This week was not fun. I'm mentally prepping for a trip while feeling blugh, and I got more work piled on to my massive to-do list when I thought I was going to have a more simplistic week. Someone needs to come and tell me that I can't run away from everything if I want to keep buying books, because I feel like running away would help my mental health by like at least 25%.
As for the books I received this week, they do help with my mental health. Well, two of them didn't, but that wasn't their fault. It was the posts office's fault. I've been having my packages put on hold due to bugs on my front porch area. Nothing uber gross, just ants and small things that don't mix well with paper material like books. Well, anyway. I went to the post office to pick up my Barnes & Noble deliveries of The Inadequate Heir by Danielle Jensen and The Fall by Ryan Cahill, and the clerk guy said they were out for delivery. Well, he was wrong because I watched my delivery driver drive right on by as I was cleaning out my car later. I had to go back and pick the orders up the next day. Boo for wasting my time, USPS. The deluxe The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe edition and Dhampira by Amy Pennza were also from B&N. The Dungeon Crawler Carl book was from my local used bookstore. I figured it was time to see what the hype is all about.
Here, I have another preorder incentive that I completely forgot about. Tara Sim's The Dawn Throne print and stickers arrived in my mailbox with very little warning. I didn't see it on the Informed Delivery site. Also, I don't remember the character art looking so mean. Lol. I really need to re-read book one in this series, The City of Dusk, so I can get to the two sequels and then the last book that releases this fall. The other items in this pic came with a Mercari order. I purchased a Blood and Ash pin of Poppy and Cas when Mercari was having their monthly 10% off sale. I'd been eyeing this one for a while, and I figured it was time. It's huge! And heavy! I wasn't expecting that. The seller sent some stickers too.
As for the ebooks, I have two that were purchased/gifted. Well, one was purchased, and the other was gifted. What Darkness Brings by Jenna Wolfhart was on sale for $0.99, so I downloaded it. I just know I'm not going to be able to get to it before my cheap Kindle Unlimited trial expires, so I figured $0.99 isn't too bad. I also made a big error and requested and was approved for Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher on NetGalley. Now, that's not really the problem. The problem is, I didn't realize it was book two in a series. I think it's actually more of a spinoff, but I'm not sure. So now I have to either go into this one blind or get book one so I can read them both. Ugh. Such a rookie mistake. The covers of the first book and this one are just too similar, though. I didn't realize they weren't the same story.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
Oh nice! Bummer about the bugs on porch and delivery fiasco! I'd want my books held too but for them to get their notes wrong about it being out for delivery is a pain. Our mail carrier has the tendency to drive up our driveway to deliver packages right at the garage. She has some aversion to walking apparently and it drives my dad nuts because her tires were leaving tracks on his otherwise clean driveway. I think for the most part the little nook she likes to leave them in protects them from possible rain, but that part drives me nuts too, the porch is at least covered as long as the wind isn't blowing the rain sideways. Hoping we have a very dry September as I have a LOT of books releasing in September! Lol.
ReplyDeleteThe reads are all mainly new to me ones. I am so behind in Jensen's series, I only read the first duology but the rest are piled up. I was just hearing about these Dungeon Crawler books as well. They don't really seem like my kind of read and I have wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many books in my TBR pile that I put there that I'd like to read before taking on a rec that just felt meh to me. Lol. I hope you enjoy it and all of your other lovely reads though!
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