Saturday, January 5, 2013

Stacking the Shelves #1


This is my first week of Stacking the Shelves here at Clean Teen Reads, which is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.  Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

This is a really great way to find new books and bloggers to watch and I can see myself doing this meme regularly...at least the weeks where I get new books.  If that turns out to be every week I might not have time to do anything BUT read!  :)

I have another blog called New Adult Addiction that also does a Stacking the Shelves.  Hop on over if you want to see my new adult haul!

OK, here's what I got:


I've been wanting to read Partials for a long time, but never got around to it.  I know there is a second book in this series now, so that makes me even more interested because I love series books.  Especially futuristic ones.  


I'm on the fence about Across the Universe.  I borrowed this from someone one a while back and started it and then realized it was a LOT like Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky from the 1940's - very CLASSIC SF that someone like me (a SF junkie) picked up on immediately, but  younger people who have never read Heinlein and this story about generational ships, would never see the connection.  It almost comes off as cheating, but I'll wait and see after I get through the whole book.


My fifteen year-old son read the entire FURNACE Series and I never did read it, so I'm reading book one - LOCKDOWN - now.  He loved it, so enough said.  It's got really good reviews, and he even made me order the fifth book from the UK so he didn't have to wait for the American version to be released.  I have the eBook version now, in addition to all the freaking paperbacks!


I've seen Under the Never Sky floating around Goodreads and the blogs (who hasn't, right?) but never picked it up.  So I'm gonna check that one out too.


Finally - a bunch of us authors are putting together a special promo from January 30 - February 3.  
If you're interested in being part of our giveaway hop (you'll get a spot on a special Rafflecopter) please sign up using the Linky below.  
It would totally make my day if you decided to participate!  :)

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7 comments:

  1. I absolutely loved Across the Universe and Under the Never Sky. Enjoy them! :)

    Monika@My Stacking the Shelves

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  2. Oh, that's good to know, Monika! I am looking forward to them. :)

    Julie

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  3. Great haul! I love Under the Never Sky and i hope you do as well and i need to pick up Across the Universe and Partials. I've heard that both of them are great books.

    Happy reading! :)

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  4. Oooo, all four of those look really good! I LOVED Under the Never Sky, and Across the Universe, and Partials was very good. I haven't read the fourth one. Have fun reading!

    My Stacking the Shelves

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  5. I absolutely love Under the Never Sky. I'm thinking about Pre-ordering the book today so I can have my copy of the sequel ASAP. :)

    Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian

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  6. That's two enthusiastic thumbs up for Under the Never Sky! You're making me want to read it right now! :)

    Thanks for hopping by, guys!

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  7. Under the Never Sky and Across the Universe! Those have been on my TBR for a while now..Oh well.. Happy reading! :)

    Stacking the Shelves @ Divergent Gryffindor

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