STS #51 – BB&B #3
Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about the latest additions to your library – virtual or actual, with books that are bought, borrowed, won or ARCs you will be reading soon. BB&B is a homage to to Barron’s Books and Baubles from Karen Marie Moning’s amazing Fever series, and is hosted by Braine over at Talk Supe.
I was pretty good this past week as well, but I did get some nice books from Edelweiss. I have also been very busy with classes, but I like it that way 🙂
Edelweiss ARCs:
You Have to Fucking Eat – Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Owen Brozman
From the author of the international bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep comes a long-awaited sequel about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving, and deeply cathartic, You Have to Fucking Eat breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving moms and dads new, old, grand-, and expectant a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem.
A perfect gift book like the smash hit Go the Fuck to Sleep (over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide!), You Have to Fucking Eat perfectly captures Adam Mansbach’s trademark humor, which is simultaneously affectionate and radically honest. You probably shouldn’t read it to your kids.
Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 international bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, The Dead Run, and The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award. He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Believer, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His daughter Vivien is six.
Owen Brozman has illustrated for National Geographic, Time Out New York, Scholastic, Ninja Tune, Definitive Jux, and numerous other clients. He and Mansbach recently collaborated on the acclaimed graphic novel Nature of the Beast, and his work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, Creative Quarterly, 3×3 magazine, and many more. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter, whose favorite food is bananas
The Dead Wife’s Handbook – Hannah Beckermann
‘Today is my death anniversary. A year ago today I was still alive.’
Rachel, Max and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life – until the night Rachel’s heart stopped beating.
Now Max and Ellie are doing their best to adapt to life without Rachel, and just as her family can’t forget her, Rachel can’t quite let go of them either. Caught in a place between worlds, Rachel watches helplessly as she begins to fade from their lives. And when Max is persuaded by family and friends to start dating again, Rachel starts to understand that dying was just the beginning of her problems.
As Rachel grieves for the life she’s lost and the life she’ll never lead, she learns that sometimes the thing that breaks your heart might be the very thing you hope for.
Hannah Beckerman gives an unforgettable exploration of love and loss in her first novel, The Dead Wife’s Handbook.
Maeve’s Times in Her Own Words – Maeve Binchy
Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans.
Maeve Binchy once confessed: “As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people’s lives.” She was an accidental journalist, yet from the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret Thatcher, “senior moments” to life as a waitress, Maeve’s Times gives us wonderful insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers in all its diversity-revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.
Kindle Purchases:
Block (Social Media #3) – J.A. Huss
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@FilthyBlueBird #BehindTheScenesIsMyScene The Blue Bird has trust issues. And tantrum issues. And commitment issues.
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@VaughnAsher #YouMustShitUnicorns that’s how delusional your fairy tale is. #GetAGripOnReality I’m outtie.
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@FilthyBlueBird You’re an #Innie #Sweetheart 🙂 My tongue licked all your #CuteLittleButtons.
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Why is he so damn sexy? How will I ever get out from under Asher’s thumb if I can’t stop thinking about his tongue on my buttons? #HottiesNeedToPlayFair
Did you get some exciting-looking books this week? Remember to leave me your link so I can check out your Stacking the Shelves and or Bought, Borrowed and Bagged post, too 🙂 Thanks for stopping by! Have a spectacular Saturday.
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
Looks like you’ve got some interesting reads to get stuck into! I like the look of The Dead Wife’s Handbook!
When I saw The Dead Wife’s Handbook on Edelweiss, I just couldn’t resist – that blurb is so intriguing 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Chrissi.
Oh they’re all new to me! Happy reading my friend!
Thank you Melliane 🙂
He he, I got Block too 😉
Yum! Block was awesome 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Iza 🙂
OOoh nice! Those are all new to me! Gotta admit, I was chuckling at that title for the first one! Hope you enjoy them all!
My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!
Have a GREAT day!
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LOL You Have to Fucking Eat was so funny! It’s a very short book, and it’s so good for parents who feel like they’re fighting with their kids to make them eat anything at all 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Jessica!
I got to admit all of your books this week are new to me. I do like the cover for You Got to Fucking Eat. Looks kind of cute. Great stack Lexie.
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It was a fun little story, Grace 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
Lovely haul of variety! I hope you’ll end up loving that Black book! 😀
I did end up loving it, Lola 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
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I haven’t read go to Fucking Sleep but under my breath I am always telling my son you have to Fucking EAT! The kid wont eat anything Lol.
Enjoy all your new books! Have a great weekend Lexxie!
Michelle, it’s the perfect book for parents with kids who are picky or hardly eating anything at all! I was laughing so hard – I’ve been thinking all of those things myself when my kids were younger.
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
I LOLed a long time at You Have to Fucking Eat. I hope to see Jackson narrate this one as well. It was just the icing on the cake!
I think I need the audiobook of Go the Fuck to Sleep, too, even if my kids are bigger now so I don’t have that problem anymore 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Lyn.
Great haul this week. The Dead Wife’s Handbook looks really great, seems like a book that might have me crying happy tears when I read it. I’m still laughing at the You’ve Got To Fucking Eat book! I hope you enjoy all of your reads! Here’s my STS.
I just couldn’t resist either of those books, they called out to me saying I really needed them 🙂
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Yes, we have to flucking eat! Damn, why do we have to get fat and store it in specific places only??
Great books this week, Lexxie, I’m curious about The Dead Wife’s Handbook.
Oh don’t even talk about that fat, Braine, please! I need to start working out again, but I seem to be unable to take that first step and actually just do it, you know?
Thanks for stopping by!
The Dead Wife’s Handbook is awfully intriguing! I hope you enjoy all your reads 😀 Have a fantastic weekend!!
I have enjoyed those I’ve read already, and I have pretty high hopes for the two others, Jaclyn 😉
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LOL at You Have to Fucking Eat! That title makes me laugh for some reason. Would be curious to see how that one turns out.
Have a great week, Lexxie! <33
The whole story is LOL-worthy, Melanie! Thanks for stopping by!
Block looks good, hope you enjoy and have a great week.
Thanks, Brandi! You, too 🙂
So much awesomeness here. Happy reading and I hope you’ll enjoy them all! 🙂
I can’t wait to read your thoughts on You Have to Fucking Eat. 🙂 And yay for Block. Oh, the Maeve Binchy book sounds great too. I love her books. You did well this week, my friend.
Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Ours was busy but great. 🙂 Let’s chat soon…when your schedule allows. 🙂 **BIG HUGS**
OMG, Brandee, I laughed so hard! I wish I’d had that book when that’s what I wanted to say to my kids 😀 it’s so nice to know we’re not alone when we are facing parenting challenges.
Block was awesome! The Social Media series just keeps getting better IMO.
Oh man, a whole week has passed before I was even able to comment on this, I have no idea when I’ll be able to chat, but I really miss you, girlfriend. *BIG HUGS*