The Sunday Post (7): Book Haul & Blog News

Hi peeps! Did you miss me last week? I was at Denver Comic Con all last weekend, and was (am) still recovering from BEA week so I decided to lay low and not post a “Sunday Post” last week. Sorry about that! This week’s will be a bit long since I’ll be covering 2 weeks…

Weekly News

In case you missed out, here’s a list of posts for the week of July 11, 2012:

• Interview with Kim Purcell, author of TRAFFICKED
• Top Ten Books I’d Recommend As Good Beach Reads
• My WoW Pick of the Week: What Happens Next
• Audiobook Review: READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline (so much love for this book!)
• Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
• Recap: BEA Bloggers Conference 2012

Book Haul

(aka Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews) 

I have a HUGE fantastic book haul to share with you, since this is a rack up books I’ve received in the past 3 weeks, including my BEA haul! I’m sorry for not including the book covers for all the books in this haul… but I simply don’t have the time right now. OK, so here we go…

First, in case you haven’t heard, Diana Peterfreund has released a prequel novella called Among the Nameless Stars and it’s FREE on EpicReads! I’m so excited to read For the Darkness Shows the Stars so I was excited to find out about the prequel –  I LOVE novellas!

I had a fantastic couple of weeks on NetGalley, thanks so much to the publishers for these titles:

• Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
• Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
• Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett
• Every Day by David Levithan

Many thanks to Brilliance Audio for sending me an AWESOME package of audiobooks last week! It included:

• Letters to Elise (My Blood Approves prequel) by Amanda Hocking
• The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
• Draw the Dark by Ilsa J. Bick  

So, I went to the library earlier this week to drop off a book and found myself in the audiobook section. I’m proud of myself for walking out with only 2 audiobooks! I picked up:

• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
• Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay

Last but not least, here, finally, is a list of the books I received from BEA! I debated doing a vlog, or a slideshow, or something creative but yeah… that never happened. These are in no particular order.

Books from BEA:

• Rift by Andrea Cremer (ARC, personalized)
• The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa (Hardcover, personalized)
• Matched by Ally Condie (Paperback)
• When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle (Hardcover, signed)
• Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Paperback, personalized)
• Cursed by Jennifer L. Armentrout (ARC)
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (ARC)
• The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson (Hardcover)
• The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova (Hardcover, signed)
• TEN by Gretchen McNeil (ARC, personalized)
• Black City by Elizabeth Richards (ARC)
• False Memory by Dan Krokos (ARC)
• The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver (ARC)
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (ARC, personalized)
• The Curiosities by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff (ARC, personalized by all!)
• Fathomless by Pearce Jackson (ARC)
  
• Every Day by David Levithan (ARC, personalized)
• Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr (ARC, personalized)
• Beta by Rachel Cohn (ARC)
• The Diviners by Libba Bray (ARC)
• SKYLARK by Meagan Spooner (ARC, personalized)
• What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang (ARC)
• Venom by Fiona Paul (ARC)
• Scorch (Croak #2) by Gina Damico (ARC)
• The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (ARC)
• The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron (ARC, personalized)
• Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley (ARC)
• Red Rain by R. L. Stine (ARC)
• Soul Screamers Vol. 1 by Rachel Vincent (Paperback, personalized)
• Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu (ARC)
• Son (The Giver #4) by Lois Lowry (ARC)
• In a Glass Grimmly (A Tale Dark & Grimm #2) by Adam Gidwitz (ARC)
• Origin by Jessica Khoury (ARC)
• After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia by Ellen Datlow (ARC, signed)
• 34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues (ARC)
• Narc by Crissa-Jean Chappell (ARC)
• Breathe by Sarah Crossan (ARC, personalized)
• Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian (ARC)
• Speechless by Hannah Harrington (ARC)
• Gods and Warriors by Michelle Paver (ARC)
• What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt (ARC)
• A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring #1) by James Dashner (ARC)
• The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (ARC)
• Choke by Diana Lopez (ARC)
• Poison Princess by Kresley Cole (ARC)
• Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger (ARC)
• Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (ARC)
• The Demon Catchers of Milan by Kat Beyer (ARC)
• Seraphina by Rachel Harman (Hardcover)
• Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (Hardcover)
• Allegiance (Legacy #2) by Cayla Kluver (Paperback)
• Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean (Paperback, personalized)
• Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner (Paperback, personalized)
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (Hardcover)
• Underworld (Abandon #2) by Meg Cabot (ARC)
• Inside (Insider #1-2) by Maria V. Snyder (Paperback, personalized)
• Grim by Anna Waggener (ARC)
• Unsaid by Neil Abramson (Paperback, signed)
• Bad Apple (The Merits of Mischief #1) by T. R. Burns (Hardcover)
• Freakling by Lana Krumwiede (ARC)
• Zoo by James Patterson (ARC)
• The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp (ARC)
• Four Secrets by Margaret Willey (ARC)
• The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Paperback, signed)
• Legend by Marie Lu (Hardcover)
• Spellcaster (Spellbound #2) by Cara Lynn Shultz (Paperback, personalized)
• Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone (ARC, personalized)
• Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry (ARC, personalized)
• The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles #2) by Kady Cross (Hardcover, personalized)

Currently Reading

 What are you reading?

Upcoming

I have a very special post coming this week, my first ever recorded interview… with Ernest Cline, author of READY PLAYER ONE! I had so much fun with this interview and talking to Ernie, I can’t wait to share it with you. I *think* I’ll have it ready by tomorrow (Monday) so be sure to check it out. I will also be posting a couple of reviews, as well as my WoW pick of the week.

In other exciting news, Audiobook Week starts tomorrow! It runs June 25th-29th and will be full of audiobook discussions, recommendations, and prizes! Jen @ Devourer of Books is hosting, and I’ll be helping out here and there. I hope you join us!

Have a great week!