Sunday Post #42 and Stacking the Shelves November 22nd, 2015

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme.

Last 3 weeks highlights:  Since I didn't do one of these for the last 3 weeks, I'm going to just do some highlight links here:

• Giveaways:  Children of Lightning by Annie K. Wong, Emerge by Melissa A. Craven
•  Author Interviews:  Convergence by Trudi L. Hayes, Diamonds are Forever by Michelle Madow
• Reviews:  Persuasion by Martina Boone, Miss Mayhem (audiobook) by Rachel Hawkins, Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins, Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young, This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp, Unforgiven by Lauren Kate, The Conspiracy of Us (audiobook) by Maggie Hall, Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward, End of Days by Susan Ee
• Cover Characteristic:  Dragons, Butterflies, Books
• Waiting on Wednesday:  The Calling by Rachelle Dekker, Relic by Gretchen McNeil

So I got more than 2 reviews a week, of course audiobooks are going on only when I'm in my car right now, so they count a little differently.  As I mentioned on the only other Sunday Post I've done this month, I started off doing a new NaNoWriMo.  However, about a week or so ago, when my writing partner kind of cancelled on me again, I realized I just wasn't feeling the story this year as much as I had last year.  I actually think maybe I want to just go back and work on the story from last year, get it all polished up. And then finish a story I started in NaNo several years ago.  After that, I'm not sure how much more writing I really want to do.  I'm kind of feeling like the name of one of my favorite blogs:  I Am a Reader, Not a Writer.  Writing really takes away from my reading time, and as I don't feel like I'm that good at it, why keep at it?  I know, I know, they say the more you write the better you will get, but I don't know that I care enough about writing to dedicate that kind of time to it, and take it away from reading, which I do care about, a lot.  Since the beginning of the month, my Kansas City Royals won the World Series!  It was so exciting and awesome!  Here is a picture of the rally they had in our city for them.  They said like 600,000 or more people showed up, and you can see it in this picture.

All the blue at the bottom of the picture and the roads around are people!  We love our Royals!  Writing was also taking me away from blogging, and I'm glad to get back to do more of that, and start commenting on other blogs again.

This week on the blog:

• Promo and Author Interview:  Molly Lee by Andrew Joyce
• Cover Characteristic:  Fish
• Waiting on Wednesday
• Book Blitz:  Awaken by Christy Sloat
• Possible Reviews:  The Curse of Jacob Tracy by Holly Messinger, Armada by Ernest Cline

Not sure what else I might get done reading this week.  And don't know if I'll actually get Armada done being listened to.  Maybe I'll TRY to make sure I actually go use my Planet Fitness membership to walk and get some listening done that way.  Not sure if I'm going to finish Jackaby.  While I like the story itself, it is really wordy, I find myself taking forever to get through just a page at a time, and it is not really very easy to read.  And at the moment, I may not be in the mood for a book like that.  I'm considering just taking the copy I won and donating it to my school library, where I'll be able to check it out when I am in the mood and have time to read it.  Of course the sequel to that one is an ARC, so I would have to maybe try to do a book for trade on Twitter or Goodreads for that.  I'm probably only give Jackaby one more chance.  If it doesn't get better, then I'm moving on to something else.  It's also Thanksgiving this week, so I will spend lots of time with family, including my sister who lives in NYC who will be flying home for the holiday.  I unfortunately got scheduled to work on Black Friday, an 8 hour shift at the bookstore where I work part time.  But, my one bright spot about that is that I don't have to close.  

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.  Now this is a lot in this list, but it is a 3 week haul remember.

Physical books:

The Beth Revis books are all ones I've read, but they are from a contest I won, and I got them all autographed, as well as a little sneak peek with 5 fun facts about her upcoming book A World Without You.  So excited for a new Beth Revis book!  There are a couple other wins, Ghost House, The Hanging Tree, and Monsterland.  There are a couple books for trade from Twitter:  The Dead House, Soundless, and Until the Beginning.  I got the ARC of Raging Sea by writing to the publisher and requesting it.  The ARC of The Haters is one I got at the bookstore where I work.  It is by the same person who wrote Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.  

E-galleys:

All of them are from Edelweiss.

Review e-copy from author:

 

I got an email asking to review these, and they sounded good, so I said I would give them a try.

Free e-books:

 So these are all from either Barnes and Noble or Amazon.  Don't know which might still be free, but you can always go check!

E-books won:

E-books bought:

 I had a little bit leftover on the Amazon gift cards I won a while back. I spent most of it on a case for my new iPhone 6s, and the rest I used for this novella while I'm waiting on the sequel to Red Queen, since I haven't been able to get my hands on an ARC of it.  :-(

Wow, that is a lot of books!  I might need to slow down a bit!  Or else I'm prepared for a nuclear war, and I just need a place to go live, like a missile silo that is all set up to live there until the radioactive air is clean enough to come out and live in.  Who's with me?