Book Haul #77

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

I was doing really well this week, up until Friday the only book I'd bought was actually a pre-order that I'd been waiting for a long time to arrive - a signed, limited edition of Jack in the Green by Charles de Lint! Then I went to an event/signing, came home with two more books and found another three books waiting for me... I got a couple of great books on Kindle and I got approved for some great books on Netgalley which I'd seen recommended by a couple of my favorite bloggers. All in all, an amazing bookish week!

Bought

Interesting Times | Moving Pictures | Jack in the Green

The Color Master | My Real Children | The Severed Streets

Kindle

Defenders | In Dark Service

Publisher

The Buried Life

Netgalley

The Diamond Thief | Nihal of the Land of the Wind | The Memory Garden

Top Ten Tuesday #48 - The Most Unique Books I've Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Most Unique Books I've Read

As soon as I saw this topic I instantly thought of House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, which has to be one of the most original novels published - that I've read anyway, and anything by Aimee Bender! After that initial burst I could not think of a single title so this is my attempt at a top ten of the most unique books I've read. The first two are authors that, to me, are utterly unique in their writing! The rest are books that for one reason or another I found a bit different to anything else similar I'd read.

Aimee Bender

Haruki Murakami

Thirteen Reasons Why | Every Day | Fault Line | The Book Thief

House of Leaves | A Natural History of Dragons | Cinder | Catch-22

Book Haul #25

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews, In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by The Mod Podge Bookshelf and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

I have had an excellent week this week! A few freebies on the old Kindle Fire, monthly library day and one or two lovely surprises...

Kindle Freebies

Silver - Cheree Alsop

Falling - Amber Jaeger

Cursed - Casey Odell

The Mystic Wolves - Belinda Boring

Kindle Buys

The Forgotten Ones - Laura Howard

Storm - Brigid Kemmerer

From the author

Year Of The Great Seventh - Teresa Orts

From the publisher

Oksa Pollock: The Last Hope - Anne Plichota & Cendrine Wolf

Library Books

The Girl In The Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender

Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender

Undone - Cat Clarke

Working Stiff - Rachel Caine

Two Weeks' Notice - Rachel Caine

Such Wicked Intent - Kenneth Oppel

Black Arts - Andrew Prentice

Killing Rachel - Anne Cassidy

Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell

Hysteria - Megan Miranda

A Kiss At Midnight - Eloisa James

Princess Of Landover - Terry Brooks

The Glimpse - Claire Merle

What did you get this week?

Top Ten Tuesday #4

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is

Top Ten Books I Thought I'd Like MORE/LESS Than I Did

This is a tough one! My Top 10 is a mixture of both, books I thought I'd like more and books I thought I wouldn't like! We'll start with books I thought I would love but sadly didn't.

Matched - Ally Condie

I thought I would love this but sadly it's one of a handful of books I really struggled to finish, I disliked it enough to never pick up Crossed and Reached which is unusual for me. Even if I didn't get on with the first book in a series I do pick up the next one in case it's better!

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

My sister and I were reading this one at the same time. All the way through we compared notes and constantly asked what the appeal was because neither of us were seeing it! The ending ensured its place on my 'never recommend to anyone' list, sadly the book was a huge letdown for me.

Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan

I wanted to love this, the plot sounded like something I would love but I never connected with the book at all and the ending just cemented that feeling. Still not sure if I'll pick up the next one or not...
 

Betrayed - P C & Kristin Cast

I read Marked and liked it so I bought Betrayed when it came out, unfortunately I didn't like Betrayed but for some bizarre reason I still bought every other book in the series when they were released and struggled reading through to book #5! These are all on my 'donate to the library' pile which makes me sad, I don't like not liking books :(

Eragon - Christopher Paolini

Not much to say except that I really didn't like Eragon even though I love dragons and I've never been the slightest bit tempted to even buy/borrow the rest of the series!

5 books that I thought wouldn't appeal but did are -

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

 I didn't read this because I just thought it was yet another YA author jumping on the vampire bandwagon. Every time I went to the library it was there and I just walked past it every time! Fast forward two years after it's published, I finally give in and take a copy home - and loved it!

Blood Red Road - Moira Young

 I picked this up by accident when I was looking for something else but I'm so glad I did! I hadn't heard much about it at the time but I remember thinking it didn't seem like my cup of tea. How wrong I was! I loved it, shamefully I've still never read Rebel Heart...

The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

 My librarian friend recommended this to me by saying it was the weirdest book she'd read and I would love it. I started it and thought I really wasn't going to like it but by the end? She was right, it was fantastic!

The First Last Kiss - Ali Harris

 I don't really read 'chick-lit' unless I want to switch my brain of and read something that requires no concentration. This one though, well definitely not 'chick-lit' as I was sobbing my eyes out by the end. Maybe it was too soon to read a book like this but it was heartbreaking and I loved it.

The Knife Of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

Not much to say about this one except that if I didn't absolutely adore it I definitely wouldn't be handing out copies of this later on today for World Book Night! Thanks to the bookish friend who forced me to read it I've discovered another favorite author.