Stacking The Shelves (9) ( April 2015) :

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!

So yeah I wasn't as good as I should be. I'm not even going to confess the ebooks I have gotten for free and the few I have actually purchased, y'all would tell me I'm addicted. And I confess that I am, this is a little ashamed, I'm going to BEA in May and I really need to have space but these are just so good I couldn't pass them up.

I went to the library book sale at the twon a few towns over from me, so they were a little more expensive than my local one, but I got some really good ones.

Borrowed From the Library:

Hidden (Avena 1) by Marianne Curley Picked this up because I received the second book back in the fall. Fail that I'm only just now getting to it.

Purchased

Pre Ordered:

Fall With Me J Lynn Because it's JENNIFER DON'T ASK SILLY QUESTIONS!!


Young Adult:

Lock & Key Sarah Dessen $1

Adult Fiction & Romance:

Omar Tyree's books and I got them in the original 1990s covers which I'm glad to have back!!

• Flyy Girl
• Single Mom

Nora Roberts was the biggest find this week with the following titles pulled from my wishlist:

• A Little Magic
• Brazen Virtue
• The Next Always ( Which I'm sure you notice I borrowed from the library before but now I own all three books in the series I can marathon them!!)
• The Heart of Devlin McKade ( It's the original Harlquin cover I'm too excited)

Heather Graham:

• Night Moves
• Keeper of the Night

Kimberla Lawson Roby

• Too Much of a Good Thing  2
• The Best Kept Secret  3

Terry McMillan

• Waiting to Exhale I read this years ago and of course watched the movie, I lent my sister my copy so I snagged this to have on my shelves to lend out from now on.  
• A Day late and a Dollar Short Mom has the hardcover and is reading it
• Mama Never heard of this one but I want it

Bite the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy

Noble Intentions by Katie MacAlister My copy got lost somewhere so I grabbed another. for #0.50 who can go wrong??

Animal Instincts by Gena Showalter

Springwater Linda Lael Miller I read this in high school and absolutely loved the series, but between moves it and the whole series got misplaced. 

When Morning Comes Francis Ray I haven't read this one by Francis so why not get it, especially because it was brand new from Barnes and Nobles donation and only for #1

And for my Austen in August TBR pile I've added

The True Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Ashton

Non Fiction For Review:

The Half That's Never Been Told  by Doctor Dread and Bunny Wailer Because I'm Jamaican and I love reggae I needed this in my life.

Non Fiction Purchased

Green Cleaning Margaret Briggs

Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog 

Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

Welp that's all folks.I got a ton of stuff this week.  I might eventually share all the freebies next week. I'm honestly way too lazy to do them this week. LMAO I'm being honest.

What'd you get this week??  Make sure to swing by the other bloggers and see what they are sharing as well.

Thanks for stopping by.
Lots of reading love

BEA 2014: Day 2: Just Keep Walking...

Welcome to Day Two's Recap.

 I got a lot accomplished today including meeting several of my favorite book vloggers from YouTube.

I filmed this video a few times before I finally got it all together.  Today there weren't any breakfast to go to but we needed to be there early so that we could check our bags in and join the line.

Move aside ladies and gents, Donna Hill and Brenda Jackson are signing at the Harlequin Booth. I'm not afraid to mow anyone down.

I got to swing by the Harlequin Booth first thing and picked up the following:
Terry Brisbans'e Yield to a Highlander
Jannice Maynard's A not so innocent seduction,
My Secret Fantasues
Tall Dark and Vampires
Loretta CHase's
Tiffany Reisz The Saint

Then I jumped on some lines and re0united with my co blogger, and her friends, we jumped from line to line and made some serious progress on our book lists. My favorite moment came while I was on the Sublime Christan Lauren line which was right next to the Mark of Athena Rick Riordan line since the Riordan line was long I jumped on Lauren's lime figuring I would make it back to my sister's spot before I needed to be there. Boy did I plan wrong, Riordan's people made that line move swiftly and my sister ended up right next to me, so I jumped in front of her, got my books signed then jumped back in line in time to get my book signed. It was awesome!! Rick's face was hilarious; his rep was like "you can't do that" and I was like yes I can, I've got a ticket and she's my sister so boom!!  We happen to be right in front of the young woman dressed like a character from the book, She totally rocked I probably should have taken a picture,

Damsel Distressed Kelsey Macke she's also a booktuber on Youtube, Make sure to check her out,   This cover is gorgeous.  This year Spencer Hill was the place to be and they were even better with their giveaways, because you had to have tickets and be online otherwise you lost out,  They were strict and I loved them for it.

The lines today were so long and so tiring. I didn't even try to join the line for Heir of Fire. I just kept walking because already people were online for at least an hour and the line kept snaking around. NOPE. I'll wait. It's not that serious. I do want to commend the BEA Staff again because today they really earned their pay.  They kept those lines orderly and knew when to cut them off and made some ballsy calls when they got confronted by upset people; but I really felt like today went well because of them, they coordinated with the reps and made sure everyone was accounted for and it totally worked.

Since you've been gone, which was the booksplosion book of the month.( I learnt that when I opened up the book after Morgan signed it). This one I almost got into a little tussle with a woman over, I NEED people to understand how the buddy system works and stop getting all grouchy when I get there. I was there and went off to get other books my bags are here. I was so close to snapping at her then I just calmly pointed out that my friends had been online already and I was rejoining them. Calm own honey we're all getting books. Jesus Christos people.

I hung out with the women over at Cleiss press, and learnt all about the amazing new line up. I even managed to snag a few books and I can't wait to share them all with you, Make sure to be on the look out for some sweet erotica reviews and giveaways coming up.

