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.
Happy Saturday! Even though it is June and almost summer, it has been feeling a bit more on the fall side these days. It has been cold and windy, although we did have one day earlier in the week were we were very hot! I wish the weather would make up it’s mind.
A pretty slow week, as far as adding books to the stack. I only added three, one of each kind that I usually pick up. All of these are ones that I am excited to read, although the ARC doesn’t come out until November, so it will be awhile before I get to it.
Library books I have added to my bedside stack
Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex and the City–the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City
When it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe’s debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office, naive country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Now a classic, and as page-turning as when it first came out, The Best of Everything portrays their lives and passions with intelligence, affection and prose as sharp as a paper cut.
The Best of Everything is not a book I would typically pick up, but I found it for a particular prompt on the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge. This is for the mini challenge for May (I’m running about a month behind on the mini challenges) and it was tough to find books to fit. Mostly because each book needed to be published in a different decade on top of finding one to fit the specific prompt. I needed a book about roommates and this one fit right in, plus it was published originally in 1958.
ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account
In many ways Richland, Ohio is the same tiny, sleepy rural village it has been for the last 150 The same families, the same farms, the same heartland beliefs and traditions that have sustained it for generations. But right now times are especially hard, as social and economic forces inside and outside the community roil the surface of the once-placid town.
Richland, in other words, is primed to explode… just not the way that anyone anywhere could ever have expected. And when things do explode, well, that’s when things start getting really weird.
Daniel Garvey left Richland decades back, to find his own way in the world. But when he is called back to his hometown to tie up some loose ends, he finds more going on than he bargained for, and is caught up in a sequence of events that will bring this tiny farm village to the attention of the entire world… and, perhaps, spell its doom.
Monsters of Ohio is the newest novel by a favorite author. I just love this author’s quirky urban science fiction stories. This one promises to be pretty quirky, I mean just look at that cover! Should be funny though. So looking forward to reading this one.
Audiobooks
Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
The Knight and the Moth is a book I meant to read last year but never got around to. And it is a good thing to, as now I can use it for one of my challenges. This fits right into the Buzzword Cover Challenge prompt for this month: A cover featuring wings. I’ve read and heard that some mixed things about this one, but I am hoping that it will be ok. The premiss sounds pretty good and I did enjoy this author’s other series, so hopefully this one will work out for me.
Well that is it for this week’s Stacking the Shelves. A light week, but that is ok as I still have a few books on my stack that I need to read asap as they are due back to the library soon. Looking forward to seeing what others have added to their stacks this week. Until next time…
Confessions of a Serial Reader 