New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {101}

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 Tynga's Stacking the Shelves) 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)

Here's what I got this week:

The Rule of Thoughts by James Dashner

 I haven't heard much about this series, but it looks exciting!

Winterspell by Claire Legrand (!!!!!)

Yeeeeeeeee!  I traded a book for this, but I think I might have traded my left hand if asked. LOL

The Weekly Nutshell: 
{Tuesday}  Waiting on Wednesday:The Sin Eater's Daughter
{Wednesday} Astray Blog Tour Giveaway!
{Friday} Review : Jackaby by William Ritter

Last week I read Jackaby. Basically because I was at a point where if I didn't drop everything and read something I was REALLY WANTING to read I was going to hit a major  slump.  Always an important point to be able to recognize as a reviewer, people! :)  LOVED it!! Such a fun read and completely deserving of the elevator pitch 'Doctor Who meets Sherlock".  But check out my review for further fangirling :).  I also finished Stray this week, which was really good, and am half-way through The Fall, which has me completely mesmerized with it's bizarre creepiness and compelled me to pick up it's inspiration book,  Poe's Fall of the House of Usher so I can compare the two stories.  Other than that it's been a pretty quiet life this week!  Hope everyone is ready for September because it's shaping up to be an amazing book month!!