What’s New On My Bookshelf #114 and The Sunday Post

Posted: June 21, 2015 in Freebies!, giveaways, reviews, What's New on My Bookshelf
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This is my own version of a weekly book haul and all things new on fuonlyknew.

Another fun way to share your book news and enjoy others is The Sunday Post hosted by

Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Head on over and leave a link to your Sunday Post and hop around to visits others.

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Some chit chat.

Last week I mentioned my experience at the dentist and I want to thank all of you for your kind wishes.

I’m almost back to normal after chillin this week and raring to get back to visiting everybody:)

I just finished reading the second book in an exciting series and learned the new one is now available. It ended with one hell of a great cliff hanger and I’m dying to read more.

Here’s the thing. I can get it fairly cheaply buying the eBook, but I have the first two books in paperback. I’d love to have the third one in print too but it’s pretty pricey.

Do I wait for the price to go down? Do I cave and pay that higher price? Or, do I grab the eBook? I try not to impulse buy but have a feeling I’ll be going for that print copy. LOL

How do you buy your series? Do you try to get all of the books in the same format? Does it matter?

I’ll be hopping over to check out your Sunday posts so be sure to leave me your link!

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Here are my new books for review.

ZERO!!!

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I can’t believe it. I have taken in zero books for review this week. I’m looking at some, but not sure which ones yet.

And I didn’t grab any just for fun either. I’m sure I’ll be making up for that this coming week. LOL

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And here are some freebies for ya!

Click on the covers to get yours and remember to make sure they’re still free before you click that buy button.

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Books I reviewed this week. Click on the covers for my reviews.

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What I’ll be reviewing next week.

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What I won.

I’ve won several books but haven’t received them in the mail yet. I also won some wonderful prizes and a couple of gift cards.

I’ll share pictures of the goodies I got and bought next week when they arrive.

Huge thanks to the blog hosts, authors, and tour organizers for these wonderful prizes

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Other Posts on my blog this week.

8 Novellas/8 Authors ~ The Lei Crime Series ~ Tour and Giveaway

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur….Kittens Can Kill ~ Review and Giveaway

A Holly Hart Cozy Mystery ~ Footprints in the Frosting ~ Review and Giveaway

Cover and Chapter Reveal ~ Heart-Shaped Hack by Tracey Garvis Graves

A Cli-Fi Adventure ~ Nature’s Confession Tour Review and Giveaway

The Friday 56 #66 ~ Mayhem In Margaux

#M9B Friday Reveal and Giveaway ~ Nameless by Jennifer Jenkins and Serpentine by Cindy Pon

Super Book Blast ~ Aegis Incursion by S.S. Segran ~ Excerpt and Giveaway

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For all of my giveaways go HERE

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So, what did you get to read this week?

Got any recommendations?

I’d love to know and thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew.

Comments
  1. Congrats on a zero book week! I tend to by ebooks on total impulse normally under the influence of Kindle Daily Deals! Have a great week!

  2. Dagny says:

    I used to keep my favorite series, but they were usually a mix of paperbacks and used hardcovers. No eBooks among them. Lately I’ve donated most of my series to the library. A couple I reread first, but some others, I knew that, as much as I loved them, I would never find the time to reread the entire series.

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I donated 8 bags of books to the local used book store once and accidentally mixed in some books from a couple of series. Had to replace those. LOL

  3. danielaark says:

    Hi Laura! Got ALL the free books! you and I have the same taste in books!!! thanks for the tip! Happy reading! 🙂

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I’ll have to stop by and see what you’re reading too! Happy reading. I also have a free ebook page and update it daily at the top of my post. I usually have different ones there.

  4. Oh wow, no review books…I think I made it two weeks with zero then I caved…lol. I grabbed Howl off your freebies as it looked pretty cool! Hope you enjoy your new reads!

    Stormi
    Week in Review

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I’m getting itchy already. LOL Trying not to bury myself while my mother is here. Howl is a short one but I grabbed it too.

  5. Sometimes it’s nice to take a breath and just enjoy…glad you are feeling better. I have one question, did you have to find so many great freebies???? I couldn’t resist!

    sherry @ fundinmental Sherry’s Shelves

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I feel much better. Had fun at lunch!
      And so sorry but I picked many of those books with you in mind this week! LOL

  6. katarguelles says:

    I prefer ebooks so I try to keep my series together by store (Amazon or Barnes & Noble). I do this just to make sure I do buy 2 copies by mistake (which I have done). But if the price is cheaper in one store than I’ll buy it. I do have some signed paperbacks that I end up buying the ebooks so I don’t ruin them.

    You were good with not getting any new review books. I have been good staying away from Netgalley this year. I only request ARCs if I really, really want it.

    Have a great week!

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I like eBooks because sometimes that’s the only way they are available but my first love is always print:)

  7. yvonne473 says:

    Since many of the series I started were print books, and now I mainly read e-books, I go for the e-books now. It doesn’t matter to me if I had print books in the series before. I think it’s because I rarely keep books anymore. I just don’t have the room for them.

    Hope you have a great week!

