Stacking the Shelves

Happy Saturday! I hope you are having a marvelous weekend. Mine is pretty good so far. I’m busy with all the last minute details that need to get done before a trip, but I am still finding time to read and getting my posts ready for when I am gone.

Not many books this week to talk about, which is a good thing. I needed to catch up on my physical book stack so I was happy to take a week off and not add many more. I have also been trying to cut down on my ARC requests, but I don’t seem to be doing a very good job of that.

Library books I have added to my bedside stack

I just couldn’t resist that title! I have been looking for books with puns in their titles and I came across The Crime Brulee Bake Off and it made me smile. I also really liked the sound of it, when I read the summary so thought I would give it a chance. It is a regency romance with a murder mystery centered around a baking contest.

ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account

Tor contacted me the other day and offered me an early ARC for A Fate So Cold and I of course jumped at the chance. This book doesn’t come out until November but I hope to get to it sooner. I might just be able to squeeze it in at the end of the month. I have lots of traveling time spent on airplanes and in airports so hopefully I can find time to read this one. This is the first book in a YA fantasy duology with an enemies to lovers romance.

I opened Netgalley the other day and saw Katabasis on my dashboard. I immediately jumped at the chance to read it and luckily it was from a publisher that I was already pre-approved for. I still haven’t read any other books by this author except for Babel which I loved, but this one just sounded too good to pass up. It is a chunky book coming in at 560 pages, so it might be the only ARC I read in July, but I think it will end up a favorite. It is a dark academia book where students have to travel to hell to retrieve their professor’s soul.

Audiobooks

Mask of the Deer Woman is the audiobook that showed up this week on my Libby app. I thought it was going to be a different book that showed up, but I’m good with this one too. I love that cover. This is a murder mystery thriller featuring a native american woman detective.

I will be on vacation next week, so will not be making my weekly trip to the library or scouring Netgalley for books. I will in all likelihood skip doing this post next week. But I will come up with something else wonderful instead. Until next time…

Happy Reading!