Stacking the Shelves

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! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!

In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.

The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.

For awhile this week I wasn’t sure that I would have anything to report for this week’s post, but then the books just started showing up! Funny how that happens sometimes. It is just so hard to predict when your library holds will show up. But then I was also at the mall this week and decided to visit the bookstore and found a book for one of my challenges next month. But alas no new ARCs to report this week, which is actually a good thing. My list is rather long as it is.

Library books I have added to my bedside stack

Alibi was the hold that came in and I am pretty excited to read this one. It has a really interesting premise: Can you commit the perfect murder from another city? Well you can when there is teleportation! Should make for an interesting read.

One of the prompts for one of my challenges is to read a book with a pun as the title. I think For Whom the Book Tolls will do nicely for it. Although cozy mysteries don’t always work for me, this one has a pretty good rating on Goodreads and I read the first few pages which seemed fine. So hopefully this will be a good one.

Books I have purchased

I needed a book with books on the cover for my Buzzword Cover Challenge this month. The Lost Bookshop was on my TBR from back in 2023 when it came out, so no time like the present to getting it read. I have some traveling to do next month, so this one will be a good one to take with me as it is a smallish paperback.

Audiobooks

I have seen some really good reviews of Blood of Hercules recently and thought I would give it a chance. I also needed a book based on mythology for a challenge and this one will also work for that. It is somewhat long, 15 hours, but I have a project I’m currently working on that will give me lots of listening time!

Another middle grade novel, but The First State of Being recently won the Newbery medal so it was immediately pushed to the top of my must read list. I loved this author’s other books so I am sure this one will be just as engaging.

Well I thought this was going to be a slow week, but it certainly didn’t end up that way. But that is ok. I hope to get to all of these soon. I also am looking forward to seeing what others have added to their stacks. I always manage to find at least one book to add to my growing TBR. Until next time…