Sunday Post #20 and Stacking the Shelves March 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.   I haven't done a Sunday Post in a while, but I was pretty good this past week and so don't have a lot to share for Stacking the Shelves, so I thought I'd share some upcoming events, as well as celebrate the amount of reading I got done this past week during my spring break.


Last week on the blog:

• Review:  Cipher by Cindi Madsen
•  Book Blitz:  Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode
• Waiting on Wednesday:  Return to the Dark House (Dark House #2) by Laurie Faria Stolarz
•  Review:  The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer
•  Clear Your Shelf Giveaway Hope  - Ends on Wednesday!!!
• Review:  The Revelation of Louisa May by Michaela MacColl
• Cover Characteristic:  Gardens

 Now that is three reviews for the week, but I actually finished 4 books, I'll just be reviewing the 4th one, We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach, tomorrow as part of a blog tour.  I only ended up doing the Cover Characteristic post because one of my goals for this year was to try to post every day on my blog.  And so I had to do something!  My other goal was to stay with at least 2 reviews a week, and I did that for sure with 3 this past week.

This week on the blog:

• A to Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal
• We All Looked Up Review and Official Book Playist
• Review:  Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
• Review:   Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little
• YA Spring Fling Giveaway Blitz??
• Maybe Cover Characteristic 

Getting ready for the A to Z Blogging Challenge in April, I'll be revealing the theme for my posts on Monday.  My review for We All Looked Up is also scheduled for Monday as I'm part of a tour and didn't really choose at the time.  I also have written on my calendar for the YA Spring Fling Giveaway Blitz and I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be doing for that yet.  So that'll be a surprise for me too!  I finished Belzhar Saturday night, so it will need to be reviewed Tuesday probably.  And I just started Forbidden this morning, so it will be a review later this week.  The theme for the cover characteristic meme this week is hair, so I may or may not mess with it.  

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.   I was pretty good this week in that I only got one physical book, and only 3 e-galleys.

I found another magazine that I felt I had to have, even though I have yet to have time to pick up the two I got last week.

I found this on our bargain table last week, a hardcover for $5.98, cheaper than even buying the mass market paperback, especially with my 30% employee discount.

E-galleys:

  I was so excited when I finally got approved for Daughter of Deep Silence, I love Carrie Ryan's zombie series.  I also am looking forward to reading the sequel to Feuds, and the last one just looks and sounds really good.  With Torn, I got to thinking about all the times I didn't get ARCs of sequels or other books in series that I'd read the first book.  So I think I might go search through Edelweiss and maybe Netgalley for the sequels to see if I can still find them.  At least books that I read the first one in the past year.  

What did you add to your bookshelves this past week? 

Stacking the Shelves - March 15th, 2015

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.  First I want to share some magazines I bought.  I was very sad when Leonard Nimoy passed away recently.  He had always reminded me of my grandfather.  Unfortunately there aren't any biographies that are available easily these days, at least not through the bookstore where I work.  But there were a few special edition magazines that came out this past week, so I picked up the two that I found while working Thursday night.

Physical Books Purchased:

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I love all things dachshund, and I actually already have a book about Picasso and his dachshund named Lump. But when I saw this one, I of course had to order it into the bookstore where I work and buy it right away. The 2nd one, well, have to get ready for the sequel to Dorothy Must Die!!

Won:

  I won this book from Once Upon a Twilight blog for their commenter giveaway.  Since I have just this one left in the series to read, I'm so glad to own it now!  And hey, this just shows it pays to comment on other blogs!

Stripped cover books:

I think I've mentioned how one of the "perks" of working at a bookstore is that paperbacks are often sent back to the publisher, but sometimes they only ask for the cover back, and then the store will throw away the rest of the book.  I know, I know, it is really horrible to see. But the booksellers can take a few of them now and then, and this one sounds good as I've become such a huge fan of fairy tale retellings.

Netgalley:

The first one is a prequel/novella to a book I've been looking forward to for a while. The 2nd one I'm hoping to be part of a book tour for, and again, another fairy tale retelling.

Free e-book:

From Amazon.  I picked their picture to show because I don't like the one that is on Goodreads.