November 10, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #125/Sunday Post #57

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!

• Escaping From Houdini (Stalking Jack The Ripper #3) by Kerri Maniscalco

I won this from the lovely Elley @ Elley The Book Otter! I won the grand prize for #ARCtober, which was a book of my choice. So since I started Hunting Prince Dracula, I thought Escaping From Houdini would be a good choice! Thank you soooooooo much Elley!!! :)

• Muse of Nightmares (Strange The Dreamer #2) by Laini Taylor

I also got a finished hardcover edition of Muse from Hachette & Little, Brown! I was not expecting this at all so it was definitely a surprise when it showed up. But I am so thrilled I got it since I haven't had a chance to go buy a copy yet with all the books that have been coming out. And the finished edition is just gorgeous!! Thank you sooo much Hachette & Little, Brown! 

• Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller

I am THRILLED I got approved for this on Netgalley!! Ever since I read Sky In The Deep this year, I've had my eyes all over Viking books and this is another one with Vikings! As soon as I heard about it I knew I'd be wanting to read it and you best believe as soon as I saw it available on Netgalley I was all over that request button. I'm seriously dying to get into this. Thank you so much Netgalley & Macmillan!! 

• Review: A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
• Review: Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols
• 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: November Link-Up
• Top Ten Tuesday: Backlist Books I Want To Read
• New Releases: Week of November 6, 2018
• Review: Two Dark Reigns (Three Dark Crowns #3) by Kendare Blake
• Review: Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg

So this week I read 4 books, all the ones that have been reviewed this week. I started with A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi. And OMG, guys, that book is just absolutely amazing. It is such a powerful read and is so relevant to things even today. I HIGHLY suggest reading it if you have not yet. Then I reread Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols, which I originally read in 2013 and was not having it. I 4 starred it then, but I 2 starred it now. I can definitely see a lot more of the issues with it now and I was so over them. Then I read Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake and it was a SOLID addition to the Three Dark Crowns series. Really enjoyed it and absolutely can't wait for the conclusion of the series after it. And I finished off this week with reading Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg. It was just middle of the line, 3 stars. It had some good parts, but then other parts were very high school. And I mean VERY. I don't have issues with high school dramaish books, but this just had WAY too much for my liking. And it wasn't even needed honestly. 

It's been an interesting week. So James ended up out delivering election ads his supervisors found in abundance in a contractors vehicle between 9PM & 11:30PM on election night. Yeah. That was a very interesting night for him. His supervisors were so relieved he came in though when they called. Cuz they would have had to deliver it all themselves instead of being able to split it with him. Also, lets just say that contractor is now going to be subject to an investigation by the Postal Inspectors. Yeah, not a great move on that guys part. And apparently the contractor was also stuffing tons of mail that should have been delivered into empty slots in the box units on his route to avoid delivering it. Lets just say, I'm pretty sure this guy will get fired after the investigation. He's clearly not doing his job. And after finding out all this stuff about this contractor from his supervisors, James is seriously sitting her like "how stupid do you have to be to do that??" Like we both are trying to figure out how this guy was thinking he'd get away with all that. 

So yeah. Elections week. I'm sure all of us in the US have been wound up because of it. I'm still wound up. I'm in AZ, and the senate race is still up in the air. The McSally/Sinema race still wont be called for a few more days because Pima and Maricopa county are still counting a lot of early ballots that were turned in at the polls. It's nerve-wracking. Guys, I'm going to admit I'm more of a Democrat and I'm highly hoping Sinema keeps her lead. We need change in AZ badly and we need her representing us. Here's hoping! Fun Fact: Kyrsten Sinema's mom was my high school English teacher both my Junior and Senior year. 

In some other fun news. We introduced Ana to watercolor paints this week and it is absolutely her new favorite thing. She wants to paint all the time! But it's so cute and she just loves it. We're gonna have to go out this weekend and get her some more coloring books. Our used bookstores have a ton of coloring books that are watercolor paint books. They have thicker, one sided pages. We had a Moana and a Thomas & Friends one but she's already gone through almost all of those. So we gotta get some more for her. 

• Review: Obsession (Arum #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Review: Hunting Prince Dracula (Stalking Jack The Ripper #2) by Kerri Maniscalco
• New Releases: Week of November 13, 2018
• Review: Monsters (Ashes #3) by Ilsa J. Bick
• Review: Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo

This is tentative for this week. I'm pretty positive about the first two reviews. Monsters however is a Monster of a book so it'll all depend on if I finally make my way through all of it.