Stacking the Shelves (7)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

This week on the Stacking the Shelves, I received a book I'd been waiting on since December 2012. An autographed ARC edition of Insomnia by J.R. Johansson. **note: I've already read it, it's friggen amazing and I'll be posting a review of it here soon!

I also received two Goodreads First Reads giveaway wins:

The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston **note: I'm currently reading this one. I'm thrilled that it's turning out to be amazingly good.

I also won/received an ARC edition of Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards ... good thing I was able to quickly procure a nicely matching ARC edition of book one in this series Black City by Elizabeth Richards **note: I will probably be reading these two next, so reviews to come soon.

I also ordered and received two other books that have been on my wishlist forever.

Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
and The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

needless to say, I can't wait to be able to read these!!

Oh! I can't forget the great titles I got for my ereaders this week!
on Kindle on PC:
Remembrance (Transcend Time #1) by Michelle Madow

for my Nook:
The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd
Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger
The Silence of Bonadventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
A Dangerous Game (Capital Girls #2.5) by Ella Monroe

~ Happy Reading!

Stacking the Shelves (6)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

I was contacted on Goodreads by Magical Scrivener, who is the publisher and wife of J.S. Morin, the author of Firehurler. I had been in a giveaway for that book but I hadn't won it, she saw I had marked it as a "Giveaway Really Want" and offered to send me a free, signed copy of the paperback!
I was super excited by this as it looked to be the sort of book I love to read, and had a great concept. I'd also noticed the author's influences include some of my favourite authors (Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams).

Lynne also won THREE Doctor Who books, from Crown Publishing Group through a giveaway on their Facebook page. The three books are,

Doctor Who: Plague of the Cybermen

Doctor Who: The Dalek Generation

Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow

I am a HUGE Doctor Who fan, I had tried (and failed) to win the same books several times in Goodreads Giveaways. So I was really happy to find out my wonderful wife had won them for me.

So a total of four books I originally thought I had missed out on - but ended up getting after all!

**Lynne edited to include:

Two great books I recently won from a blog giveaway hosted by Jessica at http://www.hopelessbibliophile.com/

The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison (review coming)
Notes From Ghost Town by Kate Ellison (review coming)

Thank you SO MUCH Jessica and Kate Ellison for the wonderful opportunity to read these books!

Also, two ARC copies won through Goodreads First Reads giveaways

Imposter by Susanne Winnacker (currently reading)
Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge

Stacking the Shelves (5)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

 We visited our favorite trading books bookstore this weekend and we each found a few bargain books that were on our to-buy lists.

I found a couple great crafting books (one old, one new/er) and two books (both are book #1's/firsts in their series') and I already have the following books in their series', so I *needed* these books :)

• Making Dolls by H. Wtizig and G.E. Kuhn (copyright (c) 1969)
• Fallen by Lauren Kate (I already have books #2 and 3 in this series)
• Firebirds - an anthology of original science fiction and fantasy edited by Sharyn November (I bought book #2 in these series in December)
• Complete Feltmaking (easy techniques and 25 great projects) by Gillian Harris

Richi found two great Terry Brooks books!

• Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
• The Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara #2) by Terry Brooks

And here's to me 'Being in the Right Place at the Right Time' (I follow both these authors on FaceBook and they offered on their pages to send out bookmarks). Yes Please and Yay!

I received 3 signed bookmarks from Megg Jensen, author of The Swarm Trilogy 

and

I also received a signed bookmark from Keary Taylor featuring her newest book The Bane (releases MArch 5, 2013)

I think these bookmarks are beautiful, and I'm hoping to find/buy/get their accompanying books to use them with soon :)

Thank you Ladies!!

~*~

Have a Great and Wonderful Week & Happy Reading!!

~*~

Stacking the Shelves (4)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

The last time I posted one of these was somewhere around mid-December and I've bought and/or received somewhere close to 40 awesome books since then!! So todays StS is more like STUFFING the Shelves to the gills...

Here are ALL the 2012 Christmas books (actual gifts received) and/or books that were purchased in December and therefore deemed part of Christmas. As well as books I've won during recent book blog hops and Goodreads First Reads giveaways.

•  In the Woods by Tana French (purchased - used)
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (purchased - used)
• Changeling by Delia Sherman (purchased - used)
• The Faerie Path by Allan Frewin Jones (purchased - used)
• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (purchased - used)
• Thirteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher (purchased - used)
• Wondrous Strange by Lesley Liningston (purchased - used)
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (purchased - used)
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (purchased - used)
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• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (purchased - used)
• The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (purchased - used)
• The Secret Underground by Natalie Bahm (new - Goodreads First Reads win) My 4-star Goodreads review
• Burn For Burn by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian (won during the Mid Winter's Eve Blog hop from Ashley at http://www.ashleylovesbooks.blogspot.com/) My 3-star Goodreads review
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (purchased - used)
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (purchased - used)
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (purchased - used)
• The Memory Palace by Mira Barton (purchased - used)
• Firebirds Rising - an anthology of original science fiction and fantasy edited by Sharyn November (purchased - used)
•  Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James (purchased - used)
• NOT SHOWN: A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz  (gift received Christmas 2012 - new) My 4-star Goodreads review
• NOT SHOWN: Massive by Julia Bell, Andrew Biscomb (purchased - used) My 3-star Goodreads review
• NOT SHOWN: I Am Half Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce #4) by Alan Bradley (purchased new) 4-stars - review to come

