Stacking the Shelves [344]

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!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page!

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My absolutely towering complete stack is over at Reading Reality. And it's ginormous!

This is the semi-annual post-ALA (American Library Association) Conference stack. An ALA Conference is like BookExpo for librarians. The publishers bring their forthcoming books - and the authors of those books, to the conference to get librarians to add books to their library's collections.

I always find way too many interesting books, but I do not pick up print ARCs, which are everywhere. I ask for eARCs from NetGalley and Edelweiss for the books that sound interesting. This reserves the print ARCs for librarians who are still working at libraries, and saves my back from toting them around the exhibit floor.

Books are heavy. VERY heavy!

It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned. My husband agrees wholeheartedly, as he used to do a lot of the book toting.

The following is a sample of what I saw and really liked. Please check out Reading Reality to see the entire haul!

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Marlene is the perpetrator of the book blog Reading Reality, as well as a librarian and freelance writer currently living in Atlanta (after stops in Chicago, Seattle, Florida and Anchorage, not necessarily in that order. Her house full of books also contains her husband, also in the library biz, and two cats who really run the place.