Stacking the Shelves {13}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

Ahem, so I've been slacking. I haven't received as many books this month (I'm trying to slow down for school), and I've been away/starting law school. Because of this, my StS post have been just a little MIA ;) But here's a new one for you now!

• ARC Katya's World by Jonathan L. Howard ~ from Strange Chemistry (TBR ~ November 6, 2012) Not sure how, but I now have 2 of these
• ARC Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu ~ from Penguin Canada (TBR ~ January 23, 2013) EEEP! More Legend!! SO exciting :)  :)
• ARC Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff ~ from Penguin Canada (TBR ~ January 8, 2013) I LOVE Brenna's writing (and we share the same name, so I kind of HAVE to read her books) and can't wait to see what she does with this story! 
• ARCLondon Eye (Toxic City #1) by Tim Lebbon ~ from Pyr Books (TBR ~ October 2, 2012) They're calling this one Hunger Games meets X-Men. Yeah, as if I could have passed this one up after hearing that.
• Audio Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian ~ from Simon & Schuster US (TBR ~ September 18, 2012)
• Audio Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama ~ from Macmillan Audio ~ so I'm listening to this one right now and loving it! Totally unexpected, narrator has a cool voice, and this is kinda dark and gritty. I like it. :)

And as you can see there is also a whole bunch of swag in that photo! Diana Peterfreund sent out fancy bookmarks for 3 of her books - I think hers are some of my favourite ever. They're super nice in person. There are lots so I can give out lots :)

And as well, I have some Innocent Darkness swag! Lots of fun. I love the sticker. Expect lots of these to end up floating around as well :)

Please leave a link to your blog so I can stop by and visit to see what you received recently!

Stacking the Shelves {12}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

So I missed last week's post because I was busy at a friend's wedding - which was BEAUTIFUL! :)

This week's post includes books received last week as well.

And so for the past two weeks, I received...

• Planesrunner (Everness #1) by Ian MacDonald ~ purchased from The Book Depository
• The Piper of Shadonia by Linda Smith (TBR ~ September 1, 2012) ~ received from Coteau Books for review
• Shade and Sorceress: The Last Days of Tian Di Book 1 by Catherine Egan (TBR ~ November 1, 2012) ~ received from Coteau Books for review
• ARC Decked with Holly by Marni Bates (TBR ~ September 25, 2012) ~ received from Kensington Books for review
• ARC Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz & Ron Bass (TBR ~ October 2, 2012) ~ received from Razorbill Canada

E-books:

• E-galley Glitch (Glitch #1) by Heather Anastasiu ~ received from publisher via Net Galley
• E-galley Flight (The Crescent Chronicles #1) by Alyssa Rose Ivy (TBR ~ August 16, 2012) ~ received from author for upcoming blog tour
• E-galley Crewel (Crewel World #1) by Gennifer Albin (TBR ~ October 16, 2012) ~ received from publisher via Net Galley

Just a few books but there's a number that I'm very curious & excited about! Let me know which books you received this week by leaving a comment with a link to your mailbox post! :)

Stacking the Shelves {11}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

Phew, our weather here has FINALLY cooled down a bit instead of being terribly hot and humid! Kind of nice to have it a bit nicer :) I received a few books this week that I'm incredibly excited about so that helped make it a great week too! There was also a great event this week in Toronto featuring Rachel Hartman and her debut YA book, Seraphina.

• ARC Be My Enemy (Everness #2) by Ian McDonald (TBR ~ September 2012) received from Pyr Books - I haven't read Planesrunner yet, the first in this series, but I've had good luck with Pyr in the past so I'm hoping to love this series as well!
• ARC The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (TBR ~ September 18, 2012) received from Scholastic Canada - I've heard great things about this one and can't wait for it!
• ARC A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (TBR ~ August 28, 2012) received from Scholastic Canada
• ARC Katya's World by Jonathan L. Howard (TBR ~ October 30, 2012) received from Angry Robot - this books sounds like it will be RIGHT up my alley and I can't wait to see how it is!
• ARC The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susan Nielson (TBR ~ September 11, 2012) received from Random House Canada

E-book:

• E-galley Stormdancer (The Lotus War #1) by Jay Kristoff (TBR ~ September 28, 2012) received from publisher via Net Galley - I've heard great things about this one and can't wait to find out for myself! Everyone is raving about Stormdancer :)

Clearly, it was an ARC sort of week! Let me know what other books you received this week by leaving a link so I cna stop by and visit too :)

Stacking the Shelves {10}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

So today my post is going up a little bit later than usual because I was attending a book launch earlier today for Joanne Levy's debut, Smart Medium at Large from Bloomsbury! It was a lot of fun but I knew I'd be coming back with some books so I put off doing this post until afterwards.
This week I received:

