Book Haul #131 - January 2017

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... Apparently I haven't done a book haul post since August 2016! I certainly don't intend to show all the books I've had since then so I'm starting afresh and this is what I've received this month. In a vain effort to cut down on my book buying I'm doing the #ShelfLove challenge this year which means reading more of my own books and cutting down on the books I buy. I'll do my first wrap-up post for this on Tuesday which includes the rule of reading at least 15 of my own books a month. If I do this I'm allowed to buy no more than 3 new books a month. I figure doing it like this I won't get the urge to buy too many, plus I have my regular library book delivery every month to keep me going. Books bought will be in that post!

Physical Review Copies

Girls On Fire - Robin Wasserman

Wintersong - S Jae-Jones

The Witch's Tears - Elizabeth & Katharine Corr

With Fate Conspire - Marie Brennan

Digital Review Copies

The Black Witch - Laurie Forest

The Breakdown - B A Paris

Fir - Sharon Gosling

The Last Act Of Hattie Hoffman - Mindy Mejia

The Turn - Kim Harrison

Written In Bones - James Oswald

Books That Kept Me 'Up All Night' In 2016...

It's been a pretty awful year this year, to put it mildly! Life on the blog hasn't exactly been wonderful but 2017 promises to be better. I won't be gallivanting about as much next year, hopefully, so posting will be a lot more regular than this year. Before I post my 'Best Of...' lists I wanted to put together a list of my 'five clocks' books, and there's been a few! It may have been a bad blogging year but it certainly hasn't been a bad reading year. The list includes my top re-reads (marked with a *) and is in alphabetical order, mostly...

13 Minutes - Sarah Pinborough

A Child of Books - Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

A Fever Of The Blood - Oscar de Muriel

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms - George R R Martin

A Perilous Beginning - Deanna Raybourn

A Portable Shelter  - Kirsty Logan

Alice - Christina Henry

All About Pumpkin - Natasha Farrant

*And Then There Were None

The Apprentice Witch - James Nicol

Barefoot On The Wind - Zoe Marriott

Becoming Unbecoming - Una 

Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris

Blackfin Sky - Kat Ellis

Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater

*Cinder - Marissa Meyer

The Creeper Man - Dawn Kurtagich

Cress - Marissa Meyer

*Crown of Midnight - Sarah J Maas

The Damage Done - James Oswald

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black 

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater

Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days)

Fables: Homeland

Fables: March Of The Wooden Soldiers

Fables: The Mean Seasons

Fables: Wolves

Golden Son - Pierce Brown

The Hawley Book Of The Dead - Chrysler Szarlan

The Imaginary - A. F. Harrold  & Emily Gravett

In The Woods - Tana French

Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Luna: New Moon - Ian McDonald

The Marriage Lie - Kimberley Belle

*The Mysterious Affair At Styles

*The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Natural Causes - James Oswald
*The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Orbiting Jupiter - Gary D Schmidt

*The Owl Service - Alan Garner 

Painkiller - N J Fountain

Phoenix - S F Said

Poppy Pym & The Double Jinx - Laura Wood

Prayer For The Dead - James Oswald

Rat Queens Vol. I

*Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Saga Vol. I

Saga Vol. II

Saga Vol. III

Saga Vol. IV

Saga Vol. V 

Shadow Magic - Joshua Khan

Shadows On The Moon - Zoe Marriott

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying Of The Light - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of The Wicked - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Last Stand Of Dead Men - Derek Landy

Tadpole's Promise (picture book)

Things The Grandchildren Should Know

Time For Jas - Natasha Farrant

The Unquiet House - Alison Littlewood

The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall - Karen McCombie

Top Ten Tuesday #118 - New-To-Me Authors In 2016

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

Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016

Not so many new-to-me authors this year for some reason as I've been reading lots of sequels and things but authors I'm already familiar with. Some of these are debut authors, some are authors I've been meaning to read for years, from Middle Grade to YA to Adult fiction, but I loved them all!

Bookmarked... #21

The return of the (mostly) weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading (now hosted by Kathryn at Book Date) and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons...

Yet again more than a month has passed between my Bookmarked... posts. I can't seem to get organised these days but there's always hope! I've read some good books recently and LFCC & YALC has been and gone. I am definitely going to write a post about that this year, especially as I've read on quite a few blogs things that resonated with me hugely! On to the books! I've read some great books recently, reviews of which are in the making - I promise...

Finished

The Apprentice Witch - James Nicol

Blackfin Sky - Kat Ellis

The Creeper Man - Dawn Kurtagich

Hold Still - Nina LaCour

The King Of Rats - Melinda Salisbury

Lying About Last Summer - Sue Wallman

Natural Causes - James Oswald

Something Wicked - Kerry Wilkinson

Under Rose-Tainted Skies - Louise Gornall

Currently Reading

Lydia - Natasha Farrant

The Nowhere Emporium - Ross MacKenzie

Rat Queens Vol. 2 - Kurtis J Wiebe, Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Šejić

This Savage Song - Victoria Schwab

Put On Hold

A Gathering Of Shadows - V E Schwab

This decision was not made lightly and was made in accordance with advice from the author herself! Basically Victoria (I've met her 4 times now, I feel like I can call her that...) noticed what page I was on when she was signing my copy of AGoS on Friday, said that I was about to read her most favorite part of the book and that I might be better off waiting to finish it when A Conjuring Of Light is not SIX. MONTHS. AWAY.

Up Next

No idea... Any suggestions?