Book Haul #115, Or The One With What Seems Like All The Books...

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 have got to remember to book haul posts on a slightly more regular basis again! This may look like I have all the books in the world - again - but I swear I don't! This is about five weeks worth of books but in my defense in all that time? I only bought three books!!!

Bought

Beyond The Page - Quentin Blake

The Next Together - Lauren James

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Library Books

Europe In Autumn - David Hutchinson

Crazy Love You - Lisa Unger

The Cutting - James Hayman

The Dark Light - Julia Bell

A Game For All The Family - Sophie Hannah

Little Girl Lost - Brian McGilloway

Nelly Dean - Alison Case

Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy

What Remains - Tim Weaver

For Review

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie

The Casquette Girls - Alys Arden

City Of Wonders - James A Moore

Dark Heart Of Magic - Jennifer Estep

The House On Cold Hill - Peter James

Mythmaker - Marianne de Pierres

Never Never - Brianna R Shrum

Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel

The Snow Sister - Emma Carroll

These Shallow Graves - Jennifer Donnelly

When I Was Me - Hilary Freeman

Worlds Of Ink & Shadow - Lena Coakley

Waiting On Wednesday #133 - The Abyss Surrounds Us

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie

ISBN - 9780738746913

Publisher - Flux

Release date - February 8 2016

Find - Goodreads | Book Depository

For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water.

There’s no time to mourn. Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatched Reckoner pup. Santa Elena wants to take back the seas with a monster of her own, and she needs a proper trainer to do it. She orders Cas to raise the pup, make sure he imprints on her ship, and, when the time comes, teach him to fight for the pirates. If Cas fails, her blood will be the next to paint the sea.

But Cas has fought pirates her entire life. And she's not about to stop.

This sounds amazing. Pirates, sea monsters, set in the future? Yes please! Thankfully not too long to wait.

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

Book Haul #45

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!

A much better week this week health-wise along with a short visit to my sister for babysitting duties have got me feeling much better. I was even well enough to go see a gig I had tickets for with Seth Lakeman, Lisbee Stainton & Winter Mountain which was completely amazing! And the fun doesn't stop there, tomorrow I'm off to Bath to see Patrick Ness (again) and Sarah J Maas - more about that next week :) It was a quiet week started off as a quiet week for books, just a couple - very restrained, which descended into an 'I'm sure I didn't order/request these books' week... It was a very exciting week though as Titan have finally re-released the second book in the Blood Wine Sequence, A Dance In Blood Velvet by Freda Warrington. I do have a copy already but it's a very dilapidated paperback copy which will probably fall apart if opened again and up until now you were lucky if you found it used for under $100!

Bought

Fearsome Dreamer - Laure Eve

A Dance In Blood Velvet - Freda Warrington

Premeditated - Josin L McQuein

Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire

Midnight Blue-Light Special - Seanan McGuire

The Shadow Society - Marie Rutkoski

From Strange Chemistry

Cracked - Eliza Crewe

 From Edelweiss/Netgalley

Dark Duets - ed. Christopher Golden

The Drowned Forest - Kristopher Reisz

What did you get this week?

Waiting On Wednesday #23

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is

Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton @Twitter
 Find- Book Depository/Goodreads
ISBN - 978-0738736433
Publisher - Flux @FluxBooks
Release date - July 8th 2013


'Elizabeth Caldwell doesn’t feel emotions . . . she sees them. Longing, Shame, and Courage materialize around her classmates. Fury and Resentment appear in her dysfunctional home. They’ve all given up on Elizabeth because she doesn’t succumb to their touch. All, that is, save one—Fear. He’s intrigued by her, as desperate to understand the accident that changed Elizabeth’s life as she is herself.

Elizabeth and Fear both sense that the key to her past is hidden in the dream paintings she hides in the family barn. But a shadowy menace has begun to stalk her, and try as she might, Elizabeth can barely avoid the brutality of her life long enough to uncover the truth about herself. When it matters most, will she be able to rely on Fear to save her?' - Goodreads

I'll be honest here, the cover alone made me want to order it... The storyline though sounds intriguing and original, hopefully it will live up to this!

What are you waiting for?