In My Mailbox #6

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So in anticipation of my trip to the Outer Banks, NC (which I left for yesterday) I hit up the library hardcore-style. Here's my loot which includes 8 Young Adult titles and 2 Fantasy titles. I may have gone a bit over-board...and  I got a lot of firsts in a series.

Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1) by Rachel Caine

Stray (Shifters #1) by Rachel Vincent

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss

Inside Out (Insider #1) by Maria V. Snyder

Outside In (Insider #2) by Maria V. Snyder

Suicide Notes by Michael Ford

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

Hunger (The Horseman of the Apocalypse #1) by Jackie Morse Kessler

Rage (The Horseman of the Apocalypse #2) by Jackie Morse Kessler

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare



In addition, I purchased 2 books for my Kindle:

I LOVE H.P. Mallory's writing, and I've actually already finished this book. I didn't love it AS much as her Jolie Wilkins series but still GREAT!   I NEED MORE!!!

I mainly bought this title because it contains a short story by H.P. Mallory...only 99 cents! I skipped through and read the short story by H.P. (I wonder what people call her in real life), and even though it was short, it was SWEET. Hopefully all the stories will be equally good.

I hope to conquer a good number of these books while on vacation and start putting up my "reviews" when I return. (If I can obtain a properly functioning computer that is).

Happy Reading!

In My Mailbox (#2)

There's nothing like the anticipation of waiting for a box of new books to arrive in the mail.. Well the waiting is OVER. The books I ordered from Amazon have arrived and I can't wait to tear into them. Here's my haul:

(Links will take you to the Goodreads page)

Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (Madeleine Roux)- I've been on a zombie kick lately.

The Iron Queen (Iron Fey #3) (Julie Kagawa)- I've already read the first 2 books. LOVE.

Demonglass (Hex Hall #2) (Rachel Hawkins)

Once a Witch (Carolyn MacCullough)

Dairy Queen (Catherine Gilbert Murdock)

Anna and the French Kiss (Stephanie Perkins)- This book comes highly rated from a fellow book lover so I can't NOT read it.

The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth #3) (Carrie Ryan)- The Forest of Hands and Teeth was the gateway into my new obsession with zombies. Thank you Carrie Ryan.

So after an internal struggle with the whole "e-reader" thing, I actually did get a Kindle for Christmas, although I  have purchased more games on it than I have books. I do like it, and can see it being handy if I go on a long trip. And I have bought a couple books that were very cheap. However if given the choice between a kindle version of a book for 8 dollars or the actual book for 10 dollars, it's a no-brainer for me that I will buy the actual book. I am a book collector, and like to look at them and hold them and squeeze them and tell them I love them...oh ahem.  Anyhoo, I did purchase a couple things on my Kindle this week:

To Kill a Warlock (H.P.Mallory)

If not for my Kindle I may never have come across H.P Mallory's Jolie Wilkins series (which would have been a tragedy). This one sounds just as good.

Wicked Lovely (Melissa Marr)

I've read rave reviews on this series, so I thought I'd check it out.

And lastly I bought a game called Spelling Star..gotta try to keep the brain juices a-flowing. It's actually pretty fun, mini grammar games and such.

Go check out The Story Siren to see what other people got in their mailboxes this week !

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