Stacking the Shelves--The I-was-Left-Unsupervised Edition

 

Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks! The meme is now hosted by Reading Reality.

This week was another blur, but a good kind I suppose! My aunt was in town over the past weekend, so I hung out with family for the long run! And then I had a author signing on Monday night and got to meet Margaret Owen for the first time which was a lot of fun! Then it seems my Amazon orders decided to come in the same week as my B&N preorders and while I have to do some returns and exchanges with Amazon, my books in the order were at least in decent condition. One book has a bit of a scuff on the corner but it's otherwise fine and I don't feel like messing with an exchange. I know, weird, right? It's not super noticeable and since the book is a new to me one, I guess I am not super stubborn about its perfection. Again, super weird. What is happening to me? I guess I also don't feel like gambling that they won't send me a worse copy if I asked for an exchange for a small scuff mark. But have no doubts that if it was Stephanie's book they'd be sending me a new one...and that would only be because they had an exclusive edition! Lol.

I do eventually plan to share something I bought myself last week...? It's not a book but it's book related per se...like vaguely book related? But yeah, once I get the other items I am trying to acquire for it, then I will show you. This, as my title says, is what happens when I am left unsupervised...and given coupons! 

But anyway, here's what I got this week:

Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen--SIGNED! Plus an art print designed by Margaret and then this was the Vanja bucks that we got with our ticket to the event! Basically paid $10 in advance and got to use said $10 at the book table where I got Holy Terrors one day early! If only I had time to start it then! Lol.

The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton--it's FINALLY here!
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber--the new colored B&N edition paperback
A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber--the standard paperback with NEW color design!
The Hallow Hunt by Margie Fuston--still need to read the first book of this series but it was one I preordered during the sale, so there you go!
Beast by Jade Linwood--the same as the above! Lol. The series sounds really cool and with this being The Beauty & The Beast retelling version, I was pretty much sold!

Then books I ordered off Amazon, which ironically were not included in the sale they had to compete with Target but were better priced than B&N AND I still had a gift card from a previous contest win, I decided to throw in a few books along with the items that I had to return and exchange! Lol.

On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn--I saw this on Instagram somewhere awhile back and it sounded incredible, so when I was trying to get my cart up to free shipping I decided to add this baby!
Blood Beneath the Snow by Alexandra Kennington--I saw this one somewhere recently too and took a second look at it and it sounded awesome, so into the cart it went!
The Road of Bones by Demi Winters--my sister started telling me about this one, so you know the drill!

Then when out shopping with my family in Old St. Charles--a historical district in the area that I love going to that's home to Main Street Books--I found this at a shop that specializes in glass blown objects! They make most of the items there and even have classes where you can make your own piece--still need to do that one of these days--but this item I think was purchased elsewhere, but it's still handmade just not necessarily by the shop as I saw another sticker beneath their price tag. But it was so fun and I thought it would look great out at Halloween and with any of my spooky book pics!

It's a glass eyeball! Lol. I just thought it looked really cool! It has a white circular base with the red veins, then a blue iris and a perfectly placed pupil! I checked them all, this was the most perfect pupil and the best use of red veins in the eye! It was awesome! Lol. I was kind of surprised to see it out in April!

And that was it for me this week! What all did you get?