March 03, 2018

Stacking The Shelves [#89]/Sunday Post [#21]

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!

• American Panda by Gloria Chao
• Everless (Everless #1) by Sara Holland
• Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad #1) by Scott Reintgen

So these were the books I bought from the 3 for $30 sale Barnes & Noble had. I'm so excited! Especially since American Panda and Everless just came out this year. Hardcovers for $10 bucks each! Score!!! I'm so so ready to read these!!! :D

• The Madness Underneath (Shades of London #2) by Maureen Johnson
• The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2) by Julie Kagawa
• The Forever Song (Blood of Eden #3) by Julie Kagawa
• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories #1) by Bernard Cornwell

The Madness Underneath is one of the other books James bought me that came in this week. And the other 3 I found at my used bookstore. 

• Ignite The Stars by Maura Milan

Thanks to NetGalley & Albert Whitman & Company! I'm definitely excited to read this! 

New Releases: Week of February 27, 2018

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Could Re-Read Forever

Can't-Wait Wednesday - The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

Book Blogger Hop: March 2nd-8th

March TBR & February Wrap-Up

So first up in bookish news. The title for Marissa Meyer's sequel to Renegades was revealed! It's.... Archenemies!!! I shared the video of Marissa making the announcement to the blogs FB page if you wanna go watch it! 

Also, I wanna give a shout out to all of you who have recently followed my blog and followed me on Twitter. I see you guys! And I really appreciate you guys!!! :D It really makes blogging worth while when you see new people following you cuz they like what you post! :) 

If you guys noticed, I changed my graphics some. While I liked the water, I decided I wanted something a little simpler to better show the wording. So I went with one of my alternate backgrounds for it and I like it. 

So off the blog. James suffered the misfortune I had 2 weeks ago. He got a really bad migraine Thursday and its finally subsiding today. Poor guy. He was in so much pain. He spent most of his time napping or cuddled up to me getting back-rubs since they helped him relax and make the pain dull some. 

Also, little Ana had an appointment with her doctor Thursday. She has an issue with her eyes. One tends to look in while the other looks out normally. We got a referral to an optometrist. Its looking like she might need glasses to fix the issue. We'll find out more on Tuesday after seeing the eye doctor. 

On the good side of things though, James talked to his supervisor about wanting to transfer from a mail carrier to a mail clerk. And boss man seems to be all for it. They are short clerks at his post office so I think his supervisor is extremely grateful someone from within wants to transfer into one of the open clerk positions rather than trying to hire brand new ones. So its not official yet (supervisor needs to talk to the postmaster), but his supervisor is working on it and in the meantime is scheduling him extra hours doing clerk stuff when he's not scheduled to be a carrier so he can get some experience before he's officially switched. This is such a great opportunity for him though. With the extra practice he's been getting he says he's already feeling less stressed doing clerk stuff rather than delivering mail and overall he'll get more hours. Right now being a sub mail carrier he only gets 8 hours guaranteed each week. Being a clerk he's already been told he'll end up working at least 30 hours. So this is also really gonna help our financial situation as well. 

Cupcake Explosion by Bethany Lopez

The Society by K.A. Linde

Give The Dark My Love by Beth Revis

As normal. There's still lots of time to sign up for the Dystopia Reading Challenge! I'd love to have you guys join! The March Link-Up will go up Monday, and the First Quarter Update will go up on the 15th of this month. I'll keep that open for a month as well so if you join late you still have plenty of time to link up. And if you do join, your totally allowed to use and link-up any dystopian books you've read since the beginning of the year. :) 

Also, in regards to the challenge. The winning book for next months read-along is.... Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard!!!

So if you wanna participate, make sure to get yourselves a copy before April 2nd (since the 1st is Easter and I'm sure people will be celebrating) if you don't have one!! I'll be posting more info and a link-up for those who plan to participate this upcoming week! So be on the look out for that! I'm excited guys! I haven't read Red Queen yet so I'll be getting to enjoy it for the first time during the read-along as well!!! :)

• Review of Just One Year (Just One Day #2) by Gayle Forman - I finished this the 1st but didn't have time to get my review up before this. 
• Review of SINdicate (The New Lyons Sequence #2) by J.T. Nicholas
• Review of American Panda by Gloria Chao
• 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge March Link-Up
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Read-Along Info & Sign-Up

A question for all of you. 

What types of things would you like to see on the blog? 

I've thought about doing discussions or blogging tips or seeing if there's fun activities that others would be interested in. Is there anything you'd like to see blogged about? Or if you have discussion ideas you'd love to see discussed, let me know! I wanna talk about things my followers are interested in seeing! :)