Monthly Wrap-Up – January 2018

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!

Hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

• Bookish Naughty or Nice Tag
• End of the Year Book Survey
• TTT – Top 10 New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2017
• Harry Potter *MOTW*
• Review – Handler by Tish Thawer
• Review – These Things I’ve Done by Rebecca Phillips
• Review: Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich
• Review – Dirty Red by Tarryn Fisher
• Review – Thief by Tarryn Fisher
• Review – The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

COMING SOON

• Top Ten Tuesday
• discussion
• tags
• Backlist reviews

 

BOOKS IN MY MAILBOX

Kindle (Freebies)

Dawn – Hero Society – Jessica Florence
Charmed by the Bartender – Piper Rayne

Kindle (Won)

The Art of Us – Hilaria Alexander

Kindle (For Review)

Dial M for Mousse – Laura Bradford
Love Songs and Other Lies – Jessica Pennington

Paperback (Won)
I won a massive box of cozy mystery books earlier this month, so here is everything that was included in that box.

Spouse on Haunted Hill – E.J Copperman
Crime and Poetry – Amanda Flower
Blood Orange – Susan Wittig Albert
Grace Sees Red – Julie Hyzy

Blown Away – Clover Tate
The Cat, the Collector, and the Killer – Leann Sweeney
A Likely Story – Jenn McKinlay
No Cats Allowed – Miranda James

Seeds of Deception – Sheila Connelly
Deck the Hallways – Kate Carlisle
The Good, the Bad, and the Guacamole – Rebecca Adler
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue – Victoria Thompson

Dead to the Last Drop – Cleo Coyle
A Seamless Murder – Melissa Bourbon

OFF THE BLOG

January was a crazy busy month for me.

My second semester of college started on the 8th. I am taking 21 credit hours this semester, so my work load has been insane. After having a 3.5 week break for winter break, coming back to a work load that heavy was a little overwhelming at first. I have gotten back into my groove now though and everything has gone pretty well so far. I didn’t think I’d survive my English class this semester, but it hasn’t been that bad so far. I’m not fond of writing papers and this class has 4 major papers that we need to write. Each paper will be a little bit longer also. I was scared of this 4-5 page paper I just turned in today, so I can’t imagine what I’ll feel like later on when they’re approaching 10 pages. Eek! I have made a couple new friends this semester, so that’s been fun. School has been going great though. I have a 4.0 GPA for the fall semester, made the President’s Honors List, was invited to join the National Society for Leadership and Success and also was chosen to receive a scholarship. All of the hard work that I’ve been putting in is really starting to pay off and I’m so proud of everything I have accomplished.

Chris and Logan are doing well. They actually get their report cards today, so we’ll see when they get home if they’ve been able to maintain their honor roll or not.  😉

We got some snow earlier in the month. We were only supposed to get 1 or 2 inches (a “dusting” as they called it), but we ended up with over 6 inches! It was awesome. We hardly ever get that much snow here.

MONTHLY FUNNY

The struggle is real with this one lol