The Time Will Come #10

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture. To join in, just post about a book you've been really meaning to read and then hop on over here and link up. I love looking at everyone else's TBR piles, so you can see a full list of the other participants over there too.

 I bought this about two years ago after re-discovering Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series (my review of Shopaholic Ties the Knot is here) and somebody told me this was quite similar. I'm not sure why I haven't read it yet; although I must have checked on LibraryThing about 37 times to make sure it is the first one in the series. 

I might pick it up tomorrow actually - I'm feeling a bit sick from the opening of a Krispy Kreme in Meadowhall so it's the perfect time to snuggle under the covers with some chick lit :)

The Time Will Come #9

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture. To join in, just post about a book you've been really meaning to read and then hop on over here and link up. I love looking at everyone else's TBR piles, so you can see a full list of the other participants over there too.

 I read The Scarlet Pimpernel back in March-ish of this year and adored it - it's easily one of the best books I've read all year. However, until I'd finished it, I had absolutely no idea that it was part of a series by Baroness Orczy that contains thirteen books. Thirteen! I was desperate to read the rest of the series, but after hunting high and low for the second one, I assumed they were all out of print and moved on to obsess over other books.

Not so. For some completely logical and fathomable reason, only the second book is out of print. Books three to thirteen? Not a problem. Available in any good bookstore near you. So why on earth would you choose a random book and take up a personal vendetta against it, deciding that that novel and that novel only would be unobtainable to the general public? Argh!

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (pictured) is actually the third book in the series and it's been on my TBR for a few months now. Various reviews have assured me that it's not necessary to have read the second book... but it's the principle of the thing, you know?

The Time Will Come #8

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture. To join in, just post about a book you've been really meaning to read and then hop on over here and link up. I love looking at everyone else's TBR piles, so you can see a full list of the other participants over there too.

 I'm almost positive I actually started this one. Well, vaguely positive. But then, why would I stop reading after just a few pages? I never do that. *is confused*

Anyway, regardless of whether or not I got distracted by a shiny object, this book is the beginning of a new series that follows on from The Magician's Guild books. I really do recommend those as they're possibly my favourite YA fantasy series. 

I do want to read it as it's really far down my TBR pile and I'm working on clearing it out (see last week's post). It's just that fact I may (or may not) have started it and put it down, and that kind of puts me off...

Sorry, I think I'm having a lunatic day.

The Time Will Come #8

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture. To join in, just post about a book you've been really meaning to read and then hop on over here and link up. I love looking at everyone else's TBR piles, so you can see a full list of the other participants over there too.

 I've actually been doing pretty at clearing my TBR pile recently. I've started getting rid of the one I know I'm never going to read (alright, I'm putting them on my ReaditSwapit page so that I get new books, but the thought is there...) and I've been reading from the bottom of my TBR pile. I know, I wouldn't believe it either, but the proof is in my reviews of Emma, Predator's Gold and Shopaholic Ties The Knot.  

Arranging them all on a shelf in order of when I got them has made me notice the older books a little more, so I'm getting through them. I'm oddly proud. I mean, don't get me wrong, I still have 90+ books on that shelf, but it's a start!

This one is about a fifth of the way in, so it's been there a while. I was really excited to read it too, but then it got shunted further and further down in favour of new purchases until I forgot about it completely. Hmm. This might be my next read actually...

The Time Will Come #7

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture.

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 When I first saw this a few months ago, I was deperate to own it. I'm not really sure why, because I can usually take it or leave it with YA, but it was the subject of a complete fixation. I scoured swapping websites, second-hand book stalls, everywhere, trying to find it as cheap as possible because I needed it, despite my poorness.

Eventually though, I came into some money and I ordered Forgotten as part of a huge Amazon haul. It came, I squeed... I never read.

To be fair though, it might be next as my current book is huge and long-winded (hence why I haven't posted a review in a while) and I could use a break afterwards :)

The Time Will Come #5

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Mercedes Lackey is my absolute favourite fantasy writer. She's more than gifted at beautiful descriptions, wonderful characters and unique plots, but for some reason I just haven't got round to Brightly Burning yet.

It might be because I prefer her Elemental Masters series (see my review of The Wizard of London here) but I still like the Valdemar books so it might be time to bump it up the TBR  a little!

The Time Will Come #4

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture.

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This is The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle, and it's been on my TBR for, ooh... over a year now. 

The dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood.

Lady Jane Grey is an icon of innocence abused. Remembered as the 'Nine Days Queen', she has been mythologized as a child-woman sacrificed to political expedience. But behind the legend lay a rebellious adolescent who became a leader, and no mere victim. Growing up in her shadow, Jane's sisters Katherine and Mary would have to tread carefully to survive.

The dramatic lives of the younger Grey sisters remain little known, but both women became heirs and rivals to the Tudor monarchs, Mary and Elizabeth I. To gain Queen Mary's trust, teenaged Katherine ignored Jane's final request not to change her religion, only to risk her life with a marriage that threatened Queen Elizabeth's throne.

While Katherine's friends fought to save her, the youngest Grey sister, Mary, stayed at court. Though too poor and plain to be significant, she looked set to escape the burden of her royal blood. But then she too fell in love and incurred the Queen's fury.

Exploding the many myths of Lady Jane's life, and casting fresh light onto Elizabeth's reign, acclaimed historian Leanda de Lisle brings the Grey sisters' tumultuous world to life: at a time when a royal marriage could gain you a kingdom, or cost you everything.

Well I'm not sure about 'untold story,' as I must own at least another five versions of the Lady Jane Grey tragedy. But hey, I like her and always felt more than a little sorry for her, so I keep on buying them.

One of my favourites is The Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir.

The Time Will Come #3

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture.

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 This is For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.


I've had this on my TBR for a while now, but my lack of masochism has stopped me from reading it so far. It's a look at the changing attitudes towards women through how they are told to live their lives and it's highly likely it's going to irritate me quite a lot.


I do want to read it soon-ish though - I love reading about the changing of social views.

The Time Will Come #2

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture.

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 This is Dry Store Room No.1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey.


It's been on my TBr since... ooh, last February? It takes a look at the secrets of London's Natural History museum, complete with strange artifacts, staff liason areas and interesting anecdotes.


I really do want to read this, but the fiction on my TBR always looks so much more appealing than the non-fiction, philistine though I may be.

The Time Will Come - 26th May 2011

This is a Thursday meme hosted by Jodie at Books For Company to shine a light on those books we've had on our TBR piles so long that they're practically part of the furniture.

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Right then. This week I'm choosing Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.Lawrence.

From Amazon - 'Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters.'

I know it's a strange book to be looking forward to reading, but I do like reading the classics and the story behind this one sounds a bit different.

Incidentally, I hate that cover. Is that really necessary?

I'm not sure why I haven't read it yet really. Other books just got in the way I guess. Thinking about it, I might bump it up.