Stacking the Shelves: The Lazy Photos 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.

It has been a relatively quiet week. I've pretty much been doing the same things I'm always doing. Lots of work, working out, and sleeping. And of course, never enough cleaning/organizing. I'm so behind on that, it's not funny. I doubt I'll be done until winter, at this rate. Yikes. I just need like a month off to go through everything. Or, if someone could just give me their motivation and energy, that'd be swell.

First up in this week's haul, I have something I debated not showing because it's just a replacement for something I already own. It's the Legend trilogy box set. Like I've mentioned in some hauls a while back, I'm taking the time to replace some of my older books that were left at my parents' house, since those weren't stored in the best conditions and older titles in general look aged sometimes. So, Barnes & Noble had this box set in stock, and I had $17 of store credit. I bought this and three other books you'll see in the next photo. And speaking of photos, I was too lazy to actually move things around and display them properly, so you get whatever the heck these photos are. 

 

 

Up next, I have a conglomeration of titles. All but one are from B&N. The lonely one is my Bookish Box replacement copy of Between Fear & Favor by Jess Wisecup. I don't think I even shared the original copy I got because it was dented and Bookish Box makes you send the damaged copies back to them, so here it is for the first time. The books I ordered with the Legend trilogy box set include Eclipse and Avalon High, along with Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh. Someone said the Nalini Singh mass market Guild Hunter books were going out of print for new editions, but I haven't seen that talked about anywhere else. Just to be safe, I'm slowly going to order the set, even though I've only read book one. I do own like six of them already, so it's fine. Just ten more to go now. Yikes. Good thing mass markets are cheap. Also, I'm not sure I'll keep the Avalon High copy. Now that it's hot and humid out, books are being delivered in icky shape, so I might just keep my original copy that's in about the same condition as this replacement. Lol. The other books I got include The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi, The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa, The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley, The Nightblood Prince by Molly X. Chang, and Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout. I'm going to return The Nightblood Prince, as BOOK BOX SPOILERS INCOMING, I just got the YA FairyLoot subscription again, and I think that's the pick for July. I don't need two copies of it. I may also return Opal. I'm not loving these new hardcover editions the publisher is releasing. I'm just not sure if I want to keep buying them when better sets will probably come along at some point. 

 

I keep forgetting to include this in my haul for the week. I received the WarlockCoUA dust jacket for A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by JLA. It's gorgeous, but it did get smashed in the mail. The box it was in was too flimsy for international travel, unfortunately. There are small dents all around it, since it was rolled up tube-like during shipment. My AKOFAF paperback copy is on its way, so I'll see if it looks okay once it's on the book. If not, I may end up ordering another one when/if book three's dust jacket is released. Or I'll see if the Etsy shop will replace it. I feel bad asking since it's all the way in the Ukraine. That's a lot of shipping money. I think it'll be okay if I just keep this one. I'll just beg the shop to use a sturdier box for any future jackets.

And lastly, I have the ebooks for the week. I downloaded The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer on Kindle Unlimited. I didn't realize it was on there or I would have downloaded it a long time ago. I've been wanting to read this book since it released. I've just always had other things going on, and, with sci-fi books, I tend to want to read an ebook version before purchasing a physical copy. I think it's because sci-fi books tend not to have pretty covers like fantasy books. And... right when I was thinking I was done with this post, I got approved for a NetGalley ARC of To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast. Thanks Avon/Harper Voyager! This book might be in a FairyLoot sub box, so I want to read it before it releases next year. Thankfully, I have until March, as I am really behind on things I want to read in general. There are too many good books and not enough hours in the day. I need to quit my job. Ha ha.

Well, that's all for me. What books have you bought/received lately?