LoveYourShelf (LAB☺)’s Comments (group member since Jun 16, 2017)

LoveYourShelf (LAB☺)’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

So someone at Kensington books must like me because they approved all my ARC requests on NetGalley. I can't believe it! I'm so used to being rejected that I had to reread the emails a few times to make sure I was understanding correctly.





I also got approved for from St. Martin's Paperbacks

And just finished an Arc of
- this is a fun dragon series! (this was book 2, I had received and ARC of book 1 as well) My reviews for these are posted if you want to check them out.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "LAB☺ wrote: "So my daughter had a doctor's appointment at the hospital kinda far away, but conveniently only about 15 minutes from the Used Book Superstore so we ended up going there again after th..."

oh he is NOT a reader. ;)
He prefers audio books and has done a few of those. He also has read some sports biographies. The books he found are more collectors type stuff. But I think its cool and he is adding to our library. I just got some more shelves from my brother that he was getting rid of, and we have an antique bar downstairs with 2 bar stools I am going to try and sell. It looked cool when we moved in but we don't even drink, so it was more for looks. Once those are gone will have more space for shelves. I'm going to put a comfy chair right there. I do love real books more, but the kindle is just so convenient, especially if you are going places. I used to carry around 2 books with me everywhere in case I finished the one I was reading!

So my daughter had a doctor's appointment at the hospital kinda far away, but conveniently only about 15 minutes from the Used Book Superstore so we ended up going there again after the appointment since we were already so close by.

Today's haul:
hardcover of for .99
paperback of for 2.49
(I am trying to collect the whole series in hardcover but first 3 books are very hard to find and very expensive when you do, so I grabbed the paperback for now so I could at least work on completing the series)

paperback of for 1.75 - cuz I think I will start collecting all the kate daniels in PB

Paperback for 2.49
Paperback for 2.49 - same reason, trying to build my library with favorite series but cheap LOL

My husband also got 4 books - Marvel characters encyclopedia, a Spiderman encyclopedia and 3 The Simpsons books on specific characters. Hubby said he likes going to this store cuz he never finds anything at Barnes & Noble.

All 10 books came out to $35. We're gonna go back every month or two. Its kinda far (almost an hour) but not like there is anything else to do these days.

DemetraP wrote: "I admit it. I'm going to read Midnight Sun when it releases tomorrow. It's Twilight, written from the vampire Edward's point of view."

Thanks for the reminder!

I finished A Touch of Stone and Snow . I think I enjoyed this one a little better than the first. It was not quite as dark or blood thirsty. Looking forward to the next book.

I was at a Savers store for the first time. If you do not have these near you they are stores where people donate items they don't want anymore and the store resells them. I found these in the book section and literally jumped up and down. My husband thought I was crazy. I grabbed the other paperback just because I didn't want to leave it behind and it was only $3. The InnKeeper books were $11 altogether. I already had these all on kindle but the the covers were too beautiful to resist.

Finished . Another great Dory/Dorina book. Just hope we don't have to wait too long for the next book (which I think is a Cassie Palmer book) because it was a cliffhanger of a sort. Good reads is saying next book out is August. She was dropped by her publisher and vowed to fans to keep going until the series are finished. (There were some typos in this self published book but nothing worse than I've seen in other books and did not really bother me.)

Now I think I'm going to try .

Lulu wrote: "LAB, I never read the last book in the Chaos series because of the reviews. In fact, I really haven't read much of anything of KA since that series. I think I got burned out on her style and I didn..."

I don't mind KA's style. She can really make me cry or LOL or feel emotion at moments. (But at other moments I'm like WTH?) Her books do usually follow a pattern and that's ok with me because it usually works. The problem with the last Chaos book was that she brought in characters from another series as a cross over. She completely mixed the genres and it was way out of place. (view spoiler)[And some of these characters, though with limited pages, actually dealt with one of the bad guys. The bad guy who for all 5 previous books was this well developed awful villain, that got taken down in like one chapter by these characters you've never even seen before. After 5 books of building him up? It was ridiculous. And there was a BDSM development with the villain that came out of absolutely nowhere. Again ridiculous. Like after 5 books she decided to make him bi and like sex with men? really? Cuz there were 5 books before that where he got a lot of page time and that never came up. But this was used against him by the random new characters. Oh, and the main couple had hardly any page time considering everything else that was going on in this dumpster fire of a book, but they did manage to meet and fall in love in about a week. (hide spoiler)]

So I made it through the Chaos series. Some were better than others, a couple were 4*. But the last book was a hot mess. I had to round up to 2*. I would've DNFed it was that bad but I wanted to see how everything ended with the bad guys...and even that was awful.

