Shoved Through My Mailslot #10

Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at A Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.

So sorry I'm late, you guys. I totally forgot about posting this week, because my calendar alert is automatically set for next week. Anyway, today's STMM is going to go a little different. Instead of spitting up the weeks, they are all going to be lumped together, with the only categories being Mail, Bought, and Swag. Yes, swag has it's own category because I got A LOT of it this past week. On to the pictures!

Mail

First, Just for Fins, Wake, and Tempest Unleashed came signed from Melania who runs Fangs, Felines, Fins, & Fun Fiction. Her two-year blogoversary was a couple of weeks ago, and she was giving away 2 prize packs, the 1st of which I was lucky enough to win.

Next, on Tuesday I went to B&N for Starling, among others, but they didn't have it, so I ordered it to be sent to my house. It came on Friday.

Also on Friday, I received Claire de Lune from Amber at Me, My Shelf, and I via the ARCycling program.

Bought

This is the reason I lumped everything together this week. I went to NYC two weeks ago, and came back with Rift, Throne of Glass, Bitterblue, Origin, Scarlet, Lips Touch: Three Times, Palace of Stone, Dance with a Vampire, Vampire Kisses, Nocturne, Echo, and Ascendant. Rift, Throne of Glass and Bitterblue are signed copies I got at the amazing Books of Wonder. I picked up Palace of Stone at Crawford Doyle Booksellers, and the rest I got at the Strand.

As soon as I got back from New York I went up to my aunt's house, and while up there we went to Books-A-Million, where I bought Onyx and Fathomless.

The day I got back from my aunt's(Tuesday) I went to B&N. I picked up Foretold, Innocent Darkness, Glitch and The Iron Legends.

Last but not least, on Thursday I drove with my cousin down to Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, IL for the 5 Great Reasons to Read event with Susan Dennard, Leigh Bardugo, Dan Krokos, Erica O'Rourke, and Veronica Roth. New Leaf Literary Agency, who represents all the authors, had exclusive content for anyone who bought 2 books for the event through Anderson's, so I bought Bound and False Memory.

Swag

Last week I entered in a photo contest Suzanne Lazear had for Innocent Darkness, so she sent me the ID postcard in the upper right corner, as well as the 2 bookmarks directly below it and a signed bookplate (not pictured).

Everything else came in the package of books Melania sent me (mentioned earlier).

 All of this swag came from the 5 Great Reasons to Read event I went to. The booklet and the Grisha poster was the exclusive content you received if you purchased 2 books trough Anderson's. There were two different posters available, First Army and Second Army, and I was given Second Army while my cousin got First Army (can be seen here). Veronica had faction temp tattoos as swag, while Dan and Erica had bookmarks, and Leigh had special Shadow & Bone nail polish. Susan offered up character cards and bookplates, but I had gotten all that at her signing in Grand Rapids at the end of July.

Now do you see why I split it up differently? :D

What did you get shoved through your mailslot in the past two three weeks?

Shoved Through My Mailslot #9

Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at A Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.

Last week: Mail

I got nothing in the mail.

Last week: Bought/Received

On Tuesday, I went with my cousin to Schuler's Books in Grand Rapids for Anne Greenwood Brown and Susan Dennard's signing. While waiting for the event to start I browsed the used books section and came across a whole set of the Study books, as well as Prophecy of the Sisters. I also picked up The Goddess Legacy.

As previously stated, I went to Schuler's for Anne Greenwood Brown and Susan Dennard's signing, so I got their books, Lies Beneath and Something Strange and Deadly, as well as some swag.

This week: Mail

  

A couple weeks ago, I entered in Meagan Spooner's Sky's The Limit giveaway, and I won this signed and personalized Skylark postcard.

This week: Bought/Received

While at Sam's Club, I came across The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales, and I just had to get it.

On Thursday, my cousin Amanda found out that Jim C. Hines was going to be in Grand Rapids that evening to launch his new book, Libriomancer. We worked things out so we could go to the event, and go we went. (I totally didn't mean to rhyme there)

Yesterday, Susan Dennard had a signing in Holland, which Amanda and I went to, even though we had just seen her the week before. After we unveiled a secret project we were working on, and talked with Susan for about a half hour, she gave us these "Aim for the Knees" t-shirts. (Our project can be seen here, and on Tea for Three, hopefully soon.)

What did you get shoved through your mailslot in the past two weeks?

Shoved Through My Mailslot #4

Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at a Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.

6 weeks ago: Mail

  

In my STMM #2 post, I showcased a copy of Nightspell I received, but for some reason I didn't include the bookmarks I got along with it. I'm not really sure how I managed to completely forget them (I didn't even take a pic!), but I did, so here they are now.

Last week: Mail

I ordered Immortal Hearts over the weekend, and it arrived on Thursday. I started it Sunday and was able to finish it early on Monday. It was REALLY good.

