IMM (13): A Vlog

In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

For this week, I decided I would do a vlog. Enjoy!




(Sorry if it's oddly sized; once again blogger is not working for uploads, and I'm trying to make it work through photobucket, and I therefore had to size it myself. grrr!)

Books Mentioned:

*The Girl Made of Cool - Alan Fox
*The Seeker in Forever - Alan Fox
*Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
*In the Garden of Men - John Kupferschmidt
*Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins
*When I Was Joe
*The Elf of Luxembourg - Tom Weston
*Lucas Manson - Thomas Hauck
*Captain Bonny Morgan: The Cassandra Prophesy - Robert "Doc" Gowdy

Blog(ger)s Mentioned:
Becky from the Bookette

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

First, HAVE YOU ENTERED MY CONTESTS YET? If you haven't, now is the time!
1)Win a copy of Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb - INTERNATIONAL - ends March 23
2)Win an uncorrected bound proof of Ondine by Ebony McKenna - INTERNATIONAL - ends March 25
3)Win your choice of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, the Dresskeeper, or Books 1 & 2 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy - the Amulet of Samarkand and the Golem's Eye - INTERNATIONAL - ends March 27
4)Win an ARC of Magic Under Glass - INTERNATIONAL - ends March 27

Now, I'm super psyched about ALL of the books I got this week!



For review:

-Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey (was actually won from a GoodReads giveaway!)
-The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
-Raven's Ladder - Jeffrey Overstreet
-Lady Carliss and the Waters of Moorue

Gifts:
We had our moving away party this weekend, and I am so psyched to have received these two books as going away gifts!

-Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
-Les Japonais by Karen Poupee (this one doesn't seem to have been translated into English, but it's about the Japanese people and their culture, and it looks AWESOME!)

And that's all for this week! What did YOU get in YOUR mailbox?

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

So, I've been away for the weekend (the Friday and Saturday posts were pre-scheduled posts), and I JUST got back- way later than expected. And I am DEAD tired, as my weekend was full of LOTS of walking (most of which was uphill, which for me means that it also included lots of falling).
So, in other words, this will be quick, and I'll try to do comments in the AM. :-)

This week, I got three books.

For Review:


-Postcards from a Dead Girl by Kirk Farber
-The Bird Room by Chris Killen
-Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb

Not a single YA in the bunch, which I'm actually kind of excited about. I've been reading so much YA lately that it's starting to get overwhelming! I think all three of these look great, but especially the Bird Room.

I also got a ton of super cool swag from Keith at Strident Publishing.



Thank you, Keith!

And that's all, folks! What did you get this week?

IMM (10): My First Vlog

For this week's IMM, I decided to do a vlog. So if you've been wondering what I look like, now you'll know. Sorry if the quality is bad - this is the first vlog I have ever in my life done.



Books mentioned:

-The Cinderella Rules by Donna Kauffman
-The Naughty List by Suzanne Young
-Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
-Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough
-Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
-Gringa in a Strange Land by Linda Dahl
-The Game (Firebird) by Diana Wynne Jones
-Riddle of Berlin by Cym Lowell

Blogs Mentioned:

Michelle and Leslie's Book Picks
Stacked
Presenting Lenore
SFF Chat
Cym Lowell

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

Last week I mentioned I might be catching up with my tbr pile. Yeah - not happening! As mentioned in the last post, I went home for the superbowl, and I had a quite a few books waiting for me! I also made the mistake of hopping on over to Books-A-Million, where there were tons of books on sale for $1 or $2. I couldn't help but buy some.

So this is what I got this week:

For review:


-No Mad by Sam Moffie
-Double Trouble by Susan May Warren
-The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni

Won:


-Explorer X - Alpha by LM Preston (from the Book Scout)
-A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer(from Sheere Dry)
-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Graham-Smithe(from Nikola's Book Blog)
-Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben Winters(from Nikola's Book Blog)


Bought:


-the Wanderer's Tale by David Bilsborough
-Nice Girls Do by Sarah Duncan
-A Tale of Two Sisters by Anna Maxted
-Sayonara Bar by Susan Barker

I'm especially psyched about the House of Tomorrow! Yay! What did you guys get this week?

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

So basically this is really cool.
I've been receiving only two books a week. Which means that, if this keeps up, there's a chance that I'll actually CATCH UP WITH my tbr pile. Which is a feat that seems next to impossible.

This week I received:


For review:
The Puzzle King by Betsey Carter

Won from vvb32 reads:
I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It by Adam Selzer

Yay! I'm excited about both of them!

What did you guys receive?

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

I wasn't actually expecting anything this week (except Fallen, which I won from The Crooked Shelf back in the beginning of December - but I've sort of given up on it coming at this point, thinking it must have been lost in the mail), so I was pleasantly surprised when two books did arrive!


For review (I actually requested this a while ago but had forgotten about it):
-The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman

Because Becky at the Bookette knew how much I wanted to read this and is super incredibly nice:
-Ondine by Ebony McKenna

And that's it for this week! :-) I'm pretty psyched about both of these books! What did you guys get?

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In My Mailbox awesomeness is brought to you by Kristi at the Story Siren!!!!

This week, all of the books I received are for review. I can't remember the last time that happened. And I am super excited about all of them, even though there's not a single YA in the bunch! :-)



Gentlemen Prefer Succubi - Jill Myles
A Highlander's Destiny - Melissa Mayhue
Knit, Purl, Die - Anne Canadeo
Legend of the Caryph - Lynn Moyle
Veracity - Laura Bynum

What did you get this week?!?

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