This week has been a bit crazy. Not quite as much as last week, but there were a few things happening that aren't normal routine activities for me. One thing I've started on is pulling out all my bookshelves to dust and vacuum behind them. I'm currently doing one in my living room, and I have like three more to go. Yuck. But, two of them shouldn't be too bad. They're small.
As for books I got this week, I have the Aurora Crate versions of Stacia Stark's Dance with the Demon and Inner Demons. I bought book one a while back, so I wanted to get the matching sequels. I just finished Stacia's Kingdom of Lies series, and it was really good, so I'm glad I bought these to give her other series a try. The order came with some art prints, a signed bookplate, and a couple of bookmarks too.
Up next, I have something that cost me a lot of money, but I guess it makes sense that it did, considering these books retailed for like $35-40 each originally anyway. I traded a book for the FairyLoot editions of Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment duology. The person I traded with bought one book from Mercari and is sending me the other soon. I had canceled my YA subscription right before this book was in it, and now that Wild Reverence is coming out and FairyLoot's edition matches it, plus, knowing how much I enjoyed Rebecca's Elements of Cadence duology, I just needed to get my hands on these. That being said, this was the first UK trade I did where I had to ship something overseas, and boy oh boy, I will not be doing that again. That was just painful. $78 to ship a paperback book is insane! I, unfortunately, have one more book I'm getting personally shipped to me from the UK, so it's likely this will be expensive as well, but after that, no more. Never, ever again! That was nuts.
I traveled to Illinois last weekend and stopped by Barnes & Noble on the way to return a book, and also to take advantage of their buy-one-get-one-50%-off romance paperback sale. I was originally looking for The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, as the movie news was released, and I thought it was time for me to read it. My half-off book was Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell, which I've heard great things about. I also got a free green tote bag that I forgot to take a photo of. Oh well. I'm too lazy to do it now. And Looking for Group by Alexis Hall was from a B&N online order. It looks cute.
And lastly, I have another lonely ebook. It's Destroy the Day by Brigid Kemmerer. It's actually a Libby copy. Can you believe it? I haven't read a Libby book in a very long time. I need to really get on it though, because it's already been almost a week, so I think I only have one or two weeks left. Honestly, though, I may just end up using my Kindle points/credits to buy the ebook. I don't think I'll get to it in time. It's also been a while since I read the second book, but I'm hoping I can still get into this one without too much trouble, as I don't want to do a reread of the first two books.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
Oh nice! I have see price hikes on the FL version of Divine Rivals and its sequel! That's nuts. I still haven't read them myself, but I allowed myself to buy the sequel just to have a matching set! Lol. I did see someone with a green B&N tote and was like guess I will get that one as my free bag for my membership. But every time I stop by one they have the blue one or the black one with books--both of which I have! Lol. If I'm getting a free tote I want one I don't already have! I will have to keep an eye out for the green one!
ReplyDeleteI still need to read Stacia Stark! I've a few of her books now on my TBR pile, I have her first Court book, the first book that was a spinoff of that series and two other ones on my kindle...and I am dying for her vampire novel that has now been pushed to December! So she's on my list!
Hope you enjoy all of your lovely new reads!
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