The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

By Brookelorren on 39 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday

Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl), where we talk about various book topics every week. Today we’re talking book hauls! I’ve been living my best book life now and have a couple really awesome books in my most recent books. For purposes of this post I’m not going to talk about books I’ve pre-ordered but haven’t received yet (or that are currently on their way in the mail). Let’s get started!

My most recent two acquisitions were Slayer and Chosen by Kiersten White. Back in October of 2018 we had a Top Ten Tuesday topic called “Authors I’d Love to Meet,” and one of the authors I listed was Kiersten White, even though I had never read any of her books before. She always seemed nice on Twitter. I’m happy to report that not only is she extremely nice, she’s also very funny! I got her to sign the two hardback books of hers I own. The others are all digital, which are hard to sign. One out of ten of those authors met, nine to go!

Another one of my recent additions is an ARC copy of The Kingdom of Back! I’ve had the chance to read it already and I had so much to say about this book, my review ended up being 911 words long. It’s definitely different than any of the other books she’s published that are up on Goodreads.

Romanov cover

Romanov was on sale for $1.99 earlier this week, and of course, I had to pick it up. I had hoped to get an ARC for this one prior to publication, but was denied, so getting it on sale is the next best thing.

I’m guessing that some of the lists this week might have some serendipitous and strange books on it. Like this one: Legends and Myths from Wales. The book is free on Amazon. Anyway, the book I’m writing is slightly inspired by Wales, and I got this book for research.

I left Audible for a while because I had several books I hadn’t listened to yet and my credits were building up, so I got How to Write Best-Selling Fiction with one of my credits.

Another one of my Audible purchases was 11/22/63 by Stephen King. This book had seemed interesting. I’m somewhat picky at what books I listen to on audiobook. Some books are just easier to absorb through the printed/electronic page, and this one seems like its one that might work well on audio.

Eliza and Her Monsters was another Audible credit I needed to use up. I had been interested in this story for a while, but sometimes there’s not enough time to read all the stories you want. I did have time to listen to the audio version though.

The Summer of Impossibilities cover

The Summer of Impossibilities is a recent Netgalley acquisition. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to start thinking about summer books again! It is January, and I probably won’t read this for a couple more months, but summer books are on their way!

Song of the Abyss cover

Finally, Song of the Abyss was on sale for $2.99! It’s one of Kindle’s monthly deals for January. I read Isle of Blood and Stone last year, so hopefully I’ll get around to reading this soon.

I’ve gotten all these books in the last two weeks. I’ve read two of these already and am working on reading a third (How to Write Best-Selling Fiction).

What were the last ten books you’ve obtained? I wonder if this week we’ll see a lot of random books. Next week, we’re talking about books on out TBR that we predict will be five-star reads. See you then!

39 comments

    1. The length was one of the reasons why I picked 11/22/63 for audio. It’s probably something I wouldn’t get to this year otherwise.

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  2. Kiersten White certainly does sound like a great author to meet — and such a cool quote in your book now! The Summer of Impossibilities is the best title! I want to see what that ones about!

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    1. She is awesome. I think she remembered me from Twitter too, because when I posted our picture afterwards, she replied that it was nice to finally meet me. 🙂

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    1. No. I’m still on Season 2 of The Americans… which I started watching several years ago. I watch almost no television.

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    1. Thanks! Those were my two expensive books on the list. I spent a total of $5 (plus 3 Audible credits) on the rest of the books.

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    1. Haha that’s why I buy books when they go on sale for $1.99. The cover of The Kingdom of Back is more amazing in person! It’s so detailed and gorgeous and the pictures don’t do it justice. I bet the hardcover finished copy is going to be even better because if they make it shiny… I’m probably just going to want to look at it and pet it (while I read Chain of Gold that comes out the same day, LOL). My first impression when I read the first few pages was “It had me at the maps.” There are maps that are going to be in the end papers that are amazing.

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  6. You are right! My list was a bit all over the place. 😊 Yay for Romanov! I hope we both love it when we read it. That is so cool you got to meet White! How exciting! I hope you enjoy all your new books!

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    1. Romanov is going to be great.

      I had never seen an author on tour before (I’ve met authors at literature conferences and at other events not centered around the author’s book) and I was surprised. I got there an hour early thinking maybe there’d already be a line out the door, but I got in the front row. I was expecting we’d get like 10 seconds to talk to them, but there wasn’t a hurry. I got to make her laugh, because I told her I put a character in my book named after her… named Pearston. Some people get her name wrong and that was one of the wrong ways they spelled it and I had put it in my book that way.

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    1. When I saw it was going to be on Bookish First I think I screamed! I always try to keep points on hand there for a “big book” but I was amazed that they’d have “the book” that I’ve been wanting to read for about a year and a half. It’s the only book I’ve ever written to a publisher for… although they turned me down.

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    1. March 3 is going to be an amazing day for books! I’m getting TKoB finished copy, but I’m also getting Chain of Gold and The Vanishing Deep audiobook that day.

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  19. Ah these are great additions! I’m really curious about Marie Lu’s latest release. And I LOVE Eliza and Her Monsters so much, so glad you got the chance to read it! I also can’t wait to read The Summer of Impossiblities, it sounds so good,I love summer books 🙂

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