Sunday Post #6 and Stacking the Shelves - May 4th, 2014

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 week on my blog:

• Review:  The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz
• A to Z April:  X is for Xtras
• A to Z April:  Y is for WhY not do a cover characteristic post?
• Review:  Renegade (Mila 2.0 #2) by Debra Driza
• A to Z April:  Z is for Zombies
• March/April 2014 Prequel and Sequel Challenge Wrap Up

Once again I met my goal of 2 reviews this week.  I finished my A to Z April Challenge this past week as well.  And I wrapped up my prequels and sequels that were read in the last two months.  I did take both Friday and Saturday off from blogging because I had done at least one blog post every day in April because of the challenge.  

This week on my blog:

• Review of Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Review of The One (Selection #3) by Kiera Cass
• Wishlist Wednesday
• Re-cap of Dark Days of Spring Tours event Thursday night
• Review of End Times by Anna Schumacher
• Stacking the Shelves

I should hopefully finish Beautiful Darkness today.  And I will be buying The One on Tuesday, and hoping to finish it before I get to see the author Thursday night.  I intend to do some unique Wishlist Wednesdays this month leading up to BEA.  I believe this week I'm going to do my wishlist of authors I hope to meet at BEA.  Then next week I'll probably do my wishlist of ARCs I hope to get at BEA, and the 3rd Wednesday of May I'll probably do a wishlist of the finished books I'm hoping to get at BEA.  The last Wednesday of May I'll be on a plane on my way to NYC for BEA, so don't know that I'll get anything blogged that day, but will hopefully get lots of reading done while I am traveling.  I'm really hoping to find out a way to meet up with a bunch of bloggers that I know are going.  The first time I went, 2 years ago, I did meet some, but it was kind of by chance, ending up in line by them. Which may be the way it happens again, oh well.  

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.  I actually am doing a 2 week post, as I didn't have much to share last week, plus was kind of busy on Sunday, so waited till today to post it all.

ARC received from publisher:

I requested this through a link in the Shelf Awareness email newsletter, and shortly after the package arrived from the publisher.

Won:

I received a physical copy of The Iron Queen by winning the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop at A Casual Reader's Blog stop.  I won an e-copy of The 5th Wave from Another World of Books' blogoversary giveaway.

E-galleys from Netgalley:

I keep trying not to request more e-galleys, but I had to have the 3rd book in the Dante Walker series, and the other one just sounded too good!

E-galley from Edelweiss:

I requested this one, even though I now found out that the author is supposed to be at BEA, so I may get an actual physical copy of the book there.

Free e-book downloads:

These are two that I found for free.  Now I think the first one I actually got the whole series in one book, but not sure.  

99 cent e-book download:

Normally I don't want to spend money on e- books if I can help it, but this one just sounded too cute to pass up for that price.

So, what are your plans for the upcoming week?  Will I maybe get to meet you at BEA?  What books did you add to your shelves this week?

Stacking the Shelves - July 7th, 2013

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.  It is a way for us to share the new books we have collected.  I got a pretty good stack this week I'd say.  And I didn't buy a single one of them!  So yay for that!
Traded for on YA Book Exchange:

Ever since I got to read the first one, The Selection, I've been eager to read on in the series.  So I was pleased to be able to trade for an ARC of The Elite.

Won in a contest:

Another book that I really enjoyed the first book in the series, Incarnate, and have been very eager to read the second one, Asunder.  I won a hard cover copy of this book from Michelle at The Escapist from her Blogoversary Giveaway.

ARC from bookstore where I work:

The Whole Enchilada, don't you just love that title?  I love these books, it is the one mystery series that I have fallen in love with and have to read them all.  Yeah, they may be kind of formulaic, aren't most mystery series?  But I love these characters, and it is fun to read the actual recipes for a lot of the food the main character Goldy makes.  Not that I'd ever cook anything that fancy though.  

