A while back I decided that I wanted to take control of my TBR pile and really think long and hard before I submitted requests. I successfully limited what I wanted but now the mail has really slowed down on the publisher front. If it weren’t for trades trickling in I’d not have much of a haul this week at all. I miss the review books but I will say that my stress and my TBR pile is fairly tiny.
Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is a weekly meme where you show what books you’ve purchased, gotten from the library, received from giveaway, as gifts or for review.
Books
Trades
Red Rising, Rebel Belle, Legacy of Kings, An Ember in the Ashes (UK arc) and Angelfall (arc)
Gift
A History of Glitter and Blood
For Review (unsolicited)
The Glass Gauntlet
Purchased
Uprooted (UK version)
Posts from Last Week
- Review -The Eternal City
- Discussion– I struggle when rating/reviewing outside of my typical genre
- Blog Tour– From Sketch to Picture Book, A Guest Post with Jennifer Gray Olson, author of Ninja Bunny
Posts for Next Week
- Review for Uprooted
- Review for Rebel Mechanics
- Review for Tangled Webs
Awesome haul. I hope you will enjoy Legacy of Kings. That book sounds so very good. I hope you love all of your new books this week. Have a wonderful weekend.
Grace @ Books of Love
Thank you so much for Legacy! I can’t wait to read it 🙂 I hope it’s as good as we all hope it’ll be.
Very cool haul! I’m wondering about the UK Uprooted, is it paperback or hardcover? I know I need a copy of the book, but I cannot pick one of the covers if both are hardcovers!
UK Uprooted is Hardcover. It is very pretty. I love both covers…I think the US one might fit the story at tiny bit better? I don’t know. I had to own both.
OOh nice! I need to read An Ember in the Ashes still! I love the UK edition, so I need to read it to confirm that I love the book so I can buy the UK one! LOL! hope you enjoy all the new reads!
My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!
Have a GREAT day!
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I need to order the UK Ember finished copy for my collection. I hope you read and enjoy Ember 🙂
Gah, I really want Uprooted… tempted to bribe myself with a copy if I get my work done today!
Yesss! I hope you enjoy Uprooted when you read it.
I still haven’t decided which version of Uprooted I want to get. I’m in love with these colors and illustrations, but the other one is pretty too. Such a good book 🙂 Happy reading!
They both are really beautiful! I had to have both versions.
Such stunning books this week Kristen. <3 I hope you will end up loving all of them 😀 They look so gorgeous. Ugh, the UK ARC of An Ember in the Ashes is so beautiful! <3 I have yet to read the book.. as I fear I will hate it 🙁 But trying it soonish. Probably. I haven't been able to read in aaages 🙁 But yay for you not getting that many review copies, and having a smaller TBR list 🙂 Mine is just getting bigger, ugh. Though mostly eARCs. Well, only those right now. But so many.. and I don't feel like reading any of them :p Which is just the worst feeling there is. Sigh. But anyway. I hope you are having an amazing weekend sweetie. <3
Gooooddddddd it is SO painful seeing how beautiful the UK copy of Uprooted is. I need to go ahead and buy it but I REALLY SHOULD wait on it after all the money I’ve spent on books lately.
I can’t wait to read Glitter and Blood! I flipped through it and it has some crazy creepy artwork in there. I hope it’s awesome!
I need to buy a copy of Uprooted! I loved the story and now am going to have decide between cover versions.
Looks like a fun pile. How did you get into reviewing books from the publishers. I would love to learn more!
Because I review on this blog they send advanced copies for me to read. If you have a blog that’s the first step…then you can check into Edelweiss and Netflix for electronic advanced copies.
Good for you for paring back, if it was causing you stress. None of this should be stressful! Easier said than done, I know.
I loved Rebel Belle. The sequel, Miss Mayhem, was pretty good. I’m probably going to start Uprooted tonight.
I can’t wait to hear what you think of Uprooted. I really enjoyed it. I’ve heard wonderful things about Rebel Belle. At first the cover turned me off but I’ve heard so many good things…figure I’ll give it a go.
Oh, and is there a particular site you use for trading books/ARC’s?
It’s actually on Twitter… #booksfortrade I’ve had pretty great luck so far. You do need to watch out for fishy folks because there have been a few.
Red Rising, An Ember in the Ashes and Rebel Belle are all ones I have on my TBR and would love to get to eventually. I actually have Angelfall and intend to read it this summer. Looking forward to that! It’s good that you have been able to chop down on that TBR pile of yours.