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Saturday, 30 January 2016

Book Haul #120, Or The One Where I Nearly Gave In...


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!

As the title suggests I nearly gave in, after a whole month of buying no books, and splurged madly! I had some birthday money left over and burning a hole in my pocket and naturally the first thing I normally buy is books. It was so hard to resist but I did and instead put it in my Comic Con fund! I did get some review titles this week, both electronic and physical copies all of which I can't wait to read and sated my need for all the shiny, pretty, new books...

Don't forget to enter my birthday giveaway, open until midnight tomorrow so go here to check it out!


Saturday, 22 February 2014

Book Haul #65


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!

Ooooh, this has been a good week for books! But a bad week for Internet access, yet again I've spent the best part of two days without any Internet again thanks to my service provider. I've not even been able to pick up any of the local wi-fi hotspots for some reason so have had plenty of time to do other stuff like read! Luckily I drafted this on Tuesday so at least there's something on the blog this week, I've added this bit using my phone and it has taken a looooong time... On the bright side it was library week this week and I may have gone slightly overboard with my requests, and they all came in at the same time!

Bought

The Glass Casket | Grim | Banished
For Review

First 15 Lives of Harry August | Red Rising | The Three

Morningside Fall | Peacemaker | Moth & Spark
Library Haul

Days of the Deer | Moon's Artifice | Mother, Mother

Night Film | A Red Sun Also Rises | The Summoning

Emperor's Blades | Girl With All the Gifts | The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Blood Song | Dark Satanic Mills | Charm & Strange

Butterflies In November | Ancillary Justice | Cloud Hunters

Dream London | Queen of Dreams | Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack
Drakenfeld | Snowblind | We Used To Be Kings

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Book Haul #54


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!

And normal service is resumed... You can tell Christmas is coming, for every present I bought I'm pretty sure I bought myself a book. Ooops! I did have a whale of time buying new picture books for Fred & Em so I can honestly say I've bought books for other people this week too :)

Bought

Carousel Tides - Sharon Lee

The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper

The Language of Dying - Sarah Pinborough

Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

Glamour In Glass - Mary Robinette Kowal

Kindle Buys

Night of Cake & Puppets - Laini Taylor

Proxy - Mindee Arnett

Ten Tiny Breaths - K A Tucker

Declare - Tim Powers

On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers

Edelweiss Splurge

Don't You Forget About Me - Kate Karyus Quinn

The Eighth Day - Dianne K Saleri

A Creature of Moonlight - Rebecca Hahn

The Cabinet of Curiosities - Stefan Bachman

Carousel Sun - Sharon Lee





Saturday, 9 November 2013

Book Haul #50


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've had an amazing week, the obvious highlight being the signing I went to on Tuesday featuring Patrick Rothfuss and Scott Lynch... Totally worth the two hour wait in the queue and they were both such lovely chaps! Back at my dad's for two weeks, his phone is fixed but internet access remains spotty - on and off quicker than I can keep up with! I'm putting up with it though and trying to draft posts as and when it lets me.  Anyway, here's what I got this week - considering I was stood in amongst the shelves at Forbidden Planet for so long I'm surprised I didn't end up with more!

Bought

The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch

Mort - Terry Pratchett

Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett

Hide Me Among the Graves - Tim Powers

The Demon King - Cinda Williams Chima

Rags & Bones - Melissa Marr

Kindle

Tyger Tyger - Kersten Hamilton

The Iron Bells - Jeanette Battista

The Ghost House - Helen Phifer
Won

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
From Gollancz

Beauty - Sarah Pinborough

All in all, a great week for me - special thanks to Gollancz for sending me a copy of Beauty, looking forward to reading it once I've read Poison and Charm. And yay, new Terry Pratchett (Raising Steam) and old Terry Pratchett (Mort) re-released in hardcover with a luscious cover. To start with the first 21 books in the Discworld series are all being re-released in this special hardcover with new covers and being the fan that I am I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy most if not all of them!
 
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