Sunday, July 22, 2012

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (13)

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Xpresso Weekly is my edition of Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books
I got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.

This week at Xpresso Reads

How are all of my gorgeous readers doing? I hope your summer’s amazing and warm. I also hope you’re all enjoying the fabulous summer releases because wow they are aplenty! On the blog this week I posted a giveaway for an ARC of Envy by Elizabeth Miles in case you missed it. I’m also very happy to have been selected as one of the bloggers who will be on the Authors are Rockstars tour. So make sure to stop by on August 24th to meet my rockstar!

My reviews this week:
Stacking the Shelves
As some of you can’t or don’t like to watch vlogs, the pictures are below! 

Vlog note: One ebook missing from vlog – On The Island – pictured below.
I was in a hurry so don’t mind the spazzy speed talking.

Click on covers or title links below for Goodreads

I got for review: 

*Thanks so much to St Martin’s Press, Penguin Canada, Macmillan, and Penguin Group USA for the review copies*
I was gifted:
My awesome friend Jenni from Alluring Reads gifted me this amazing, shiny pretty! Thanks SO much, dollface!
Can’t get enough of me?
What awesomeness did you get this week?
Leave me a link! 🙂
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Giselle

Canadian blogger, wife, mother, coffee lover, and sarcastic at heart! She has had a love for all things bookish since before Amazon and eReaders existed *le gasp*. You can also find her organizing tours and other fun things at Xpresso Book Tours.

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75 Responses to “Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (13)”

  2. Molli @ Once Upon a Prologue

    EEP! Unremembered looks AMAZING. I’ve been stalking that one for awhile, and the cover looks fabulous. Also, I have book OCD, too. I waited to buy Delirium until the new cover was out in paperback because I couldn’t STAND the thought of them not matching. Now I’m all FEELINGS over the Shatter Me series cover change, because I still have my ARC of the first book and it won’t match the others. SIGH.

    Anyway, great haul, Giselle! Love your vlogs, as always!

    My Once Upon a Book Haul

  3. margie c {the bumble girl}

    Whoa, the cover to Hold Me Closer Necromancer is really cool! and Unremembered sounds a bit scary, creepy cover too!
    And I too hate when my books don’t match, lol! I don’t understand why they’ve been changing around so many series lately, especially when they’re 2 or 3 books into the series already, ugh!

    Enjoy your books, Giselle 🙂

  5. Rachel

    You’re so cute in your vlog Giselle! How nice of your friend Jenny to lend you the second Necromancer book. Unremembered has an awesome cover! I hope they keep it. I loved On the Island! I hope you do too! I like book covers to match if they’re in a series too, why would they do that? Awesome haul this week chicky! 🙂

  7. Katie @ BlookGirl

    AHHH! I am SO freaking jealous of Unremembered and Origin. If you happen to pass on either of those, remember me! Haha 😉 I am very curious to see what you think of On the Island. My review should be up any minute…

    Sounds like you had a fabulous week, thanks to generous publishers and a certain mutual friend of ours 😉 Hope this next week is even better, muffin! Love you <3

  8. Jenni @ Alluring Reads

    I was totally not lying!! I even talk about how much I liked it in my STS this week!! I’m happy you’re excited to read it 🙂 I’m very curious about Glow, you’ll be my guinea pig on that one. I did see it at WalMart today with the new cover, the one that matches spark, it was nice! And only like $7 or some crap. Unremembered sounds sooooo good, I NEED that one. Great haul, I love your vlogs chick! And not just because you called me sexy… Though that’s part of it…. A BIG part… 😛

  10. Katie @ BlookGirl

    Oops! I didn’t watch your video originally, and my sleep-addled brain didn’t catch from the pictures that Unremembered is an eARC, and not a physical copy >.< I won't be borrowing that! Haha! Maybe it'll come back up for request again. Origin, however… 😉

    I _hate_ it when covers are different! Ahh!! I wish they would stop doing that >.<

  11. speculatef

    Hey darl!! Firstly, read your review of Something Strange and Deadly and my reaction was *want!*. So I ordered a hardback copy from TBD.

    I <3 Glow, and I'm looking forward to buying Spark 🙂 I hope you enjoy them. They have less science fail in them than the Beth Revis series! Origin looks pretty interesting too …. My TBR pile grows every time I visit here 😀

    Happy Reading,
    Shaheen @ Speculating on SpecFic
    Come and check out my new weekly book haul feature, Stocktake Saturday.

  15. Candace

    I got Hold me Closer Necromancer not long ago. It is a pretty cover, isn’t it? And Glow & Spark are weird but I really liked them. And On the Island really surprised me, I loved it! Awesome book week!

