Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature all about sharing your good luck in book acquisitions! So here’s what came my way since my last post!
It’s only been a week since my last Stacking the Shelves, but it’s been an awesome week, so I wanted to share! 🙂
Received for Review
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi – I’ve been wanting to read something by Bacigalupi for a while, and this looks to be a great way to start! My thanks to Audible Studios for the review copy!
Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb – This book just made my weekend/week/month! I absolutely can’t wait to read it, but may wait until a just a bit closer to release. We’ll see if I have that much self control. A thousand thanks to Del Rey!
Giveaway Win
The Devil’s Only Friend by Dan Wells – I’ve not read Dan Wells before, but this book sounded incredibly good. I didn’t notice until afterwards that it’s marked as a 4th in series, but it sounds like maybe it can be read as a standalone. Anyone out there know? If so, I will look up the first book. 🙂 Many thanks to Ria at Bibliotropic and Tor for the giveaway!
Purchases
The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer (audiobook) – I bought this book as soon as I finished Whitefire Crossing. I have no idea why I put off reading it for so long, but decided to get the audiobook to help the process. I supported the kickstarter for the third book and want to make sure to catch up!
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander – OK, so I did buy this one for my ten year old. But, I am thinking I may give it a read myself as a good number of my Goodreads friends rated it quite highly.
Oooh, I really want to read The Water Knife as well. I just won a copy of The Windup Girl, and that will be my first Bacigalupi book. I haven’t read anything by Dan Wells yet but I do have a copy of Partials and I hear it’s really good. This one looks fantastic!
Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy recently posted…Over-Booked [26] – A Book Haul Post
Yeah, I love the sound of this Wells book. Hoping I won’t be setting it up for failure by reading it before the others. 🙂 I’ve had Wind-up Girl on my to read list for quite a while! Love the sound of that one as well.
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
Awesome stuff!
I still haven’t started my audiobook of The Water Knife – still trying to finish this one I’m listening to which is proving to be a struggle. I hope for both of us that TWK will be awesome 🙂
Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum recently posted…YA Weekend: Storm Siren by Mary Weber
Fingers crossed! I did listen to the first little bit, but put it to the side to get a book club one done (or at least started)
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
Fingers crossed, I really hope Fool’s Quest let’s the first book serve as prologue/set-up and just gets to the action. I love the original Fitz books so much, I don’t want to abandon this series.
Bob (@beauty_in_ruins) recently posted…From the Shelf to the Page: This Week in the Ruins
I really think it will be more in typical form. Fool’s Assassin was just such a different setting/atmosphere, but with the ending, I think it will fall back in line with the other books.
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
Great haul this month! I’ve been wanting to read The Shattered Sigil series too. Don’t think I’m going to get to it before the thirds book comes out though.
DJ (@MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape) recently posted…Backlist Burndown: Railsea by China Mieville
I enjoyed the first one, and have heard the second is even better 🙂
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
Yay, I’m glad that “The Devil’s Only Friend” arrived safely, and I hope you enjoy reading it! 😀
Also, I hope you adore “The Tainted City” as much as I did. I’m anxiously awaiting the third and final book, and the wait is damn near killing me!
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Yes!! Thank you for (and the gods of randomness that selected my name) for the giveaway! I’m really looking forward to Tainted City!
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
I’m intrigued by that Bacigalupi book! His name popped up a few times in one of my uni classes on eco-criticism in literature, actually. Ahhh Llloyd Alexander, such nostalgia! I loved those books growing up; they are so trope-y and fun, I can definitely see your kid (and you!) liking them.
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I am just hoping I don’t find it “too preachy”. There’s a line between a powerful message and beating the reader with that message. 🙂 But I am guessing I enjoy it.
Lisa (@TenaciousReader) recently posted…Review: The Fold by Peter Clines