another source, all in the same month.

    Oh, and I've added Gods Behaving Badly to my Goodreads want-to-read list, on the strength of your recommendation here and the various reviews on GR. Plus I think I already have Christmas on Candy Cane Lane on my Kindle. (We probably picked it up in the same sale!) Have fun with all of these — I look forward to your reviews!

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  7. That title, Gods Behaving Badly. I love it. I read it, and thought, "oh so all the time, then." I'm glad you did like the first Percy Jackson book.

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  8. Christmas on Candy Cane Lane sounds awesome! I am so into the holiday reads this year!

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  9. Ooh ooh 13 treasures! I haven't seen any other bloggers review those (probably before I was blogging) but I liked how dark it was. I hope you enjoy!

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  10. I weird as this sounds the The Ghost Map sounds so interesting, I have a thing for disasters like that from long ago, I always find the so interesting. You got a lot of pretty awesome ones. Two Christmassy ones I need to check out :)

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  11. Gods Behaving Badly sounds fascinating as does The Ghost Map. Thanks for sharing these!

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  12. Turn Of the Screw! I have added a lot of Alice Hoffman to my tbr lately becayse of $1.99 ebook sales. I am happy I did because I am reading my ARC of Faithful right now and loving it. :)

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  13. I read A Lowcountry Christmas last week - loved it (my review will post next week).

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  14. I hope you get a chance to read all of these. I’ll have to check out the cholera book. That sounds like my kind of thing.

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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  15. What a diverse group of books! I haven't heard of a lot of these but The Ghost Map sounds interesting.

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  16. Highly recommend Lowcountry Christmas! I am a Mary Alice Monroe fan now!

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  17. I LOVE the idea of Gods Behaving Badly:). Thank you for sharing.

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  18. I also plan to read #4 one day. I'm actually also doing The Classics Club. Emma

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  19. yay! I'm looking forward to Pressed To Death too! My TTT

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  20. Tori Spelling, I am sure she has has quite the life!! Enjoy your new reads!

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  21. Gods Behaving Badly sounds like a blast. I loved The Ghost Map--the kind of nonfiction that makes me wonder why I don't read more of it!

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  22. Gods Behaving Badly is good! I read it when it first came out, and it was
    the first time I ever really made sense of the Greek Gods and who was who. Lots of fun!
    Her second book, The Table of Less Valued Knights was possibly even funnier.

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  23. I'm adding Gods Behaving Badly to my tbr right now!!

    Lauren @ Always Me

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  24. I'm with you on Gods Behaving Badly! The James is a good place to start with his writing - not so long as some!

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