Welcome to Stacking the Shelves #18! This meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Review and the last few years it’s been co-hosted at Team Tynga’s and at Reading Reality.
Stacking The Shelves 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! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
So without further adieu, let me show you what I’ve received this week!
Physical Books from the Publisher:
From The Publisher:
One woman must learn to love again with the help of her supper club friends and the man next door in this delightful enemies-to-lovers small-town romance.
The best meals. The perfect company. And just enough sparks to make it complicated . . .
Serenity Wheeler’s Supper Club is all about getting together with great friends, incredible food, and a whole lot of dishing—not for hooking up. Still, Serenity knows inviting her friend’s brother to one of her dinners is just good manners, but the ultra-fine, hazel-eyed Gabriel Cunningham has a gift for saying the wrong thing at the really wrong time. Especially when it comes to her cooking.
Gabriel isn’t quite sure how they got off on the wrong foot, but something about Serenity makes him nervous. Maybe it’s because he’s new to the small-town vibe. Maybe it’s because the woman is so gorgeous that he can’t think straight. Or maybe it’s because there’s an attraction between them he can’t seem to shake.
Though refreshments and camaraderie may be the supper club’s mantra, Serenity and Gabriel know there’s more between them than just sharing delicious meals. But she can’t let herself fall for Gabriel. Because while cooking with love is one thing, trusting it is quite another…
Netgalley Ebooks:
From The Publisher:
When Alana Shropshire’s seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana’s brothers, urging her to help “protect Dad” from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father’s fortune, and she tells them she couldn’t care less about the May-December romance. Long estranged from her privileged family, Alana has no stake in the game, and as a hardworking single mom, she has more important things to worry about. But when Ed and Kelly’s wedding is announced, Teddy and Martin kick into hyperdrive, and eventually persuade Alana to fly to their father’s 900-acre West Coast island retreat to perform one small task in their plan to lure the “gold digger” away from their father. Kelly, however, proves a lot wilier than expected, and Alana becomes entangled in an increasingly dangerous scheme full of secrets and surprises. Will she be able to escape her brothers’ elaborate web of deceit? Just how far will her siblings go to retain control?
Smart, entertaining and brimming with shocking twists and turns, The Opportunist is both a thrill-ride of a story and a razor-sharp view of who wields power in the world.
Audible Audiobooks:
From The Publisher:
From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight…
The perfect Jewish husband should be:
* A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)
* Baggage-free (no previous marriages, no children)
* And of course—he must be Jewish
As the creator and CEO of the popular Jewish dating app J-Mate, matchmaker Dara Rabinowitz knows the formula for lasting love—at least, for everyone else. When it comes to her own love life, she’s been idling indefinitely. Until her beloved bubbe shares Dara’s checklist for “The Perfect Jewish Husband” on national television and charming news anchor Chris Steadfast proposes they turn Dara’s search into must-see TV.
As a non-Jewish single dad, Chris doesn’t check any of Dara’s boxes. But her hunt for Mr. Perfect is the ratings boost his show desperately needs. If only Chris could ignore his own pesky attraction to Dara—a task much easier said than done when Dara starts questioning if “perfect on paper” can compete with how hard she’s falling for Chris…
Previous Editions of Stacking the Shelves:
That concludes Stacking the Shelves #18! Have you read any of these books, or are they on your list of books to read?
Fadima Mooneira
A Table For Two sounds like my kinda read. I shall add that on my shelf too. Thank you for sharing.
thathappyreader
I hope that you enjoy it Fadima!
Elements of Happy
I’m adding The Opportunist to my list. Thanks for that one! I haven’t read all these but they sound interesting.
thathappyreader
I’m glad you found a book you’d like to read here! Thanks for reading.
Carla
A small haul, but they all sound great. I listened to Mr. Perfect on Paper and really enjoyed it, I hope you do as well, Jodie. A Table for Two sounds like one I would very much enjoy, so I will be putting it on my wishlist. I hope you enjoy all of these.
thathappyreader
Thanks Carla! I only read 2-3 books per week so my hauls need to reflect this. I hope that you enjoy Table for Two as well.
Raji
Hope you enjoy all of these books! It’s the second time this week I’ve heard about The Opportunist and I’m really looking forward to reading it!
thathappyreader
Thanks Raji! I hope we both enjoy it!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
They all look great! The physical book will look good on a shelf!
Have a great weekend
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/stacking-the-shelves-21/
thathappyreader
Thanks Emily. I hope you have a great weekend too.
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
The Opportunist sounds intriguing. Here’s to having a great week ahead and time for reading one of these books!
https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/sunday-post-11
thathappyreader
Thanks Terrie! I hope you have a wonderful week ahead.
Greg
A Table For Two has such a nice cover! So peaceful.
thathappyreader
It does have a peaceful cover! Thanks for reading Greg!
Sara
I hope you love these! Mr. Perfect on Paper looks great! I’ve read good things about it.
thathappyreader
Thanks Sara! I can’t wait to get to it!
Hazlo Emma
Congratulations for staking your shelves with these intriguing reads. The Opportunist sounds like a real-life story.
Shared the post.
H Emma
thathappyreader
It does, doesn’t it? Thanks for reading Hazlo.
Sejal
I love books like this, and have read a few I saw recommended on social media. Mr. perfect on Paper, sounds like an interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
Sejal | thelazygal.com
thathappyreader
Thanks for reading Sejal! I can’t wait to start reading Mr Perfect On Paper.
Mark
Looks like some fun books. Hope you enjoy.
thathappyreader
Thanks Mark!
Wendy Williams
Nice haul again, Jodie! I hope you enjoy Mr. Perfect on Paper. I thought it was slightly better than her previous book, The Matzah Ball. And I loved both books.
thathappyreader
Thanks Wendy. I’m hoping to read the Matzah Ball this year too!
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