Stacking the Shelves and Other Weekly Shenanigans (35)

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Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. It gives us a chance to share with readers what we bought, borrowed, swapped, won or got for review each week.

So, remember last week when I decided to be ridiculous and request all the books? Luckily a few are still trickling in, because this has been a painfully slow book week. Seriously, no book mail! None. I wept. (Fine, I didn’t, but I kind of wanted to.)

For Review:

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Some Fine Day by Kat Ross Via Netgalley, thanks to Skyscape. (I had been dying) to read this book when it was to be published by Strange Chemistry, and was so sad for the author when they shut down weeks before publication. Excited to read it for sure!

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma via Netgalley, thanks to Algonquin. I cannot get the file to open though, which is bumming me out.

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio via Edelweiss, thanks to HarperTeen


Weekly Shenanigans

I actually read things! Yes, yes, I read four books this week! In truth, I was close to finishing two of them last week, but I’ll take it! 129739641745330320804132, and 17234658Cinder was good of course, but you all kind of already know that! And I adored Glory O’Brien, and Forbidden (review coming with blog tour, but do give this one a shot!), and A Thousand Pieces of You was okay. It wasn’t fabulous, as I had hoped, but it wasn’t a complete debacle for me either. More on that this week!

On the Blog: 

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Of course, the November Giveaway will be going on for the rest of the month! Next week, there may or may not be a special birthday giveaway that involves me get older in the same week of the release of Mockingjay Part 1. I plan on reviewing A Thousand Pieces of You, and maybe have a new, fun feature! And, if I get back in time from the Mockingjay premiere, I will definitely get a book-to-movie review done!

How was your week? Read anything good? Any new purchases? And most importantly, are you planning to see Mockingjay next week? 

Posted November 15, 2014 by Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight in Blog Recaps / 24 Comments

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24 responses to “Stacking the Shelves and Other Weekly Shenanigans (35)

  1. Looks like you had a great week for reading! I loved Cinder as well. I’ve heard that None of the Above is good, so let me know what you think of it!

    Happy reading 🙂

  2. YAYAYAYAY you enjoyed Cinder! Also, whatttt, your birthday is coming up? YAY

    I’ve also been having problems with The Walls Around Us. Because I can only read it on my computer, though I got it on my kindle by converting it to a pdf. But I would still have liked a formated .mobi for it 😛 Oh well, can’t have everything in life can you?

    • I *might* have figured it out. But I could not even get it to open on my computer for the longest time. I know when they approved me, they said it wasn’t mobi formatted, but I couldn’t even get it to open as a pdf. I can open it now, and I will check my kindle later to see if it actually worked!

      And yep, birthday is on Wednesday! I mean, it is hard to get too excited because… well, the “getting older” thing isn’t much fun after 21, you know? 😉

  3. I’m so pleased you enjoyed Cinder. The series gets better and better, so prepare for some awesome. I may also have some trouble with The Walls Around Us… At least I know I won’t be the only one!

    • Oh YAY! This is so good to hear, because I really enjoyed Cinder, and I wish I didn’t request ALL the books, because I would be reading Scarlet now!

      I hope you don’t have too much trouble with The Walls Around Us. I finally got the PDF to open, so hopefully it’ll work for you too!

  4. You’ve got great books for review! I love to read None of the Above as soon as it hit the shelves, though weeks or months before it arrive in my country. And yes, I’ll definitely watch Mockingjay Part 1. Planning to print a shirt for the movie and I hope it’ll be on time. 🙂

    • Oh, fun! Does it come out in your country next week as well? The giveaway will be international too, just FYI 🙂

      None of the Above doesn’t come out here til the end of April, unfortunately, so I assume it’ll be awhile everywhere 🙁

  5. None of the Above looks amazing! It looks so different. Hopefully we both end up loving it. 🙂 I haven’t read A Thousand Pieces of You or Forbidden yet, but I’ll get to them soon. Hopefully. *stares at the rest of my review pile*

    I’m not sure when I’ll see Mockingjay, but I’m excited for it!

  6. Oh man, I’m so sad because I don’t think I’ll be seeing Mockingjay yet! Too much to do, plus I’m going with my brother who sucks and works too much!

    And no I have no new purchases because apparently my book baying ban is actually working this time! I think I read one book this week…maybe? I’m still behind! =)

    Hope you have an awesome week!

    • Nooooooo. Ditch your brother! Hhaha no, that is evil. And Katniss never would have ditched Prim. So I guess you’re stuck.

      WHOA good for you! A successful book buying ban!? This is unheard of! Congrats 🙂

  7. Ooh, it looks as though you read fantastic books this week! I myself want to read Glory O’Brien (you’re review convinced me that I need this book sooner than later) and Cinder! I actually borrowed Cinder from the library earlier this year, read 160ish pages and had to take it back…I now own both Cinder and Scarlet, so I really should get onto them soon. I felt very similar to you re: A Thousand Pieces of You and I can’t wait to see what you think of The Walls Around Us and None of the Above. 🙂

  8. I won’t be seeing Mockingjay next week. *cries* Actually, I think there’s still 10 days to go before it’s out in Oz anyway..buuuut I’ll be holidaying in Sydney. I’m trying to convince my family that there’s cinemas there and we can still go see it! But they want to sight see. Weirdos. *grumbles in the corner* I’M SO EXCITED I LITERALLY CANNOT EVEN ABOUT MOCKINGJAY.
    I totally want to read the Walls Around Us just for the cover. No shame, no shame.
    And I had no bookmail for like 2 weeks and then IT ALL CAME AT ONCE. Now I’m slightly overwhelmed. x) That’s aaalways the way.

    • WHAT!? Tell your family that my mom is meeting me to watch it at night! And she usually goes to bed at like, 9:00. So where is their commitment to the cause? The rebellion will not be won with attitudes like that!

      I hope I get all kinds of bookmail soon. I miss it! I won a bunch of giveaways but that guy in the van must still be stealing them. Or something. Grr.

      I really hope you get to see Mockingjay ASAP though!

    • Oh! I am glad you liked Forbidden too! I have to write my review before I forget any of it, but I can’t post it until the blog tour, but I want people to read it because I really enjoyed it 🙂

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