Stacking the Shelves (699) BLOGO-BIRTHDAY EDITION + #Giveaway This is the 699th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality, and tomorrow is my 69th birthday. Who says there are no such thing as coincidences? Today is the penultimate, meaning next-to-the-l...

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Stacking the Shelves (699) BLOGO-BIRTHDAY EDITION + #Giveaway This is the 699th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality, and tomorrow is my 69th birthday. Who says there are no such thing as coincidences? Today is the penultimate, meaning next-to-the-last, day of Reading Reality's 15th Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. Today is also Reading Reality's official blogoversary, as the first post on what was then "Escape Reality, Read Fiction", was posted on April 4, 2011…

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post Wooo, it’s the weekend. It’s been a long week, but I think I’m starting to be caught up with everything. Let’s talk books! Books acquired this week Technically this is actua…

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post:

The usual weekly update, this week with a bunch of new-to-me non-fiction! And of course my usual roundup of reviews etc.

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Stacking the Shelves (698) If pretty is as pretty does, most of these covers don't. There's not a lot of pretty here, but I think that's a sign that there's a lot of mystery/suspense in this stack. Although Wisdom Corner looks like the exception to that rule, as it is an adrenaline-fueled story and it does have a beautiful cover. At least as long as the drippy bits are paint and not blood.

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Stacking The Shelves (March 22, 2026) 📚📚 Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can i…

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Stacking the Shelves (697) Welcome to another interesting stack of "how the shelf stacks". (And hopefully a stack where the linky works because last week's didn't.) We're back home. The flooring is just about done although Tuna's high anxiety hasn't come down yet and he hasn't come up from the basement except for  stealth reconnaissance runs late at night. Just wait until you see tomorrow's picture!

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Stacking the Shelves (696) I've tried to keep the truly creepy covers out of this week's stack. I'm afraid - I'm very afraid - that I didn't quite succeed. But I do have plenty of interesting books - and even a few pretty ones to share! My favorites this week are The Bureau of Unknown Fates, The Hired Man and The Stars Look Like Home…

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Stacking The Shelves #233 – March 7th 2026 Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Marlene @ Reading Reality and 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 bu…

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Stacking The Shelves #233 – March 7th 2026 Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Marlene @ Reading Reality and 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 bu…

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Stacking the Shelves (695) There's a little bit of everything in this stack! The three prettiest covers also manage to be pretty different from each other. I'm looking at Murder on Charity Lane, Pretenders to the Throne of God (that whole series has gorgeous covers!), and Thistlemarsh. They're all pretty, but they are definitely not pretty the same. There are two books in this stack that I absolutely did pick for their titles.

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Stacking the Shelves (694) This is an interesting stack - in a case where interesting isn't even a euphemism for something else. It's just interesting. It's not particularly creepy, which is kind of a relief after last week's Meat Bees. I'm still shuddering at THAT cover. There's also not a lot of truly 'pretty' in this stack, except for the very pretty…

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Stacking The Shelves & Library Love ~ Feb. 2026
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Stacking the Shelves (693) There's way more 'pretty creepy' than there is pretty in this stack. The one seriously pretty cover is What We Are Seeking. Although Alibi by Accident, Lost in the Summer of '69, The Paris Match and The Pie & Mash Detective Agency certainly have cute covered. (Ahem, so to speak, pun intended and all that.) Creepy is creeping all over this stack, between…

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Stacking the Shelves (692): Valentines Day Edition Happy Valentine's Day! If your loves are human, I hope you're able to celebrate in in whatever way works for you. If your loves are four-legged and furry, I hope they don't leave you too many presents of the 'unfortunate' kind. With cats that either means they've caught prey FOR YOU, or they've left a hairball and neither are anything their human wants.

