Stacking the Shelves: The Last Semester of Grad School Edition

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

I didn’t have any fiction books to share this week, so I thought I’d share some of the textbooks and other nonfiction books I’ve acquired for academic reasons.

The Artful Edit by Susan Bell

Edit Yourself by Bruce Ross-Larson

The Best American Essays (2016) edited by Jonathan Franzen

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind

New Perspectives on Technical Editing edited by Avon J. Murphy

Developmental Editing by Scott Norton

Microsoft Manual of Style

Writing Software Documentation by Thomas T. Barker

The Teacher’s Grammar of English by Ron Cowan

The editing books are for my degree paper, while the other books for my classes. The larger ones are ridiculously annoying to haul across campus.

What books have you bought/received lately?

Stacking the Shelves: The Plastic-y Library Sale Edition

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

I bought some books, but this doesn’t break my ban. I knew about this before I started banning myself.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

A Writer’s Reference (6^th ed.) by Diana Hacker

MLA Handbook by Joseph Gibaldi & Phyllis Franklin

In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken

Talon by Julie Kagawa

Empower by Jessica Shirvington

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

I went to my town’s biannual library sale and got all of these books for $16!!! I might even go back before it’s over and add some more to this list, but as of this moment, this is all.

Right now, most of these have that nasty library plastic on them. ICK! I plan on cutting it off since it’s not the kind that is permanently glued to the cover. I’ve done this before and it was really easy to get off, minus one little spot on the inside covers where the plastic has been glued to the endpapers. I might make a post about this, just because it was so ingenious that I made my books go from nasty library-esque to pretty newness with only a few snips of my scissors.

All in all, it was a good haul. I was getting worried when I first started shopping, just because I couldn’t find books without the plastic, but once I remembered I could cut it off, I went a little nuts.

Oh, and the writing books are for my profession, not for fun. They were just cheap.

  

What books have you bought/received lately?