In the Press room I picked up Ben Tripp's The Accidental Highwayman. The cover of this books is gorgeous. It sounds amazing an I can't wait to dive right in.  I got the book because I had it on my list and someone left it in the press room, I gave it to the monitor and she hung on to it for me and when no one claimed it by the end of the day, she gave it to me. Sweet!!

I got to meet Sylvia Day, if I'd been thinking I would have brought my Crossfire Series and gotten her to sign them . However the line was too long we didn't have any time to stop and really talk to her. She signed and while she signed you got a few seconds to gush, then it was time to move one.

I was stuck on a few lines this year. However my fellow blogger had made some serious friends on line and they kept switching out, and getting each other so many books. It was awesome because we kept in contact all of BEA and of course afterwards as well so that we can meet up again next year,

My sister asked me to join the Scott Westerfeld line for her, that line was a clustereff of foolishness, it went on forever and I was like Girl I love you but no. So I joined it anyway because.. well. books. She and her new bloggie friends came over 20 mins later and I went over to Hatchette where they were serving beer. It was perfect, my feet ached, I was tired and I wanted 10 mins of silence, but that corona certainly helped.  I got Elin Hildenbrand's newest Christmas book and I was outta there. I switched places again with my co blogger so she could grab a drink as well and then i stayed on line because well ..books.  It ended up working out in my favor. I was the last person in line and they still had books so I went over and asked if he could sign one and the rep was like "whatevs" probably because Scott said yes before she could answer.  I got five whole minutes to talk to him about his body of work and the rumors about movies being in the works for the Uglies series, which I had just begun to read. He was pretty freaking awesome. I see why people love him. He totally sold me on the new book as well.

Grand Total of 57 books, 7 bags, and two kickbutt stamps.

I'm both looking forward to and terrified of tomorrow. It being the thrid day and the first day of Book Con.  The rumors I'm hearing of the numbers of people can't be right and I hope to the gods people are exagerating because NO. Just. No.

Mardi Gras Madness Bingo Challenge

Yes I'm signing up for another darn challenge but this one looks awesome doesn't it!! And it's going to help with the Project 45 & the Project 350 (otherwise known as my TBR pile).

This wonderful Bingo game is the brain child of the lovely ladies over at Oh The Books, Click here to learn all the rules.  It's Bingo y'all it should be hella fun to do!! So far I have B. I. G

Read a book that…

B1: involves Greek mythology
B2: features a jester character
B3: has a mostly purple cover
B4: has a character that leads a life of excess Antonio in Sex & The Single Vamp Robin Covington
B5: has a crown on the cover

I1: has gems or jewels on the cover
I2: has a character going to a party 2/18 What the Greek's Money Can't Buy Maya Blake
I3: is set in Paris
I4: involves doubloons in the story
I5: has a king character or on the cover

N1: is set in The Big Easy (New Orleans, baby!)
N2: involves Egyptian mythology
N3: FREE SQUARE! Dial M For Menage 
N4: is set on/in/near a large body of water
N5: has a mostly yellow or gold cover

G1: has a character who goes to a ball
G2: has a mask on the cover
G3: involves a carnival (faire/circus)
G4: has a queen character or on the cover
G5: has cake on the cover or being eaten in the story Tart Lauren Dane ( Wedding Cake)

O1: has a French character or author 
O2: has a mostly green cover
O3: involves a feast Rome ( Rule's wedding)
O4: has characters wearing costumes
O5: has a feathered character or feathers on the cover 

Won't you join in?? We can share book suggestions and ideas. Let me know if you're participating too, cause this is about to be fun!!

Happy Reading

BEA 2013 Day 3:

Well my loves it's the last day of BEA 2013 and I'm terrifed of the craziness that's about to happen. Why do you ask?? Well because today is Power Reader day which means that the general public will be walking around on the floor today and quite a few of the publishers will be winding down and packing it in.

Today was Harlequin Day, let me tell you, we had our lists and we were going to get all the books on it goddarn it. The last two days were hectic and we made a bargain of no more than twso bags to carry plus our suitcase.   We were planning to go to a late lunch after the expo was over and we so didn't want to be lugging too may books around. Yeah we so didn't stick to that plan at all!! As you can see below, this was just my section of books.

Let me explain, you see, BEA officially closed at 4, but we learnt from last year's experience, they close way earlier and if you want ARCs that were displays you need to be beisde the booths when they close.  I went back to Sourcebooks who I had been stalking all ceonvention long and the girl said they were leaving at 2, so we could come back then, but when we walked past after 1 most of the books were gone. Heffa?!!!! I so wanted the second book in the Vicious Deep series and I had seen so many of the lovely Carolyn Brown books and several authors I wanted and now they were gone. *I hate everything*.

Mostly we just ran around to booths like Harlequin and pulled up some serious display books. I went back by the Writers Coffee Shop and picked up a few more books on display and then it was time to head over to Quirk books to get the most awesome books ever.

As I was leaving I stopped by Random House and they had a copy of Ebony & Ivy which sounds amazing and the young woman at the booth told me to take, I didn't give her a chance to finish before I ran away with it!!

I'm a native New Yorker and I'm going to confess something shameful...I have never been to the flagship NYC Library..*gasp shock horror* Yeah I know. But today we went and we stopped near the park behind it and enjoyed some music and a light meal from the little resutrant which was packed with people enjoying the warm weather.

So there you have the adventures of Aisha & Akili at BEA 2013. It was another awesome year and now I have to wonder how i'm getting these books back to CT. Book nerd problems.I have pictures, and I'll be putting them up as soon as my camera stops trying to eat my SD card. We had a blast afterwards. 

See you guys later with a Haul from BEA.
Happy Reading