1/27/2018

Weekly Book Wrap-Up #52 – Wrapping Up January

With the Weekly Book Wrap-Up, I give you a bit of an insight into all the new books that have arrived at my place. No matter if I won a giveaway, got approved for a reviewer´s copy, an ARC, or just bought one myself. Everything that I add to my shelves, in what way ever and read during the past week or am still reading, I will write about it. And maybe I tell you a bit about the upcoming things on Inkvotary, that is if I don´t forget it and have something to share with you *smile*

I am linking up with Tynga´s Reviews and Caffeinated Reviewer and hope you´ll have fun reading it and maybe get the one or the other book inspiration.

Stacking The Shelves #52

Yesterday I went to the post office to finally get my package with The Cruel Prince inside. Only to find out at home that it was damaged! Called the bookstore and asked for a replacement, which will arrive next week. Hopefully. After all, I´ve heard about it, I decided to give this author another try. I wasn´t very fond of her book, The Darkest Part of the Forest, though I was intrigued by its German cover.

Bought Book

Reviewer Copy

 

(Left side US edition, right side German edition of Friction)

Sunday Post #9

I´ve got the sniffles. It is not bad, but annoying. Besides that, I had a very uneventful week. When it comes to not bookish things. Weather is playing games with us. One day cold and freezing with temperatures around zero and the ugliest weather you can imagine, the next we have up to 12 -15 degrees Celsius (about 53-59 degrees Fahrenheit) and the weather is as beautiful as it can be. Around town they had to fell some trees that were damaged by “Friederike” and everything looks now a bit different, but otherwise we are glad that things are back to normal again.

In the bookish area, I guess I am starting to work again with a publisher I quit working with last year. Over almost ten years I could ask my admin to ask them for books to review and the requested book was a few weeks later in my mailbox. Then a few years ago, the publisher started its own blogger portal (a very complicated one) and things were changing.

Besides the fact that one of their employees there had caused me some huge anger last year, I just saw no point in requesting books in the publisher´s own blogger portal when every request I placed got turned down.

We even had a huge discussion over on the publishers´ own FB group, where bloggers were expressing their disappointment about all those declines and that it made no sense at all to them (me included) to stay there as a registered blogger. I mean, I asked for eight books over a period of time of eight weeks. One approval was the result. Some bloggers even mentioned that they would rather cancel their registration with the publisher and instead buy all the books they wanted. During reading all those comments I went to that particular portal, logged myself in, and saw that a book I was looking for was displayed. I started a request and a few hours later I was totally flabbergasted when I saw that I GOT APPROVED.

So, now I am curious if and when that book will appear in my mailbox.

Besides that, I am still trying to write a review but somehow my brain isn´t willing. Everything I write gets deleted after a few minutes because everything reads like crap.  Therefore, I am a bit behind and new reviews are scarce goods on my blog at the moment.

I Am Reading

 

(Left side original edition, right side German edition of All The Missing Girls)

Happy reading

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