Hey everyone! This week’s stack is pretty small, but this time, when I say I’ve added books to the shelves, I literally mean I ADDED books to my shelves. Emily The Library Advocate *BOUGHT* two books this week! (My wallet’s feeling significantly less thick, but no regrets.) I did splurge and buy one full-price (gasp! Yes, I take after my mom in that department: never pay full-price for a thing) buuut I did save big on the other, so here are the books.

By now I’m preeetty sure you’ve heard of that top book: RUBY RED by Kerstin Gier.

Guys. Guys. Peoples, listen up. THIS SERIES IS AMAZING. It is a time travel novel with an EPIC plot, adorable romance… the plot only gets better and better as the series go on, AHHHH I was so in love with that ending. It’s huge in Germany, and it totally deserves more buzz in the US of A because hooooly canoly, it was awesome. Ruby Red is the first in a trilogy; there are two movies for the first two out so far, the third being filmed now. Unfortunately only the first movie can be found with English voice overs (the others are in German), but it was still pretty great nonetheless.

I borrowed Ruby Red and the other two books from the library, but I just had to own at least the first book. Soooo after procrastinating it for months, I finally ordered my first book from Thrift Books! This website is an online used bookstore, with only $1 shipping or free shipping with orders of $10 or more! (And for that, you could order 2-3 hardbacks with free shipping.) I love it and will definitely be ordering from them again!

The title in German is “Rubinrot.” 

SO: order from Thrift Books. Get Ruby Red. Somehow. Go to your local library, kids. Order it online. Steal it from a neighboring German. (Wait scratch that, we bookworms do have morals.) It’s amazing.

HELP HELP MY FEELINGS. Somebody read this series.

OKAY so the second book is one I’ve had my eye for a long time and finally splurged on: ENTWINED by Heather Dixon. I’ve decided to start it; I began All Fall Down by Ally Carter but just wasn’t in the mood for a dystopian. (Is it a dystopian? I was confused.) I’ll probably come back to AFD and love it, iiii just couldn’t get into it this week.

Entwined is really unique, so far. It’s a fairy tale retelling, but I love that it actually feels like a fairy tale style story. There are lots of fairy tale stories in YA… but they’re either fantasy or dystopia or sci-fi or contemporary. Which are great, but this one is told as an actual fairy tale and I like that. It’s new. It’s supposed to be a “Twelve Dancing Princesses” retelling, which rings a bell but I’m not really familiar with that one, so should be exciting.

So that’s this week’s books! But before I go, I did have a question for you all.

The amount of comments I get on each post has been really varying; sometimes I’ll get five or six and other times I’ll get none! The problem is, I can’t find a pattern for what the posts that do/don’t get many comments have in common. I know I did a survey back in December as a 2015 end-of-the-year thing, but I wanted to know if the comments has anything to do with the time of/which day it’s on… or the format of my posts. I can be either sarcastic and silly, or kind of serious and formal in my posts. (It really depends on my mood.) Which do you prefer? What kind of posts are you influenced to comment on? Thanks for your help!

what books did you get this week? have you read ruby red or entwined? do you want to? happy weekend!