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.
It was another week! And honestly, it wasn't all that bad of a week either! I had not one, but TWO signings this week! Granted that meant little sleep for the next morning and I did somehow turn my alarm off in my sleep one morning...luckily, I still woke up in time to get ready and exercise, but yeah, that was a first! Lol. This week I met Kate Alice Marshall (again!)! Not sure how we got her on her release day but I was excited to see it her again because why not! Then later in the week Libba Bray returned to St. Louis! I didn't realize her last visit was in March of 2020 right before the pandemic. It might have been around the same time I was at the Marissa Meyer signing before the shutdown, as I last saw Libba when she came here for Lair of Dreams! Those pandemic signings could've been the same night, she did mention she was with Cassandra Clare, so that also may have been why I had to pass as I couldn't get into Cassie's books sadly, but better for my wallet since I see so many amazing editions of her books! Lol! I can only afford so many obsessions! I'm not out of signings until the 24th when Kristen Ciccarelli returns to St. Louis! So many returns this year, it's insane!! But I'll take it! Even have some March signings coming up! I booked one, but the other doesn't "require" bookings, it's a first come, first served kind of deal. Otherwise work was normal. Slow, as we are in the exceedingly down time, which is fine really. It's better than the frantic busy we can get during the peak times!
Anyway, here's what I got this week...and once again, I am writing this on Friday night as I might be busy again on Saturday! So who knows if I'll get anything in the mail Saturday, but I'll just include it in next week's haul if I do!
These are my second set of Maria V. Snyder's Study books from Fairy Loot! They ended up doing the second trilogy as well, so I had to buy them! I LOOOVE Maria's books and couldn't pass up on adding these to my collection! I didn't take all the detailed pics as my email apps have been acting funny with picture deliveries lately, so the rest can be surprises unless you saw the reveals when they were announced last year!
Then I also got my Fairy Loot edition of The House at Watch Hill! I really liked the cover of this one...still need to read it as well, but I thought I'd let myself have 1 pretty KMM book! If they do the Fever books I could be in trouble, but I might try to refrain from buying more! If anything I need to just get the 1st books of these series!
The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning--I remember now, THIS one was waiting for me when I came home late last Saturday night! So that was a fun surprise!
And although I missed the Rebecca Yarros signing last week because of an evil, evil, EVIL website, I did manage to snag one of the extra signed copies! THANKFULLY I saw the post 20 minutes after it went up and managed to get one before they disappeared within an hour!
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros--SIGNED! Tell me, will I scream at the end?? I'm worried the cliffhanger will be disastrous and then we have to wait until 2027 for the next one!
Then I bought a keeper copy of Kate Alice Marshall's latest book at the signing to replace my ARC:
A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall--SIGNED Keeper Copy! Plus stickers! The two deer are for A Killing Cold, the Who Survives skull is for her upcoming YA book, and I can't be sure of the skull with roses in the eyes, but it might just be a general one for her style. Unless I'm wrong! Please let me know if you're better at identifying quotes! I suck at that game! Lol.
I also picked up Libba's latest book at her signing as per my ticket entry fee:
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray--SIGNED! I also got a cute little notebook for being brave enough to ask a question! Lol!
Then for review from the publisher I got:
THANK YOU Minotaur Books!
And THEN I got my Pages of the Night DOTM for December! Plus a custom order I placed recently too! Sadly, travel was not kind or gentle to my package as two horses fell off, plus a rose, but I can easily glue them back on...once I buy a tube of glue as my old bottle apparently dried out. Oops.
They are still lovely though and I held up the horse as I could see how Britnee had intended for them to be placed on the rails. The details are all amazing and I am in love with it! Britnee had packed it with care, but since the items were so delicately glued on and travel is rough going across the states to the middle of nowhere (lol) I guess the truck hit too many potholes and they bounced off. Luckily, nothing was truly damaged and some proper glue will make it all well again!
This was Scarlett from Caraval and the Carousel of Roses! It was an EXTREMELY limited DOTM and I managed to get this one before it sold out! It's truly lovely and once I get that glue, I will take a better picture as I realize I cut off the top of the carousel in my pic as I was trying to hold onto the horse and get in close enough to see it all! Better picture to come! I promise! Lol.
And these were my custom order! I LOVED the Halloween designs Britnee did for the SJM dolls but I wanted Stephanie Garber ones instead! Lol. So I asked Britnee to make a Legend and Tella Halloween style and decided on a skelly face Legend (and he's really giving me My Chemical Romance vibes with this! All the heart eyes!!) and then Tella as a witch and there was basically a perfect Hocus Pocus Sarah that Britnee just Tella-ified for me with the blues and butterflies! Again, I'll have to do a zoom in picture later on--for all these picture retakes, make sure you follow my Instagram account as that's where I will post them!
And then I also won a gift card from Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know for the grand finale of the Series Enders Reading Challenge! I got a B&N gift card that I pretty much spent over the last few days with the preorder sale! It was perfect timing on that! It also came late last Saturday in my email, so yes, timing was PERFECT for that preorder sale!
THANK YOU Sandy!
And that was it for me this week! Not bad at all! What did you get this week?
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