New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {103}

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)

New on my bookshelves the past two weeks:

The Swap by Megan Shull

Messanger of Fear by Michael Grant (with playing cards)

Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato

Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan

Lark Rising by Sandra Waugh

The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts

Many thanks to Harper and Random House for these lovely finished copies!

The Weekly Nutshell: 

{Wednesday} Jackaby Book Birthday Giveaway!
{Thursday} Guest Review: Falling into Place by Amy Zhang

{Friday}  Cover Story

I was away from the blog for some family time these past few weeks, because I lost my lovely grandpa.  He was 96 years old, such an amazing wonderful man, and I will miss him so incredibly much.   Now I seem to be coming down with a cold, so I'm not sure how much I'll be around this coming week, either. 
Last week I finished Gates of Thread and Stone so review coming up on that one.  I started Firebug and with all that was going on, just couldn't get into it so I've put it aside for now.  I do plan to give it a try another time. Yesterday I started Trial by Fire and I literally have NOT wanted to put it down.  I should be done with it tomorrow so review to come on that one, too! 

Thanks for stopping by, everyone!