Inspired by Pop Culture Junkie and the Story Siren, the aim of Showcase Sunday is to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. For more information about how this feature works and how to join in, click here.

Hello everyone! Guess what – I’m back! I don’t know whether you remember all those family/university related things that I mentioned a few weeks ago and which made my life pretty hectic lately. Well, the good news is, I’m graduating in 2 weeks’ time so things are finally starting to calm down a bit. I still have my two final exams left (28 May and 4 June) so I might be a bit slow at responding to your comments and stuff, but I’m here and I’m ready to get down to business. Huzzah!

Since I didn’t do a book haul post in the past two weeks, I think, I have quite a lot of stuff to show you. Ready? Here we go.

For review

Come to the Edge by Joanna Kavenna {read my review here}
The Longest Holiday by Paige Toon

Both of these books were unsolicited review copies I received about two weeks ago. You may remember that I actually read and reviewed Come to the Edge last summer when it first came out in hardback and I absolutely loved it. It’s been one of my favourite books ever since and it still cracks me up. The paperback edition you can see here was published last week and – here comes the best bit – not only does it have a strikingly red cover, its edges are red too! Anyway, it’s a brilliant book so make sure to pick it up if you haven’t read it yet. I haven’t had time to read The Longest Holiday yet but I’ve heard great things about it on Twitter so I hope it’s a good one. Thank you, Quercus and Simon & Schuster!

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Inspired by Pop Culture Junkie and the Story Siren, the aim of Showcase Sunday is to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. For more information about how this feature works and how to join in, click here.

Helloooo and welcome back! Today’s book haul is probably the biggest one I’m ever going to show you. I didn’t do a Showcase Sunday post last weekend due to the fact that I was on my way to the London Book Fair and since I knew I’d go book shopping while I’m in London, I figured I would wait another week and do one big haul instead. Which means that this week’s post is going to be massive. Apologies!

Incoming

The Fall by Claire McGowan { won }
The Wish List by Jane Costello { for review }
Rhumba by Elaine Proctor { for review }
Lucky by Jackie Collins { won }
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie { for review }

With the exception of The Wish List, which arrived while I was away, all of these books are from last week. The Fall and Lucky are both Twitter giveaway wins: the former is from the author herself (who even signed my book!) and the latter is from Books and the City. The other three pretty much turned up at my doorstep completely out of the blue but I know for certain that Close My Eyes is gonna be my cup of tea. I’m not entirely sure about Rhumba yet but I might give it a go once I’ve read my other review books. Thank you Claire, Books and the City, Quercus and Simon & Schuster!

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Inspired by Pop Culture Junkie and the Story Siren, the aim of Showcase Sunday is to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. For more information about how this feature works and how to join in, click here.

Hey guys! How are you? How was your week? God, I can’t believe it’s Sunday already. Where the heck did this week go? This week was reading week at uni (i.e. no classes until tomorrow) but since my grandpa has been taken into hospital again and my grandma is, again, staying with us, life’s been pretty hectic and nerve-racking in the past couple of days. In terms of books, however, these were the slowest two weeks ever. The good news is, I still have two lovely books to show you!

Incoming books

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith { gift }
Misery by Stephen King { book swap }

While I haven’t read Jennifer E. Smith’s previous book, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, I’ve heard great things about it, and this one is supposed to be just as brilliant. I’m looking forward to reading it and many, many thanks to the Headline team and Tiff Lomas for sending me a copy! As for Misery, it sounds sick. Absolutely sick. But I’m always drawn to creepy stories, plus I’ve never read any Stephen King books so I thought I’d give it a try. Has anyone read it? Is it really as sick as it sounds?!

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Inspired by Pop Culture Junkie and the Story Siren, the aim of Showcase Sunday is to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. For more information about how this feature works and how to join in, click here.

Hello everyone!  How are you doing? I’ve had a pretty… well, let’s just say exhausting week. I think I’m coming down with the flu or something because I wasn’t feeling too well in the past few days. I also have a few presentations coming up at uni and my BA thesis is due in about 10 days so I’ve been writing and trying to come up with something interesting non-stop. Anyway, I did get some goodies to cheer me up, so let’s see this week’s incoming books!

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (purchased)
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay (book swap)
Vicky Finds a Valentine by Emlyn Chand (gift)

Finally! I’ve been meaning to read the Hannibal Lecter series for years. The Silence of the Lambs has been one of my favourite films ever since I can remember and I have a feeling the books are even better than the film was. And since The Book Depository had a 10% offer in the past one or two weeks, I decided it was time for me to find out so I ended up ordering a copy of Red Dragon. Heck yes!

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