Stacking the Shelves: June

What is Stacking The Shelves all about?

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

 

Welcome to my monthly round up! June's been a weird month, lots of work changes and changeable weather!

I tried to be more frugal with Amazon and I ended up with a lot of 'follow up' books!

Borrowed Shelf!

Saving June by Hannah Harrington.~ I loved Speechless so I was glad to see this in my local library!

 

Actual Shelf!

Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan.~ I had to buy this as soon as I saw it as it's be on my TBR for ages!

Insurgent by Veronica Roth.~ I finally picked up this one as a Buy 1 get 1 half price deal with the points on my Waterstones card!

 

Virtual Shelf!

Addicted to You by Krista and Becca Ritchie.~ I got drawn in my the price and the blurb!

Limits by Steph Campbell and Liz Reinhardt.~ I love this series so I brought this one asap!

 

Review Shelf!

NetGalley

Faking It by Cora Carmack~ I wanted to see more of Cade!

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas~ This series has been on my TBR for years now! So I'm hoping to read it in July.

One Tiny Lie by K.A Tucker~ I've heard a lot of great things about this author so looking forward to sampling her work.

The Only Exception by Magan Vernon~ Another one I've heard great things about!

Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover~ I'm hoping to love this series!

 

Blog Tours

Waiting for the Storm by Marie Landry~ Looking forward to the setting and themes in this one.
Again by Brandy Jeffus ~ I loved the blurb of this one and the cover.
Off the Record by Sawyer Bennett.~ I loved the first two in this series!
Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echolls.~ Jennifer Echolls is one of those authors I know I'll love so excited for this tour!
 

Quite a good NetGalley haul!

What joined your shelves in June?

Much Love!

Lettie

Xxx

September Round Up!

Monthly Feature- rounds up all the books I've read, progress on challenges and reviews my blogging!

It is kind of an expansion (?) of my favourite memes hosted by the lovely Shelia over at Book Journey!

September in numbers!

Total posts= 15

Books read= 11

Books listened to= 2 ½

Reviews Posted= 5

Meme Posts= 4
Other Posts= 6

Total days spent in the UK= 12

 

What I read in September!

*Plus*
The Lost Son by Preston Norton and Tamra Torero
 
What I Reviewed!
Frozen by Mary Casanova.
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan.
Sam Cruz's Infallible Guide To Getting Girls by Tellulah Darling.
Because of Low by Abbi Glines.
Matched by Ally Condie
Stronger review month! I seem to be reviewing my books accidentally in order which is handy!
I'm hoping my scheduling will make the number of reviews a month higher and more consistent from now on..
 
What I Posted!
Reviews- A post clarifying my personal approach to reviewing.
Bloggiesta- Brilliant event which really helped me with my monthly goals! Check out my goals post to see what else I cleaned up blogwise.
Autumn TBR- What I plan on reading this season!
Cover Reveal- Check out the beautiful cover on Abbi Glines' next instalment of Sea Breeze!
Series I need to finish!- This top ten kind of works as a 'to read' list for my series challenge.
 
Did I achieve my goals?
To post 15 posts.
Just achieved this one! I think I managed it, thanks to my holiday forcing me to schedule posts in advance. However my short notice holiday stopped my hope of 8 reviews as I didn't have time to write them up and schedule them before leaving for France.
To improve the standard of this blog.
I think I've achieved this one but it's an ongoing process. My review policy is clear and concise. My ratings system has made me think more about my reviews, which I hope has made them better. Bloggiesta gave me the chance to improve it further with the mini challenges.
To learn more about blog design.
I've tried but I think this goal will take longer than a month! The Bloggiesta mini challenges were so helpful for this one so it's an ongoing process.
  
What I hope to achieve in October!

• To blog to a schedule.- I created a proper blog schedule for bloggiesta which I will be posting later, I'm hoping to keep to it in order to give this blog a clearly defined structure and reliability.
• To make progress on my challenges.- I've been slacking on the majority of my challenges, in particular finishing the series. I'm hoping to make a lot more progress in October.
• To post two non meme/review posts.- This was originally last month's goal until I realised I wouldn't be able to write them up before going away! I've got a least one written up ready so hopefully this will be an easy goal!
• To tweet every blog post.- I used to do this all the time and it generated a lot of traffic! Need to get back into the habit.

September was an odd blogging month as I was away for the majority of the month so I wasn't actively blogging! I will be posting my Bloggiesta wrap up with my schedule so hopefully this month will be run smoothly!

How was your September blog/book/life wise?
Much Love!
Lettie
Xxx