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Weekly Wrap-Up + Stacking the Shelves (incl. Comic-Con books!)

ALA and Comic-Con have both come and gone, and I feel like I can finally breathe again. Both events are so consuming, and that they were within 3 weeks of each other...it was like just enough time to finally recover from one before the madness of the next started! In any case, both were extraordinarily fun. I'll have my recap of Comic-con up hopefully next week (possibly the next one), and I'll be able to return to actual reading/commenting of blogs. Most of my posts are scheduled in advance since I've been in and out of town, and reading other blogs has all but dropped. But I promise I will get back to it!

Anyway. Haven't done a Weekly-Wrap Up in 3 weeks now, and while I will not recap everything since then, here are select posts from July you may have missed!

Cover Love + Book Trailer Badassery

featuring Debra Driza's Mila 2.0, Lisa M. Stasse's The Forsaken, and more!

Review: The Selection by Keira Cass

Aside from how much the main character annoyed the shit out of me, I liked! 4.25 Stars

ALA 2012 Recap + Notable Moments

Because once again I gush over Ned Vizzini and how he was incredibly nice to me.

(And had tons of love for fellow bloggers!)

Tune-In Tuesdays: The Teenage Years

Three songs that reminded me of three boys from my teen years! Surprisingly emotional.
Five TV shows I watched. Chumbawamba, 2ge+her, and Dawson's Creek all in one post. YOU'RE WELCOME.

TGIF: Quotes To Make You Swoon

Not kidding when I tell you I had to fan myself while making this post. Wowza.

Finally...my ALA books!
I'm super excited for all of these, but which do I read first?!

Coming up next week...

Blog Tour of The Age of Miracles, which includes a review and GIVEAWAY! Plus another Tune In Tuesday for my teenage years, and who knows what madness will show up then! (That photo is a hint...)

Finally, my shelves!

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews

Comic-Con
I did NOT expect to get any of these!

Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2) Chapter Samplers

Ended up with 2 on accident, I'll give one away soon!

Keeper of the Lost Cities ARC by Shannon Messenger
(YAY SO EXCITED!)

Black City ARC by Elizabeth Richards
AHHHH! I've got 4 of the 5 Penguin Breathless Reads now!

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
and I got her to sign it after the panel, yay! I also may have a teensy girl crush on her now, too.

Legend by Marie Lu, with the exclusive Comic-con cover and signed!
I ended up with 2 so I'll give one away soon.

Rift ARC by Andrea Cremer

Library

The Princess Present by Meg Cabot
The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber
Sugar and Ice by Kate Messner

Last Christmas by Kate Brian

(I know, Christmas/winter books in July. But you'll see come September...)

The Storm Makers by Jennifer E. Smith

Reunited by Hilary Weisham Graham
(read already, really liked it!)

Crossed (Matched #2) by Ally Condie

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #2) by Rick Riordan
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan
When Serpent's Shadow came in on my hold list, I realized I didn't remember the end of Red Pyramid. Oops!

For Review

Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch, via NetGalley & Scholastic (thank you!)

I forgot to cancel this on NG because I picked up a physical ARC at ALA - do I decline, or can I still input a review if I don't use the e-galley? Anyone know?

House of Shadows by Rachel Neumeier, via Publisher and TLC Book Tours (thank you!)

For the blog tour. Look for my review and a giveaway in early August!