The Sunday Post #4

The Sunday Post is a new meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer that offers an opportunity to recap the past week, showcase what's coming up on your blog, and share what books you got for the week.

This week I published reviews of Insurgent (Veronica Roth), The Dragon's Path (Daniel Abraham), and Froi of the Exiles (Melina Marchetta). Next week you'll see reviews of Dark Magic (James Swain), Shadow Bound (Rachel Vincent), Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley), and The Eternity Code (Eoin Colfer) as well as a discussion post, if everything goes as planned. (It usually doesn't, but that's okay.)

Yesterday I found an amazing used bookstore that was stuffed floor to ceiling with stacks and stacks of books. I managed to limit myself to three by some miracle:

Cold Magic by Kate Elliot
Diplomacy of Wolves by Holly Lisle
Arabian Nights (Signet Classic)

I also got Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent from NetGalley, and I've already read it. It was amazing!

Finally, Anthea Sharp sent me her new book in the Feyland series, The Bright Court. I really liked the first one and can't wait to start the sequel!

In other news, I have finally ordered a new router because mine doesn't work for more that two and a half minutes at a time. I know I've been behind on comments, which makes me sad, but in a week or so I will not have to be really uncomfortable to use my computer and will be able to catch up.

What's new on your shelves this week?

The Sunday Post #3

The Sunday Post is a new meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer that offers an opportunity to recap the past week, showcase what's coming up on your blog, and share what books you got for the week.

This week I had fun taking part in a Bookish Bucket List blog hop and had a guest post from my friend Lindsey, and you can still enter my giveaway for that for another day! I also joined in the Bout of Books read-a-thon, and while I kind of neglected that as far as blogging and chatting went, I did read a lot. I also posted reviews of Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, Tricked by Kevin Hearne, and Railsea by China Miéville.

On Friday evening, I was lucky enough to go to an author event with Maggie Stiefvater and John Corey Whaley. They were both amazing and really funny, with lots of great stories. I'm a huge fan of Maggie Stiefvater but hadn't read Corey's book yet. (Now I have. It's pretty good.) I took a couple of crappy pictures of them and this was the least bad:

Corey is on the left. Maggie is on the right. In case you couldn't tell.

Since I already had signed copies of Shiver and The Scorpio Races from a previous event with Maggie, I picked up Linger and Forever to add to my collection as well as Corey's Where Things Come Back.

Yesterday I went to the library to pick up Insurgent (which I've already finished) and of course ended up with three more books:

Insurgent by Veronica Roth
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray
Red Glove by Holly Black
Black Heart by Holly Black

So all in all, a pretty exciting week here. What have you gotten this week?

The Sunday Post #2

The Sunday Post is a new meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer that offers an opportunity to recap the past week, showcase what's coming up on your blog, and share what books you got for the week.

Sorry everyone! I know I've been MIA for half the week. It was an insanely busy week at work – I didn't even turn on my computer for two days! Not that I'm complaining, because it was really exciting, but I just want to apologize for not planning better and having posts ready to go. I'll be back to normal now!

So this week I'll mostly be putting up all the reviews that I didn't do last week, along with (hopefully) another discussion post. I don't have much new this week, since I didn't have a lot of time to read and spent most of it re-reading books, but this week I'm planning to read Tricked by Kevin Hearne and Struck by Jennifer Bosworth to start with, so you'll see reviews for those soon too.

Yesterday, my library had a book sale, which is pretty much the best event ever. Fifty cent books! I ended up with a whole stack for under $10, which made me very happy at the end of a long week. I got

Dragons in the Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L'Engle

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 by George Orwell

Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

I also got X-Men and Braveheart on DVD because they're both awesome. And I picked up a few NetGalley books:

Tricked by Kevin Hearne

The Lost Colony and The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Coveted by Shawntelle Madison

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