A Sunday Retrospective is inspired by In My Mailbox at The Story Siren and TGIF at GReads!, where I share the books that I've acquired during the week, last week's posts and interesting links.
It's August, my birthday month, and I thought I would start doing A Sunday Retrospective in order to show you guys what books I've received, sum up my posts for the week, and share some interesting bookish links from around the blogosphere.
IN MY MAILBOX
The books I'm showcasing here are all books that I've received in the mail or from friends that I don't recall showcasing on the blog, as of yet. Some of them I received a while back, but I still wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent them to me!
ARC - Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose #1) by Fiona Paul (Thanks Olivia of The Reading Enchantress & Penguin!)
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves (Won from a giveaway at Novel Magic; thanks Laura!)
Princess Academy (Princess Academy #1) by Shannon Hale (Won a giveaway; thanks Rachel at Bloomsbury!)
A Touch Morbid (A Touch Trilogy #2) by Leah Clifford (Won during the ATM Twitter party; thanks Lexcade!)
In Honor by Jessi Kirby
Moonglass by Jessi Kirby
(Won from Tara at Fiction Folio, thanks!)
It's Not Summer Without You (Summer #2) by Jenny Han
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
(Bought from Books of Wonder)
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
(Borrowed from the library!)
And a last minute addition:
I Swear by Lane Davis
52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody
(Thank you Lena of Addicted 2 Novels! And Farrar Straus Giroux and Simon & Schuster!)
ON THE BLOG
The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman (Review)
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (Review)
Travel Tales & Birthday Giveaway (Open all month!)
When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle (Review)
Roderick Blackwood & the Demon Stone by Ralph Rathbone (150 Words; Review)
Spirits Rising (Spirit Callers #1) by Krista D. Ball (150 Words; Review)
AROUND THE COMMUNITY
Book trailers for Between You and Me by Marisa Calin & Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas!
My friends and I blog at In Our City - style + New York!
All the chapter art for Harry Potter can be found here.
Patty Blount shares about "the dark side of writing" on Distraction No. 99.
Magan of Rather Be Reading celebrated her eight year anniversary with her husband!
Holy books. You kind of seriously scored on the IMM front this week, Alexa! I LOVE Leah Clifford's series, so I suggest you get on that ASAP. It's dark, but awesome :) have a wonderful week and I kind of love all the interestingness in this post!
ReplyDeleteSo many good books in this post! I LOVE The Sky is Everywhere and really enjoyed The Lonely Hearts Club, very sweet reads!
ReplyDeleteOh honey, look at all those pretty books! Have you read Shadow and Bone yet?? Otherwise you need to get on that ASAP!! It's SO, SO good! It reminded me of why I love fantasy so much. Also, I can't wait to hear what you think of Venom, it sounds like it could be an amazing read!
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures, girlie :)
ReplyDeleteA nice haul this week!
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Happy Birthdayyyyyyy! <3
Awesome books!! Enchanted looks super good ... I love the cover! I just bought On the Island this week ...
ReplyDeleteI really liked Wintergirls -- and I bought The Sky is Everywhere a few weeks ago!
I still haven't read Cinder OR the Jenny Han books ... they all look sooo good!
Enjoy your reading!
You've got so many beautiful books, Alexa! I was so excited for Enchanted (fairytales!) but haven't finish it yet, haha. Also woo to The Sky Is Everywhere and Shadow and Bone. Happy reading. :)
ReplyDeleteI have only added 3 of these to my reader. ;) Only! And a Christmas book!? Okay!!!
ReplyDeleteSo many pretty and awesome looking books! Venom is very photogenic ;)
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy all of them and I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about them, as well!
AHHH you have Decked With Holly! I've been dying to read that since I heard of it (from Tara's WoW a few months back, actually haha)! Any way I can convince you to let me borrow it when you're done? I will pay for shipping, of course! (and if not, no worries of course - I'll stalk my library until they get it in haha)
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