In My Mailbox, hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren, allows us to share our
current reads, and books we've received/checked out/purchased over the course of the week.
I apologise in advance for the quality of the photos - by the time I got home today from work to take them I lost all natural light and had to bring a lamp around as I took them, but it was hard to juggle my DSLR (plus focus) and the lamp, so some of them are super saturated and washed out.
This is also not everything that I picked up at BEA; my mum has a pile, and there's also a bag of adult fiction and another bag of things I got at the blogger's convention. There's also a few scattered in other places, depending on where I sit to read.
I said in my last BEA-related post that the bloggers are the best thing about the whole week, and many of these books would not be possible without their assistance. Aliya, Heidi, Grace, Olivia, Jenna - the list is limitless, and you guys seriously made my week (and the lines, the crowds, the everything worth it). Thank you! :)
Warning: This post is extraordinarily image heavy.
The Dark Unwinding, Sharon Cameron
The Blessed, Tonya Hurley
Entice, Jessica Shirvington
Because It Is My Blood, Gabrielle Zevin
Summer and Bird, Katherine Catmull
Shadows, Ilsa J. Bick (next on my TBR!)
Glass Heart, Amy Garvey (Amy is so nice)
Origin, Jessica Khoury
Carnival of Souls, Melissa Marr
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (with Days of Blood and Starlight chapters!!)
Passion Blue, Victoria Strauss
Masque of the Red Death, Bethany Griffin
Destined, Aprilynne Pike
Unraveling, Elizabeth Norris
The Vicious Deep, Zoraida Cordova
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, Sonia Monzano
Level 2, Lenore Appelhans (Hi, Lenore! <3)
Return to Me, Justina Chen
The Darkest Minds, Alexandra Bracken
Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys (We had a John Green moment. It was fabulous.)
Fall to Pieces, Vahini Naidoo
Son, Lois Lowry (!!)
Beta, Rachel Cohn
Eve & Adam, Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate
The Turning, Francine Prose
Magisterium, Jeff Hirsch (The cover on this is hypnotising!)
Feedback, Robison Wells (Ahhh, this book!)
Who I Kissed, Janet Gurtler
Crewel, Gennifer Albin
Sanctum: Guards of the Shadowlands, Sarah Fine
Venom, Fiona Paul
Time Between Us, Tamara Ireland Stone
Can I have a moment for Tamara? Because she was amazingly sweet, and in our
discussion she not only signed a bookmark for my copy, but put a little heart
around the page number with her favorite passage. And her book is fabulous.
The Wishing Spell, Chris Colfer
Princess Academy (#2, Palace of Stone), Shannon Hale
Beautiful Lies, Jessica Warman
The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
Point of Origin, Amanda Harvard (Lovely lady!)
Fathomless, Jackson Pearce (Who is awesome.)
The Paladin Prophecy, Mark Frost
Eternally Yours, Cate Tiernan
Becoming Holmes, Shane Peacock (Anything vaguely ACD? Yes, please.)
Chosen Ones, Tiffany Truitt
The Lifeguard, Deborah Blumenthal
Keep Holding On, Susane Colasanti
Black City, Elizabeth Richards
Endangered, Eliot Schrefer
The fact that a book exists with this topic makes me incredibly hopeful and happy.
Skinny, Donna Cooner
Cursed, Jennifer L. Armentrout
In A Glass Grimmly, Adam Gidwitz
The Spindlers, Lauren Oliver
The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (The book I wanted most to get!)
Prodigy, Marie Lu
What's Left of Me, Kat Zhang (The book I wanted second most!)
Every Day, David Levithan (Lost my tongue the moment I saw him.)
Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Mass (Great debut fantasy.)
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce/Joe Blum (Fabulous fabulous children's book. I cried.)
The Curiosities, Maggie Stiefvater/Tessa Gratton/Brenna Yovanoff (Maggie remembered me from the Raven Boys signing; we all discussed our drawings.)
An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
Nerdfighter designed cover. DFTBA!
I have to mention that I also met the incredibly lovely and even more adorable in person Victoria Schwab, who signed a copy of The Near Witch. I was really hoping I'd get a chance to run into her. This also applies to Aimée Carter (so sweet)!
Purchased/Gifted/Won:
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (20% off coupon. Thanks, B&N!)
Dreamless, Josephine Angelini
Trafficked, Kim Purcell
The Immortal Rules, Julie Kagawa
Rapture, Lauren Kate (Thank you, Random House!)
From the publisher:
Outpost, Ann Aguirre
My Book of Life by Angel, Martine Leavitt (Especially looking forward to this.)
Thank you so much, Macmillan! :) I'm pretty consistently impressed with their titles, so this should be good.
If you made it to the bottom, I think you get a gold star. And a nap. Thanks for visiting, everyone! And I have a handful of these reviews written already, and scheduled for closer to the publication date so keep checking back for them. Have a great weekend, friends!
