Stacking the Shelves--The Dreadful, Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 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.

Well, there's no good news folks. Yup. I started my week with the dreadful, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad news: I didn't get the house of my dreams. The owner went with another offer. It was devastating to say the least. I had never felt so positive about anything in the longest of time. I truly, truly felt like I was getting this place. Everything was perfect. Yes, there were a few minor flaws, but they flaws I could live with. The good outweighed the bad, let's just say that. It's definitely no way to start a long work week. It was hard. Not gonna lie. Tears were had for the first day and a little into the next. I got back on Zillow to look some more, but naturally could not find anything that could hold a candle to what I had within my grasp. Seriously, the other places were dumpy looking or needed so much work or were in shady looking areas. I basically needed to get off Zillow for a day or two because it was just making me depressed. I'm just hoping it won't take me another 3 years to find something perfect like that. I've been looking for what feels like forever. Lol. I know 3 years isn't that long, but I was browsing for probably a year or two before that, before I really had anything saved up. So I'm back at square one.

In lighter news, tonight I am at least going to a book signing! Albeit it's in the shady part of town, but what can you do? Tonight I'll be seeing Elise Kova! I just started reading her new Arcana Academy series and liked it and her Dragon Cursed was intriguing as well. So it will hopefully be a fun night. It is sold out, so I'm hoping I am not out too late! Then towards the end of the week, I'll be attending the Forbidden Love event in Nashville! I'm excited to see Stephanie Garber (again!) plus a slew of other authors and lots of new to me ones. Sadly, I can't see Stephanie on tour this year as everywhere is just too far to drive and costs like $500 to fly there and then I have to add in Ubers and hotel stays, plus at least 1 meal, and we're looking closer to $1K+ for a 2-3 day getaway. I just can't manage that...even without having a house to pay for. So hopefully I can order a signed copy or two...$100 or so is more manageable. Not sure if that cost is accurate really, just thinking cost of hardcover or two...plus shipping! Lol. Sadly I likely won't get that special stamp on anything that Stephanie mentioned in her Stories. Sigh...so yeah...lots of bad news this week.

Well, anyway, here's what I got in the mail this week:

Habits of the Sea by Shea Ernshaw--this is my replacement copy since my original went MIA. I sometimes wonder where all my missing books end up. I partially consider that someone in that mailroom likes to read.
The Shattered Mirror by Dana Evyn--I was originally supposed to receive this book on July 9th. Then Amazon said, JK, you'll get July 15-19. It arrived on July 22.
A Forsaken Prophecy by Stacey McEwan--an impulse B&N preorder...all these deluxe first print run editions gives me the biggest FOMO--actual FOMO and not KOMO! Lol. So yeah...I still need to read the first book but I have the pretty second book at the ready!

Then I got my Fairy Loot book, kind of wish I could've gotten it last month but oh well. Still trying not to give spoilers if there are people who avoid them still. Not sure really if anyone does anymore. I know I follow people who guess accurately so I know if I want to skip or not. Of course with FL I'm more like "can I live with it?" This one I could. Cover wise it wasn't bad...I just felt meh about it in some sense. I like it better than the standard US one, so I guess that's something at least. Lol. I might like it better after I read the book...eventually. It's a duology, so it's automatically put somewhere in the possible 2027 queue! Lol.

And then I had a little bit of retail therapy after the dreadful news I got at the start of my week. I was at TJ Maxx and was browsing the Halloween stuff that they were slowly putting out. I then saw the tiny rack of blankets and I was telling myself as I walked by that I was good on blankets. No. More. Blankets.

So Fate clearly said you need one more blanket. Because yes, yes I did need a ghost reading a book blanket!

And that was all I got this week! Of course, I wrote this post a little earlier then usual, so I don't entirely know what was in Saturday's mail just yet. But if anything good shows up, it'll be in next week's post.

What all did you get this week?