E-galleys from Edelweiss:

The first e-galley is The Living by Matt de la Pena.  I enjoyed another book by this author, We Were Here, when I read it for The Gateway Award, and this one sounds really good!  The Eye of Minds is by James Dashner, and I loved his Maze Runner series, so I can't imagine that I won't enjoy this as well!  The third one, The Waking Dark, is by Robin Wasserman, who is the author of one of my favorite series, The Cold Awakening series.  And the final one is The Dark Between by Sonia Gensler.  This story just sounded really good, so I requested it.

E-galley from Netgalley:

This one sounded really good, and it wasn't until I just now added it to Goodreads that I realized this is a 0.5 in a series that I haven't read.  I guess it is fortunate that it is kind of a prequel in a way, so I won't be missing anything.  And, it'll probably determine if I want to read on in The Hitchiker Strain series by Kellie Sheridan.

Free from Amazon:

I finally gave in and downloaded the Kindle app for my new Nook.  Once I found it was easier to sometimes send my e-galleys straight from Netgalley to the Kindle app, compared to the newer, more difficult method of side-loading them to my new Nook HD, I went ahead and downloaded it.  So I guess that means I can now download the freebies from Amazon!  And I've heard a lot of people talking about this one, Ixeos, and now it will be there on my Nook ready to read whenever I want.

Whew! That was a few more than I was thinking when I started the post!  I guess I really did have a pretty good week.  How about you, what will you be stacking on your shelves this week?  And hey, have you read any that I have?  And what did you think?

200th Follower Giveaway! (A little late, but better late than never!)

I reached over 200 followers thanks to Parajunkee and Alison Can Read featuring me a couple weeks ago on their Feature and Follow Friday. But with being so busy back to teaching my darling middle school science students, I haven't had a chance to do this. And, also thanks to being so busy, I'm going to just do a plain old comment type entry. This week I'm planning to go see Scott Westerfeld when he comes to town. I plan to get his latest book in the Leviathan series, Goliath autographed by him and give it to the winner of this contest. So, if you are interested in winning this book, all you have to do really, is be a follower of my blog and then comment that you would like to win this autographed copy. On Wednesday at 3 pm CST, I will choose a winner from the comments by putting their names on a piece of paper and throwing it in a cup and pulling out a name. I will email that person and ask what name they would like to have it autographed to, as well as their mailing address. If I don't hear from the winner before I head down Thursday night, I will just get a generic autograph. I hope people are interested in getting this. Can't wait to see him myself!

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100 Most Popular YA Books - How Many Have You Read?

I saw this on the Bookish Brunette, as well as another blog a while back, and kept meaning to do it. The book I just finished isn't published till January, so I need to check with Netgalley to see if that publisher wants me to wait till closer to publishing time to review first.

The books:
• I've read will be in bold

1. Alex Finn – Beastly
2. Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
3. Ally Carter – Callagher Girls (1, 2, 3, 4)
4. Ally Condie – Matched
5. Alyson Noel – The Immortals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
6. Anastasia Hopcus – Shadow Hills
7. Angie Sage – Septimus Heap (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
8. Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (1, 2, 3, 4)
9. Anna Godbersen – Luxe (1, 2, 3, 4)
10. Anthony Horowitz – Alex Rider (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
11. Aprilynne Pike – Wings (1, 2, 3)
12. Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush, Hush (1, 2)
13. Brandon Mull – Fablehaven (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
14. Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
15. Cassandra Clare – The Mortal Instruments (1, 2, 3, 4)
16. Carrie Jones – Need (1, 2, 3)
17. Carrie Ryan – The Forest of Hands and Teeth (1, 2, 3, 4)
18. Christopher Paolini – Inheritance (1, 2, 3, 4)
19. Cinda Williams Chima – The Heir Chronicles (1, 2, 3)
20. Colleen Houck – Tigers Saga (1, 2)
21. Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (1, 2, 3)
22. Ellen Hopkins – Impulse
23. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
24. Faraaz Kazi – Truly, Madly, Deeply
25. Frank Beddor – The Looking Glass Wars (1, 2, 3)
26. Gabrielle Zevin – Elsewhere