    • fuonlyknew says:

      The funny thing is when I start a series as eBooks, if I really love them I’ll turn around and get the print copies. LOL

  8. Deborah says:

    On the book collecting front it depends… I don’t actually ever buy eBooks anyway as I still prefer hard copies (just get review copies electronically). I used to try and get consistent series of books but gave that up and buy whatever’s on sale now – so many of my book series are a hodge-podge of sizes and covers.

    • fuonlyknew says:

      The other dilemma is paperback and hard cover. I still haven’t bought the third book in the Divergent series because it’s only out in hard cover and My other ones are paperback.

  9. Thank’s for the freebies. Off The Grid sounds interesting. Not like I need more books, but I can never rest a good freebie.

    The dilemma of getting the printed copy or the eCopy of a new book coming out. Well if it’s not Ilona Andrews or Patricia Briggs, but still an author I look forward too I try to see if my library will have it in either format. I make sure to sign up for notifications of when they get books in of the authors I like, so I can place them on hold. If they won’t have it or I can’t wait and I really want to own it, I’ll go eCopy and if I still want the print I wait for the price to go down. I pre-ordered an eCopy of Magic Shift by Ilona Andrews; because the book copy is so $$, but I own every book in the Kate Daniels series in eCopy and paperback (can’t help it) some days I want eCopy others a book, but back to the purchasing. I’ll eventually get the paperback to have with my collection once the price goes down.

    Happy Reading and thank you for stoping by my blog. ^_^

    • fuonlyknew says:

      Yeah, I follow the author and add the book to my wishlist on Amazon so I’m notified of sales. Then I’ll grab it.

  10. Elisabeth says:

    Untold Tales–definitely looking that one up.

  11. Heidi says:

    Glad you are feeling better. Isn’t it nice to have a week where you don’t take in any books? I love those weeks!

    • fuonlyknew says:

      It’s been 2 weeks and I’m finally myself again. It has been nice to be quiet but I miss commenting on others posts and will make up for lost time:)

  12. Lola says:

    I am glad to hear you are feeling better. When I have the first books of a series in paperback I often just cave and but the rest in paperback as well. It feels nice to have a series in the same format. I have a limited budget for books and often spent it on books by my favourite authors which I often buy in print even thought the e-copies are cheaper. I am weird like that, even though when I buy the e-copies are cheaper and then I would be able to buy more books. I rather buy the pricier print copies as most of the books I receive for review are in e-format and I like reading print copies once in a while.
    Enjoy your new books and have a great week!

  13. Glad you are doing better. If I want to purchase a print book that I read either in e-form or from the library, I usually wait to see if it comes down in price.

  14. Naomi Hop says:

    Glad you are doing better!
    I try and get the same format with all my books, so I understand your dilemma!
    Enjoy your new reads!

    Naomi @ Naomi’s Reading Palace

  15. Zero review books? Take a breath and enjoy! I got caught up with my review ARCs a couple of weeks ago and have been doing a lot of “me” reading. It has been heaven. Have a wonderful week. 🙂

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I didn’t take any new ones in. But I have some long overdue ones that didn’t really have a time limit that I’m slowly working on too.

  16. Omg, that Death by Salsa cover has me craving salsa now. Mmmmmm….

  17. I’m so glad your teeth aren’t bothering you this week, Lauren!

    Well done on not getting any new review books 🙂 I wish I was as strong as you… I have started getting e-mails from some publishers, with a widget for Netgalley, where I’m pre-approved for the title they e-mail me about. And because I’m so weak, I click through and voilà, one more book to review 😉

    You did get quite a few new books anyway, though. And they look good! I hope you’ll enjoy them all.

    Have a great rest of the week and happy reading.

    • fuonlyknew says:

      Netgalley is deadly. LOL I get those emails too and sometimes I don’t automatically delete them and Bam, a new review book. LOL

  18. Emma says:

    I bought the first Outlander book by Diana Gabaldon in ebook format because I couldn’t wait for the paperback to arrive! From now on, I’m going to exercise patience and either buy the paperback OR ebook, not both, no matter how excited I am. 🙂

  19. Red Iza says:

    There’s a good amount of series that I started as freebies or that were cheap. Books can get expensive, especially some e-newbies that are as high as 15 or 25€ !! I never buy those, I wait for a possible price drop. Sometimes, I see a review… and I can’t resist if the praise is enthusiastic and the price reasonable 🙂

  20. You have a great batch of books, as usual. You know, it depends on the series if I buy them all in the same format, if at all. If I really love the series, then I like them to be all in print. If it’s a series I like, but probably won’t re-read or it’s not a favorite author, then I don’t mine ebook. Have fun figuring that one out. 😉

    • fuonlyknew says:

      I’ll always prefer print. I just love being able to walk over and pull a favorite off the shelf. They are easier for me when reviewing too.

  21. I’ve been known to do both with the ebook and print these days. But, mostly because I’m so swamped with books, I wait for the print to come down in price and pick it up. It’s crazy, I know but it’s what I do when pinching the pennies. *sigh* Hope you have a great week!

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