Stacking the Shelves - 10.24.15

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:

City On Fire
by Garth Risk Hallberg
-Historical, New York
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> This is a chunkster at 944 pages. Been hearing rave reviews. Plan to hunker down with this during the cold winter months.

For Review:


The Admissions
by Meg Mitchell Moore
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of BookSparks Fall Reading Challenge 2015 @booksparks #FRC2015 -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

The Upside of Iris
by Helen Rose
-Fantasy, Romance
courtesy of author -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

The Good Neighbor
by A.J. Banner
-Thriller
courtesy of BookSparks Fall Reading Challenge 2015 @booksparks #FRC2015 -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
-MG
Amazon | Goodreads
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.

But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

=====> Listening to audio version and loving it!

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

UNBOXING:

From Uppercase package (details & signup):
A hand-selected young adult book & fun bookish item, delivered monthly #UppercaseBox

October Box includes:
* First & Then by Emma Mills
* Signed bookplate from Emma Mills
* Alice in Wonderland Coin Purse
* Alice's Enchantmints from The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild
* Lunar Chronicles metallic tattoos from FierceReads

First & Then
by Emma Mills
-Sports, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive jock, Ezra, right where she doesn't want them--first into her P.E. class and then into every other aspect of her life.

With wit, heart, and humor to spare, First & Then is a contemporary novel about falling in love--with the unexpected boy, with a new brother, and with yourself.

=====> I was thrilled to get this book! It is said to be a mashup of Pride & Prejudice and Friday Night Lights.

AND binge watching:

Scary/horror movies...

Crimson Peak (2015)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
-Drama, Fantasy, Horror | imdb
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.

Goodnight Mommy (2014)
"Ich seh, Ich seh" (original title)
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
-Horror, Thriller, Austria | imdb
Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don't recognize.

Jaws (1975)
Director: Steven Spielberg
-Adventure, Drama, Thriller | imdb
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

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* some of these may be offered as giveaways within the next two months

* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

* per usual, check out the sidebar for my current giveaways offers