Stacking the Shelves & #WeekReview 4/18/15

Oh wow, but you know I don't usually have this many BOUGHT books to show off, but our local Barnes & Noble is going out of business and so I felt obligated to use the additional 30% on top of my B&N Membership to buy a lot of copies of books that I had only borrowed from the library to read.

Thanks to Tynga's Review for hosting Stacking the Shelves:

BOUGHT:

Sarah J. Maas ~ Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight and The Assassin's Blade (the novellas combined into one book). These books are so good and I want to own them all, just in paperback because when I know my daughter and I will be rereading a series over and over; it's best to go with paperback.

The next book, The Winner's Curse makes the bought pile since I received The Winner's Crime as an ARC and chatted with the author during a Twitter Q&A. Marie Rutkoski definitely impressed me and also, I hate reading books out of order. It's kind of nice that the ARC is soft so I don't have to worry about a hardback here either.

Of course, from what I can tell so far, I will buying The Winner's Crime (#2) and The Winner's Kiss (#3) when they come out in paperback and bemoaning how long I have to wait for the third to be on my shelves. Oh well... I am learning to wait.

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain needs to be read and be on every female's shelf! This book I found at B&N and was ecstatic that it was the UK cover which I love. Also, I need to reread it before the film starring my favorite Irish actor, Colin Morgan releases in America - June 5th. (BTW... the film stars quite a few dashing European actors as well as the smart beauty, Alicia Vikander.)

So inspiring and amazing what this woman did to just show the rest of the world, how her generation was struggling and coming to terms with what was expected of them when entering adulthood.

Okay... so I added multiple copies of the 07-Ghost Manga because my daughter loves that series, not because I actually know a lot about it. Looks amazing though and usually my daughter and I like the same stories.

Also, omigosh... did you know that Clamp is finally reviving the characters from Legal Drug?! Yuhp! And we have the first Manga in the new series called Drug & Drop. How gorgeous is this cover, yeah?

And guess who is making a regular appearance in it. Watanuki from xxxholic. We are so excited and already pre-ordered the second Manga from Amazon.

Yeah... we knew nothing about this book, but the cover entranced my daughter and I. Plus black cats are our weakness. We LOVE black cats and ours, Berlioz, passed away last year so I think missing him plus how eerie this cover was made us feel we just had to have this book. So we bought it without even knowing anything about it. After reading the description though on Goodreads, The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter will fit right in with the rest of the stories we enjoy reading.

Oh and look at this book... yeah that's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli who is the sweetest person in the universe. You all need to read this book. I am so excited to have my copy of the book. Yay me... getting to promote a brand new author this week.

Then I added two non-fiction books to my shelves this week: The Skinnytaste Cookbook and The Unofficial Harry Potter Party book. Uhm... yeah... those aren't random at alllllll... :)

ARC COPIES:

The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver

Atlanta Burns by Chuck Wendig

The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski

The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

FINISHED COPIES for Review:

So excited about this novel! And Melissa de la Cruz is perfect to bring this prequel of the Disney Movie, the Descendants, to the world.

Also, on Fangirlish, I get to interview her and be a part of the blog tour. So make sure you head over there to get that scoop.

The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz

Elena Vanishing (A Memoir) by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle 

plus the companion novel ~ Hope and Other Luxuries by Clare B. Dunkle

SIGNED COPIES BOUGHT:

Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead... Woohoo!

THE WEEK IN REVIEW ~ 

"Waiting On" Wednesday - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Book Reviews - 

Half Wild by Sally Green

The Ruby Iyer Diaries by Laxmi Hariharan

Chats on Twitter - 

w/Leigh Bardugo

w/Laxmi Hariharan

w/C. S. Pacat

w/Heather Reid