Stacking the Shelves: The Surprisingly Odd Edition

 "Stacking the Shelves" is a weekly haul meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality. It allows book buyers to share their accumulation of books with the online book-loving community.

This week has been an odd one. Not bad, or at least, not all bad. It’s just been odd. First of all, I’m still sort of sicky. I’m mostly fine. I just have a runny nose in the mornings. However, randomly sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday, I managed to injure my back. Like my nose, it's also okay now, but it was strange that the injury happened at all. I also had an exterminator come to try and kill the mouse that’s living in my wall. (Still unsure if the mouse is dead or not.)

I actually had some surprise things happen this week that balanced out those awful things. Most of the surprises are book related. Okay, so all of the surprises are book related.

The Traitor Prince by C.J. Redwine

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope

I bought three books this week, and I was surprised by three others. The Traitor Prince is one I bought during my lunch break at Barnes & Noble, simply because I wanted to treat myself. As for the other two, Macmillan was having a free book giveaway for Black History Month. They let everyone grab an ARC and one finished book on a first-come, first-serve basis. I snagged these two. They sound pretty good.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice & Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
Sightwitch by Susan Dennard

These two books feature another bought book and a surprise book as well. The Gentleman’s Guide was a random purchase made on the same day as The Traitor Prince, only this time from Amazon, when I realized The Gentlamen’s Guide would soon have an award sticker on the cover. I love that authors and books get awards, but I hate when they put the sticker on the cover. I’m still bitter about not buying The Hate U Give before they put a sticker on that one. *sigh*

As for Sightwitch, I actually entered a raffle at work and won. It was a total surprise because I entered the raffle last week, so I thought I’d lost. They have these giveaway raffles once every few weeks or so, and this is my first time winning one.

 An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Oh! I almost forgot! I also nabbed a copy of An Ember in the Ashes on Kindle whenever it was $2.99. Because of the cover redesign, I figured I’d go ahead and read the book as an ebook before purchasing the entire series in the new covers. Now, if I don’t like the series, I don’t have to waste my money buying a $10 paperback or a $18 hardcover (if they rerelease the hardcover with the new cover).

Well, there you have it. My surprisingly large book haul.

What books have you bought/received lately?