Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Marlene at Reading Reality, and it is all about sharing the new books we’ve acquired, be it in physical, digital or audio format! All the books count 🙂
It is this time again, to face how well I have done not buying any more books from last Saturday…
LIBRARY:
It has not changed since last time, but here are the books I have acquired:
- Wintering by Katherine May: nonfiction, memoir, nature and mental health
- The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston: fantasy, time travel, contemporary romance, historical fiction
- Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan: new adult, small-town romance
ARCS/DRC:
- The Revenge Game by Jax Calder: I could not resist getting this one I read so many good reviews about it so I jumped on the bandwagon haha
Synopsis:
Andrew
I’ve come a long way since being the gawky, geeky, gay kid who was constantly picked on growing up. Having just sold my tech start-up for so much money it broke my phone calculator, I’m now at a loose end wondering what to do next in my life.
Then I run into Justin. Justin, the golden boy from high school. Justin, the popular jock who turned my life into a living hell for four years.
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And do you want to know the kicker? He doesn’t even recognize me.
Even worse, it looks like karma hasn’t done its thing because Justin definitely doesn’t seem to have been punished for his previous sins.
Maybe my next mission in life is to give karma a helping hand…
Justin
My life looks perfect from the outside – good job, good friends, no worries. Only I know it is all based on a lie. I’ve never been honest with anyone about my sexuality.
Then I meet the new IT guy at work who has just moved into my apartment building too. Given I seem to be having an extraordinary run of bad luck with technology at the moment—like having my email randomly decide to spam the entire company with images of trolls in intimate embraces —Drew’s been a lifesaver. And the more I get to know Drew, the more I want to confess my secret in the hope we can become something more.
But I can’t help the niggling feeling Drew is hiding something from me…
The Revenge Game is a laugh-out-loud journey through misadventures in revenge and the unexpected twists of fate. It’s where old grudges spark new attractions, where secrets unravel, and where two men learn all about redemption and love.
AUTHOR’S REQUEST:
- I have one request pending at the moment, will see how it goes.
KINDLE:
This time around I did much better in regards to how much money I spent, I still bought quite a lot, but the majority of the books are classics and as cheap as 0.15p or around 0.20USD so I went wild! Emma @Words And Peace mentioned The Classics Club so I knew I had to join in and went in and bought all the classics or at least the ones I could think of that I wanted to read in the first place. So Emma if you are reading this THANK YOU!! I will be joining you soon 🙂
CLASSIC LITERATURE:
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- Aristotle: The Complete Works by Aristotle
- The Complete Works of Plato by Plato
- The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, … and Stories for Children and Many More by Leo Tolstoy
- Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
NONFICTION/FICTION:
- After the Rain by Laila Ibrahim
- The Three Graces by Amanda Craig
- Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory
- Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
- At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano
- The Secret Collector by Abigail Johnson
- Kim Chul-soo, Born in 1978: The Life of an Ordinary Korean Man by Sungju Kim
- The Winter Cottage by Rachael Lucas
- Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin
- The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai
- Moving On by Roisin Meaney
- The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
fantasy:
- What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
- Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy
So in conclusion I spent a total of 26.49GBP on all these books which is $34.63 approximately.
Have you read any of these? What is your favourite classic?
Lin's Perspective 
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