Bout of Books 9.0 - Day 1

It's Monday, therefore it must be day 1 of Bout of Books 9.0! The day is not off to a good start, already 11am here and I've yet to pick up a book... Although I have chosen my first book, which is -

Monster High - Lisi Harrison

Challenges are up so I'm off to start the first one! Hosted by Bookish Comforts you have won a (fictional) $100 dollar spree on Book Depository and get to share the contents of your shopping cart! As I have no idea how to take a screenshot (don't say a word, I know what you're thinking...) I'll share a list of what I would choose complete with links here a bit later.

Monday

Number of pages I've read today: 272
Number of books read today: 1
Total number of books I've read: 1

Challenges

Book Buying Spree

Dust Girl - Sarah Zettel $9.99
Cemetery Girl - Charlaine Harris $19.58
Never Fade - Alexandra Bracken $16.07
Bitter Spirits - Jenn Bennett $7.91
Dangerous Women - George R R Martin & Gardner Dozois $21.83
Codex Born - Jim C Hines $16.57

Grand Total - $91.95

Finally got to read uninterrupted around 9pm and finished Monster High just after 11.30pm, one book down and six to go!!!

Book Haul #56

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews 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!

So, January 1st is just around the corner and my year of not buying books starts! I'm making the most of these last few days of buying and picking up books that I really want to read but know that my library won't get in. Unless I get books for Christmas - which I never do - this will probably be my last big book haul :( But on the bright side, I have Unhinged!!!

Bought

Witch Finder - Ruth Warburton

When the Sea is Rising Red - Cat Hellisen

Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea - April Genevieve Tucholke

A Darkness Strange & Lovely - Susan Dennard

All Our Pretty Songs - Sarah McCarry

Skarlet - Thomas Emson

Goth Girl & the Ghost of a Mouse - Chris Riddell

Unhinged - A G Howard

Kindle

Fae - C J Abedi

The Secret of Isobel Key - Jen McConnel

Doon - Carey Corp & Lorie Langdon

The Winter Witch - Paula Brackston

Kindle Freebies

Sunset Rising - S M McEachern

Descended - Debra Ann Miller

Library

Perfect Ruin - Lauren Destafano

The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney

Dark Heart Rising - Lee Monroe

Monster High - Lisi Harrison

Black Ships - Jo Graham

Red Rock - Kate Kelly

The Silence of Ghosts - Jonathan Aycliffe

Night School: Fracture - C J Daugherty

The Shadow Year - Hannah Richell

Ice - Sarah Beth Durst

For review

Mistress of the Wind - Michelle Diener

Maybe One Day - Melissa Kantor

Book Haul #52

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews 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 didn't think I'd be posting a book haul this week as I was sure I wasn't buying anything before I went away but I forgot about my pre-order of The Fiery Heart, then I thought I'd pick up a copy of Curtsies & Conspiracies so I can finally read Etiquette & Espionage and the icing on the cake? Going to see Susan Ee at Waterstones Piccadilly on Thursday! Although I have Angelfall on my Kindle I picked up a paperback copy and obviously couldn't leave without buying a copy of World After. My one high point of the week is that I requested nothing from Netgalley or Edelweiss therefore not destroying all my hard work during Netgalley November :) I also had a lovely email from Livia Blackburne, author of Midnight Thief (due out from Disney-Hyperion in July 2014), asking if I'd like to review the prequel Poison Dance. Naturally I said yes...

Bought

Angelfall - Susan Ee

World After - Susan Ee

The Windvale Sprites - Mackenzie Crook

The Fiery Heart - Richelle Mead

Curtsies & Conspiracies - Gail Carriger

 Kindle

Ember - Kristen Callihan

 From the author

Poison Dance - Livia Blackburne

What did you get this week?