  17. Alba

    ¬_¬ Amanda was first, AGAIN -_-
    So not natural or normal for that girl to do this to me -___________- ~excuse me while I haunt her down~
    OH MY GOD!!! This video’s so short!! I actually just made mine and it’s 30min long ¬_¬ so now I’ll have to do it yet AGAIN~third time~ and try not to talk too much or not to freak out on the books I’m showing… if you’ve never seen a blog of mine…~sighs~ it’s good because I assure you T_______T I embarrass myself, constantly 😛

    Enjoy
    and OMGGGGGGGGG Origin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    What’s ‘Hold Me Closer Necromancer’ about? I don’t want to read the description but want to get the book >.< love the tittle <3

  18. Kathy Ann Coleman

    Nice stuff. 🙂 I’ve had Glow on my shelf for ages and I keep putting it off because Jay got it too and we’re “suppose to read it together”… But that never happens. >.>

    I’ve been wanting to read Hold Me Closer Necromancer, too. I should grab that the next time I do an Amazon order. 🙂

    Anyway, looks like you had a great week. I hope the next one’s just as fabulous. 🙂

  20. Helen Keeble

    Hey, I just bought Hold Me Closer, Necromancer! It was recommended to me, and it sounds so much fun. Will look forward to hearing what you think of it!

  23. Vegan YA Nerds

    Nice haul! I LOVE the cover of Unremembered, I feel like it says so much about the book and I have Glow and Spark too, wondering if I’m going to like them!

  25. Daisy

    Ooh, Origin!! I’ve already pre-ordered a copy, it sounds so exciting! Can’t wait to hear what you think of it 🙂

  27. Eileen

    First of all, at the end of your vlog, MY VIDEO WAS ONE OF THE SUGGESTED VIDEOS! Yes, I can cross that off my blogging bucket list! 😉 Oh, and Origin sounds so good I’m super jealous! 🙂 I was okay towards Glow but I still really want to read Spark so I hope you really enjoy them! 🙂

    Check out my Stacking the Shelves!

  28. Amy

    Unremebered sounds really good. I really want to read Origin. I hope you love On the Island. I thought it was an amazing book!!! Great books!! I totally get what you mean about the book covers. I have the pretty hardcover copies of Across the Universe and A Million Suns and now the 3rd book won’t match!! 🙁 Now I usually just order books on my nook if it’s a series and then once they are all out I will get physical copies. (Unless the cover it to die for then I will buy it anyways)

  33. Jac

    Unremembered looks really good – I hadn’t heard of it before!!

    I’m anxious to hear about Glow and Spark, I’ve heard mixed on both…

    I love your video 🙂 I had never heard you talk!

    Stop by and see my New Books!

  44. Karen

    Great books!

    I loved Pushing the Limit. It seems a lot of people got it this week.

    The new Hold Me Necromancer cover is nice.

  51. Kristilyn (Reading in Winter)

    Unremembered looks soo good! 🙂 And I hate unmatching covers, too. I love my books to match as well!

    Origin looks AMAZING! Hold Me Closer, Necromancer looks interesting! I’ve seen it on a few blogs now — gotta check it out!

    Enjoy all your books!

  53. Kara_Malinczak

    Unremembered looks really great but I am hesitant to read another story about survival since the one I just finished I was disappointed with.

    That was really nice of Jenni to gift you that book. I’ve heard great things about that series so I hope you like it. WHEN are you reading The Enemy?? *stab, stab*

  55. Sarah Elizabeth

    I have to say that I was really annoyed that the covers for glow and spark don’t match! Why do publishers do this to us?!
    I’ve just finished reading somethign strange and deadly and puching the limits too so can’t wait to hear what you think ☺

  63. Cayce

    Unremembered looks really interesting. And I kinda want to read On the Island, but I’m afraid it might be too sad for me. Can’t wait read your review on it!
    Enjoy your books! 🙂

  65. Theta Sigma

    Hi Giselle

    Thank you for visiting my blog. 🙂

    Out of these books, I’ve only heard of “On The Island” and I think people may be getting a little bored with my saying how much I’m loving it… But I’ll say it again. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! And I hope you like it too.

    “Unremembered” has a great looking cover and I hope it gets a Kindle release in the UK.

    Hope you enjoy your books.

  66. Cassie Frye

    Um, Unremembered looks AMAZING! And that cover for Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is gorgeous! <3 Enjoy your book haul and thanks for stopping by my blog!

  69. kay - Infinite Shelf

    Oh! What a great haul! Unremembered, Origin, On the Island… all books I wand to read! I enjoyed Glow and I can’t wait to read Spark (it’s slowly on its way to me right now!) Enjoy your new books! 🙂

  70. Livvy

    Thanks for commenting on my staking the shelves.

    This loosk like a great haul!!

    Ohhh Origin looks really good, I really want to read that and I’m very excited for when it comes out.

    Enjoy reading!

  72. Ren

    Thanks for stopping by my blog! You got so many amazing looking books! I hope you enjoy them. Happy reading! =)