As it's a norm for me lately. I intended to have a small TBR to allow me room to continue adding more books as the month goes by. But in the end, I have a big TBR.
First, we have a few carryovers from September:
The appeal by John Grisham
Published on January 29, 2008
Blurb: The stakes in the novel's plot are high: corporate crime on the largest scale. The duo of lawyers at the center of the narrative are Mary and Wes Grace, who succeed in a multimillion-dollar case against a chemical company, who have polluted a town with dumped toxic waste. A slew of agonizing deaths have followed this, but lawyers for the chemical company appeal, and a variety of legal shenanigans are employed -- and it is certainly not clear which way the scales of justice will be finally balanced.
Classics:
Middlemarch by George Elliot
This was published on 1872.
Blurb: A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot’s A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against this backdrop, the quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel’s complexly portrayed characters—until the arrival of two outsiders further disrupts the town’s equilibrium. Every bit as powerful and perceptive in our time as it was in the Victorian era, Middlemarch displays George Eliot’s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
Published 1948.
I really want to read this one but it has been on my TBR for a few months now. This is it! I will manage to get to it.
Blurb: Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.
For the a to Z challenge
Z for Zorro by Isabel Allende. With this, I will complete the whole challenge, so I really should put more effort into picking this up.
Series to continue:
The Sandman vol 3: Dream Country
The Sandman vol 4: Season of Mist
Heir of Uncertain Magic by Charlie N. Holmberg
Library books I got this ones out from the library on a whim and they are due on the 3rd so this need to be the first books I pick up.
The Reader by Traci Chee
This is a YA fantasy story.
Book blurb: Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin’s been taken, or if she’s even alive. The only clue to both her aunt’s disappearance and her father’s murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind, an object she comes to realize is a book—a marvelous item unheard of in her otherwise illiterate society. With the help of this book, and the aid of a mysterious stranger with dark secrets of his own, Sefia sets out to rescue her aunt and find out what really happened the day her father was killed—and punish the people responsible.
The second book in the trilogy is The Speaker.
Book blurb: Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Haunted by painful memories, Archer struggles to overcome the trauma of his past with the impressors, whose cruelty plagues him whenever he closes his eyes. But when Sefia and Archer happen upon a crew of impressors in the wilderness, Archer finally finds a way to combat his nightmares: by hunting impressors and freeing the boys they hold captive.
With Sefia’s help, Archer travels across the kingdom of Deliene rescuing boys while she continues to investigate the mysterious Book and secrets it contains. But the more battles they fight, the more fights Archer craves, until his thirst for violence threatens to transform him from the gentle boy Sefia knows to a grim warrior with a cruel destiny. As Sefia begins to unravel the threads that connect Archer’s fate to her parents’ betrayal of the Guard so long ago, she and Archer must figure out a way to subvert the Guard’s plans before they are ensnared in a war that will pit kingdom against kingdom, leaving their future and the safety of the entire world hanging in the balance.
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