2025

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It is all about sharing the books that you have recently added to your bookshelves. These books can be physical books, ebooks and of course audiobooks.

Hello!

I hope everyone is enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend so far. I have managed a little bit of reading so far but I will be honest and say the snooker is distracting me at the moment.

I recently did a book order of some preordered books and on Waterstones and also added some of the books I would like to read soon. Here are the ones which arrived this week.

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie is my next book in my Christie challenge and I am very excited as it will be my first Miss Marple book. I really hope it won’t disappoint as I love the TV Miss Marple’s.
Under the Dome by Stephen King is a book that came on my radar after I got hooked on the TV series. I am really looking forward to reading the book but I will be honest I find the size rather daunting.
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon is my next book on my Maigret challenge and makes the perfect read for when my husband is watching the Grand Prix.

I can’t wait to get reading these books and hope to read them over the summer.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 12/4/2025

Hello!

Only one book purchased this week and it was prep for our holiday. We always like to get a book about our planned destination so we can plan our trip and learn more about the place. The books are also nice little reminders of the places we have visited.

So here is our next holiday destination! We have never been before and we are both very excited to visit. This little book is smaller than expected but it is packed full of useful information and historical facts and is helping us plan what we want to do whilst in Jersey.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 29/03/2025

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I had a voucher for a Kindle book and I am stocking up my Kindle ready for some holiday reading.

I have got book 6 and 7 left to read and I am hoping to read them this year and finish this fantastic series.

I am really enjoying these short stories and finished the second one this week so I bought the third one to start next week.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 22/03/2025

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have bought two books this week. One book was on Kindle and another was a preorder that I have had preordered for nearly a year.

Waterstones

I can’t wait to read this as I love all things Hunger Games!

Kindle

I finished the first book of The Far Reaches series yesterday and immediately downloaded the next book and started reading it.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 1/3/2025

Hello!

I had another preordered book delivery this week. I will be honest I had completely forgotten just how many books I had preordered last year!

This one is another by a favourite author and the fourth book of a series I really must start reading soon!

I am determined to start The Bone Season this month and get cracking with this series.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 22/2/2025

Hello!

My plan to buy less books in 2025 is really not going well so far. There are just so many good books out there!

My two latest purchases are:

Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll is a book I spotted on Bookstagram and really liked the look of so I popped it on preorder and it arrived this week. I really hope it won’t disappoint.

The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon is purely because I want the set all in hard back. I hate having a mix of hard backs and paperbacks in a series. It really upsets my OCD!

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 15/2/2025

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I have managed some lovely reading today and I am very close to finishing my first buddy read of the year.

I had one book arrive this week which was a book that I preordered last year. I love getting preordered books because I forget that I order the books and it is always a nice surprise when they arrive in the post. It is just like a surprise gift to myself!

My new book this week is by an auto buy author for me.

This is definitely going to the top of my TBR pile!

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 1/2/2025

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. I am trying to buy less books this year but so far this isn’t going well. This week we needed a break from the building work at the house and so we went for a wander around Ironbridge which led to a visit to Ironbridge Bookshop. This obviously led to book buying but I was good and only bought one.

I really enjoy the books by Philip K. Dick so I am looking forward to reading this soon.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 25/1/2025

Hello!

I hope everyone is having a good weekend so far. This week I realised I had a cash back voucher for a Kindle purchase so obviously that led to me buying a Kindle book and I also had a very important book preordered that arrived on Tuesday.

Kindle Book

I used to be a member of Pottermore and I really enjoyed finding out extra details about the world of Harry Potter so I’m looking forward to having all the facts from Pottermore in one book.

Waterstones Book

I have just finished reading Iron Flame so I really looking forward to reading this next.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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Stacking the Shelves: 14/12/2024

Hello!

This week I spent a few days in Bath and of course this resulted in book shopping. Bath has some of my favourite bookshops and this always results in a quite a few book purchases.

I bought books from three bookshops.

Mr B’s Emporium

I only bought one book from Mr B’s which was quite restrained. I’ve been wanting a really nice edition of the Hogfather by Terry Pratchett for ages and I really want to re read over Christmas.

Topping and Company Booksellers

I got distracted by the Christmas books again and I bought two new ones. I’m really not sure I will manage to read all these Christmas books over December as the pile is getting higher and higher. However, I do keep reading Christmas books until January 6th so I might manage to finish the pile.

Samantha Shannon and Silvia Moreno-Garcia are two of my favourite authors so I was quite excited to get these pretty hardbacks.

Persephone Books

I only bought two Persephone books and another is a Christmas gift. I was hoping to buy a few more but sadly the shop was full of hyacinths. As pretty as hyacinths are I am also highly allergic and was really struggling to breathe so it was a quick in and out of the shop.

I bought:

Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

William – An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

My TBR pile is getting bigger and bigger but I’m really hoping I can get loads of reading done this month.

Happy Reading

Etsy

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