Weekly Recap (#7) + Stacking the Shelves

It’s time for the weekly recap where I recap my week book, blogging and life wise. I’ll be linking up to Stacking The Shelves, a weekly meme at Tynga’s Reviews where bloggers can share what books they’ve received this week.

~Life~

Christmas went well! I received lots of practical things like shower stuff, a nightgown, and a Starbucks Tumbler. 🙂 I also received $50 and a gift card for Amazon. I then proceeded to spend $25 and the entire gift card on books. I’m excited to talk about them later. It was low key at my house, the holidays typically are, My family and I don’t go out of town or anything so we just exchanged presents and had dinner.

Other than that, things have been fine at home. It was a bit stressful those days leading up to Christmas trying to get everyone bought for and such.

I finally got to play with my Kindle! My mom had wrapped it up a few days before Christmas so I hadn’t even gotten to play with it before then. Now I love it so much. I already have all my E-ARCS on there from EW plus all the….books I’ve purchased. 🙂

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 ~Last Week on YA Indulgences~

Top Ten Tuesday

Wondrous Covers Wednesday (#17)

Review: Get Even by Gretchen McNeil (Three Stars)

End of The Year Blog Survey

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~This Week on YA Indulgences~

I’m not really sure how this week’s going to go on here. I have a few posts I want to write up before the new year comes and it’s already the 28th. Hopefully though I’ll definitely have up Amber’s Rambles and a review.

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 ~Blogging Changes~

This past week I created a new “Page” on my blog that will include my challenges and readathons. I still need to finish updating it, but so far I added the Book Blog Discussion Challenge and the E-ARC Challenge. The Book Blog Discussion Challenge is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight. If you want to sign up for it, there’s still time. You can go here to check it out. The goal is to write more discussions and this will help with motivation. 🙂

The E-ARC challenge is officially called the Netgalley and Edelweiss Reading Challenge 2015 and it’s hosted by Emily @ Falling For YA. You can view the link up and join in at the link above.

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 ~Reading Wise~

One day, I’ll have actually completed a book and you will all be so surprised. Until then, I’ll just be giving you my reading progress. I had to return Even In Paradise to the library (ugh), so I started Lord of the Rings on my Kindle and I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson which I borrowed from the library.

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~Stacking The Shelves~

I’m so excited! It’s Stacking The Shelves time! Yay! Okay, so I already mentioned this meme is hosted @ Tynga’s Reviews and bloggers can share the books they’ve bought, won, been gifted, or received for review. If you would like to participate (and of course you do), you can go here!

It’s been a busy book week for me. As you’ll see in a minute…

Purchased:

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin (His Fair Assassin Trilogy 1) by Robin LaFevers

The Lord of The Rings: One Volume by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Queen of The Tearling (The Queen of The Tearling #1)by Erika Johansen

Red Rising (The Red Rising Trilogy Book 1)

The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass

The Elite (The Selection #2) by Kiera Cass

The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass

Graceling (Graceling Realm) by Kristin Cashore

Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter

Fall Like Rain by Ana Tejano

The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner #1) by James Dashner

The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

Outlander: A Novel (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon

On The Fence by Kasie West

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle Book 1) by Maggie Stiefvater

Damsel Distressed by Kelsey Macke

Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas

For Review:

Between The Notes by Sharon Huss Roat

Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi

Paperweight by Meg Haston

Don’t Ever Change by M. Beth Bloom

Look at how gorgeous those covers are! Especially Tiny Pretty Things, Emmy & Oliver and Paperweight. I love how the drawing’s come back more into “style” with covers.

Thank you so much Edelweiss and HarperCollins! I couldn’t resist requesting these once I knew they were available on EW. I’m so happy about all of them. Especially The Night We Said Yes, Paperweight and Tiny Pretty Things.

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Okay, tell me how your week was, your Christmas, what books you’ve bought or won or obtained by other means in the comments. 🙂 Also, if you’ve read any of the books above, let me know how they are.