The year is winding down fast! For those who celebrate it, the Christmas Holidays are next week. For many of the rest of us, it’s a lovely excuse for a long weekend. For those who have to work next weekend, especially those working retail during the last frenetic shopping days, I salute you. Especially your […]
This edition of Stacking the Shelves is brought to you by Boxes ‘r Us, which is what our new apartment looks like right now. The picture below is the view behind my chair. Those boxes are looming over me as I type. I studiously ignore them. This office will probably be the last room to […]
For once, a really short shelf stack, at least for me. Not so much because I was being sensible, as because I simply didn’t have time to look at either NetGalley or Edelweiss. Even so, I still pre-ordered Cold Days and read it while the movers were taking stuff out of the house. Every so […]
First lesson to be learned here is not to let the Stacking the Shelves post go three weeks without posting. It gets positively ginormous. Second lesson to be learned, is that if you ask your programmer husband to create the cover grid, instead of creating the grid, he will start creating an entirely new utility […]
My book-filled cup runneth over. The publishers are putting their end-of-the year titles out, and the lists are getting pretty awesome. Three authors are in here that I’ve always wanted to read, Lisa Marie Rice, Cassandra Clarke and Carolyn Crane, but I didn’t want to jump into the middle of established series. They are all […]
I look at the length of this list and thank whoever the patron deity of booklovers might be that these are almost all ebooks. (Anything not stated otherwise is a book in the key of e.) Even though this is two weeks worth of book-stacking, I went a bit overboard. Again. But I think that […]
This issue of Stacking the Shelves is back to normal. Well, normal for me, anyway, which means seriously overstacked. I feel so much better now. There are a few titles that landed on the list because of something I read elsewhere…so to speak. Nights of Steel by Nico Rosso, and The Importance of Being Wicked […]
I must have been sick last week–except that I didn’t feel under the weather. Just overwhelmed. I have three fairly thick (and intense!) books to review this week for Book Lovers Inc and Library Journal, and I must have had an attack of common sense. Or I didn’t see much that tickled my fancy. That […]
I beg your indulgence for two week’s worth of shelf-stacking. This actually isn’t bad for me for two weeks of temptation, now that I look at it closely. Maybe I’ve learned a little restraint? Not a chance. The lone print outlier on the list, Dreams and Shadows by Cargill, is the monthly contribution from Library […]
This was one of those weeks when I tried to be good. Only 12 books. Three comments. I’ve already reviewed Delusion in Death, the new J.D. Robb. Got it Tuesday, finished it Wednesday. It was terrific to see how everyone at the NYPSD is getting on, but this wasn’t one of the “great” cases in […]