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. Of course, the epic Book Outlet Boxing Day haul came this week! Plus a giveaway win, and two books I am so very excited to read that I purchased, and a book I am excited to review!
Book Outlet Boxing Day Haul
Other Physical Books:
Exquisite Captive by Heather Demetrios Won via Eli @ RealityLapse, with thanks to HarperCollins
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
For Review:
Via Edelweiss, thanks to Harper Teen: 
Weekly Shenanigans (and poll results, AND a challenge!)
I have been lagging behind so, so badly this week! I don’t know why, but I just cannot get it together. I did read, but not a ton sadly. I finished 
and 
. Of Scars and Stardust was different, while Inherit Midnight was not the best.
On the Blog:
- On Monday, I reviewed Captive by Aimee Carter, the second book in the Blackcoat Rebellion series.
- This Tuesday featured Top Ten (or 21, whatever) debuts I am excited for.
- On Wednesday, I reviewed Of Scars and Stardust by Andrea Hannah.
- We all talked about Bookish Sins on Thursday (poll results will be after the little recap!)
- And on Friday, I gushed and flailed and gushed some more over Heather Demetrios’s I’ll Meet You There.
Poll Results: The results of the poll are in, and by a landslide Insta-love is the most hated bookish sin! (I voted for that one too, so I agree with you guys!) The love triangle was second most hated, and then everything else kind of fell in behind those two. Apparently, no one gets too worked up about Parent-in-YA Syndrome, because it was the only “sin” without any votes! Thanks for playing, everyone, it was fun! The poll is still open, so if you disagree with us, let me know, and I can update again next week!
Don’t forget to link up your discussions and enter the Rafflecopter here!
Up Next:
I am sure a lot of you have heard of this awesome challenge hosted by Nori @ ReadWriteLove28. It’s called the 105 challenge, and it is kind of perfect, because I want to read 115 books, and this one will even give me some wiggle room. I wasn’t going to do any challenges other than Goodreads and the Discussion Challenge, but this one is too perfect for me, so I have to! Here is how I shall be doing mine:
14: EW/NG Review Books
13: Books that I just plain feel like reading “in the moment”
12: 2015 books
11: Physical Books I Already Own (as of January 9)
10: Kindle Books I Already Own
9: Pre Orders
8: Debuts
7: Books Everyone Recommends
6: New To Me Authors
5: Next-in-Series
4: BEA books
3: Rereads
2: Books Chosen by YOU! (I’ll do some kind of poll next week!)
1: Physical ARC (hey, a girl can dream!)
So that’s my challenge! Next week, I actually have ideas in my head, so the whole week is almost planned. Guys, I have even scheduled a post. This is kind of huge.
Wow, that really is an epic Book Outlet haul! Mine also came in this week(5 books and 1 graphic novel!) and then I preceded to place another(smaller) order on Book Outlet because I found out they had a few more books that I’ve been wanting forever… I also got All The Bright Places and can’t wait to start it.
I feel like I’m pretty on track this week, but, all that means, is I’m going to fall behind next week! Also, Shannon, I’m signed up for too many challenges why would you showcase another! =)
Hope you have an awesome week!
Hahah thanks! Too much money, of course, but meh. Glad you got yours too! Also… I placed a second order too! Hhahaha. What did you buy? I bought Kiss of Deception and The Book Thief. Budget fail, obviously.
Sorry! This challenge just fits my goal like, perfectly, so I kind of had to do it 😉 Hope you have a great week too!
Yay, I’m glad I’m not the only one! I ordered Poison Princess, Endless Knight(books 1 and 2 of the Arcana Chronicles) and Ask Again Later! Major budget fail, it’s barely the second week of January and I already cheated on my 2 books a month rule! =)
Wow, that’s a lot of books from book outlet. I wish I had bought some. I read Flowers in the Attic and really liked it. I’ve been meaning to read Loop and Exquisite Captive and am so jealous. I definitely want to read All the Bright Places! I’m also doing the 105 challenge good luck.
I have always been SO intrigued by Flowers in the Attic, and then I saw the movie, and I knew I needed to read the books! Thanks and good luck to you too 🙂
Don’t you just love BookOutlet? 🙂 The books look great! I’m getting my order next week and I’m so excited! Complicit will be on my shelf then too.
Good luck on the challenge! I’ve joined that one too.
Also, I spy a cool button in your sidebar . . . I need to check out this Contemporary Conversations thing. I have a feeling I wouldn’t want to miss out on that!
It’s love/hate, really 😉 And yes, I think you’d definitely enjoy the contemporary thing!
I am FOREVER sad that Australia doesn’t have things like Book Outlet. I went on their once because I’m a begger for punishment and criiiiied at all those delicious prices. SERIOUSLY. AMAZING. XD Oooh, do I spy All The Bright Places? JFALDKFSAD YOU ARE IN FOR A ROLLER COASTER OF EMOITIONS. I literally just threw that book at my sister today. She was whining that she wasn’t in the mood for Red Rising (which I’d previously thrown) and I said, “Okay, here read this nice contemporary.”
