Saturday, August 2, 2014

Stacking the Shelves (70): San Diego Comic Con Edition

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Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews, is 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!


My family and I attended San Diego Comic Con for the first time this year. It was awesome!! We only went Friday and Saturday, and just those two days totally wiped us out. It was overwhelming, crowded, colorful, and amazing. We learned a lot this time around and hope to go again next year with our new found experience under our belts, perhaps even ready to brave the line for Hall H.

You can find my thoughts on our Comic Con experience HERE.

Of course, being a bibliophile, books and authors were a big draw for me, and I got to see some amazing authors. I brought several books with me to have signed, and only bought one there. But my bags quickly doubled then tripled in size with the amazing booths to be visited and giveaways to be had.

Here are the books I actually got at Comic Con, and all but one were FREE!
(Thank you, publishers!)
Bought (& signed):
 The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
 
Freebies (signed):
Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
Inside the Maze Runner: The Guide to the Glade (signed by James Dashner)
Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton (ARC)
Vampires of Manhattan by Melissa de la Cruz (ARC x2)
The Young Elites by Marie Lu (ARC)
Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White (ARC)
 
Freebies (not signed):
 Thrones & Bones: Frostborn by Lou Anders (ARC)
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (ARC)
The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi (ARC)
 Written in Red by Anne Bishop
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight by Jack Campbell
The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato (ARC)
The Deep by Nick Cutter (ARC)
The Jewel by Amy Ewing (ARC)
Endgame by James Frey & Nils Johnson-Shelton (ARC)
Messenger of Fear by Michael Grant (ARC)
The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier
Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover
The Midnight Queen by Sylvia Izzo Hunter (ARC)
The Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman (ARC)
Proxy by Alex London
The Young Elites by Marie Lu (ARC)
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier
Maplecroft by Cherie Priest (ARC) 
Gathering Darkness by Morgan Rhodes (ARC)
All the Wrong Questions by Lemony Snicket
The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper
 
 

6 comments:

  1. wow that's quite a lot of books and I hope you'll like them all because they look great. Happy reading!

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  2. Don't mind me while I just sit here and drool over the pretties... so many pretties...

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  3. Wow! One of these days I have got to go to San Diego Comic Con! There's one in St. Louis every year, but something tells me it's not like San Diego! Lots of new to me reads here! Hope you enjoy them all!


    My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!

    Have a GREAT day!

    Old Follower :)

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  4. Wow, just a guess but I think you had a great time ;)

    My new pretties :)

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  5. Oh my gosh that's a lot of books! I was actually in L.A. during the San Diego Comic Con which is super annoying but one day I will go :) Happy reading!

    My StS .
    Zareena @ Books and Books

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  6. One of these days I will go to San Diego Comic Con. It looks like you really got some good books. It also sounds like you had a blast.

    Grace @ Books of Love

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