Giant Book Haul: Green Valley Book Fair Edition

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I have blogged about the Green Valley Book Fair in the past. It's this awesome book fair held in Mt. Crawford, Virginia 6 times a year for 2 weeks at a time. It's hosted in a 3 room giant warehouse where they sell thousands of books of ALL genres for CHEAP. I'm talking most books are like 2-6 dollars depending on if it's a hardback or paperback.  I think they buy them from like overstock.  Their young adult section in particular is FANTASTIC.  I usually go once or twice a year.  It's very  much worth it if you plan to buy more then a couple books. It's a 2 hour drive from where I live, but SO WORTH IT. This time, they actually had some newer titles stocked, which were a little more expensive, but still way cheaper then you could ever buy in a store or online. They don't sell freshly published books but they do have major titles, such as Mortal Instruments, John Green, Sarah Dessen, etc. EVERY GENRE. Children's books, fiction, nonfiction, classics, manga, self-help, audiobooks, cookbooks, and on and on and on.  

I went the weekend of St. Patrick's Day and ended up buying 18 books for myself (which is much better then the 50 I bought when I went for a visit last year). I made sure to control myself this time around. Yes, 18 books is controlling myself.

If I  had paid retail value for all the books I bought, it would have cost me $279.80. 
With the sale, I paid only $109.00 for all 18 books!!  WHAT A SAVINGS! haha.

NOW. ONTO THE HAUL!

My haul boxed up.

2 copies of The Book of Awesome (Nel Pasricha)

The Reptile Room, or Murder! (Lemony Snicket)

Virals (Kathy Reichs)

Hush, Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick)

Ten Miles Past Normal (Frances O'Roark Dowell)

Don't Turn Around (Michelle Gagnon)

A Temptation of Angels (Michelle Zink)

Girl of Nightmares (Kendare Blake)

A Midsummer's Nightmare (Kody Keplinger)

Endlessly (Kiersten White)

Cryer's Cross (Lisa McMann)

For Darkness Shows the Stars (Diane Peterfreund)

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (Claire Legrand)

A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)

The Poison Diaries

Audiobook of Dragon's Oath, A House of Night Novella.  I know. I know. This series. I just can't help myself..

DUDES! You never know what you  might find at a book fair. I was casually just flipping through this graphic-like book and BAM! HOLLY BLACK'S SIGNATURE. This is the third book and I have no idea what it's even about, and I didn't like Holly Black's White Cat series, but I bought it anyways because it's signed. What the f is wrong with me. Now I have to find the first 2... :)

AND that's it for me!

If you've read any of these books, I'd love to know your thoughts, good OR bad!
If you have a haul, I NEEDS to see it, so link up in the comments :)

Thanks for visiting!

In My Mailbox: EPIC HAUL edition

In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren.
It's a chance to show everyone all the new books you've gotten (through review, purchased, gifted, etc.) over the past week (or several).

I really wanted to do a video log, but I don't know how to go about doing that and haven't had time to really look in to it.  So I'm just going to do it the old fashioned way. If you do vlog's I would love any suggestions you might have as far as where to start! The easier the better. :)

It's been a little over a month since my last IMM post and I've gotten a LOT of books since then. This is the BIGGEST IMM I've ever done. And the reason for that is the Green Valley Book Fair!!  The book fair is located in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. It's a massive warehouse filled with all genres of cheap books. The book fair is held for 2 weeks at a time several times a year. And man is it a steal. The young adult section in particular is AWESOME!! I ended up bringing home 50 books. Yes you read that right. 50.  ALL. ON. SALE. I think the most I paid for a book was about 6 dollars, but most of them were in the 2-4 dollar range.  I couldn't help it. So many good titles too tempting to resist! I try to go at least twice a year.

If you live anywhere near this book fair and love books as much as I do, I highly recommend you go. It's actually a 2 hour drive from where I live, but well worth it!
Here's the link to their website: Green Valley Book Fair


Now! On to the books!



I'm actually going to start with books I've gotten for my Kindle:

For review via Netgalley:

Of Light & Darkness (The Vampire's Daughter) by Shayne Leighton

(His eyes are sooo hypnotizing!)

The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa (you can read my review HERE)

Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover (read it, loved it, review to post this week)

Bought:

 

Gone by Michael Grant

 

Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi

(These covers are SO gorgeous!)

 

Barnes & Noble Haul:

I've started collecting my favorite children's books. Roald Dahl Rules!

 

(This is one of the most FANTASTIC children's books I've ever read. I actually teared up.)

 

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

Fantastic Mr.Fox (Roald Dahl)

The Witches (Roald Dahl)

Danny the Champion of the World (Roald Dahl)

The Chocolate Touch (Patrick skene Catling)

Charlotte's Web (E.B.White)

Fudge-a-mania (Judy Blume)

The Mark of Athena (Rick Riordan)

Blood Magic (Tessa Gratton)

Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood #10) (J.R.Ward)-Read it, loved it, you can read my review HERE

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce)

 

I bought 2 drawing books at Michael's:

 

ALRIGHT!

Green Valley Book Fair Haul:

 

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)

The Complete Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Judi Barrett)

The Loud Book & The Quiet Book (Deborah Underwood)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Verna Aardema)

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)

The Boy with Pink Hair (Perez Hilton)

 

 

 

Fudge-a-mania (Judy Blume)

Superfudge (Judy Blume)

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Judy Blume)

Double Fudge (Judy Blume)

Boris and Bella (Carolyn Crimi)-An incredibly sweet, unique Halloween children's book!

The BFG: a set of plays (Roald Dahl)

 

I bought a couple other Children's books but I already gave them away. I'm not keeping all of these, some of them will be going to my nephew-to-be.

