Stacking the Shelves {14}

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!

• The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater ~ finished copy received from Scholastic Canada for review
• The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle ~ finished copy received from Thomas Allen & Son Ltd. for review
• Scorch (Croak #2) by Gina Damico ~ finished copy received from Thomas Allen & Son Ltd. for review
• ARC The Lazarus Machine (A Tweed & Nightingale Adventure #1) by Paul Crilley ~ received from Pyr Books for review
• Reaper (Lightbringer #2) by K.D. McEntire ~ received from Pyr Books for review
• ARC Ten by Gretchen McNeil ~ won from HarperCollins on Pitch Dark Reads

• SIGNED The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
• SIGNED The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon
• Becoming Holmes (The Boy Sherlock Holmes #6) by Shane Peacock

This last picture is my gift bag from the Bookstravaganza event put on by Random House Canada & Chatelaine Magazine! They always put together such fun events, and Bookstravaganza was an incredible night getting to learn about some exciting upcoming fall books. Plus both Shauna Singh Baldwin and Annabel Lyon were in attendance to mingle and sign books :)

It was definitely a VERY exciting week for me in terms of bookish things, and I can't wait to see what the rest of you enjoyed this week as well! Make sure to leave me a link in the comments so I can see what you received as well :)

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! :)