We just got back from a trip last night, and I’m still not feeling quite the thing. And is it my imagination or have airplane seats and the space between rows gotten a whole lot smaller in the last few years? I’m only 5’1″, I’m not supposed to have legroom issues! I expected to get […]
It was not a great week, but the books were mostly good. And I’ve re-discovered the joys of audiobooks, which is marvelous. But it just seems to be one of those “out of sorts” kind of days/weeks, and I’m not sure why. C’est la vie. I guess it’s time to lose myself in a good […]
I had so much fun with Twelve Angry Librarians that I decided to get the rest of the series. And speaking of rest of series, Anna Hackett sent me the latest book in her Galactic Gladiators series this week. I am really looking forward to diving back into the world of the Kor Magna arena. […]
I picked up more books from the library than NetGalley and Edelweiss this week. I was inspired by other things I read (or did) and just had to get the books. After loving The Chilbury Ladies Choir, it seemed like a good time to get The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. I also finished […]
One of these days I have to do a test run of the grid and discover which numbers work well, which are OK, and which ones are really, really fugly. When I have huge lists, I often find myself shuffling a few off to the next week, just to keep the grid from being weird. […]
This should be the Sherlock Holmes edition of Stacking the Shelves. I’m at 221, if not 221B. And I even have a couple of Sherlock Holmes books on tap to keep the meme going! But I also have a couple of books that I simply did not expect to see. Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb has changed […]
Welcome to the post-ALA Midwinter Stacking the Shelves. And it’s a doozy. Back before the conference, I did my STS post really early, because I don’t get any blogging done during the conference. So a LOT of books piled up in those two weeks. And I saw a few things at the conference. I didn’t […]
Welcome to the ALA Midwinter edition of Stacking the Shelves. What that really means is that I actually went crazy on Netgalley and Edelweiss last week, and split the haul between two posts so I’d have something to post today. I’m actually downtown in the middle of the conference, probably in a meeting. Perpetually in […]
After the holidays, all the publishers came back to Netgalley and Edelweiss with a vengeance. It’s gone from famine to feast in the blink of an eye. And I finally decided to seriously dive into some series that I missed, so lots of library books and a few buys from Amazon really round out the […]
I wasn’t happy with a couple of the books I planned to read this week, which left me open to the blandishments of others. The grass is always greener inside the “other” book. Sometimes any other book. I was also caught up in a big book for a Library Journal review, which led me to […]