Yay! It’s time for Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews. Like last week, I have actually not bought any books this week, which I know will come as a surprise. I’ve now been dared not to do so until Loncon, and not to get any books out of the library on any of my tickets until I’ve read all the ones I’ve got for at least one ticket.
Torture.
But I do still get ARCs, and here’s what I got this week!
Fiction ARCs/review copies
Venomoid and The Before Now and the After Then are both LGBT, though probably of rather different stripes. Zeus is Dead, I won from Librarything Early Reviewers. The first two are via Netgalley, and I couldn’t find any more inspiring covers for them. Thanks, all!
Non-fiction ARCs/review copies
Random stuff about words and language is very cool, and given Wales’ historical socialist/communist tendencies, I have an interest in something that is a bit more nuanced than “communism=bad” in my non-fiction. (In fiction, I recommend the Library of Wales books, especially Cwmardy and We Live.)
Freebies
Was given this one in the library I volunteer at because it’s been in the sales basket for as long as I’ve been volunteering there, and before that, hadn’t been taken out since 2007. They pretty much figured I’d be the only person in the world who’d give it a home.
Out of curiosity, the couple of times I put Goodreads URLs in so you could click through the book’s page by clicking on the cover, stats showed no clickthroughs using those links. Is that a thing people want/find useful, or not? It’s a faff for me, but if it’s useful, I’ll do it.
I haven’t heard of these before but I hope you like them all!
Thank you!
I almost picked up Words in time and place but I’m not sure I’m in the mood for that kind of read right now even though I’m very intrigued by it. You scored some really great reads! Enjoy 🙂
You’ll probably be able to get hold of it later anyway if you fancy it some other time! The good thing about books is their longevity. Thanks for commenting!
I haven’t heard of these either. Lol the book was really untouched for such a long period, poor book 😀
My new pretties 🙂
Yeah, it’s a good thing they had a volunteer with an interest in the right period of history, or they might’ve ended up throwing it out!
I love looking at your haul every week! So different! Enjoy! 🙂
Thank you!
Great haul. Thanks for stopping by my STS!
Thanks!
We are so excited you were able to obtain one of our ARC copies for “The Before Now and After Then”! We hope that you enjoy this title, it was one that really gripped our heartstrings tightly. Cheers!
Thank you! I’m looking forward to it.
I haven’t heard of any of these, and my you have a really diverse selection this week, Nikki 🙂
I sometimes click through on Goodreads links, other times not. I usually have a window open with Goodreads up anyway, and it is easy to check out a new to me book without clicking on the link.
Thanks for stopping by earlier. Happy reading.
Don’t I always? Heh.
Hmm, good to know. Thanks for answering that. And thanks for stopping by!
I need to put a book ban on myself until I clear some shelves and get a few off the ereaders…that’s the plan for the rest of summer now the Commonwealth Games is finishing. Thanks for visiting!
*grin* I can only do it when I’ve been bet I can’t. I’m very much my father’s daughter in that — if you bet against me, I will work like crazy to prove you wrong.
I like the unique cover of Zeus Is Dead. Definitely never seen anything quite like it before. Happy reading!
It does look fun, doesn’t it? Thanks for commenting!
These are all new to me, but the covers definitely have me intrigued! Great haul! I hope you enjoy them all =)
Thank you!
I haven’t heard of any of these, but I love the cover of Words In Time and Place. It’s so pretty! Happy reading and thanks for visiting my STS!
Amber @ My Bookshelf Is Hungry
Thank you! Hope you have a good week.
I will have to look into Venomoid for both myself and a friend. Thanks for stopping by my STS.
You’re welcome! It does look fun.