Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Top Ten Tuesday #63 - Books I'm Not Sure I Want To Read Anymore

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books I'm Not Sure I Want To Read Anymore

I have a terrible habit of doing this. I'll buy a book because I love the cover or I've heard good things about or everyone in the universe seems to be reading it. And I don't... It sits on my shelf gathering dust while I procrastinate about what to read! Most of these titles are mostly because I'm burnt out on series, The Casual Vacancy though was a gift from someone who knew I liked reading but obviously has no clue about my reading tastes.













Monday, 11 August 2014

Book Blogger UKYA Awards!

Hey Guys!

Today I am proud to announce that the Book Blogger UKYA Award Nominations are open!

Click here to nominate books and authors that you love! You can nominate up to three books and authors per category - choose wisely!

Nominations will stay open until August 24th. (That's two weeks!) Then the shortlist will be put together and voting will begin on September 1st.

Good luck to all the lovely books and authors!

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Waiting On Wednesday #86 - The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

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 Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland #4) - Catherynne M Valente
ISBN - 9781250023490
Publisher - Feiwel & Friends
Expected release date - March 3rd 2015

When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, he becomes a changeling – a human boy -- in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate. But when he turns twelve, he stumbles upon a way back home, to a Fairyland much changed from the one he remembers. Hawthorn finds himself at the center of a changeling revolution--until he comes face to face with a beautiful young Scientiste with a very big, very red assistant.

Time magazine has praised Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland books as "one of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." In this fourth installment of her saga, Valente 's wisdom and wit will charm readers of all ages. - Goodreads


Cue flailing and squeeing! Catherynne Valente is one of my favorite authors and I adore her Fairyland books so I can't wait to get my grubby hands on a copy of The Boy Who Lost Fairyland! But March! 2015!!! That's way too long to wait :( 

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Top Ten Tuesday #62 - Books I'd Give To Readers Who Have Never Read Retellings

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books I'd Give To Readers Who Have Never Read...

I chose retellings this week because a lot of people tend to assume that there seem to be only fairy tale retellings. That's not true, there are lots of others! this a mix of both fairy tale and not, there's Alice, Dorothy, Tinkerbell and more.

Kill Me Softly

For Darkness Shows the Stars

Daughter of the Forest

Dorothy Must Die

Bitter Greens

Florence & Giles

The Looking Glass Wars

Tiger Lily

Wildwood Dancing

Scarlet



Monday, 4 August 2014

Bout of Books 11 - It's Nearly Time!

http://boutofbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/bout-of-books-11-sign-up.html

Yes, it's that time again!!! Bout of Books 11 is nearly here and so this is me signing up for my fifth attempt!

This one will be a little more interesting for me as I'm away until the 20th and I'm in London on the 21st for the Jo Walton & Mary Robinette Kowal signing at Forbidden Planet. I'll be updating on Twitter for the first four days of BoB 11 and updating on the blog for the last three days, this probably also means no challenges until I'm home but we'll see what they are! I'll schedule a post about my goals for BoB 11 to go up but check out @BookishOutsider to see how I'm doing.

If you want to take part sign-ups are open until the end of Tuesday August 19th, just add your sign-up link here.

Sunday, 3 August 2014

A Very Bookish Month - July 2014


  • A Dawn Most Wicked - Susan Dennard
  • Something Strange & Deadly - Susan Dennard
  • A Darkness Strange & Lovely - Susan Dennard
  • Death Note Vol 1 - Boredom
  • Strange & Ever After - Susan Dennard
  • Innocence - Dean Koontz
  • Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
  • Second on the Right - Elizabeth Los
  • Black Heart Blue - Louisa Reid
  • Find Me - Romily Bernard
  • Hounded - Kevin Hearne
  • The Last Forever - Deb Caletti
  • A Place For Us Pt 1 - Harriet Evans
  • Far From You - Tess Sharpe
  • Dark Heart Surrender - Lee Monroe


YA 11
Childrens 0
Adult 4

Own 6
Kindle 5
Library 4

Grand Total 15


Far From You | Fangirl | The Last Forever

Black Heart Blue | Strange & Ever After

I read fewer books this month but it was a good month, I couldn't decide between five books for Book of the Month so they're all favorites! Black Heart Blue and Far From You both broke my heart, as did The Last Forever and I was sad to see Susan Dennard's Strange & Deadly series come to a close.


  • The Illusionists - Laure Eve
  • Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
  • The Kiss of Deception - Mary E Pearson
  • Maskerade Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
  • Lords & Ladies Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
  • Witches Abroad Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
  • The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
  • The Dead of Winter - Lee Collins
  • The Six-Gun Tarot - R S Belcher
  • Fangirl Limited Edition - Rainbow Rowell
  • Half A King - Joe Abercrombie


Everything That Makes You was up first and luckily the wait was short thanks to HarperCollins, Patrick Rothfuss is keeping me waiting for The Doors of Stone so in the meantime I'll console myself with The Slow Regard of Silent Things and meeting him again in London next week!!! Last but not least I'm waiting on the first part of a new fantasy trilogy by Tom Fletcher (the author one, not the McFly singer/author one), Gleam, which is being to one of my favorites, Gormenghast.


In August I'll be reading these fantastic books!

Lock In | Of Metal & Wishes | Gates of Thread & Stone
YALC, LFCC, Rainbow Rowell at Waterstones Piccadilly, Meg Rosoff & Marcus Sedgwick at Waterstones Piccadilly... It was a busy month, all of these were within a week of each other and I still haven't recovered completely!

I had a pretty good time, there were a couple of things that pretty much ruined the 3 days at LFCC/YALC but I'm not going into detail about what they were. I met Joe Abercrombie, got strangled by Darren Shan, nearly knocked over by Lena Headey, spotted Hodor & Ser Loras, Colin Baker, R2D2 and the man inside the Darth Vader suit, walked past Stan Lee & George Romero, tried but failed to get a pic of John Hurt, Anthony Head & Paul McGann :( The panel I most wanted to see was Bring Me My Dragons which was on the Saturday as I've been looking forward to meeting Frances Hardinge for a long time. Unfortunately, although the panel was great, I had to leave before the signings as I was about to either pass out, have a full-blown panic attack or both!



The photos aren't great. There were people in the way, it was too sunny, I need a better camera and a myriad of other things!


I have completely lost track of all my challenge progress. I haven't really updated for Goodreads for nearly 2 months so need to do that and then hopefully I can work out how far behind I am! Proper challenge updates next month, I promise!

Saturday, 2 August 2014

Book Haul #85

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've decided, yet again, to cut back on the book buying and I'm hoping I'll stick at it this time... This was a quiet week for me, especially after the haul over the previous four weeks so I'm hoping that my hauls will remain small!

Bought

Charming

The Forbidden Library

The Rithmatist
Kindle

Cinderella's Dress

The Stolen



 
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