 

Now for the GOOD stuff:

 

 The Eternal Ones (Kirsten Miller)

All You Desire (Kirsten Miller)

 

Shift (#2) (Jeri Smith Ready)

Shine (#3) (Jeri Smith Ready)

 

Someone Like You (Sarah Dessen)

That Summer (Sarah Dessen)

 

The Boyfriend List (e. Lockhart)

The Boy Book (e. Lockhart)

The Treasure Map of Boys (e. Lockhart)

 

Looking For Alaska (John Green)

Paper Towns (John Green)

 

Tyger, Tyger (Kersten Hamilton)

The Jumbee (Pamela Keys)

Jekel Loves Hyde (Beth Fantaskey)-Read it, review to come later this week

Darkness Becomes Her (Kelly Keaton)

 

Stork (Wendy Delsol)

 

Dustlands:Blood Red Road (Moira Young)-Funny story, I bought the hardcover of this book the last time I went to the book fair, I bought the soft cover thinking it was the next book, which apparently isn't even out yet. SO look for a giveaway soon!

 

Hunger (Jackie Morse Kessler)-Already read this but needed it for my collection, you can read my review HERE, AMAZING

 

Goulish Goodies Cookbook

 

She's So Dead to Us (Kieran Scott)

The Unwritten Rule (Elizabeth Scott)

Between Here and Forever (Elizabeth Scott)

Something, Maybe (Elizabeth Scott)

 

Loser Queen (Jodi Lynn Anderson)

Before I Die (Jenny Downham)-Read this on my Kindle, LOVED it, needed a hard copy

 

Nevermore (Kelly Creagh)

Perfect (Ellen Hopkins)

Vampire Academy Graphic Novel (Adapted by Leigh Dragoon)-AMAZING

 

City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)

City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)

(I've already read up to book 3 of The Mortal Instruments series but didn't own the books. They didn't have City of Ashes)

 

Meridian (Amber Kiza)

Waking the Witch (Kelly Armstrong)

Flying Blind (Deborah Cooke)

Night School (Mari Mancusi)

 

 

 

THAT'S IT! SOO many books..EEP. They'll DEF keep me busy for a while. I need more bookshelves! It's so hard sometimes for me to decide what to read next, so if you've read any of these let me know which ones I should move to the top of my list!

 

One more thing, I FINALLY won something!! I participated in Bloggiesta this year and several of the mini-challenges. I won a 10 dollar Amazon giftcard from GIRLXOXO ! yay! A BIG thank you to her! :) You should totally visit her blog!

 

Can't wait to see what everyone else got in their "mailbox"! Leave a comment with your link so I can visit :)

 

In My Mailbox #12

Head over to The Story Siren to check out other people's bookish buys.

I haven't posted my bookish purchases since January.  Since that time, I have accumulated just a few more...  I find myself just staring at them.   I can't be the only one who does this.

All of these books were bought by myself with either my hard-earned money or through gift cards I received for my birthday last month. Except for one, which was loaned to me by a fellow book lover.

I'll start with the first pile:

-I'm in love with Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series (if you haven't read it, you should), and am in the process of collecting them. So I bought the next 3 in the series:
Princess in the Spotlight, Princess in Love, and Princess in Waiting.
-The Mammoth Book of Merlin (edited by Mike Ashley): As I've mentioned in a previous post, I'm obsessed with anything Merlin, Knights of the round table, Camelot..etc.
-Rot & Ruin (Jonathan Maberry)
-Across the Universe (Beth Ravis); I finished this the other day, will post my thoughts hopefully later in the week.
-Other Words for Love (Lorraine Zago Rosenthal); also finished this last week
-Daughter of the Centaurs (Kate Klimo); hoping this will be as amazing as it sounds
-Bloodrose (Andrea Cremer); I started this, but put it down for now and started a different book. I'll get back to it at some point.

So when it comes to book fairs, or discount books I tend to get a little excited and freak out a bit with the buying. About 2 weeks ago I went to the The Green Valley Book Fair, which is about 1.5 hours from where I live. It's held in a giant 3 room warehouse and it hosts thousands upon thousands of all different kinds of books, all different genres, ALL. FOR.DISCOUNT.  I'm talking I paid as little as $2.50 and no more then $6.50 for my books, depending if they were paperback vs. hardback and depending on how massive they were. They had an excellent young adult section and I filled up 2 baskets in no time. When I took my initial haul to the checkout, the lady was like "Is all of this for you", and I was like, well yeah. I may have a bit of a problem.

 I walked away with 24 books and only spent $110.  At retail price, I would have spent well over $300.  If you live anywhere close to this book fair I HIGHLY recommend you go, I promise you will not be disappointed.  I couldn't get a good picture of all the books together so I broke it up in to 3 pictures:

-A Certain Slant of Light

-Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist

-Wintergirls

-Dust

-Will Grayson,Will Grayson

-Knightley Academy

Next Batch:

-Wither

-The Sky is Everywhere

-Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

-The Summer I Turned Pretty

-It's Not Summer Without You

-We'll Always Have Summer

-Uglies

-Pretties

-Specials

-Extras

And finally:

-Slice of Cherry

-The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

-Eona

-Blood Red Road

-Five Flavors of Dumb

-Red Glove

-White Cat

-Dust & Decay

 Whoa man. Can you dig it?

Lastly, but certainly not leasty, my fellow bookish friend whom I like to call Jeskuh loaned me her ARC of Tempest.    

Even with all the above awesomeness, apparently my needs weren't satiated as I just ordered 7 more books from Amazon. AHHHH.  Sweet, sweet books.