• Touching the Surface by Kimberly Sabatini (see more photos below) My 4-star Goodreads review
• Beta by Rachel Cohn (purchased - new)
• Crewel by Gennifer Albin (gift received Christmas 2012 - new) My 4-star Goodreads review
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (purchased - new)
• Flight Behavior by Babara Kingsolver (won from a contest from http://www.manoflabook.com/wp/)

• Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill (purchased - new) 4-stars review to come
• Wildwood by Colin Meloy (gift received Christmas 2012 - new)
• The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson (gift received Christmas 2012 - new)
• What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang (purchased - new)
• In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (gift received Christmas 2012 - new)
• NOT SHOWN: Wither by Lauren DeStefano (purchased - used)

  

Splintered by A.G. Howard (purchased - new) My 5-star Goodreads review

•  Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter (purchased - new) My 4-star Goodreads review

•  Defiance by C.J. Redwine and lots of great bookmarks! (ARC - won during the Book Lover’s Holiday Hop from http://www.confessionsofavi3tbabe.com/)

•  more awesome bookmarks!! (won during a blog hop, from Gabbie at http://www.rampant-readers.blogspot.com/)

•  Forgotten by Cat Patrick and bookmarks! (Finished copy - won during the 'Printed Books Giveaway Blog Hop' from http://www.spontaneousliteraryawareness.wordpress.com/)

•  Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens, signed and autographed by the author, plus swag!

• Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard, signed & autographed by the author, plus awesome swag, t-shirt with the tag line "Aim for the Knees" and bookmark (won - http://www.susandennard.com)

• Touching the Surface by Kimberly Sabatini, signed & autographed by the author, plus swag, signed bookmarks, and a origami crane (new - Goodreads First Reads win) My 4-star Goodreads review

To the seventeen people following us, I apologize for not keeping more on track with all incoming and reviewing - and for letting it all stack up (pun intended) ... it seems real life just rolls over blog time lately. 

I *do* generally still make time to read .... but not so much for the writing parts.

Thank you to EVERYONE who gave me books before, during and after the holidays. And Thanks to everyone I have won books from as well as for all the super duper bookmarks and other great swag. 

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

ps after spending a terribly long time writting this post and putting all the photos together with their titles, etc. I just went back and realized that some of the Christmas 2012 books that were purchased early in December actually *did* make it into a previous StS posted in December. Oopsie!!

Stacking the Shelves (3)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

We went over to Trading Books again this week to try and find a copy of The Hobbit (no luck) and I think it was the first time EVER that we spent less than $10 in there! LOL, we came out with 3 books for about $8.

• Thirteen R3asons Why a novel  by Jay Asher 
• Changeling by Delia Sherman 
• Dark Apprentice - Star Wars Volume 2 of the Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson (of which Richi already had books #1 and #3 on the shelf and he NEEDED this one to complete the trilogy, Yay!

** ^the two books of mine^ are considered part of my Christmas 2012

Richi won a book from Goodreads First Reads and it was wrapped up so sweetly by the author. Richi's birthday is on the 13th, so he considered this one as a 'sorta first gift' for his birthday. :D

 

The Gilded Mirror - Corfe Castle by Jocelyn Murray - Richi's Review

I received two books in the mail - wins from the Spooktacular Blog Hop at Halloween.

• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (won from Mary at Readers' District) I've heard so many reviews of this book/series, looking forward to seeing what all the hoopla is about. 
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (won from Heather at The Flyleaf Review) (I am SO SO SOOOO EXCITED about TGoFaT!!! I've wanted this book for EVER and now I just need to get through my obligated reads to be able to dive into this one) Thanks again Heather!

I also won a giveaway for a pretty Christmas Tree ornament.

It was from Fantasy Steampunk through Melissa Turner Lee who wrote The Earth Painter and The Man Painter and came with a handful of lovely postcards from Charleston, North Carolina which is where the story of the Painter series takes place.


Great week for us!


Happy Reading y'all :)
~ Lynne

Stacking the Shelves (2)

 

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

We did our 'Support Small Business' shopping yesterday (since I was too sick to do it over T-day weekend). So we visited our local Trading Book store, a local charity thrift store and the flea market as well. Richi and I both found a dozen or so great books each.  We also bought a bookshelf from the thrift store ... because seriously, who doesn't *always* need another bookshelf, right?

Here are my 'new' shelf goodies (by the way, these books are going to be considered as part of my Christmas 2012).

