Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme created by Tynga’s Reviews where we share our newly added books.
Like last week this has also been a busy week for me as it has been the final week on my college course (pass with merit YES!) and I’ve been busy packing ready to go to Bali next Tuesday. But I haven’t stopped adding books to my tbr and I’ve also got two more books added to my kindle one of which was free on Amazon 😛 they are:
Author: Dave Mckean
Release Date: First published 1991
Genres: Philosophy, Adult, graphic novels, magical realism
Series: Standalone
Pages: 496
Pacing: Slow to medium
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010.
This weeks theme is the best and worst dads in literature and while I’ve read a great many books in my lifetime and have thought about this subject greatly, most books I’ve read don’t involve a lot of dads. They’re mainly background characters or get killed or have left home etc.
Author: Livia Blackburne
Release Date: July 8th 2014
Genres: Young Adult, High Fantasy
Series: Midnight Thief #1
Pages: 376
Pacing: Medium to Fast
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme created by Tynga’s Reviews where we share our newly added books.
This past week has been very busy for me as it was one of the last weeks of college where everyone has to hurry and finish assignments before we break up for the summer. I’ve added a lot of books to my TBR for my holiday to Bali which is the Tuesday after next Tuesday. (Yipee!) These three books I this week got out of the library to take with me when the time comes:
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine which focuses on upcoming releases we’re looking forward to.
Title: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
Author: Julie C. Dao
Release Date: October 10th 2017
Summary : An East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl’s quest to become Empress–and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny.
Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng’s majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high?
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Release Date: September 1st 2009
Genres: Adult, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia
Series: Standalone (sadly)
Pages: 359
Pacing: Medium to Fast
Author: Catherine Fisher
Release Date: May 3rd 2007
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Series: (Incarceron #1)
Pages: 458
Pacing: Medium to slow