27. Gail Carson Levine – Fairest

28. Holly Black – Tithe (1, 2, 3)

29. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

30. James Dashner – The Maze Runner (1, 2)
31. James Patterson – Maximum Ride (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
32. Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
33. Jeanne DuPrau – Books of Ember (1, 2, 3, 4)
34. Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
35. John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
36. John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
37. John Green – Looking for Alaska
38. John Green – Paper Towns
39. Jonathan Stroud – Bartimaeus (1, 2, 3, 4)
40. Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – Caster Chronicles (1, 2)
41. Kelley Armstrong – Darkest Powers (1, 2, 3)

42. Kristin Cashore – The Seven Kingdoms (1, 2)

43. Lauren Kate – Fallen (1, 2, 3)
44. Lemony Snicket – Series of Unfortunate Events (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
45. Libba Bray – Gemma Doyle (1, 2, 3)
46. Lisa McMann – Dream Catcher (1, 2, 3)
47. Louise Rennison – Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
48. M.T. Anderson – Feed
49. Maggie Stiefvater – The Wolves of Mercy Falls (1, 2, 3)
50. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Shadow Children (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

51. Maria V. Snyder – Study (1, 2, 3)

52. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
53. Markus Zusak – I am the Messenger
54. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
55. Mary Ting – Crossroads
56. Maureen Johnson – Little Blue Envelope (1, 2)
57. Meg Cabot – All-American Girl (1, 2)
58. Meg Cabot – The Mediator (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
59. Meg Cabot – The Princess Diaries (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
60. Meg Rosoff – How I live now
61. Megan McCafferty – Jessica Darling (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
62. Megan Whalen Turner – The Queen’s Thief (1, 2, 3, 4)

63. Melina Marchetta – On the Jellicoe Road

64. Melissa de la Cruz – Blue Bloods (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
65. Melissa Marr – Wicked Lovely (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
66. Michael Grant – Gone (1, 2, 3, 4)
67. Nancy Farmer – The House of the Scorpion
68. Neal Shusterman – Unwind
69. Neil Gaiman – Coraline

70. Neil Gaiman – Stardust

71. Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
72. P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – House of Night (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
73. Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials (1, 2, 3)
74. Rachel Caine – The Morganville Vampires (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

75. Rachel Cohn & David Levithan – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

76. Richelle Mead – Vampire Academy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
77. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
78. Rom LcO’Feer – Somewhere carnal over 40 winks
79. S.L. Naeole – Grace (1, 2, 3, 4)
80. Sabrina Bryan & Julia DeVillers – Princess of Gossip
81. Sarah Dessen – Along for the Ride
82. Sarah Dessen – Lock and Key
83. Sarah Dessen – The Truth about Forever
84. Sara Shepard – Pretty Little Liars (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
85. Scott Westerfeld – Leviathan (1, 2)
86. Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (1, 2, 3)
87. Shannon Hale – Books of a Thousand Days
88. Shannon Hale – Princess Academy
89. Shannon Hale – The Books of Bayern (1, 2, 3, 4)
90. Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
91. Simone Elkeles – Perfect Chemistry (1, 2, 3)
92. Stephanie Meyer – The Host

93. Stephanie Meyer – Twilight Saga (1, 2, 3, 4)
94. Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
95. Susan Beth Pfeffer – Last Survivors (1, 2, 3)
96. Suzanne Collins – Hunger Games (1, 2, 3)
97. Suzanne Collins – Underland Chronicles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
98. Terry Pratchett – Tiffany Aching (1, 2, 3, 4)
99. Tonya Hurley – Ghost Girl (1, 2, 3)
100. Wendelin Van Draanen – Flipped

Stay tuned for tomorrow's blog, as I am planning to give away an autographed copy of Scott Westerfeld's new book: Goliath, 3rd in the Leviathan series. And if I can get the contest closed by this Wednesday, then I will be able to get it personally addressed to the winner when I meet him Thursday night.

300 Follower Giveaway!

Not for me silly. But I found this on one of the blogs I follow and she has some GREAT books to give away, so I'm trying to get all the entries I can. One way to get some entries is to blog about the contest. So, it is sponsored by Lilly Bear at Book Lungs. If you are not a follower of hers already, go on and check her out. New followers can enter as well!