Mwh ah aha haa ha.
Broken hearts are coming. XD
Well, it is a double edged sword, because then you buy books you will seriously never even read. It empties your wallet, Cait.
I am 78% done with All the Bright Places and I am SCARED. In fact, yours will probably be the last comment I respond to, because I have to go finish it, for I have been sick with worry all day. What is going to happen to Finch and Violet?!?!
Also, I had the same issue with Red Rising. I shall try again soon. I love that you inflicted pain on your sister, she thinks she is just reading some fun little book. HA!
That is an amazing haul. I can’t believe how many good books you’ve got from Book Outlet. I hope you enjoy all that you’ve added! (I completely agree that Of Scars and Stardust was different!) Happy Reading! 😀
Thanks! I… might have bought more the other day. Someone stop me!
Awesome haul! I’m still impatiently waiting for my Book Outlet order 🙁
I got All the Bright Places this week too and I’m really excited to start reading it! I hope you enjoy all of your new books!
Thanks so much! Hope your order gets there very soon 🙂
Awesome haul! I love seeing all those books together, just waiting for you to find the time to read them 🙂
I didn’t see your YA sins poll, too bad… I agree with insta-love being a huge no-no, but I also really hate it when there is a big case of absent parents syndrome…
Have a great weekend and happy reading 🙂
The poll is still up, if you feel like voting (I love clicking on stuff, so yeah hahah). And you are so right- I do need the time to read them! Hope you have a great week!
That’s some epic haul! I wish we have Book Outlet here too. I’m very much excited to read All The Bright Places. I’ll probably buy a copy on my next trip to the bookstore. Enjoy them all! 😀
Thanks! I mean, Book Outlet is great… until you spend all your money 😉 A blessing, and a curse I suppose! Definitely read All the Bright Places, but bring ALL the tissues.
Your Book Outlet boxing sale looks like you got some amazing books this week. I hope you love them all.
Grace @ Books of Love
Thanks so much! It is a LOT of reading 😉
Nice haul!! I can’t wait to read All The Bright Places (even though I hear everyone cries). Exquisite Captive sounds really good. I’ve heard wonderful things about Code Name Verity, I haven’t read Fangirl yet either! Nice haul and good luck with the challenge 🙂
Yep, you’ll cry! I might still be crying, I can’t tell, I think my tear ducts are empty :/ And thanks, fingers crossed that I’ll have a good reading year 🙂
Such a great haul of books! I have heard great things about Loop! Sad to hear that Inherit Midnight wasn’t the best.. that one is up soon for me to read!
Happy Reading!
Nicole @ The Quiet Concert
Yeah, I mean, my review will post on Friday, but it wasn’t great. The concept was fun, but the execution was a disaster. I hope you have better luck with it!
And I think I may start Loop tonight, so hopefully it’s good 🙂
Great haul! I got Burn for Burn during one of Book Outlet’s previous sales, but haven’t read it yet. I got Second Chance Summer during the Boxing Day Sale, and actually have planned a buddy read for it, so I’m excited!
I’m really happy that you decided to join the 105 Challenge- yay! 🙂
I was thinking about getting Second Chance Summer too, I have no idea why I didn’t! I’m looking forward to your thoughts on it!
And I am so excited for the challenge! Such a great idea 🙂 I am going to make a page with all my challenge stuff I think, and add the button there!
Code Name Verity and Unremembered looks SO good!
Check out my STS and maybe hit the follow button? http://bundles-of-books.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-year-new-commitment-sts.html
Hopefully they’ll be great 🙂
Shannon….how do you read all these books. DO YOU EVEN FINISH THEM ALL? Like what. And also YAYAYYA ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES. I cannot wait until I get to read that one. I WANT IT SO BAD. 🙂 🙂
I had an awesome week as well! I am currently making a cake for my party. MY MOM PAID ME TO MAKE MY OWN CAKE HAHAHAHA. I hope you’re week was just as awesome!
Um, I don’t. That is why my TBR is growing by the minute, and I am broke 😉
All the Bright Places was like someone punching me in the face. Remind me to thank Holly when I see her 😉
HAH I love that she paid you to make your cake! I would totally make my own cake if I got paid (though I’m afraid it wouldn’t be great, and would probably be boxed Funfetti). What kind did you make?
HA I MADE A BOXED FUNFETTI
I am reading All the bright places right now. It’s a pretty decent book, bot not necessarily as earth shattering as some are saying.
