My Shelf-ish Week #63

 What I've Been Writing:

Literally nothing. I haven't written anything. Not in two full weeks. I think I'm broken. But I've given myself a deadline. The rough draft for Night Giver must be finished by the end of August.  We'll see if I can actually pull that off. (Wish me luck.)

What I've Been Reading:

At least I can still read books! I really enjoyed The Games Gods Play and The Things Gods Break. OMG, Book 2 is so crazy and twisty. Then I read Beach Read...wait for it...on THE BEACH!! Eeek. For our first time visiting a beach on the ocean, my family went to Florida last week, and my hubs is now officially a beach boy. He wants to go back every year (as if we could afford that). When we returned, I read the new YA Thriller by Elle Kennedy's pseudonym: Thornbird.

What I've Been Buying:

I received my July Fairyloot subscription book, which was called The Lure of Wolves and Whispers. It's got some pretty green colors going on.  Then my autographed edition of Prince of Swords came in from Books-A-Million. And I purchased Ruinous Ends.

That's it. That's what's been up with me. This next week, I'm really going to concentrate on WRITING. I swear.

My Shelf-ish Week #62

 What I've Been Writing: 

I got a few new words written for Night Giver. And maybe a cover I can live with! Plus a funky plot twist idea I hadn't been expecting before. It's at 120,000 words right now.

What I've Been Reading: 

I finished Project Hail Mary and loved it. Rocky and Ryland's relationship was chef's kiss!  Now I'm working my way through The Games Gods Play, and I'm really enjoying it !

What I've Been Stacking on my Shelves:

Oh boy, do I have a neat line-up of books this week to add to my shelves!  I ordered a signed copy of Wings of Life from Novel Grounds (Yay!). Then got the Blood Type trilogy plus Star Bringer and the publisher's special edition of Rings of Fate to complete my Entangled Red Towers Books collection. After that, I completed my Off Campus special edition collection with The Legacy and The Goal. And I found a sweet copy of Thornbird with sprayed edges online at Bookish Signs and More that I just adore!  And that's been my week. 

Hope you have a great World Emoji Day. I probably won't be back until the 31st!

My Shelf-ish Week - #61

 My Inner Author:

I've done some (still not much) writing on Night Giver these past few weeks since I last checked in with you. It's at 118,000 words long, and I've changed up a couple of plans I had for the rest of the book, so we'll see how that goes.

My Inner Bookworm:

I've finished both Robin on the Oak Throne and Raven at the Ash Door. I was so sure the plot was headed in this one certain direction (That Lorcan has somehow gotten Graves' soul...maybe from the first time he killed him), but it didn't go that way at all. So that kind of bummed me out until the twist ending of Raven, which got me all kinds of intrigued about how that's going to pan out. 

Then, I was going to start reading The Games Gods Play.  But my co-worker turned in a book at the library where I have my day job, and I just casually flipped open to page one because...I have no idea why. And I was instantly in it.  So I guess I'm reading Project Hail Mary instead, which is so far off from my usual reading preference that it's crazy (I mean...there's no romance at all. And it's full of science and math that goes way over my head). But I love how it's written, so I'm hooked! I'm just hoping I can hold out until I finish reading the book before I let myself watch the movie.  We shall see!

My Inner Book Dragon:

Ooh, I have collected quite the pretties into my lair; yes, I have! I've decided that since I only needed five more to go until I had every book published by Entangled Red Tower Books that I was going to make it a mission to collect all of them: hence Nobody's Quest (And I have four more on the way, which will then complete my quest...until the next book publishes in August, and I'm forced to buy that too!).

And then I had quite a few Allurial Book Box books arrive in my mail. So say hello to: 

• The Wolf and the Crown of Blood,
• In the Wake of the Ruined,
• The Mortal Trials,
• Forsaken Prophesy,
• Dominion,
• Eclipse of the Crown, and 
• The Winged Game.

I also have The Night Prince set to come my way from Allurial in August, but I'd already gotten the publisher's version. On the flip side, I already had only the Allurial edition of The Wolf King, so then I had to get the publisher's version of that in order to have matching sets of both editions (I know; that logic only makes sense to another fellow book dragon, but trust me, it's very logical).

And that is what's been up in my shelf-ish world in the last two weeks. Have a great National Piña Colada Day out there, you hear. Hugs!