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.
Busy week here with lots of additions to my various stacks. I have picked up three books at the library, all of which I am excited about. I have also picked up two ARCs and one ALC on Netgalley all of which are books I really want to read. And finally, I actually bought a book this week. Let’s take a look at my hoard, shall we?
Library books I have added to my bedside stack
Jurassic Girl is a middle grade nonfiction book about Mary Anning. One of the 52 Book Club challenge prompts is to read a fiction book about a real person and then also read their biography. The Geomagician is a fictionalized story about Mary Anning, so I needed a biography about her. Unfortunately there don’t seem to be that many. There is a new adult biography about her that came out in January, and I have requested my library purchase it, so hopefully they will. But until then this one will have to do.
Hench was a book I just recently discovered thanks to Becky’s Book Blog. She wrote a wonderful review for the book, and it got me really excited to read it. I immediately put it on hold and it arrived this week. Really looking forward to reading this one.
Red Star Rebels is a book I have been excited about ever since the author announced it. It is a YA science fiction with an enemies to lovers romance. I love this author’s work so I’m pretty sure this will be fantastic.
ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account
Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, where family is everything and danger lurks around every corner.
Assassins Anonymous isn’t just a weekly recovery meeting for reformed killers—it’s also a family.
When Valencia receives troubling news that her brother has gone missing, she wants rush off to LA to find him. But she can’t bring her baby girl, Lucia. Enter the other members of Assassins Anonymous—Mark, Astrid, and Booker, who offer to watch the toddler while she’s gone. After all, they’re three of the deadliest, most highly skilled people on the planet; what could go wrong?
Turns out, a lot. Shortly after Valencia leaves, Mark is summoned to the lair of Zmeya, a Russian mob boss calling in a deadly favor—she wants him to kill Astrid, his protege and friend. Mark refuses, but Zmeya reveals that she knows the identity of Mark’s ex-girlfriend . . . and his son. Either Astrid goes, or they do.
Meanwhile, Lucia spikes a dangerously high fever, and when Booker and Astrid take her to urgent care, they realize too late, that their fabricated identities are a real liability. Also, they don’t know Valencia’s last name, let alone Lucia’s. They can hardly blame the staff for calling the NYPD.
Suddenly the splintered group is on the run from both the Russian mob and the police, dodging bad guys and do-gooders while trying to find refuge in a city full of surveillance cameras—all without killing anyone. That is, until Zmeya captures Sara and Bennett, and Mark is ready to throw his sobriety out the window.
Three Hitmen and a Baby is the third book in the Assassin’s Anonymous series. I loved the first two book in the series and I am so looking forward to reading this next book. This one comes out in June.
Four hundred years ago, three warriors were trapped inside enchanted swords, cursed to be immortal servants of whoever wielded the blade. One of them is the Dervish, a restless, fiery soul who hates his captivity and hates his wielders even more, but has never found a way to escape the sword’s magic.
Then one day, a disillusioned scholar named Learned Edmund is tasked with delivering the sword to a distant city, and, in the greatest of peril, draws the blade. The Dervish finds himself bound to a sweet, brilliant, and above all kind young man. And while he may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons, and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.
Daggerbound is the next book in the Swordheart series. I am so excited that I get to read this one, hopefully soon. It doesn’t come out until August, but I hope to squeeze it in on my ARC list sooner than that.
Audiobooks and ALCs
Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She’s lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years–longer than anyone else. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, few would suspect that Elsie has a past that she has worked exceedingly hard at concealing. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.
When a new little girl (talkative, curious, nosy) moves into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come crashing down as the secrets in Elsie’s past start coming to light. Who was “Mad Mabel” fifty years ago? Who is Elsie Fitzpatrick today? And if the past has a habit of repeating itself, who has the most to lose?
Told with Sally Hepworth’s twists, humor, charm, and heart, MAD MABEL is novel that weaves past and present together–through the power of justice and redemption, and all the way to its stunning conclusion.
Mad Mabel is another book I think I found through someone’s review. I had it on my TBR but then while perusing Netgalley the other day I saw that the ALC (Advanced Listener Copy) was available. So here we are. Another one that I am excited about and I should get to in early March. It comes out in April.
Books I Bought
Swordheart is a book that I have already read and loved. So when I saw it sitting on the shelf at my local used book store, I just had to take it home with me. Especially as it was a hardback with the pretty sprayed edges. So looking forward to rereading this one before picking up Daggerbound.
That is it for this week’s addition of Stacking the Shelves. These should keep me busy for awhile. Have you read any of these, or have them on your TBR? Let me know in the comments. Until next time…
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