Saturday 31 December 2011

In My Mailbox #14 - Christmas/New Year Bumper Edition




Welcome to  In My Mailbox, a meme run by The Story Siren where each week over 200 bloggers post on their blogs the books they have bought, received to review or won in the past week.
To find out more information, get involved yourself or see what's in other bloggers mailboxes this week head over to The Story Siren or to find out what is in my mailbox this week, keep reading.
So its been a while since my last In My Mailbox so given that bookwise the last few weeks have been quite busy, I figured it best to do a Christmas/New Year Bumper edition :)




















So the first awesome bookish event of December was an early Christmas present:  a new shiny Kindle 3 :)



I also got an awesome purple cover with an attachable light so I can read it at night in bed.  I was very excited about this gift.  So ofcourse the first thing I did was head to Netgalley and load up on the books I need to read and review.

Arcs i have i have received to review are :




Halflings
Under the Moon
Slide
The Juliet Spell
New Girl




















































  • Under The Moon by Natalie J. Damschroder
  • New Girl by Paige Harbison
  • Slide by Jill Hathaway
  • Halflings by Heather Burch
  • The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees


Second thing I did was load it up with e-books i already had on the kindle app on my ipad then I went shopping! :P

I bought:




Clockwork Prince
City of Glass
Magic Gifts
The Magic Word
Seed




















  • Clockwork Prince (Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare
  • City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3) by Cassandra Clare
  • Magic Gifts by Ilona Andrews
  • The Magic Word by Jennifer Fallon
  • Seed by Ania Ahlborn

Then of course there was Christmas itself and i did well bookwise in the Christmas present department :)




The Iron King
The Iron Daughter
Finnikin of the Rock
Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner
The Sending




















Firstly, I participated in a Kris Kringle/Secret Santa in Goodreads group The Aussie Swap.

Thank you so much to Jayne from The Australian Bookshelf for the awesome gift of :

  • The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
  • The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

 Then from my dad I received:

  • Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
  • The Sending by Isobelle Carmody
  • Finnikin on the Rock by Melina Marchetta

Lastly, did I mention that I have an awesome local library and while I have been on holidays, I have been doing lots of reading and visiting the library every other day and here are some of the titles i have borrowed in the last couple of weeks and am in the process of reading:




Dreaming Anastasia
Living Dead in Dallas
The Stone Key
Club Dead
The Keeping Place
The Time Traveler's Wife
Haunted
Dead as a Doornail
The Haunted
Definitely Dead
Dead to the World
Dark Of The Moon
Lord of Sin

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  • Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble
  • Haunted by Joy Preble
    Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  • Club Dead  by Charlaine Harris
  • Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
  • Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
  • Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
  • The Keeping Place by Isobelle Carmody
  • The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody
  • The Time Traveller's Wify by Audrey Niffenegger
  • The Haunted by Jessica Verday
  • Lord of Sin by Susan Krinard
  • Dark of the Moon by Susan Krinard

to name just a few




So what was in your mailbox this holiday period?

3 comments:

  1. Awesome IMM! I need to read New Girl before it comes out, but I'd also love to read Slide and the Iron Fey books too. :) Happy reading!

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  2. Ooh a Kindle! Love it! Awesome haul!

    Giselle
    Xpresso Reads

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  3. Ohh your Kindle is pretty! I have the generation before it, but I really like the 3rd generation :)

    You got a really good haul too! I have been wanting to read Cassandra Clare and Julie Kagawa books. And I love Charlaine Harris! She's brilliant.

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