Stacking the Shelves

I considered not doing this post this week, as I have only added three books since the last time I posted. I haven’t spent a lot of time on Netgalley lately looking for books, so I have two library books and one book that I purchased to talk about.

Zero Days is a book that I have been wanting to read since I first heard about it. It is a techno thriller with a female lead that is trying to figure out who killed her husband.

Pushed: Miners, A Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre is a nonfiction book I heard about through my local PBS station. It is written by a local author and it is about a massacre that happened in 1875 in Washington. It sounds really interesting and I love learning about local history.

I had no plans to purchase a copy of The Olympian Affair, as I had already read it, so of course the reading gods decided to intervene on the author’s behalf. Jim Butcher came to our local indie bookstore to give a talk on the book’s birthday, so of course I had to go. I invited my sister along because she is also a fan, and we had a really good time. Mr Butcher didn’t give any kind of speech, but only answered questions from the audience, and some of them were amazing. He gave a lot of insight into his writing process, told stories about cats and characters and was very funny as well. Money well spent in this case. If you have not yet read the Cinder Spires series, I highly recommend it. It is slightly steampunk, a little bit fantasy, amazing world building and has a cast of characters you will adore, even the villains. And for those of you who are Dresden fans, he did mention that he is working on the next book in the series and hopes the draft will be done by the end of the year. Hopefully that means we will have a book sometime late next year!

That is all the books for this week. Hopefully I can continue to catch up on my current stack of library books and get started on some of the ones that I own. Until next time….

Happy Reading!