Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature all about sharing your good luck in book acquisitions! So here’s what came my way.
I realized I have enough new books piled up, it was time to do another Stacking the Shelves post! I feel like I have so many books piling up that I really want to read right away, that I just don’t know where to start sometimes. 🙂
Digital Acquisitions – ARCs
The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett (Del Rey) – I may have had a few issues with Daylight War, but since I really enjoyed the first two, I am still looking forward to continuing this series. Quite excited to get a review copy and to see what’s in store for Arlen, Leesha and the rest.
Flex by Ferrett Steinmetz (Angry Robot)- Quite excited to see Angry Robot back! And this one sounds quite different and exciting (kind of what I am used to from Angry Robot). So excited to check it out! I mean, blurbs mention Breaking Bad and people are snorting magic! Many thanks to Angry Robot for the copy!
The Thorn of Dentonhill by Marshall Ryan Maresca (Penguin-Berkley/DAW) – This was a bit of an impulse request for me, but I am quite excited to give it a try. It has more romance than I typically read, but honestly, every now and then I quite enjoy it. Thanks to DAW for approving me!
The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs (Quirk) – I’ve been keeping my eye on Quirk ever since reading (and loving) Horrorstor. They put out wonderfully different books, and this one just caught my eye. Looking forward to checking it out!
Digital Acquisitions – Purchased
I acquired a few audiobook since my last post! 🙂
Dirty Magic by Jaye Wells (Audiobook) – I remembered reading a positive review for this by Mogsy at Bibliosanctum, and saw a deal on it, and went ahead and picked it up. I started listening to it on a whim this week and am enjoying it so far!
Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (Audiobook) – I loved reading The Liveship Traders last year, and since I still have The Rainwild Chronicles left to read, I went ahead and loaded up Dragon Keeper so I can start it whenever I feel the need to return to Hobb.
Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King (Audiobook)- This is on my must read at some point list. I saw it as part of Audible’s First in Series special and was happy to snap it up! Lynn from Lynn’s Books mentioned potentially doing a read along for this one, which would definitely be fun!
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks (eBook) – I honestly thought I would have read this by now, but, well, books. There always seem to be so many I want to read. I may end up getting the audiobook as well because I’ll likely get to it sooner that way. Either way, I’m anxious to see if I enjoy it as much as I did The Blinding Knife.
That will be great if you and Lynn read Gunslinger together. Personally I have never liked reading Stephen King be a use he can be so long winded but listening to his books is such a different experience. So I seriously enjoyed the entire dark tower series on audio! So I hope you enjoy it!
I still want to read Dirty Magic. I have Dragon Keeper on audio but I just reserved The first Farseer like you said on audio at the library. Hopefully the wait isn’t too long and guess what I found the two Lauren Beukes books I wanted to read the one you loved Broken Monsters and The Shining Girls!!
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I listened to Joyland and absolutely loved it! I have really enjoyed most King books I’ve read, but honestly, most of them were sooo long ago, I don’t even know if its relevant any more 🙂
Really hope you enjoy Farseer and the Lauren Beukes books!! All favorites of mine 🙂
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I have a desire to read the Gunslinger someday, even have the book on my shelf. But I keep rememering I have hated EVERYTHING I have tried of King so far. So.. Not sure.
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Did you read Joyland? I could see that one maybe appealing more to readers that didn’t enjoy much of his other work. But not real sure. Nothing will work for anyone, so just read something else if King’s not your thing. 🙂
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Tenaciously Stacking the Shelves – January 8, 2015
Everyone thinks I’m nuts because I didn’t like The Dark Tower, do I never felt the urge to continue with the series. But of course, I’m in the minority 😛
I’m still in the middle of Thorn of Dentonhill. It’s a good book, but I made the mistake of starting the Skull Throne and it stole my attention away for a week 😛
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Doesn’t sound nuts to me 🙂 Glad to hear Skull Throne sucked you in! 🙂 I’m looking forward to reading it (probably in a couple weeks after I’ve caught up a bit).
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Tenaciously Stacking the Shelves – January 8, 2015
I got Flex as well, I’m so happy that AR is back in the saddle! YAY! I’m a huge fan of The Dark Tower series, and boy a read along sounds like fun, but you would literally have to give up review commitments for a couple of months to get through all seven books.
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Yeah, I don’t know if I can commit myself to an entire series read along, but curious about the first and will decide from there.
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The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy looks like so much fun! Quirk has been doing some seriously good work lately. I’ll be interested to see what you think of Dirty Magic – I know you’re not the biggest UF reader and it’s had some pretty mixed reviews. I’m still on the fence as to whether I’ll read it or not!
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I actually enjoyed Dirty Magic, was a fun, light read (listen).
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EEek! the Dark Tower series is sounding very daunting isn’t it! No harm in picking up the Gunslinger and seeing whether we get bitten or not!
Lynn 😀
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Yep, I am going to approach it as a single book and see from there. 🙂
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