August 04, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #111/Sunday Post #43

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!

• Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Obsidio (The Illuminae Files #3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

So this is what I was super excited for last week! I finally got Gemina and Obsidio!!! AHHHH. Both have already been read. More about that below. :)

• Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by Robin LaFevers
• Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs
• Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas

So I bought Throne of Glass first of all because I didn't have a physical copy of it yet. I have books #2-#5 in the series. So of course I want a physical copy. I bought Hollow City on a whim since I had just finished Miss Peregrine's literally right before heading to the bookstore. Used copy for like $5. Why not? And I bought Grave Mercy because I've been meaning to read it for ages, but just never got around to picking up a copy. 

• My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

So I was just browsing at the used book store when I found this. Fun fact, apparently someone decided to turn in their Owlcrate edition of this since the note and the Red Queen art apparently came with the My Lady Jane box a while back. I don't mind! I love finding gems like this! :)

• Review: American Panda by Gloria Chao
• Top Ten Tuesday: Popular Books That Lived Up To The Hype
• New Releases: Week of July 31, 2018
• Unknown Read-Along: Final Update
• Review: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1) by Ransom Riggs
• July Wrap-Up & August TBR
• Review: Isla and the Happily Ever After (Anna and the French Kiss #3) by Stephanie Perkins

So I had a full week of reviews! Next week is full as well! Woot. So this week I read Isla and the Happily Ever After. Really enjoyed it! Nice, fluffy, contemporary read! 5 Stars! I also read Gemina and Obsidio! Both of them also 5 stars! The reviews for them will go up the next two mondays. :) Guys, I'm not gonna lie. When you read my review of Obsidio its full of the feels. If you follow my Instagram, you'll have already seen the thing that really made me tear up. I'm now currently reading Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas!

So an update from last weekends news about James. The route that he might be able to get officially goes up for bid today (Saturday). So he'll be getting on and bidding as soon as he gets home from work. If all goes well, he can get that new route. However, there is another possibility. One of the full time carriers expressed interest in it also. So if that carrier bids, he'll get it and leave a different route open that James could get. The funny thing about it is that if the full time carrier does bid and get the new route, James could potentially end up getting the route he was trained on and subbed on up until earlier this year. We kinda actually hope that carrier does bid. Lol. James would love to end up on the route he's the best on. But he'll take any route he can get regardless. So here's hoping! The bidding will stay open for two weeks, so it'll take at least that long to find out if he wins his bid for a route. I'm so incredibly anxious for him. I really really hope he doesn't get screwed over like he did last year when a route went up for bid. 

Did you guys see the hashtag that blew up on Twitter this week? #bookishwish The hashtag is meant to be for people to post book wishlist's of books they might not be able to get right now for whatever reason, and someone else looking at the hashtag might grant their wish. I think this is such a great thing!  Go check it out if you haven't seen it! There's even specific tags for certain countries. So awesome to see the bookish community come together and do something like this!

I'm also doing fun stuff. I'm doing a Instagram challenge for the month of August. So you'll see at least one post everyday from me. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I've also been changing the featured slider at the top of the page each month. Each month I've been changing genres it features. The first month I started this (June) it did Dystopian. July I featured Fantasy. And August I'm featuring Sci-Fi. I think this is a great way for it to feature posts and reviews that may be a bit older along with new posts with that label. 

• Review: Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• New Releases: Week of August 7, 2018
• 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: August Link-Up
• Review: Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J. Maas
• Review: The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker