Hi everyone and welcome to my weekly blog feature to recap the week with bookish news and what to expect coming up! So without further ado...
*Reading Right Now*
*Previous Posts*
- Triumph Over To-Reads November Winner
- Review: Whisper the Dead by Alyxandra Harvey
- Waiting on Wednesday: All the Bright Places
- Cover Love: A Darker Shade of Magic
- Dual Reviews: Dangerous Girls / Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
- Discussion: Expect the Unexpected
*Recommendation of the Week*
What a shocker!
*From The Interwebs*
- Emily @ The Loony Teen Writer did Top Ten Books That Stayed With Me Tag
- Jeann @ Happy Indulgence reviewed The Maze Runner movie
- Kate @ Fictional Thoughts revealed 8 signs you might be a book addict
- Chiara @ Books for a Delicate Eternity wrote about Deciding on a Book’s Worth via Reviews
- There was a post by Huffington Post Books about The Ageless Appeal of Young Adult Literature
- The Guardian did an article on a new translation of the Grimm brothers' fairytales
*Book Haul*
Thanks to Five Mile Press for these review copies |
- Breakdown by Sarah Mussi - This sounds like a gritty dystopian, so I'm looking forward to it.
- Shiver the Whole Night Through by Darragh McManus - Creepy cover? Tick. Possible murder mystery? Tick. I'm intrigued.
This ARC thanks to Pan Macmillan Australia |
- Bad Romeo by Leisa Rayven - I've read a few contemporary novels based on Romeo and Juliet, but this one looks like a fun read.
- The Protected by Claire Zorn - Cait from Notebook sisters especially recommended this, so I borrowed it from the library.
- Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld - This has also been making waves in the Aussie blogging community, so I'm curious to see whether I'll love it.
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey - This has been on my TBR for aaages so I finally borrowed it!
- A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray - I read the ARC version of this but I had to have the finished one with that spectacular cover!
- Shattered by Teri Terry - I read this when I borrowed it from the library, but I bought a copy at Kinokuniya's 20% of sale and so now I completed the set - YAY!
- Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins - I also got this at Kinokuniya, and even though it is a different size to the other two, I'm glad I have the complete series now so I can read Lola and Isla straight after each other if I want to.
*Other news*
WOW SO MANY AWESOME BOOKS. I totally told Cait to read The Protected. And it's amazing, by the way :D Oooh, These Broken Stars!! And your completed set of Anna, Lola and Isla is verrrry pretty :)
ReplyDeleteI guess I have you to thank for that recommendation then - it's a great chain-reaction effect :)
DeleteGreat haul! My Isla is smaller than my Anna and Lola and it drives me a little crazy when I see them on the shelves... I'm a bit finnicky like that!
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be a bit annoying, just because it is nicer to have them all match completely, but I'm sure the words outside make up for it!
DeleteGreat collection! I finished ARC of Bad Romeo last week and it was amazing. Hope you will love it as much as I did when you get to reading it :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Lucia :) Glad to hear it's good - now I'm even more excited to read it!
DeleteI hope you did well in your piano exam!! Sounds scary. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, enjoy These Broken Stars--that book was SO GREAT. I usually find it pretty rare that I actually like YA sci fi, but I thought this one was FANTASTIC. I'm really looking forward to This Shattered World, too. From the reviews I've been reading of it, it's going to be just as good. :)
Me too Kara, fingers crossed! I'm really enjoying it so far, and I'm really looking forward to This Shattered World as well :)
DeleteAW CONGRATS ON YOUR PIANO EXAM! What grade are you now?
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy These Broken Stars. It was a great read, and the cover is just stunning, right? I can't wait to pick up Dangerous Boys. I was meant to go straight into it following Dangerous Girls but so many other reads just got in the way!
Thanks Jess - I'm up to four now. The cover is fabulous, I love the interstellar setting. Dangerous Boys is a fantastic thriller - hope you like it :)
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