Saturday, June 16, 2012

New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {7}

For New Shelf Goodies, I'll be showing you what lovely books I acquired this week, whether from publishers, or the library, or from whatever half-crazed book-buying binge I happened to go on. :D (Inspired by Alea @ Pop Culture Junkie's This Week in Books posts) The Weekly Nutshell will be just that...my week here at Stories & Sweeties, in a nutshell. (inspired by Ginger @ GReads and her recaps at the end of the TGIF posts) Note: This is not a meme, but I'll be hopping around to IMMs, Stack the Shelves, Book Hauls, or whatever other book-loot sharing posts I come across!

Here's what I got this week!
For review:
Eve & Adam by Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate
This one sounds fun--plus, a husband and wife writing team! Cool!

Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Very excited for this one---the story surrounding the Guild of Spinsters sounds fantastic!

Bought:
Rapture by Lauren Kate
Body & Soul by Stacey Kade
The final books in two of my favorite series!! OH, I will be so sad to see these both end!

Thanks to Macmillan for the review books!

The Weekly Nutshell:
{Monday} Review: Book of Blood & Shadow
{Tuesday} Waiting on Wednesday: Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh
{Wednedsay} Book/Movie News: Rise of the Guardians
{Friday} Cover Story
{Saturday} Review: Pxyis by K.C. Neal

Things are finally starting to slow down here--it was a relaxing week and it was nice to finally get some blogging and reading done! A few more quiet days and then it's time to prepare for my road trip to Southern Cali for ALA! Yay! :D

Have a great week everyone!

26 comments :

  1. Some nice titles I have only read the first book in the Stacey kade series and I still need to read Passion before I get to rapture.

    You can chek put what I got this week here: http://sapphireddragon.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/in-my-mailbox-26.html

    Have a great week and happy reading :-)

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  2. Ooooh Crewel! An author friend nearly braved the fray at BEA for that for me and I'm so glad she didn't. I can wait for such an awesome-sounding book, haha!

    Thanks for visiting my IMM and see you at ALA!

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  3. These look really good. Looking forward to hear what you think of CREWEL, because I'm dying to read that one myself! :) Happy reading!

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  4. I really love the sound of Crewel. Enjoy all your lovely books!

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  5. Oooh nice mailbox. I'm so excited for Eve and Adam and Crewel. That one has a gorgeous cover. I hope you enjoy!! :)

    ~Emily@Emily's Crammed Bookshelf

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  6. I'd need to get body & soul, I liked the first 2 books

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  7. I really need to catch up so I can read Rapture!

    Our Media Mail post is at Book Sake. –Jessica

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  8. Eve and Adam has such a stunning cover! I hope the story is as good as it looks! :) Great books!

    My haul for this week (:

    Happy reading!

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  9. I can't wait to read Body & Soul and see how it ends! I hope that you enjoy your new books!

    Kristina
    Ladybug Storytime

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  10. I read the first book in The Ghost and The Goth series and loved it. Own Queen of the Dead but haven't had the chance to read it yet. NEED Body and Soul, haha. Ohh, Rapture has such a pretty cover. I own the first 3 books but haven't read them yet. Also need to catch up on those.

    Awesome haul. I hope you enjoy everything you got this week and your shelves are pretty :D

    Jennifer @ Dream Reads

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  11. Nice! You got some great books this week! I won an ARC of Crewel, and I can't wait to get it!

    I've never read any of The Ghost and the Goth books. I might have to check them out!

    Eve and Adam sounds great!

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  12. Great haul!! I am excited to read Crewel and Eve and Adam!
    http://lovesbooksreviews.blogspot.com/2012/06/stacking-shelves-7-one-with-timepiece.html

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  13. Those books look totally awesome!
    Bring me a copy of The Archived from ALA? LOL j/k, wish I could go *sigh*
    Enjoy your new books!

    Nickey @ The Book Shop Assistant

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  14. I am so looking forward to reading Eve & Adam, I really hope you enjoy it! Also, Crewel intrigues me. Happy reading!

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  15. All 4 of these look awesome! I got Crewel and Rapture this week too. And Eve & Adam looks amazing!

    My STS

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  16. Waaahh! I've been reealllyy excited to read both Crewel and Eve and Adam! How did you get your hands on those??? And I can't wait to read Rapture, and it looks really good, too.
    Thanks for following my blog! :)

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  17. I'm so excited for Eve and Adam! I can't wait to see what you think of it! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

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  18. Hi Becky, great haul **New Follower**

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  19. I'm reading Body & Soul right now . . .halfway through and loving it:) Of course! I hope Stacey cooks up another great YA series soon *fingers crossed*

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  20. AWESOME HAUL! I'm really dying to read Crewel and Eve and Adam. Hope you enjoy them all! :)

    Happy reading and thanks for dropping by! ^^
    Kari Po-Ku Reads

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  21. Nice haul! I have a copy of Crewel on my TBR shelf and looking forward to reading this one! Eve and Adam sounds like fun too. Love the idea of a husband and wife writing a book together! Happy reading!

    Here are my books.

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  22. i keep hearing really good things about eve and adam. fun books this week!

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  23. I'm still debating on Eve and Adam although I've been hearing great things about it.

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  24. Yay for Crewel. I hope we both like it! I love how you photograph your posts. Thanks for stopping by my blog. :)

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