Stacking the Shelves - 7.4.15

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
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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For Review:

Maybe in Another Life
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of BookSparks Summer Reading Challenge 2015
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads has a giveaway offer -exp July 10

Beautiful Girl
by Fleur Philips
-YA
courtesy of BookSparks Summer Reading Challenge 2015
Thanks!
Destination: Hit the mountains of Montana
Amazon | Goodreads

Don't Ever Change
by M. Beth Bloom
-YA
courtesy of author
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

Stone Rider
by David Hofmeyr
-Dystopia, YA
courtesy of publisher
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
-SciFi, YA
courtesy of publisher
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> SQUEEEEEEEEE! Surprised and absolutely thrilled to get this unexpected arc!

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

I joined and YOU can too!

#READINGISBEAUTIFUL
YA SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2015
details & signup

=====> A brand new young adult challenge sponsored by BookSparks.

AND just watched:

Inside Out (2015)
-animation, comedy, drama
imdb
my rating: 5
Tagline: Meet the little voices inside your head.

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

=====> Wasn't feeling like watching an animation film, but my buddies wanted to see it for varied reasons. Loved how it went into the brain and how it works in regards to memories.

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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

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

Let's Pretend This Never Happened:
A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson

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Published: 2012
Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Genre: Humor, Memoir
Hardback: 336 pages
Rating: 5

series:
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things -released on September 22, 2015

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.

In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.

PeekAbook:



My two-bits:

Hilarious!

The author describes many mishaps in her life with a sense of humor that tickles. Despite it all lessons are learned or at least provide warnings for readers ;-)

About the author:
Known for her sardonic wit and her hysterically skewed outlook on life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people question their own sanity, as they found themselves admitting that they, too, often wondered why Jesus wasn't classified as a zombie, or laughed to the point of bladder failure when she accidentally forgot that she mailed herself a cobra. Her blog (www.thebloggess.com) is award-winning and extremely popular.

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* heard the audio version which the author reads which makes this book so much more enjoyable.

* added to my COYER challenge/scavenger hunt (details)

YA Summer Reading Challenge 2015

#READINGISBEAUTIFUL
YA SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2015
sponsored by BookSparks (details here)
I am thrilled to share the news about BookSparks new Summer reading challenge!

#ReadingIsBeautiful is a two month YA reading challenge that celebrates the beauty of books (and those who read them)!

I will be participating and adding most of my review book copies to my Summer YA Book Box Giveaway - signup up to win a giveaway box here.

HERE is the line up:
(link for my review will be activated when posted)

Season of Fire
(The Remnants #2)
by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Amazon | Goodreads

Summer by Summer
by Heather Burch
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Bear Witness
by Melissa Clark
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Beautiful Girl
by Fleur Philips
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Red Sun
Legends of Orkney
by Alane Adams
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Looney Experiment
by Luke Reynolds
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Never Said
by Carol Lynch Williams
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
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* head over to get more details and to signup for this challenge here - books provided for honest reviews

Winner for July

Here is the winner for giveaway that
ended June 30, 2015

Thanks to all contestants!
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Young Jane Austen: Becoming a Writer by Lisa Pliscou -signup
Winner: Danae

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Summer YA Book Box Giveaway

Summer YA Book Box Giveaway
July 1 to September 30, 2015

My review books are accumulating and instead of individual giveaways, I have decided to box up a bunch to send to THREE lucky winners at the end of the summer.

I came across a summer to-do prompt at The Daily Tay that I found would be fun to get summer ideas from you all.

The prompt questions are listed below as part of my giveaway.

YA books for the boxes so far...
fyi: this list will be updated with more books and as reviews get posted

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven -my review

Beautiful Girl by Fleur Philips -my review

Don't Ever Change by M. Beth Bloom -my review

The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West -my review --coming soon

Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little -my review

Heat of the Moment by Lauren Barnholdt -my review

Isabella’s Heiress by N.P. Griffiths -my review

The Kingdom Within by Samantha Gillespie -my review

The Looney Experiment by Luke Reynolds -my review

Never Said by Carol Lynch Williams -my review

Paperweight by Meg Haston -my review

Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica -my review

The Red Sun by Alane Adams -my review

Summer by Summer by Heather Burch -my review

Vote for Remi by Leanna Lehman --coming soon


--~ Summer YA Book Box Giveaway ~--
WIN a box of my current YA review copies!

3 winners (each winner will get at least 3 books listed above)

Open to US only.

Offer ends: September 30, 2015

TO DO:

ANSWER at least 2 of the summer related questions below.

TELL me which book(s) above you would like to see in your box. - optional

AND, leave your email.

~~ Summer Questions ~~

1. Best childhood summer memory.

2. Summer bucket list! (at least five)

3. Beating the summer blogger slump- what are your tricks?

4. Favorite summer flick.

5. One thing you have to do every summer is...

6. What song always makes you think of summer and why?

7. If you could hop on a plane and go anywhere right now where would you go?

8. What are some fun summer date ideas?

9. Favorite beach read.

10. By the end of summer I hope to...

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Contest has ended - (winner is here)

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* source: for questions from The Daily Tay

* source for badge: cover from...

Heat of the Moment
(Moment of Truth #1)
by Lauren Barnholdt
-Romance, YA
Amazon | Goodreads