I liked it. I cried a lot. I am mad at it. I agree that it wasn’t as earth shattering, BUT when I got to the author’s note, I knew it had certainly done its job, and I think it was an important one (unfortunately). I did know where it was headed from like, the first minute 😉
Wow, you’ve got one amazing haul today! 🙂 All the Bright Places was a book that I really loved, I hope you love that. I worry that the massive hype it has might make people’s expectations sky rocket. I hope you love it though, that book made me ugly cry.
Book Outlet is so amazingly cheap. I CRY LOOKING AT YOUR HAUL! HAHA! I wanted to buy so much from there because I could buy 20 books for next to nothing, but the postage and packaging to the UK was just ridiculous.
I got Loop for Christmas and I can’t wait to read that one. It looks really good.
Thanks! I did love All the Bright Places, but in a heartbreaking way. Ugh, I was crying so hard, I was afraid I’d wake everyone else in the house up!
They really should have something like, for all of Europe like Book Outlet. It does so well in the US and Canada, I don’t understand why there aren’t more places like it!
I might be starting Loop tonight, so hopefully we’ll both love it 🙂
What an epic haul! I had my huge haul over Christmas/New Year and you can see it here: http://www.sapphireddragon.com/2014/12/stacking-shelves-christmas-edition.html
I really like the cover of all the bright places especially as a hardcover and I also have Mila 2.0
Have a great week and happy reading 🙂
Thanks! Wow, you really did get an amazing Christmas haul! I mean, The Winner’s Crime!? Jealous! And you got so many lovely gifts too, I hope you enjoy them all 🙂
Wow, lots of great books! I loved Exquisite Captive, For Darkness Shows the Stars, Fangirl. I hope you enjoy all of your new books (all ten thousand of them)! ;D
Have a fabulous weekend, Shannon 😉
Check out my STS post!
Ohh, I am glad you liked them! (And you are right, it pretty much is ridiculous at this point 😉 )
Eeeep! Your Book Outlet haul has me so very jealous! Mine has arrived at my office, but I’m in San Diego for work. I want to open that box so very badly! I still have about a week to wait… *overly dramatic sigh*
My StS!
Oh, that is rough- when you are in one place, but the books are at another! I hope the week flies by for you. Though, you ARE in San Diego, so it’s kind of a win anyway 😉
GREAT HAUL! I love Book Outlet but the shipping is so expensive because I live overseas
Thanks! I feel bad that there is no equivalent in other countries. There should be 🙁
Nice haul Chick! I actually read this post yesterday and totally meant to comment, then I clicked your challenge and well, kinda forgot. I have never shopped for books at Book outlet, maybe I should? Happy Reading!
Haha I do that ALL the time 🙂 And well, if you do shop at Book Outlet, you may never be able to stop. It’s an addiction!
OH MY GOD ME SINCE YOU THAT BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE. *uncontrolled flailing* But I also approve of Second Chance Summer and Fangirl 😉 One day I’ll get around to reading For Darkness Shows the Stars as well…
I hope you like Exquisite Captive; I’ve heard mixed reviews but I’m still interested. And I think you’ve finished All the Bright Places by now?? WHAT DID YOU THINK? Impatiently waiting over here.
I have got to get some kind of handle on all these books, I want to read them all NOW!
Yes, I have finished All the Bright Places. I am destroyed, basically. I think it is an important book, and I loved the characters. I gave it 5 stars, but I don’t know that I “liked” it, if that makes sense? GAH too many feels.
Okay WOW why did I even write a review when your paragraph sums it up for me?? A+ feelings expression ^_^
So Jealous you got Burn for Burn! I have the second I just need the first book and third book. I’ve seen a lot of people pick up Loop but I havent read many reviews on it. But I’m curious about it and might just add it to my wishlist if it isnt on there already 🙂
Also PS: What do you think of Seeker so far? I found it too long and a tad bit boring.
I may start reading Loop tonight! I have heard it was a fun book, and after All the Bright Places, I need fun!
Seeker is driving me insane so far! I mean, what is even happening!? Nothing has made a bit of sense so far! Did you finish it?
I really want to read All the Bright Places. Oh, and I loved Flowers in the Attic when I read it (a very long time ago!).
Bring ALL the tissues for AtBP, it is a tearjerker for sure. I am looking forward to Flowers in the Attic, that is some messed up stuff!
Congrats on your haul! We have zero BookOutlet books in common! I’m pretty sure you got a couple of mine on Black Friday though. I’m so glad Instant love got number one! Now if only authors would take notice. That challenge sounds really cool! I so have to check it out! (Also I’m jealous of your pre orders) Yay for physical arcs!
I had a nice weekend since we had a snow day! I finally remembered to post my BO haul. (I so shouldn’t abbreviate that) Yes, I am so behind!
Hahah every time I try to abbreviate Book Outlet I end up feeling awkward and erase it, I feel your pain. That’s funny (though not completely surprising, since I got a lot of contemporaries this time) that we have none in common!
And no one likes insta love! It is now proven 😉 SO we will direct everyone right here if they need “scientific” evidence.
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