Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Reading Reality. It's a place to showcase any books I have purchased, borrowed, or been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of. Hope you find something that looks interesting to you or that jogs your memory of something you want to read. Enjoy your reading this week :)
I have become very interested in the lives of the rich and famous during the Gilded Age. The Vanderbilts, the Astors...they are just fascinating families. This story chronicles the rise and fall of a family trying to marry their daughters into the upper crust of New York society circa 1870's and how they find out things aren't always as golden as they seem.
This is the Amazon Prime Historical Fiction free read choice for July. It is about a woman escaping the Irish famine of the 1840's, a subject that always interests me. She goes to America and has to make hard choices to survive. Yes, it's been done many times, but I thought it looked worth giving a try. Just skimming through it so far it may be a little dark and gritty for me though.
This is one of my favorite cozy mystery series. I am a sucker for the colorful covers and the cute characters. The mysteries are always great fun to solve too. This is book 13 and I am only on book 7 so it will be awhile before I read this one. I can't help it...I'm going in order because they do build on one another with Ellie's love life especially. But this one was absolutely free this week! So of course I had to buy it.
Death on Deck does look interesting. I love shipboard mysteries.
ReplyDeleteMe too Harvee! I don't know why but any mystery set on a ship pulls me in immediately.
DeleteHave you read any of the Guilded Newport cozy mystery series by Alyssa Maxwell? The Vanderbilts are characters in the books and the setting for each of them is a different mansion of either the Vanderbilts or other wealthy families (the Astors are in the book 3 which I'm about to start). Newport has become a place I want to visit someday because of these books:) !! I will have to check out Our Kind of People.
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Oh my gosh Becky so funny you commented....I am reading Book Two right now! I reviewed Book One awhile back on my blog. I felt the vibe was a little modern but it has grown on me. And you are correct...it does give a great depiction of these gorgeous mansions. Visiting Newport would be amazing! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it has made me want to continue the series for sure :)
DeleteI keep seeing the Eleanor Swift series everywhere. I will have to give it a try at some point.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many cozy mysteries set during the 1920's it's hard to know where to start. But these are a little cleverer than some I've come across. Hope you enjoy them too!
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