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:
The Dark Days Club
(Lady Helen, #1)
by Alison Goodman
-Historical, Steampunk, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Lady Renegades
(Rebel Belle #3)
by Rachel Hawkins
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Wink Poppy Midnight
by April Genevieve Tucholke
-Mystery, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> Books Inc. of San Francisco (Opera Plaza) presented Penguin Teen YA authors along with their latest books!
Something about each…
Alison Goodman about The Dark Days Club:
Influenced by Georgette Heyer works as well as Pride & Prejudice tv series (with Colin Firth)
Adaptation preference of book: BBC tv series
Alwyn Hamilton about Rebel of the Sands:
Wild west meets Arabian nights
Adaptation preference of book: Musical (like Les Miserables)
April Genevieve Tucholke about Wink Poppy Midnight:
Influence from film Diabolique
Adaptation preference of book: Film
Rachel Hawkins about Lady Renegades:
Created a character totally opposite of the main character in Hex Hall.
Adaptation preference of book: Musical
Sabaa Tahir about An Ember in the Ashes:
Research will be underway at a sword forging class for the third book.
Adaptation preference of book: Film
WON from contest:
An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir
courtesy of Confessions of a Book Addict and Beaks & Geeks podcast -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
For Review:
April Showers Book Tour Spring Box
from BookSparks (details)
Start With the Backbeat by Garine Isassi |
Goodreads
A Girl Like You A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel by Michelle Cox |
Goodreads
Parting Gifts by Katrina Willis |
Goodreads
Meternity by Meghann Foye |
Goodreads
The Goodbye Year by Kaira Rouda |
Goodreads
ALSO included in this box:
Notebook by Sparrow + Wolf
Starbucks card
Umbrella cookie cutter
Spring themed pencil
OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related
Bookmark & Book Ribbons swag
for Walk The Edge by Katie McGarry
=====> I have a second set of this. Let me know in comments if you would like to have it and I will send it your way.
UNBOXING:
From Powell's Indiespensable club package (details & signup):
Powell's subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire. Plus, every package is stocked with exciting surprises!
Box #58 includes:
- A signed first-edition of A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin in a custom slipcase
- A collectible booklet featuring the Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A with Ethan Canin
- Mathematics Nalgene bottle
The Doubter's Almanac
by Ethan Canin
-Historical, Literary
Powell's | Amazon | Goodreads
Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, Milo gives little thought to his talent, and not until his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley does he realize the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is an initiation and a seduction, opening Milo’s eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman, and the rival, he meets there will haunt him always. For Milo’s brilliance is inextricably linked to a dark side that ultimately threatens to unravel his work, his son and daughter, and his life.
AND watched: in theatre
Allegiant (2016)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Based on book by: Veronica Roth
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels
-Action, Adventure, Mystery | imdb | my rating: 4
After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them.
=====> Tris rocks! Wraps up the trilogy, but left me wondering.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Screenplay/Story: Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken
Screenplay: Damien Chazelle
Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr.
-Drama, Horror, Mystery | imdb | my rating: 4
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
=====> I watched this before watching the first movie, Cloverfield. I liked how this story was twisty and unpredictable.
Hardcore Henry (2015)
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Screenplay: Ilya Naishuller, Will Stewart
Based on book by:
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett
-Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 4
A first-person action film from the eyes of Henry, who's resurrected from death with no memory. He must discover his identity and save his wife from a warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
=====> Crazy wild ride with this one. The GoPro camera work can play havoc with people who easily get motion sickness. Watching this made me feel like I was part of a virtual reality shoot-em-up video game. Lots and lots and lots of bad guys with fight scenes galore litter the screen. In the end an interesting experience with a scifi storyline to the point of wanting to do a rewatch.
Viewers of this screening got a free comic book which is an origin story for the movie...
Hardcore Akan
Excerpt
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