State of the Stack (April 30, 2012)

This is my fifth State of the Stack post. It is my way to keep track of my review books and to hopefully reduce the stack that I have waiting for me. I take a look at my review commitments on the last Monday of each month. Please feel free to join in and let me know the state of your stack.


Here is my Review Books Spreadsheet. Yellow highlighted books are ones past their publication date that I still haven't read and reviewed. I use pink highlights for reviews due in even numbered months so that I can see at a glance how many I have for each month. Ideally, this keeps me from over-committing to review books. 


Here is the physical review stack in order of publication date:

The stack has been reduced to only 12 books stretching out until an October 11 publication date. I am, however, waiting for three books with May publication books to arrive.

Here are the Kindle review copies I have in the order that they were added to my LibraryThing account. Three of them have May publication dates.

I read sixteen books from my review stack this month. Links go to my review if the review has already been posted. Otherwise the link goes to Amazon.

• You Can't Have My Planet, But Take My Brother, Please by James Mihaly
• The China Gambit by Allan Topol
• Until Next Time by Amy Lignor
• The Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard
• Griffin's Fire by Darby Karchut
• Rebel Fire by Andrew Lane
• The Prophet by Amanda Stevens
• The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
• Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick
• Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
• A Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
• The Department of Magic by Rod Kierkegaard Jr. (review posts May 3)
• Struck by Jennifer Bosworth (review posts May 3)
• Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink by Stephanie Kate Strohm (review posts May 10)
• The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda (review posts May 5)
• Pack of Lies by Sara Dailey and Staci Weber (review posts May 2)

Of course, I couldn't have a month when I didn't add to the stack. I got 8 more books for review (links go to Amazon).

• Keeping Safe the Stars by Sheila O'Connor (got from author at Spotlight on Books Conference; Oct. 11)
• A Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy (Amazon Vine; May 1)
• Can't Buy Me Love by Molly O'Keefe (Amazon Vine; June 26)
• The Department of Magic by Rod Kierkegaard Jr. (NetGalley; Dec. 12, 2011)
• Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink by Stephanie Kate Strohm (Amazon Vine; May 8)
• Spark: a Sky Chasers Novel by Amy Kathleen Ryan (Amazon Vine; July 17)
• A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix (Amazon Vine; May 15)
• Pack of Lies (Red Ridge Pack) by Sara Dailey and Staci Weber (email request; April 6)

Somehow May really got away from me. So far I have accepted 13 books for review that have May publication dates and May hasn't even begun. Luckily, I was able to get a head start on them and have already read four. I have also read one of the books that I thought I would be reading in June because I had a gap while waiting for one of the May books to arrive from Amazon Vine. All but one of my May review books are young adult. 

I am currently reading A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix which will be released on May 15 and which was the Amazon Vine book I was waiting for.  

How are you doing with your review stack?