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 makes you remember a favorite book you need to finish. Enjoy your reading this week!
Purchase from Hourly History website: Free
Every Friday Hourly History sends me an email with books that are free or very cheap for that day. I have loaded up on these. They are becoming my favorite quick books to read between longer ones. I don't know much about this Scottish ruler so a quick overview will be great and then I can decide if I want to delve further with a longer history or historical fiction book about him. I have a few books by author N. Gemini Sasson that I might dig back into. She has written a series called The Bruce Trilogy about Robert the Bruce that look good.
Borrowed from Library: Free
I love Matt Lewis's books and podcast. He is so knowledgeable about the middle ages and especially the Wars of the Roses period. I never get bored listening to his show, Gone Medieval, on Apple Podcast. This book takes different instances of rebellion during the period of the Norman Conquest through the Wars of the Roses and adds his usual interesting spin on them. As a history buff I'm excited for this one!
Purchase on Kindle: $0.99 on sale
This author has written a series of books called, "Medieval Babes: Tales of Little Known Ladies." There are twelve in all, they are short, no more than on average, 250 pages but each one is about someone who is either a secondary person in the life of a more famous one or an overlooked queen, such as Eleanor of Provence. I love authors who write about these people because there is so much on the famous historical figures out there. It's nice to learn about someone entirely different sometimes.
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