Sunday, April 20, 2014

New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {85}

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's been sneaking into my mailbox lately! 
For review:
This looks really cute and hopefully has a good message about body issues.
Love this author, so accepting this one was a given :)
This was my WoW a few weeks back...such a lovely cover and I love books about dreams/nightmares.
Looks just like Merida from Brave! :D  
This says its a second and I don't think I've heard of the first book---I'll have to seek it out!
Witches, demons, and ancient battles. I'm hoping this one will be good!

Many thanks to Running Press Kids, Harlequin Mira, Scholastic, Random House, and Mink Publishing for these! 


The Weekly Nutshell: 
{Monday} Deep Blue Giveaway
{Tuesday} Waiting on Wednesday: The Opal Crown 
{Wednesday} Review: Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
{Thursday} Rachel Hawkins Event Recap + Signed ARC Giveaway

Hope everyone had a fabulous week.  I've been doing lots of family stuff lately so I've been crawling through my reading so slowly.  LOL Been beautiful weather outside though, so it'd be a shame not to enjoy it! Before I know it, it will be too hot and I will be hiding indoors again!  On a side note, I very nearly had a heart attack this weekend when my computer went down and when I restarted it, it was just a blank screen that said "Missing Operating System".  Yikes!! If you ever see this, try this before you panic: unplug anything you have hooked up to USB connections and restart again.  Luckily this time, that did the trick. But uuuuugh.

Here I go, back to the safety of my very non-electronic books, sweeties! :)  
Oh and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!