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.
A slow week for adding books to my stack. I have only added three library books. One was waiting for me on the holds shelf when I arrived and then the other one I found on the new release table and the last is an audiobook. No ARCs this week which is actually a good thing. My fall ARCs list is getting quite full.
Library books I have added to my bedside stack
Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
It’s Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good – even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint store and playing with a band that’s going nowhere.
But when he gets a shot to join L.A.’s hottest up-and-coming band, Whyte Python, Rikki’s young life turns up to 11. Soon he has a hit single scorching up the charts, and the new love of his life in the audience. Rikki couldn’t ask for anything more.
But good fortune can be deceiving. With the Cold War breathing its last gasps and American music blasting through the Iron Curtain, a youth revolution is taking hold – and a hair band is unknowingly playing host to the final battle for the hearts and minds of the Eastern Bloc.
Rikki Thunder soon realizes there is a deeper web of influence propelling Whyte Python, and the stakes for his mission – to spread peace, love, and epic shredding across the globe – are far more dangerous than he could ever imagine.
I have never been into heavy metal music, but I have always enjoyed stories about bands and musicians being used as undercover agents or fighting supernatural beings. I thinks they would be the best cover for that kind of job. Bands get in everywhere and are usually able to meet important people as well. Heard some good things about this one so thought I would give it a try.
Vice And Virtue by Libby Klein
Layla Virtue, a blue-haired, thirtysomething recovering alcoholic and former cop is trying to reinvent herself in this hilarious and heartfelt mystery.
Layla is taking her new life one day at a time from the Lake Pinecrest Trailer Park she now calls home. Being alone is how she likes it. Simple. Uncomplicated. Although try telling that to the group of local ladies in relentless pursuit of her as their new BFF.
Meanwhile, after her first career ended in a literal explosion, Layla’s trying to eke out a living as a rock musician. It’s hard competing against garage bands who work for tacos and create their music on a computer while all she has is an electric guitar and leather-ish pants. But she isn’t in a position to turn down any gig—which is why she’s at an eight-year-old’s birthday party, watching as Chuckles the Clown takes a bow under the balloon animals. No one expects it will be his last…
I guess I was in a musical sort of mood when I was at the library as this cover caught my eye. I liked the sound of it when I read the summary and I read a couple of pages and found it quite amusing. Hopefully the rest of the book will be just as good as the opening.
ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account
No ARCs this week. I’ve been kind of avoiding looking at Netgalley lately as I keep seeing more books I want to add to my list, especially ones coming out in September. I still have an opening or two in October and November and my December is totally clear, so I thought I would give it a week or two before going back. It is almost time to start thinking about ARCs for next year, yikes!
Audiobooks
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.
I was on Goodreads the other day and noticed that banner on top that was about the top new releases according to their readers, so I thought I would give it a look. Many of the books were ones I had either already read, or were on my TBR but a few were new to me and caught my eye. This one especially sounded good to me. My hold came pretty quickly after that. Looking forward to starting this one after my current listen.
That is all of the book that I have added to my stack this week. They all sound pretty good to me and I am looking forward to starting them, hopefully soon. Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 