 The stack on the left are the ones from Trading Book store:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (am I the only female on the planet who has never read this classic?)
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• Firebirds Rising - an Sharyn November -  book #2 of an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories by multiple authors
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

The stack on the left are from the flea market:

• Massive by Julia Bell
• The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones (book #1 Faerie Path)
• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (book #1 The Infernal Devices)
• Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston (book #1 Wondrous Strange)
• One Thousand White Woman: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus - this one was recommended to me by one of my old-childhood friends, Doreen, she said it was incredibly good.

I also received a giveaway book through Goodreads First Reads program to read for review:
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield.

it's very textbook-y ... but looks quite interesting :)

As usual, I also managed to find lots of lovelies to feed my Nook with:


The 19 Dragons by SM Reine
Dead(ish) by Naomi Kramer
A Circle of Iron by Greg Benage (Eldernost: Book One)
Shadow of the Sun by Laura Kreitzer
The Soulkeepers (book one) by G.P. Ching
Falling by Amber Jaeger (Hemlock Bay #1)
Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Tales of Goldstone Wood #1) - this is supposed to be an amazing series!
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Spooks and Magic by Jack Sorenson (Alana Weatherbee #2)
The Medium by C.J. Archer
Sorrows Child by Georgina Anne Taylor (The Taint #1)
His Robot Girlfriend by Wesley Allison
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
Waking Up Married by Mira Lyn Kelly
Stolen Promise by Lisa Marie Wilkinson



~So those are my newest shelf editions. :)
Have you heard about or read any of these? what did you think?

Happy Reading!
~Lynne

Stacking the Shelves (1)

**Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga of Tynga's Reviews that spotlights the books we receive each week**

Have you ever "accidentally" ended up with more books than you'll read in a year? or more? Well, I've had one of those months. ;-) Not that I'm complaining.
A few weeks ago, Richi and I went to the local Trading Books store and I found an armful a really great, used books to bring home. Then www.Thriftbooks.com had a seasonal discount coupon so we ordered another dozen or so books (some I've been waiting months to show up on my available wishlist).

From Thriftbooks.com: 
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge (Iron Codex #1)
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1)
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver (thriftbooks.com)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez (thriftbooks.com) **I'd been waiting months for this particular version to show up!
Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor - The Looking Glass Wars #2)

From the local Trading Books store:
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Cemetary Girl by David Bell
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
FableHaven by Brandon Mull (book one)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
 
Around the same time, after a several month dry-spell, I won a few ARC/giveaway's from Goodreads first reads. First I won book #5 in a series I'd only read the first book of. So I promptly purchased books 2 and 3 - Currently reading book #2.

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley - Flavia De Luce #2 (thriftbooks.com)
A Red Herring with Mustard by Alan Bradley - Flavia De Luce #3 (thriftbooks.com)
**note that the matching bookmark shown was IN the purple book (I Love when bookmarks or other random markers are still in a used book or comes with a book)
((also I still need to buy the 4th book in this series - it's in my shopping cart at Amazon))
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley - Flavia De Luce #5 (Goodreads first read win) 

Capital Girls by Ella Monroe (Goodreads first read win)
Secrets and Lies by Ella Monroe  (included with the Capital Girls)

Glimmers by Barbara Brooke (Goodreads first read win) book is signed by the author - she also included a home made bookmark, business cards and kind thankyou note :)

Also, over the last two weeks I've won books, gift cards and swag from blog hops, flash contests on Facebook and random being in the right place at the right time. yay me :).

signed Bookmark for Keystone by Misty Provencher (won from blog hop)

That Time of the Month by Emily Shaffer (won from blog hop)

Book Tote and signed bookmarks for The Light Tamer Trilogy by Devyn Dawson (FB Flash Contest)

Rock of Ivanore by Laurisa White Reyes (FB Flash Contest - shown with a matching bookmark I won earlier in the year)  This book has been on Richi's 'to-read' list for the longest time, so I was really thrilled to have won this book for him :-) yay!

City of Women by David R. Gillham (RAOK from Goodreads friend)
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

I also downloaded ebooks for the Nook and Kindle cloud

Nook:
Project Ele by Rebecca Gober
Flutter by Melissa Andrea
Cornerstone by Misty Provencher
Tortured by Caragh M. O'Brien (a bridge story between Birthmarked and Prized)
Marked by Kim Richardson (Soul Guardians Book 1)
Grizelda by Margaret Taylor
The Ivy by Lauren Kunze with Rina Onur

Kindle Cloud Freebies:
Brightest Kind of Darkness by P.T. Michelle
GPS with Benefits by Vanessa Morgan
Grace Doll by Jennifer Laurens
The Earth Painter by Melissa Turner Lee (book one of the Painter Series)
The Light Tamer by Devyn Dawson (book one in the Light Tamer Trilogy)

So ... as you can see, I have been richly blessed in books this last month. Lots to be Thankful for and Loads of really awesome books that'll keep me busy for the next few months, at least  :D