It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet? [14]

"It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet?" is inspired by the #fridayreads Twitter meme, Book Journey's "It's Monday! What Are You Reading?", Should Be Reading's "WWW Wednesdays", Tynga's Reviews "Stacking the Shelves" and the various other book haul memes, and probably a few others I can't remember right now.

All covers/book title links lead to Goodreads.

Still reading it. City of a Thousand Dolls put me in a high fantasy mood, so I have a feeling I'll be setting Rowdy aside before finishing soon.

Started reading Mistborn a couple months ago, but wasn't in a high fantasy mood at the time, so I set it aside. Now I'm itching to read ALL THE HIGH FANTASY, and decided this shall be first.

Stolen just came out Tuesday, and I am so excited! Post-apocalyptic! Dragons! Melissa de la Cruz! Eep!

I've had this on my shelf forever, and since I'll be reading about dragons in Stolen, I figure I'll continue the theme with Seraphina. (Plus, I've heard it's ah-mazing.)

I really, really liked it! I felt like it was a bit slow in the beginning, but the end definitely made up for it. Itching to get my hands on the (newly-released!) companion novel, Empire of Shadows.

(Books/Stuff that came in the mail.)

Nothing came in the mail this week. :(

(Books I bought/borrowed.)

From Barnes & Noble:

Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

Stolen by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston

And that's everything! See you all next week!

It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet? [13]

"It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet?" is inspired by the #fridayreads Twitter meme, Book Journey's "It's Monday! What Are You Reading?", Should Be Reading's "WWW Wednesdays", Tynga's Reviews "Stacking the Shelves" and the various other book haul memes, and probably a few others I can't remember right now.

All covers/book title links lead to Goodreads.

With the companion novel releasing last week, and accompanying buzz about the series, I decided it was finally time to start this. About half-way through, and quite liking it so far!

I'm really liking it, but for some reason I just can't lose myself in the story like I could with the other books in the series.

I haven't read any of the Bane Chronicles stories because I was waiting for bind-up, and it's finally here! Definitely plan on spending some quality time with Magnus soon.

My friend Lisa lent this to me forever ago, and I've decided I really need to get around to reading it.

Instead of reading Crown of Midnight like I said I was going to, I decided to read The Assassin's Blade instead, though I just couldn't bring myself to re-read the last novella because SAAAAAM. (It goes without saying that I loved them all, right?)

                         (Books/Stuff that came in the mail.)         (Books I bought/borrowed.)

I forgot to separate the books when I took the picture, so the two "Book Faery" categories are combined this week. It is also all of the books I collected over the last two weeks.

From Claire Legrand:

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

From Stacie:

Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz

From Cynthia Leitich Smith/Candlewick:

Feral Nights by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Feral Curse by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Feral Pride by Cynthia Leitich Smith (ARC)

From Bookish Broads:

Clariel by Garth Nix (ARC)

The Young Elites by Marie Lu (ARC)

Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper (ARC)

Messenger of Fear by Michael Grant (ARC)

17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen (ARC)

Atlantia by Ally Condie (ARC)

From Tera Lynn Childs:

Straight Stalk by Tera Lynn Childs (signed)

From Alyxandra Harvey:

Whisper the Dead by Alyxandra Harvey (signed)

From Love at First Page:

Every Breath by Ellie Marney

Bought/Ordered:

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Crave by Melissa Darnell

Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld

Lirael by Garth Nix

Blood & Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, & Sarah Rees Brennan (signed)

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

Origin by Jennifer L Armentrout

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy

Revel by Maurissa Guibord

The Lost Code by Kevin Emerson

Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales: Challenge by Melissa Marr & Xian Nu Studio

Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales: Resolve by Melissa Marr & Xian Nu Studio

Rowdy by Jay Crownover (not pictured)

See you all next week!

It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet? [6]

Okay, this is going up later than usual, because the Book News section is really really really long and I didn't want to do it. (I know, bad me)

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"It's Friday! Have You Turned Into A Book Yet?" is inspired by the #fridayreads Twitter meme, Book Journey's "It's Monday! What Are You Reading?", Should Be Reading's "WWW Wednesdays", Tynga's Reviews "Stacking the Shelves" and the various other book haul memes, and probably a few others I can't remember right now.

All covers/book title links lead to Goodreads.

Uggh! This book!! Almost every page hits me right in the feels. And I LOVE it (most of the time)!

I started this a day before Unravel Me came out and I started that, so I'm not very far yet, but oh my goodness I so badly want Bosque to go away. (Also, I love the book so far.)

I just got an ARC, and I am using all the willpower I have to not start this while I'm in the middle of two other books. So. Hard.

I was kinda meh about this book until I saw the trailer for it (released Tuesday, and included in Book News), and now I'm like, MUST. READ. NOW.

I re-read this for yet another time, and loved it just as much as the first time around! I can't recommend it enough, it's so AMAZING.

(Books/Stuff that came in the mail.)

That's me, trying to look excited for the picture.

Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers (signed ARC)

Dark Triumph came from Robin herself, because I won a trivia contest she held on twitter. (And she's holding another DT contest on her blog, ends Saturday, so go enter!)

(Books I bought.)

Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
Torn by Erica O'Rourke
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster
The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress
Witch World by Christopher Pike

Not Pictured
Salvation by Anna Osterlund

So my local indie was closing one of their stores, and having a big sale to get rid of stock, so I picked up The Friday Society, Witch World, Chime, and Once in a Full Moon at that store. Then I went to another of their stores so I could get Unravel Me and City of a Thousand Dolls, and while I was there I, of course, browsed the used books section and found Torn (which I bought because Susan Dennard rec'd it, and I have the third book sitting on my shelf), and Princess Academy. Then I got Salvation two days later at B&N.

Prepare yourselves, this week brought a bucket and a half of book news. And I put it under a cut, because WOW this section made the post long. (←And it's even longer than when I said that last!)