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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Bumbles and Fairy-Tales Updates and Stacking the Shelves #66 - The June Edition


I cannot believe that June is over! Yes, it's over!
I need the summer to slow down - school ended this past Thursday and we have a lot of fun stuff planned, including trips to the library and lots of reading time. We really, really needed this long break from schedules and homework - so, can someone please press the pause button, please!!! 

Here's what we got this month!!!

I'm also participating in Tynga's Reviews, Stacking the Shelves :) 


What I received for review...
- THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS (Otherworld #1) (ARC) by Skylar Dorset (YA) from Sourcebooks Fire
- SOME BOYS (ARC) by Patty Blount (YA) from Sourcebooks Fire
- ADAM (PB) by Ariel Schrag (YA) from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- SHIPWRECK ISLAND (ARC) by S. A. Bodeen (MG) from Macmillan
- THE BONE SEASON (PB) by Samantha Shannon (YA/A) from Bloomsbury
- THE NEW COLORED PENCIL (PB) by Kristy Ann Kutch (E) from Crown Publishing (RH)


Swag...
THE 57 LIVES OF ALEX WAYFARE by M. G. Buehrlen (YA) from author
FORBIDDEN by Kimberley Griffiths Little (YA) from author

What I purchased...
- RUIN AND RISING (Grisha #3) (B&N Exclusive Edition HB) by Leigh Bardugo (YA)
- THE SAVAGE BLUE (Vicious Deep #2) (HB) by Zoraida Cordova (YA)
- ELEANOR & PARK (Collector's Edition HB) by Rainbow Rowell (YA)
THE SHADOWHUNTER'S CODEX (HB) by Cassandra Clare and Joshua Lewis (YA)

What I received in trades...
- REBEL BELLE (HB) by Rachel Hawkins (YA)
- EVERYTHING LEADS TO YOU (HB) by Nina LaCour (YA)

Gifts...
- THE ETERNITY CURE (Blood of Eden #2) (HB) by Julie Kagawa (YA)
- THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE (HB) by Neil Gaiman (YA/A)

Netgalley...
- THE POSSIBILITY OF US by Lisa Burstein (NA)
- SWEET UNREST by Lisa Maxwell (YA)

Edelweiss...
- MESSENGER OF FEAR by Michael Grant (YA)
- NO PLACE TO FALL by Jaye Robin Brown (YA)

What I'm currently reading...
- THE VAST AND BRUTAL SEA (THE VICIOUS DEEP #3) (eGalley) by Zoraida Cordova (YA)
ADAM (PB) by Ariel Schrag (YA)
THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS (Otherworld #1) (ARC) by Skylar Dorset (YA)
THE NEW COLORED PENCIL (PB) by Kristy Ann Kutch

What's distracted me from reading this month...
- Middle child turned 8!!!
- Baby boy has started to stand by hanging on to things!!!
- Hubs and kiddos working in our garden!
- School is all done!!!
- Squishing on my nephew :)
- And I re-organized my books again, lol!





Thank you for stopping by today!!!
xoxo

2 comments:

  1. awesome haul! I also got Ruin and Rising as well as the exclusive edition of Eleanor & Park! I received Some Boys for review too and I'm DYING to read it <3 <3

    - Juhina @ Maji Bookshelf

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  2. Awesome haul of books. Some Boys looks interesting. Looks like you had a very busy week. Babies are so adorable and distract us from doing things.

    Grace
    Books of Love
    http://gracebooksoflove.com

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