Saturday, May 13, 2023

Stacking the Shelves #244

 

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by Reading Reality. It is a chance to showcase all the goodies you've collected throughout the week, whether they're bought on-line or in-store, an ARC or a final copy, borrowed from a friend or the library, physical or digital, etc.

NetGalley ARCs

...but in my defense, Pen and Sword always has books that just call to me no matter what else I am reading. So it's not really my fault. Dropped my ratio down to 88% thought 😭

Prime First Reads


Library Treasures

Happy Reading
Sarah

19 comments:

  1. Clan Battles of course. I've never read The Naturals. That first one though has a good cover...

    Black Coral a trip.

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    1. I am so excited for CLan Battles! Have you read The Inheritance Games? I can't remember if we've talked about that series, but it is the same author. I think you will like the series a lot. There's four novels and a novella.

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    2. I have not read those! Will go look them up. Seems like I've heard of them but I don't think we've discussed...

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    3. I loved Inheritance Games and book four is supposed to come out this year. I think I like The Naturals as much, if not more. I am picking up book four in that series tomorrow. Then the novella is last, I think. Except, the series was originally published in 2013 BUT a new edition was available on NetGalley for book one recently. The cover was new but I don't know anything else about it.

      I also just read one of her stand alones, The Lost and Lovely. Am working on another stand alone, Every other Day, right now. Really decent reads, but I feel like a series is her strength, where she really gets to develop her characters. She also has a couple duologies that I have checked out from the library and will be getting to this week.

      My poor, beloved non-fiction is calling to me, but I have trying to play catch-up with my Goodreads Challenge, and YA is a good way to do that.

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    4. I don't know if you saw but Nicole Willson (Tidepools) has a new horror coming out.

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    5. I didn't know! I looked it up and I can't wait. It's not on NetGalley, and probably won't be since it will be published in June. I am out of purchase requests at the library for the month so I have to wait until June to request they buy it.

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  2. Congrats on the 88% Netgalley reading completion. I wish I were that close! The Last Flight sounds suspenseful.

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    1. Thank you! Before I went on this rampage, I was at 93%. I am kind of bummed it dragged me down so far, guess I better get reading!

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  3. BUT, it's been SO long since you got any Net Galley books, I think you are justified. And 88% is still awesome!! I hope you enjoy all of these. Have a wonderful weekend!

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    1. I definitely needed this, I was feeling kind of awful about my ratio! Bookworm problems, right? And you are right, it has been AGES since I have snagged a big haul like this.

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  4. A standard 5 from me this week.

    Fiction:

    Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
    Peril on the Royal Train by Edward Marston

    Non-Fiction:

    Berlin - Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century by Sinclair McKay
    Abyss - World on the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
    Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles, Britain and America by Jonathan Gould

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    1. Requested Berlin and Can't Buy Me Love from the library. You'e a menace :P

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  5. Wow! You sure got a lot of interesting history books! Great haul!

    Here’s my Stacking the Shelves

    Rabbit Ears Book Blog: WORLD’S WEIRDEST BOOK BLOG!

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  6. My post seems to have disappeared Unless I was dreaming/posted it in the wrong thread... [ponders]

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    1. Spam folder strikes again. It's getting worse. I had 87 spam comments in my folder, all from between 2016-2019 in the last couple weeks. Most are mine. Fucking Blogger.

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  7. I read Last Flight last year and quite enjoyed it. Happy Reading.
    Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys

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    1. I truly really liked it all the way through. But then after I finished it and thought about it for a while, I really disliked how she'd been saying her husband loved her in his own broken way, and it sounded too much like a justification for the abuse even if that's not what the author intended. Without those statements, without trying to conjur sympathy for him, the book would have been such a fantastic read for me!

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