•  Review copy of The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (TBR ~ July 17, 2012) received from HBG Canada - really curious about this one since it looks so neat and is written by Glee's Chris Colfer! :)
• ARC So Close to You by Rachel Carter received from HarperCollins US (won in giveaway)
• Last Rite (Personal Demons #3) by Lisa Desrochers (from Wendy @ A Cupcake and a Latte ~ Wendy had a copy she was ready to pass along to someone, and this is the only one I was missing!)
• ARC Entice (Embrace #2) by Jessica Shirvington (TBR ~ September 4, 2012) Wendy also had an extra copy of Entice, so she kindly passed it along to me as I loved Embrace :)

This picture shows what I received from the Small Medium at Large gift bag that Joanne put together for the attending bloggers! This was absolutely amazing, and I can't even tell you how cool it was that she did this for us :) There were 2 books included (they were all Penguin books ~ I ended up trading my copy of Cold Fury for Frostbite since I already have Cold Fury) But isn't this just amazing?! SO MUCH swag! They're all from 2012 debuts :) And a delicious, red velvet cupcake! <3

• SIGNED Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy (purchased at the book launch)
• ARC Rift by Andrea Cremer (TBR ~ August 7, 2012) this is actually my second copy of the book, so I'll be passing this one along at some point to another reader
• Frostbite: A Graphic Novel (Vampire Academy #2) by Richelle Mead (I haven't read VA yet, but I keep meaning to and I like the graphics in the graphic novels so I traded my copy of Cold Fury for this one!)

So much swag I can't even handle it! I'm kind of a swag hoarder, so even if I do give away a whole bunch of this, I'll STILL end up with some for me hehe. It was such a great week though, and Joanne did a great reading from her book. And as always, it was so nice to see the other Blogettes! :)

Stacking the Shelves {9}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

Did you all have a good week like I did? Nothing too exciting, but I've been busy with some events around home :) Hope you're all surviving this crazy heat wave we're having in Canada/US!

This week I received:

• ARC Cursed by Jennifer L. Armentrout (TBR ~ September 18, 2012) Received from Spencer Hill Press for review
• ARC Deity (Covenant #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (TBR ~ November 6, 2012) Received from Spencer  Hill Press for review
• ARC The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (TBR ~ August 7, 2012) Received from Penguin Canada
• SIGNED Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo (Purchased from Books of Wonder ~ loved this book and I was dying for a signed copy!)
• SIGNED Delirium (Delirium #1) by Lauren Oliver (Purchased from Books of Wonder ~ I have LOVED this book for so long and caved when I saw they had signed copies!)
• SIGNED Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver (Purchased from Books of Wonder ~ another beautiful book from Lauren- and again, I needed a signed copy!)
• SIGNED Pandemonium (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver (Purchased from Books of Wonder ~ I have two, so I can hold onto one for a giveaway/passing on to someone haha)

Clearly, I went a little crazy with the signed books... but come on! They're so pretty and signed and I love them all :)

• I was totally surprised when I received some Fierce Reads swag for being a part of the Monument 14 tour from Macmillan! They were so lovely, and sent over TWO posters: one Shadow & Bone (with the map on the back) & one Fierce Reads PLUS 4 bookmarks & a temporary tattoo! So cool :)
• AND I received some Spencer Hill Press swag including bookmarks and stickers!
• PLUS I received a second Shadow & Bone poster for the preorder at Books of Wonder ~ I'll only be holding onto one, not sure what I'll be doing with the second one but it WILL be going to a good home :)

Let me know whwat you received this week for your mailbox post! I'd love to see :)

Stacking the Shelves {8}

Welcome to another week of Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga!

As Tynga explains, all you have to do is:

• Create your own Stacking The Shelves post. You can use my official graphic or your own, but please link back to Tynga’s Reviews so more people can join the fun!
• You can set your post any way you want, simple book list, covers, pictures, vlog, sky is the limit!
• I am posting Stacking The Shelves on Saturdays, but feel free to post yours any day that fits you.
• Visit Tynga’s Reviews on Saturday and add your link so others can visit you!
• Visit other participants link to find out what they added to their shelves!

This week ended up being a little bit quiet, but still a great one nonetheless! We have our long weekend for Canada Day, so it'll be nice to have the Monday off :)

• Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown (purchased from The Book Depository)
• SIGNED Exiled (The Protector #1) by M.R. Merrick
• SIGNED Shift (The Protector #2) by M.R. Merrick (I've already reviewed both of these and LOVE THEM, but Matt ended up sending me signed & personalized copies of both! <3)
• Thank you card & The Cadet of Tildor swag bracelt from Alex Lidell (for being part of the cover reveal)

I was super excited to find these in my mailbox, and the books and card/swag really made my day :)
Please leave a link to your mailbox post so I can stop by and visit! :)
And have a great weekend, everyone!