Stacking the Shelves--Two Week Haul 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.

Two week haul edition! I was MIA all last week as my stepsister was getting married and my parents were going down for a week to help prepare in whatever way they could and my stepdad wanted to pick up things from his old house. I tagged along so I wouldn't have to mess with traveling on my own on the weekend and worked from the hotel room for the majority of the days! The wedding was nice and we got to be in Alabama for a historical snow storm for the ages! We were in Mobile which is like maybe an hour away from the Gulf Shores, which we also visited just before we left. Normally they are a wee bit warmer in January than we would be in St. Louis but I guess the snow followed us down because on Tuesday there was a record snowfall of like 9 inches! I think the record before was like 6 in 1899 or something like that? It was insane! They don't have plows down there either, so the town and stores and everything, literally shutdown for 2 days at least! It was crazy! Then this week was back to normal. Nothing exciting. I guess my bookstore never got the Rebecca Yarros tickets back that were being resold on the different sites as I never got the call that a ticket was available. I was gutted that I was SO CLOSE to getting my ticket and then I got kicked of checkout because of a systematic error! It was DEVASTATING! I wanted the book for myself, not to resell like so many people do. I'm writing this post early as I will be MIA for the majority of tomorrow and not sure when I will get back to society, so I decided I better write this thing early. So yeah, that event is happening now (as I write this) and I am trying not to cry. I do have two other signings coming up this week though, so that will be fun...but still...crying right now.

Here's what I got these last two weeks:

Charm by Tracy Wolff--The Bookish Box Edition! I had ordered this set LAST January and due to printing delays, a shipping mishap, they have finally arrived! I was kind of eh, over the cover appearance, but since I had the first 3 books I figured might as well make it a set.
Cherish by Tracy Wolff--The Bookish Box Edition

Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco--FL edition, digitally SIGNED! I am LOVING this blue!

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros--I told myself NOT to buy the Target edition as well as my standard edition...you can see how well that worked out! Lol. I was out of town for the release but luckily this weekend I saw one nearby-ish Target said to have them. I had to get an employee's help as the books were still in back. So my advice is to check the store inventory online to see if they have them and if you don't see it on the shelf, ASK SOMEONE! I had a super friendly employee helping me, she was so sweet and kind!

Carving Shadows Into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer--B&N edition! I had hoped Brigid would come to St. Louis, but alas, she didn't so I didn't have this preordered. Luckily I passed a B&N on my way home from the Target I went to! Lol. And omg, ALL the copies of this were on the highest shelf in the YA section and it took me ages to find because I'm so short! Luckily a stepstool was nearby! I used to do a lot of climbing when I worked in the grocery store bakery department when I was grabbing boxes from the freezer, so I am experienced in this area!

These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban--this was one I preordered that I believe I found throw CWW day! Lol. It's got the supernatural thriller vibe going so I was all over that!
Ignite by Kaitlyn Davis--this was a kindle freebie that I got from one of the bookish deals newsletters that I signed up for. Oddly, this isn't the cover I got when I downloaded it. It sounded intriguing when I read the cover back and since the first book was free I thought, why not? Now I just need to remember that I have it on my kindle. Lol.

Then I finally, got my preorder goodies from Amy Goldsmith for Our Wicked Histories! I had thought maybe I misunderstood and that the preorder campaign wasn't eligible to US people as her book came out in July of last year. And I know she's in the UK, so I thought maybe around September-October that it wasn't for US citizens and thought that's okay! But then it was in the mail this week and I was SOOO excited!!

There was a SIGNED bookplate
sitckers
bookmarks
postcards!

THANK YOU Amy!!