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. Happy reading y'all!
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Sceptred Isle by Helen Carr: A New History of the Fourteenth Century
Paperback purchase: $17 (not available in the U.S. on Kindle that I could find)
I am finishing up Carr's bestseller, The Red Prince, and it is so well written. I have been really interested in the Hundred Years War lately but I don't like books that are written about it because they tend to always get bogged down in military history. I think this new book of hers will give me a lot of insight into things without just focusing on battles. It covers the 1300's when the war was happening so I know it will also explain the why behind it all and that is what I really like to learn about with history topics.
Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet by Catherine Hanley
Hoopla Digital borrow: Free
This book has been highly recommended by people in the medieval podcast world. Hanley has written many books on subjects I'm interested in but her books are hard to borrow or buy with any sort of a discount here in the U.S. I was excited to see this one about the sister of Richard I free to borrow with my Hoopla account.
A Marriage of Fortune by Anne O'Brien
Kindle purchase: 99 cents this week
I started O'Brien's book about Cecily Neville but I'm still working on it. This one I probably won't get to any time soon but at 99 cents I jump on those deals! It is about the Paston family, whom I know nothing about, during the Wars of the Roses. The family tries to survive during this tumultuous time by making advantageous marriages and avoiding scandal. I like historical fiction that focuses on real people and not so much on fictitious characters.
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