Saturday, November 1, 2014

Stacking the Shelves - 11.1.14

Stacking the Shelves
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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!

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Bought:

Etiquette & Espionage
(Finishing School book 1)
by Gail Carrier
Amazon | Goodreads

-----> for Finishing School Read Along

What I Know For Sure
by Oprah Winfrey
-inspirational, memoir
Amazon | Goodreads

-----> for some positive inspiration and feel good moments

Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
-dystopia
Amazon | Goodreads

-----> the hype and good reviews for this made this irresistible

Doon
by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon
-fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads

-----> after reading book 2, i just HAD to read this one too ;-)

For Review:

Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Robin Talley
-LGBTQ, YA
courtesy of Media Masters Publicity
Thanks Casey!
Amazon | Goodreads

Hunting in Bruges
(Hunters' Guild #1)
by E.J. Stevens
-paranormal, urban fantasy
courtesy of author
Thanks E.J.!
Amazon | Goodreads

Hit
by Lorie Ann Grover
-YA
courtesy of BookSparks Fall Reading Challenge 2014
Thanks Janay!
Amazon | Goodreads

Library:

Shadow of Night
(All Souls Trilogy #2)
by Deborah Harkness
-demons, vampires, witches
Amazon | Goodreads

Book of Life
(All Souls Trilogy #3)
by Deborah Harkness
-demons, vampires, witches
Amazon | Goodreads

-----> HAD to pick up the rest of this trilogy after experiencing A Discovery of Witches which I really loved, listening to the audio versions

Dreaming about getting soon:

Neil Patrick Harris:
Choose Your Own Autobiography

by Neil Patrick Harris
Amazon | Goodreads

Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?

Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based-life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born to New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.

Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a hideous death by piranhas. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, and make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!


-----> really curious to read this format for an autobiography AND really fell for NHP's character, Barney in How I Met Your Mother tv series

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

Started listening to another book podcast...


I got turned on to this U.K. duo, Adventure With Words, after listening their Gone Girl episode where Simon from The Readers is a guest.

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