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This is my first Stacking
the Shelves post and I’m quite excited to share my latest hauls after what
feels like more than a month.
Since I’m currently in my summer vacation (which will finally
come to an end by June), my parents don’t give me allowance thus causing my
money to plummet when I bought Divergent and
Shadow and Bone more than a month back and finally go down the drain
after I paid my remaining balance and finally getting my manga order which was
composed of JUDGE
vol2, Are
You Alice? vols.1-3, and Attack
on Titan vols4-5.
I got a nice chance to get more books when my dad asked me
to do something for him. This past week when all my YA books were all piled up
being labeled as ‘read’, my dad finally brought me to the bookstore in which I got
my latest hauls. While I am really happy for these, I’m a bit disappointed at
myself for failing to get a few more books which I saw there – the Selection
series, Night Film, and Tsarina (which I forgot to ask about). But
ohwell, I’ll just get them when classes resume this June~
Aside from the books I got, my dad also got me a Fullybooked
discount card. YAY!
NOW here’re my new books and some quick thoughts about
them(: I’ll be glad to hear some nice things about some of them so that I can
decided which I’ll read first from them after I’m done with Jane Eyre
(which will probably take some time since I tend to read quite slow when it’s a
classic~ not that I’m a fast reader or anything).
[on some side notes, sorry for the pretty poor photo
qualities since I just used my phone. and no, my phone is not glamorous so the
photo qualities aren’t that good]
I really enjoyed Legend so I
really can’t wait to get my hands on both Prodigy and
Champion
but it turns out that they’re freaking difficult to find now especially that
they’re being republished by Speak. Well so far Speak has republished both Legend
and Prodigy. But Champion, I think will be for another year so I bought
the one released by Penguin Group which unexpectedly has a cover with an
entirely different texture as the Speak release. It sucks but I can deal with
it.
I also bought both Shatter Me
and Unravel
Me. While I really want to get the entire series in just one buying, I stopped
myself from getting Ignite Me because my obsessive compulsive-ness is
striking me. The only copy of Ignite Me available there was the
hardcover and I don’t like mixing paperbacks and hardcovers together. If I start
a series with paperback, they have to be paperback all the way, if hardcover
then all hardcovers. I’m a really simple person and I’m annoying, I know.
After more than a month of finishing Divergent, I’m
really glad to finally get my hands on both Insurgent
and Allegiant
although I’m a bit scared to read Allegiant after seeing it in a good
amount of Top Ten Tuesday this past week being something that isn’t quite good
(or maybe something that failed to live to all the expectations). You see,
people wish they had put it down! Just how disappointing was it? <(≧A≦)>
Finally, the last on my book haul are Code Name
Verity and Between
Shades of Gray which are both historical-fiction. I’ve been meaning to get
both for a long time now. I’ve read a couple of good reviews of Code Name
Verity so I’m quite excited to read it. I’m actually a bit disappointed at
not getting the edition whose cover I really like – this
edition. But I don’t really want to complain so much.
Between Shades of Gray, on the other hand, is
something I saw on another bookstore but is in hardcover and poor condition. I’d
rather wait and find a better copy in paperback than buy in hardcover but poor
condition. I hate unpleasant condition books. It lessens my motivation of
reading them. And did I mention that Between Shades of Gray is my fave
book cover among these new books I have? Both front and back cover look beautifully
subtle.
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What do you guys think of my new haul? Any advice on which I
should read first? :)
