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!


So my used bookstore was doing a buy 3 books get 1 free sale for national book lovers day. So naturally I went to see what I could find. Was not disappointed. I picked up these 3 books. James picked up 4 books and Ana found a book she was really interested in as well. I'm super excited though about the Leigh Bardugo! All I've been able to find anywhere lately is Ruin and Rising. Well that's great and all, but I kinda need books 1 and 2 first. LOL. I'm so excited to finally get a chance to read these!!! :D

GUYS!!! It's on sale for kindle so you can damn well bet I 1-clicked it! LOL. I'm SOOOOOO excited to read this!!! :D

So some great reviews went up this week! I also had an AMAZING reading week! I finished 5 books! On Sunday/Monday I finished Crown of Midnight! Much better pacing than ToG. Tuesday Night I finished Talon by Julie Kagawa! It was a bit slow, but interesting. Wednesday morning I finished Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. I thought it was a bit light for a Jack the Ripper novel but overall, a good read. Wednesday night I finished Rogue by Julie Kagawa. Definitely better paced than Talon and more to keep you engaged. And Thursday night I finished Soldier by Julie Kagawa! Overall I really enjoyed the story, just wasn't keen on the ending. I now have reviews scheduled through the next 2 weeks because of this!! :D I'M AHEAD!!!! AHHHHHH!!!  I also started Heir of Fire and A Study in Charlotte this week but haven't got too far in yet.

Ok, so I've been busy this week. First, I've decided I'll be making some changes to the Dystopia Reading Challenge for next year. Instead of doing the monthly link-ups, I think I'll be doing what Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl does for the Debut Author Challenge. A link up for the first half of the year, and then the second half. I feel like this would be better since the Dystopia Reading Challenge isn't as big as some of those other challenges out there. 

Second. Guys!! I finally went through all my NetGalley stuff. I sent in reviews I had done but didn't put on there yet, and I went back and sent feedback on older stuff that I'm not going to review anymore (saying as much). It was so freeing finally doing this. And guess what, after doing this, I got my review ratio from 50% to 68%. And I now have all the things I am still reviewing all on one page now! I feel like I've lifted a huge weight from my shoulders now! And I even updated my NetGalley profile for the first time in a while. So it's super accurate and better formatted. :D

So for those of you that have Instagram widgets on your blogs, what widget thing do you use? I'd love to put the blogs Instagram actually on the blog, but there's a bunch of different options for widgets. Also, anyone else participating in Bout of Books? What do you plan on reading? How many books? :)

In other news, we've been working on getting Ana to try more foods since she's incredibly stubborn. This week she's tried a bunch. Her favorites out of the week seem to be chicken, mashed potatoes, and bacon (she loved bacon). She's tolerating steak, eggs, carrots and broccoli. This upcoming week we're gonna try sausage, maybe some taco meat.


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