This is a collective book haul from the past couple of months! I must admit, my book buying has accelerated in the month of October (all but three are from this month), but I’m loving it! I’ve missed buying books. ;3 There’s quite an array of genres here, all of which I’m so giddy to get into!
“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went…” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark
20.12.21 —how is it christmas in a few days this month really went by too quickly. i also picked up a few books this month (treat yo self month after all) and grabbed coffee with some friends. not sure when i’ll read everything but there is no rush after all, which book would you grab off the table?
19.12.21 —it’s been a minute since i journaled, i really can’t believe it’s christmas next week, im hoping to journal and read lots during the break, and of course watching the christmas classics (home alone)
Little book haul, got them all for £6 at the very well stocked charity shop nearby
I’ve read The Western Wind before but it’s so great I wanted to own a copy- it’s kind of a mystery but set in a 15th century village. So well researched, there’s no feeling of getting a history lesson, you just live the story through the villagers and end up understanding so much about what it might have been like to be alive then.
Backstory: I’m turning 21 on 16th February. I’m doing an Alice in Wonderland ‘Mad Hatters’ tea party (which I’ll probably blog about too) so everything that is related to Alice, I go I NEEEED IT.
I had been hauling vintage tea cups, whilst at the Antique shop my mum found this. It’s in really great condition for how old it is. I got it for £3 which was a steal! So I whipped out my camera, to take…
I’ve had this idea of doing more then just meme’s on here for a while. April was the first month I actually kept track of what I was doing as far as reading and buying books goes, which surprises me as April has not been a kind month to my family.
So below is the list of books that I have bought in this past month. The bolded titles are books I have finished reading, and the italics are books I am currently reading. I will also be posting a picture of all the books listed later ( if I can find my phone in order to actually take the picture XD ). If you have read any of these books listed let me know! Did you enjoy them?
Thrift Store: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce Diamond Girl by Diana Palmer The Rawhide Man by Diana Palmer I Married The Duke by Katharine Ashe The Elusive Flame by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss The Prince’s Bride by Victoria Alexander Why Do Dukes Fall In Love by Megan Frampton Once Upon A Dream by Katherine Kingsley The Rogue by Katharine Ashe
Dollar Store Books Blythewood by Carol Goodman
Walmart / Target / Grocery Store Seven Minutes In Heaven by Eloisa James 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher Not Quite A Wife by Mary Jo Putney How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days by Laura Lee Guhrke A Good Rake Is Hard To Find by Manda Collins Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Book haul ! I’m so excited to read all of these books. Thank you to Bloomsbury Australia for sending me an arc of Blood to Poison by Mary Watson it sounds amazing! What books have you bought, borrowed or received recently? I hope you are having a wonderful day.
[ID: a book stack photo on a white sheet with a cream knitted cardigan in the foreground. The books are: Blood to Poison, Gideon the Ninth, Dark Emu, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Mo Dao Zu Shi, A Lesson in Vengeance, and The City of Brass].
The anatomy of my bookshop trips used to consist of (1) a new novel tucked in my arm, (2) my wallet a few bills lighter, and (3) a wee whisper in my ear that urges me to start reading the book in my commute home. Now that I have towers of to-be-reads that may or may not be collecting dust bunnies at home, I make it a point to stop…hoarding…for a while and start ticking off the Unreads List.
BUT when you have an annual event like the Manila International Book Fair or MIBF, it’s hard not to splurge. Everything on the shelves is discounted and your money felt more and more like a transient thing in your pocket every passing minute—and you don’t care. There’s no way to tame a bookworm’s inner junkie in a place like that.
That’s But 01. But 02 is: when you feel a bit under the weather and you need something to cheer you up.
Because to tell you the truth, I only bought a handful of books from MIBF. The rest are either given to me as a gift or bought on occasions when I’m feeling a tad sad. Yeah, I roll like that. Anyhoo, without further ado, here are a few information about each novel:
The White Tiger by Aravind Diga. Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger—the first-person confession of a murderer—is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. Follows the story of Madison, a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself in Hell, unsure of why she will be there for all eternity, but tries to make the best of it.
Invisible Monsters: Remix by Chuck Palahniuk. Injected with new material and special design elements, this book fulfills Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. NOTE: I’m done reading this and I love it! Full review to follow!
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente. September returns to Fairyland where she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows—and their magic—to the world of Fairyland Below. Sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Unnatural Creatures edited by Neil Gaiman. A collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Follows junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the US to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs’ own experience in these places, and his addiction to drugs.
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron edited by Jonathan Strahan. Collection of “witch” stories from the biggest names in fantasy and young adult literature, including Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, and Garth Nix.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Deftly interweaving the lives of the blind Marie-Laure and German orphan Werner set during WWII, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Landline by Rainbow Rowell. A tale about a disintegrating marriage and a phone call from the past—and not just from anyone’s past, it’s from the past self of the Georgie’s—the protagonist’s—husband. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but Georgie feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. (Thanks for the gift, Mamu Kit!)
Mittwoch war mal wieder der Flohmarkt in meiner Stadt und ich habe ein bisschen geshoppt. Hauptsächlich waren es Bücher, obwohl das gar nicht beabsichtigt war. Ich habe 7 Bücher gekauft und ich glaube ca. 10€ dafür bezahlt.
Es waren 3 Harry Potter Bücher, da ist mir bloß ein kleiner Fehler unterlaufen und ich hab zweimal Harry Potter and the goblte of fire gekauft. Ich dachte das eine wäre Order oft he Phoenix und hab mich zu Hause total darüber geärgert, aber shit happens.
Außerdem habe ich noch vier Wilde Hühner Bücher gekauft. Ich weiß nicht ob ich euch das schon mal erzählt habe, aber ich wollte mir die Reihe gerne auf Flohmärkten zusammen suchen. Dieses Mal war ich sehr erfolgreich und so fehlt mir jetzt nur noch „Die wilden Hühner und das Leben“.
Die Bücher sind auch schon fast komplett durchgelesen und sie haben mir wieder total gut gefallen, die Geschichten der Mädels sind einfach süß.
I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Dark Wood….feeling so Fae right now.
Re-reading an old favourite - Snow White, Blood Red by Elen Datlow and Terri Windling.
“Metaphor, perhaps, is the tame, the civilised, version of shamanic shapeshifting, word-magic, the recognition of stories as toothed messengers from the wilds. What if we turned the old nursery rhymes and fairytales we all know into feral creatures once again, set them loose in new lands to root through the acorn fall of oak trees? What else is there to do, if we want to keep any of the wildness of the world, and of ourselves?“