I think I am done with KA for awhile.

Now I don't know what to read next. That book was such a disaster I don't want my mood affecting my next read.

Vanessa wrote: "Lisa... Those are problems to contemplate. I have a ton of books on my kindles because I never delete them. Between my DTB's and my loaded up kindles, I suppose that I have enough to read for a lon..."

Hi Vanessa!

Its called the Used Book Superstore and its in Burlington, MA., which is about 50 minutes from me, so add another hour or so for you coming from Connecticut. I'm going to try to hit about every three months.

The small used bookstore down the street from me closed for good. But I noticed if I went in there too often I would just see the same books over an over. Another I noticed is that I would almost never see any Ilona Andrews books or any of my other top authors. I figured this is because us fans keep our books and don't turn them in. I was lucky once and found a hardcover of for $8. Since buying the hard covers last week I looked on Amazon for the ones I am missing. The first 3 Mercy Thompson books in hardcover go for like $100-200 used!

Just got back from the Used Bookstore Warehouse I've been dying to go to. Its almost an hour away but I made it worth it. Got 16 books! 15 for me and my husband bought one 1 (about DC comic characters).

I scored the following:

The Iron Duke
Riveted
The House of Gaian
When Demons Walk
Steal the Dragon
The Fiery Cross
Dragonfly in Amber
Drums of Autumn
Voyager
An Echo in the Bone

And all these in hard cover.
Dead Heat
Night Broken
Fire Touched
Bone Crossed
Silver Borne

My new hobby is building a print library of favorites. Now I will have to look for ones I am missing so I can have complete series.

All these books (and my husband's) only cost around $85 altogether.

After Rock Chick and Dream Man series rereads and reading the new Dream Team book by Kristen Ashley, I wanted to try Chaos series. Apparently I read Own the Wind a few years ago and didn't remember. So I reread it. It was okay, but interested me more this time and I read book 2 Fire Inside, which I really liked. So now I am on book 3 Ride Steady. I've just really been in the mood for KA books I guess.

I am off work this week for vacation with nowhere to go. I heard there is a used book store warehouse with great deals about 45 minutes from here so I am going to go check that out. I'm really looking forward to it.

I finished a reread of the Rock Chicks and The Dream Man series and have finally started the new book Dream Maker . And I just found out yesterday I won a Goodreads giveaway for a print copy of Dream Maker. So that's cool that I will have it for my shelves.

I never read the Chaos series, but now seeing characters in other books think I might give them a try. I heard somewhere some were not so good so I did not bother, but I enjoyed more on my re-read and upped my rating to 4* (it had been 8 years since first time so maybe my tastes changed, who knows...)

I finished my reread of the Rock Series (3rd time) and now I am working on the Dream Man series reread (first time rereading). Can't believe it was 8 years ago since I read these books. I think I am enjoying them more this time around.

Diane wrote: "LAB☺ wrote: "I've been doing a Rock Chick series reread by Kristen Ashley. Third time and I still LOL at some parts. Then I am going to reread the Dream Man series because a new Dream Man book came..."

Yes, Dream Maker. Sorry I said Dream Man series by mistake.

I've been doing a Rock Chick series reread by Kristen Ashley. Third time and I still LOL at some parts. Then I am going to reread the Dream Man series because a new Dream Man book came out last week and I only read those once a long time ago.

ooh I just realized is FREE on amazon! Wanted to share. If you love dragon fantasy romances I really think you will like this!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

I finished Storm of Fury . Solid 4* for me. I was also pleasantly surprised when my review for was listed in the front matter

Demetra recommended Rules of Redemption and I am really enjoying it. At least a 4* for me.

Also, the last dragon book for Bec McMaster;s series came out this week Storm of Fury and I hope to get to this one soon.

I remember reading the partial draft to Midnight Sun that Myer posted online after the manuscript was stolen. She said she would never publish it after that. I think she waited too long but I'm going to read it. People make fun of Twilight and I get it, but I enjoyed those books.

I read The Making of a Highlander . It was pretty good! 4*

Currently reading Sin & Lightning . This is a pretty good series. I enjoy it. Its on KU. (this is book 5 I think.)