Stacking the Shelves

It has been a pretty quiet week, but with beautiful weather. I have spent the week doing work around the house and preparations for my trip next week. Mostly I had to get a new suitcase as my thirty year old one has finally started showing its age. My reading has been good this month. I have gotten all caught up on my library books. But my audiobooks have started to pile up again. It’s a good thing that I have been able to get through those fairly quickly. I also purchased two books this week, which is rather unusual for me.

Books I have added to my bedside stack

Best of All Worlds is the only library book I picked up this week. It is a YA science fiction from an author whose works I usually enjoy. It’s another trapped inside a dome story, but with a bit of a twist.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is of course the latest by V.E. Schwab. I preordered it, but then I read the ARC and unfortunately didn’t love it as much as I thought I would. But I still wanted a copy as I had watched her sign all of the books for the 1st printing on Instagram, so I just wanted to feel a part of that. Who knows? I may just reread this sometime and end up loving it!

I bought a copy of The Malevolent Seven because the next book in the series is coming out in August and I wanted to reread this one. And I also wanted to support the author. I don’t think his books are as popular here in the states as they are in other places, so just wanted to give his sales a boost. I also preordered the next book in the series. This is a fantasy about a misfit group of wizards saving the world.

ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account

A Curious Kind of Magic is the newest ARC that I have added to my stack. I first saw this in one of those Netgalley newsletters I think. I loved the cover and was intrigued by the title. I then read the blurb and was hooked. It also has some stunning reviews already, so I decided to give it a chance. It has that found family feel and it is a cozy fantasy. It comes out in November.

Audiobooks

The Summer I Ate the Rich will be my next audiobook. I just love that cover and title. This sounds like a really good read about zombies, Haitian culture and it takes a stab at rich people and their treatment of those that work for them. (pun intended 😉) Most of the reviews state that this isn’t really a horror novel, but other than that it was good. This is a full cast audiobook that I hope will be well done.

That is it for this week’s Stacking the Shelves. Don’t know if I will have anything to report next week, as I have no library books coming and I will probably miss my weekly visit anyways. There might be an ARC or an audiobook to report, we will just have to see. I look forward to finding out what you have been adding to your stacks. I always find a book or two to add to my growing TBR. Until next time…

Happy Reading!