Top Ten Tuesday #111 - Books That Are On Holiday With Me Right Now...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Books That Are Holiday With Me Right Now...

Provided that the petrol situation in France hasn't derailed our plans, no pun intended but we are going via the Eurotunnel, these are the books that made it on to my holiday reading list. Hopefully I'm relaxing by a beautiful blue sea, eating some good food and drinking some fabulous French wine...

Book Haul #96

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!

Well, we're 10 days into 2015 and I haven't bought a single book - not one! This is a major accomplishment for me as I'm always seeing something but I haven't slipped once, probably to do more with the fact that I've been so busy actually reading I haven't had time to browse! All review books this week except one which was a (very) late arriving preorder which now makes me sad to even think about reading it. I've had some amazing review books this week, lots of excited squealing around the house from me for most and a weird celebratory dance for one or two...

PreOrder

Princess of Thorns

Review

Marly's Ghost | Shadow Study | The Sin Eater's Daughter

Seeker | The Ship | Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

The Blondes | The Doll Collection | The Dress Shop of Dreams

Book Haul #94

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 expected I didn't receive a single book for Christmas but do not fear, I more than made up for that unhappy fact by buying a few books as presents to myself! Also listed this week are the other half of my review/blog tour books and my December library haul. I've been really lucky with my requests so far but now Netgalley have changed their dashboard I can't find titles I've requested but not heard about anywhere. Anybody know where I can find this? I've gone to request the same title three times now...  My library haul has three Shirley Jackson titles, I own all of them but do you think I can find them? I was in the mood for a reread of The Sundial so decided to have a Jackson marathon, hopefully reviews in January!

Bought

 Review 

Library Books

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