Stacking The Shelves [197]

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Happy Saturday, everyone!  Over on my personal blog, Marie's Reads, I've been doing the PopSugar Reading Challenge on Saturdays.  Hosting Stacking the Shelves this week gets me off the hook from admitting that I haven't checked anything off the list this week!

So here in NC, it's been COLD.  I know a lot of our readers are much farther north than I am, and will laugh:  it's been in the 40s (Fahrenheit) here all week.  And Sunday/Monday are only going to be in the 30s!  But good news (and I hope I'm not jinxing anything here): there's been some chatter about potential snow on Monday.  I'm super excited!  Where I live, 1"-3" of snow/ice accumulation is enough to get a snow day off work, and for me that's a read-a-book-while-drinking-hot-chocolate day!

So here are all the books I've brought home in the last couple of weeks, since the last time I hosted Stacking the Shelves.  Gosh, it's been since before Christmas!  You'll see some Christmas gift books on my list, and you'll also notice that I got on a No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency kick.  And the baby books continue... some friends warned me that I'd just make myself nervous reading baby books; I found that I was more nervous not knowing.

What did you bring home this week?  Join the fun with the link below!

New

Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon:  My mom and I love love love the Mitford series by Jan Karon, and this is the latest release.  My mom got it for me for Christmas... and I got her the same book!  :)

If You're Lucky by Yvonne Prinz:  I don't know much about this one; it was gifted me by a coworker who's opinion I totally trust, so I'm looking forward to it.

Shovel Ready and Near Enemy by Adam Sternbergh:  I was sent Near Enemy by the publisher for review, but hadn't yet read Shovel Ready, so I quickly ordered that for myself on Amazon.  I always feel so grateful and excited when publishers send finished copies and not just ARCs!

Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tapper:  Ok, technically this one was a gift for Baby, but he's not completely here yet so I read it out loud.  He'll see the pictures in April.  :)

No Better Friend by Robert Weintraub:  And this one was technically a gift to Hubby, but I plan to read it because he told me that it was so good.  It's about a guy and his dog during WWII.  Hubby had to promise me that the dog makes it to the end; I can't read sad books where the dog dies!

Becoming Eve by Susan Shepherd:  I had to take a picture of this book when I received it- the author herself wrote such a nice inscription inside and then tied it up in a pretty tulle bow!  I was so fortunate to be part of a group of "beta readers" when Susan was first drafting this book last year, and I think I was nearly as excited as she was when it got published!  The book is nonfiction, about Biblical womanhood.  It's totally readable (not written in academese) and enjoyable!  I can honestly say that the material covered within positively impacted my marriage.

Library

March by Geraldine Brooks: I'd begun listening to the audiobook of this back in the summer, and the file was corrupted.  Finally got around to getting a hard copy and finishing it.  Not my fave book of the year.

On Becoming Babywise by Gary Ezzo & Robert Bucknam:  Fantastic advice from two doctors on how to get your newborn sleeping through the night by 10 weeks.  Definitely going to buy my own copy of this and put it to use!  I'll let you know if it works.  ;)

Mama Tried by Emily Flake:  I haven't read this one yet, but it looks like a good laugh waiting to happen.  An impulsive grab off the shelf while I was visiting a different branch.

Blue Shoes and Happiness, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, and The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith:  I just can't get enough of this lovely little series!

Situation Momedy by Jenna Von Oy:  The subtitle promises "laughing your way through pregnancy and year one" and the book delivers!  I'm usually a bit wary of celeb memoirs, but this one was fantastic and I recommend it to expectant and new moms.  I literally laughed out loud at bits.  I was sold in the first chapter, when Jenna gave us all permission to enjoy and appreciate the miracle of growing a human life... and also to feel completely miserable/out of sorts/uncomfortable.  You CAN experience both of these things!  Sometimes all at once!

So that's what I brought home; how about you?  Remember to use the link below to join the fun!

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Tynga is a 32 years old mom of two, from Montreal, working as a lab technician in an hospital specialized in heart disease. In her free time, she enjoys reading all things Paranormal and photography.

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