May 26, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #101/Sunday Post #33

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!

• The Fates Divide (Carve The Mark #2) by Veronica Roth

I found this at my used bookstore and figured since I have Carve The Mark on my shelves, why not pick up the sequel so I can just read them both at once. 

Not book related, but we also found the Fallout Collectors Edition of Monopoly at the bookstore too (they sell more than just books). For those of you who don't know, the Fallout games are seriously my favorite video games. Thanks to the fiance for getting me into them. Lol. We were both pretty excited to find that while browsing! 

• Review: The Art of French Kissing by Brianna R. Shrum
• Bout of Books 22 Wrap-Up Post
• Cover Reveal: Undying by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
• New Releases: Week of May 22, 2018
• Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Character Names
• Review: Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad #1) by Scott Reintgen
• Cover Reveal: Ransacker (Berserker #2) by Emmy Laybourne
• Cover Reveal: Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury

Another busy week. And guys, I mean that in all seriousness. Not even just the posts. Let me list the other things I did this week for the blog in regards to GDPR.

• Spent 3 days writing a Privacy Policy to be GDPR compliant since I know a fair amount of my followers are from Europe
• Reinstalled my entire blog template because the stupid Pin It button that popped up on pictures was in HTTP format instead of HTTPS, therefore, making my site look unsecure. Pin It button is gone now, Share to Pinterest from the share buttons under each post if you want to now. 
• Erased my entire email subscription list through Feedburner (AKA if you sign up through email on the sidebar). This shouldn't affect any of you currently since the most recent sign up on that list was in 2015. So I definitely know if any of you sign up now your consenting to it. 

So now with that stuff taken care of, we can move on to other stuff! :)

This week was my wonderful sweet cats birthday. Brodie turned 6 on Monday. We got him some new toys for his birthday. He's a happy happy cat. 

Me and James had the misfortune of suffering from more headaches this week. We both ended up crippled by some headaches from Wednesday-Friday. His went away before mine did. Lucky. But they really took it out of us. They came from a mix of allergies and the heat. We always get more headaches in the summer no matter what we do. And this week we all have been sneezing up a storm. Its just been one of those weeks. 

We did however manage to find some time to get haircuts. According to the stylist (which also happened to be someone I went to school with) I took about 6 inches off. It feels great. I went from long hair that was making me feel really hot to short, shoulder length, much cooler and lighter hair. James made a drastic cut as well. He chopped off the shoulder length hair he grew out during the winter in favor of his short, cooler, summer style. He took off probably as much as me. But its over 100 here and its needed to keep cool. Especially him working outside delivering mail. 

*Both of these use Mister Linky widgets. I know the widget is supposed to have a checkmark now to confirm your consent but for some reason I can't see it on my blog. If you try to sign up for either of these and have the same problem and can't actually sign up, please let me know. The box shows up when I preview on the Blenza site but not on the blog. I'm trying to figure out why the box is invisible but all the wording is there.*

There's still plenty of time to sign up for the 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I'd love for you to join me!

There's also plenty of time to sign up for the June Read-Along of The Young Elites Trilogy! The sign-up will stay open throughout the whole read-along so you can join at any point. You can also join and only read certain books with me. If you only have the first book, join me for the first part, if you only need to read the last book, join for that. But lets get this series read! I'm super excited for it! Picture links to sign-up post! :)

• Review of Legendary (Caraval #2) by Stephanie Garber - Monday
• Review of An Ember In The Ashes (Ember Quartet #1) by Sabaa Tahir (as long as my headache stays away so I can get it read!)
• May Wrap-Up & June TBR