June 10, 2012
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren. It’s awesome. Every week, we all get a chance to tell everyone what new books we’ve gotten so that we can tell you guys and we can all drool and squee together! Huzzah for squees!
So, BEA happened this past week and I got some great stuff, guys. I’ll probably tell you more about it later this week. But don’t sleep on these books, either! They’re awesome, too!
FROM NETGALLEY
Spark: Elementals #2 by Brigid Kemmerer (August 28, 2012 from K Teen). So I haven’t actually read the first book, STORM, in this series yet. But I have it, and I am DYING to get to it because it sounds so good–brothers who can control the elements and get caught up in danger and conspiracies, etc. Also, Tara from Hobbitses assures me that there are MANY hot boys in it, so I can only imagine that this would still be the case in book #2.
BLOG TOUR
Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig (March 13, 2012 from Katherine Tegen Books). I’m so excited to be a part of Literary Logistics‘ blog tour for this book! A modern-day retelling of Robin Hood, with a girl as the thief, stealing from the rich kids at her high school? YES, PLEASE. My date for this tour is June 28th, so keep an eye out for my review then!
BOUGHT
Guys, I’ve recently started falling for audiobooks. Mostly I thank April from Good Books and Good Wine, who is always talking them up, and Asheley from Into the Hall of Books for LOVING UP my first purchase, THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss. They have inspired me to go audio, friends, and since Audible was having a sale yesterday, I snagged two more books.
The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle #2 from Brilliance Audio. Narrated by Nick Podehl. GUYS, I’m in the middle of listening to THE NAME OF THE WIND right now and I’ve loved it almost from the instant it started. The world and the story are outstanding, Kvothe is STUDLY, and Nick Podehl’s voice is like butter/honey/magic/smoky hotness/PERFECTION. I can’t wait to listen to book #2.
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson from Brilliance Audio. Narrated by Suzy Jackson. It shouldn’t be any secret that this is one of my FAVE contemporaries. I love road trips. I love well-formed and well-told romances. And I love great writing and great characters. Amy & Roger has all of these things. April from Good Books and Good Wine always talks about how awesome this audiobook is, and how super Suzy Jackson is. I’m excited to listen to this one, too!!
I hope you guys got lots of fabulous things in your mailboxes this week!
I have those Patrick Rothfuss books sitting on my shelf…I really want to read them but I can never find the motivation. Ugh. I really should. Amy and Roger sounds like a really good summer read- I like reading about road trips in the summer! Hope you enjoy your books/audiobooks x
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WISE MAN’S FEAR!!!! So freaking good (Anna, you really should find time to read them). The second is excellent, I’m seriously so excited for you reading this series. I’m already prepared to reread them a third time when The Doors of Stone comes out.
Great books! I absolutely LOVE Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour! What a wonderful book … and the playlists are awesome! I should get that on audio one of these days …
I’ve had Pretty Crooked for a little while now, but haven’t read it yet — it looks really good!
Happy reading!
OH MY GAWDDDDD I LOVE AMY AND ROGER’S EPIC DETOUR THE AUDIOBOOK! Seriously, I am DYING to listen to that noise again, it is wicked good.
And lol, you net galley addict you.
ALSO I want to keyboard smash out of love over Patrick Rothfuss and the love I am seeing the audios of his books getting. AHH! <33333
Pretty Crooked sounds awesome. I am putting that on my tbr list right now. I look forward to your review, I will definitely be back for it on the 28th!
I need to read Spark! I’ve read Storm and really enjoyed that one, so I should go on NetGalley and request the other, lol.
Pretty Crooked looks so fun 🙂
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I’ve been wanting to read Amy & Roger’s for a long time. Hope you enjoy the new books! Check out what’s IMM!
Hi! I’m a new subscriber (google reader). I’ve been wanting to read Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour for a while now. I look forward to reading your review. I read on your About page that you’re from New Jersey! So am I!! I go to college in CA, though. But its great to find Jersey Blog 🙂
Have a great week!
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I enjoyed Morgan Matson’s latest, so I wouldn’t mind checking out Amy & Roger. 🙂
Spark sounds excellent! I’ve been told to read Storm a bunch of times before, so maybe I need to get to it.
Brilliance audio is totally like my favourite audiobook publisher. I hope you enjoy all these!