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Stacking the Shelves (691) We definitely have some gorgeous covers this time around. YAY! Daggerbound, Exit Party, The Eye of Leviathan, Murder Unabridged and Twig's Traveling Tomes are each pretty in their own ways. And I love both Murder Unabridged and Twig's Traveling Tomes for the delightful depictions of books. While Daggerbound is beautiful in its own right AND fits in beautifully with the theme started in the…

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Stacking the Shelves (690) This isn't exactly a "pretty" list, is it? Pretty interesting, yes. Pretty is as pretty does, perhaps. Outright pretty, not so much. Although Magic and Mischief at the Wayside Hotel and Trouble's Turn to Lose are both pretty cute and The Half Life is pretty in a realistic way. I guess they'll have to do. Very much on the other hand - or claw, as the case might be - …

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Stacking The Shelves & Library Love ~ Jan. 2026
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Stacking the Shelves (689) This is another one of those stacks where there's more "pretty creepy" than there is just plain "pretty". The "pretty creepy" category includes The Way It Haunted Him and The Sleeping Sisters, while Snow Kissed is kinda creepy in that it might be predicting this weekend's weather for everyone east of the Mississippi. We don't normally get that much snow here in the ATL, but we might this weekend.

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Stacking the Shelves (688) Unlike last week's stack, there are some truly pretty covers this time around. Especially All the Tea in China, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, and Our Perfect Storm. There's also some pretty creepy in Brimstone Hollow and The Museum of Unusual Occurrence. I definitely picked up You Had me at Bigfoot, while the books I'm most looking forward to getting into are…

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Stacking the Shelves (687) Is it just me, or does this whole stack sort of just miss 'pretty'? If I HAD to pick, and I sorta/kinda do, I'd pick A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing and Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous. OTOH, The Black Cat Detectives are adorably cute and Bodies of Work creeps me right the hell out. Those black cats also represent one of the books I'm most curious about this week…

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Stacking the Shelves (686) Happy first weekend of the 2026. It's good to have you along on this journey for another year of (hopefully) fantastic reads! There are some pretty interesting covers this week, although pretty itself is always in the eye of the beholder. My personal picks for prettiness are The Chambermaid's Key, Death in the Palace, In the Spirit of French Murder…

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Stacking The Shelves ~ December 2025
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Stacking the Shelves (685) This is the final Stacking the Shelves post for 2025. This year has gone by in a blur - and perhaps that's the best thing that can be said about it. Nevertheless, I have some fascinating and fantastic books in this final stack of the year. While these covers are definitely pretty, they are just as definitely not pretty in the same way.

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Stacking the Shelves (684) There are some terribly different definitions of "pretty" in this stack, aren't there? The Architect of New York is real-world pretty, A Curse of Beasts and Magic and A Long and Speaking Silence are both fantasy pretty, and Every Day I Read is somewhere in the middle between the two. Very much OTOH, The Pillagers' Guide to Arctic Pianos is really cute AND the book on this list I picked up for the title.

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Stacking the Shelves (683) I had a grand ambition to fit everything I picked up this year into this year's remaining Stacking the Shelves posts. It's not going to happen. I cap these things at 20-ish just to keep the download with all the covers from being overwhelming. So I've already picked up stuff that's going to be a stack in 2026. 2026! When did THAT sneak up on me?

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Stacking the Shelves (682) Welcome to this week's contribution to the STABLE environment at Chez Reading Reality. By STABLE, I'm referencing that acronym I talked about last week, where STABLE stands for STash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy, because my book collection, including ebooks, passed that point YEARS ago. Now that I think of it, this interpretation of STABLE fits entirely too well with the interpretation of FINE in the…

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Stacking the Shelves (681) Very much apropos of Stacking the Shelves, I learned a new acronym from author Olivia Dade when I was prepping the post for Second Chance Romance earlier this week. I'll confess that I feel both seen and a bit insulted at the same time. The acronym is STABLE or SABLE, and it's short for "STash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy". I think it was initially used by crafters, but it absolutely applies to book stashes because I hit that point a LONG time ago.

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Stacking The Shelves ~ November 2025
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