Last week: Bought

I bought Gilt on Tuesday. Haven't read it yet, but I'm very interested in historical novels, so I hope to soon.

This week: Mail

I didn't get anything in the mail this week :(

This week: Bought

On Wednesday I went to B&N and bought Darkness Before Dawn. I'm reading it now, and I love it!

So it was a very slow two weeks, I'm hoping it will pick up in the next ones.

What did you get shoved through your mailslot in the past two weeks?

Shoved Through My Mailslot #2

Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at a Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.

Last week: Mail

I received The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa from HarlequinTEEN, which I won in a giveaway through Ashley Suzanne. I was so excited, I still am, when I got the email saying I won, and when I opened the package I squealed with joy. My cousin looked at me like I was a giant dork, especially when I kept smiling like this ➝ :D And I absolutely LOVE this cover! I love the bloody tear, and shiny parts (they look gray in the pic). Take a look at the synopsis and tell me you wouldn't squeeee!, too.

In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.   

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.

Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die… or become one of the monsters.

Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.

Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.

But it isn't easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.

  

I also got a copy of Nightspell from the author, Leah Cypess, for review (she even signed it to me!). In celebration of the Nightspell paperback release, which is May 29, Leah is hosting a small review-only blog tour, and I'll be participating over at my other blog, Paranormal Book Nook. I think this cover is gorgeous, too! Summary is below.

Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all.

In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger--not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours.

Darri's sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now Darri has a chance to save her sister . . . if she agrees to a betrothal with the prince of the dead. But nothing is simple in this eerie kingdom--not her sister, who has changed beyond recognition; not her plan, which will be thrown off track almost at once; and not the undead prince, who seems more alive than anyone else.

In a court seething with the desire for vengeance, Darri holds the key to the balance between life and death. Can her warrior heart withstand the most wrenching choice of all?

Last week: Bought

  

The Selection by Kiera Cass came out on Tuesday, and I was able to pick it up Thursday! This is one of those rare books, for me at least, where I first saw the cover and was like, "I have to read this book! I don't care what it's about, it must be mine!" and then I read the description (below), which made me want it even more. The 2nd pic is of the inside cover, which I think is just too pretty to go without a pic of it's own.

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in the palace and compete for the heart of the gorgeous Prince Maxon.  

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself- and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

Another book I got on Thursday was Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross. What really made me pay attention to this book was the cover, I love bloody white roses, and then I found out it was retelling of a bunch of different fairytales, and I absolutely love fairytales and retellings of them. Check out the description below.

Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined.

In Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems—the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who's a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.

But fairy tales aren't pretty things, and they don't always end in happily ever after. Mira has a role to play, a fairy tale destiny to embrace or resist. As she struggles to take control of her fate, Mira is drawn into the lives of two brothers with fairy tale curses of their own . . . brothers who share a dark secret. And she'll find that love, just like fairy tales, can have sharp edges and hidden thorns.

Trial by Fire is yet another book I picked up Thursday. Ever since I read Raised by Wolves back in March, I have been very impatiently waiting for Trial by Fire to come out in paperback, which, thankfully, it did on Tuesday. I'm not gonna post the synopsis, because I think it is a bit spoilery for Raised by Wolves.

Shoved Through My Mailslot #1

Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at a Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.

Last week: Mail

 

Awhile back I entered in a giveaway author Tiffany Schmidt had to celebrate her new book, Send Me a Sign, getting a cover. And while I didn't win, Tiffany sent me this swag pack for participating in the giveaway. The bookmarks are signed, and the Born Wicked and right Send Me a Sign covers are stickers! I put them on my MacBook (as seen above), along with a The Vicious Deep sticker I got from the author, Zoraida Córdova (but that was back in March).

I also got an ARC of The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting in the mail from HarperTeen. I won the book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.

Last week: Bought

  

The Zombies vs. Unicorns anthology edited by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier came out in paperback at the beginning of the month, and I was finally able to get my hands on it. Included are stories from Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, Diana Peterfreund, Scott Westerfeld, & more. The right pic is of the inside illustration, isn't it cool?

I went up north last weekend and bought The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting, Divergent by Veronica Roth, and Across the Universe by Beth Revis at Books-A-Million.

This week: Mail

I am apart of Bloggers of the Deep, which is the name of the blog tour for The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Córdova. I'm reviewing the book for my tour stop (which is May 22), so the publisher, Sourcebooks Fire, sent me this ARC.

  

I ordered these from The Book Depository last week and they arrived Monday (Gluttony) & Tuesday (Perks). I got Gluttony because I picked up Sloth a couple weeks ago, and decided to started gathering up the series. I also got the UK edition of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, because, as I stated in this post, I like the cover better.

This week: Bought

  

Went to Barnes & Noble yesterday and bought Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting, and The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan.

So that's it for the first ever Shoved Through My Mailslot. 

What did you get shoved through your mailslot in the past two weeks?