Sharing the week's bookish news and the books & bookish goodies that I've bought, borrowed, won, or been gifted and have added to my bookshelves over the past week!
(Inspired by Mailbox Monday, IMM, Clock Rewinders and the like)
Notes From Melissa:
One week until I'll be an old married lady. I can't believe how quickly it has crept up on me. I am crazy busy with last minute details like making favors and centerpieces as well as the cords for the Handfasting.
I'm planning to try to pre-schedule as many posts as I can for the next week or two...but you probably won't hear much from me until after the day!
For those of you waiting for packages from me--I'm a little behind...you'll get them, I promise...but it might be after the wedding!
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn (my favorite season) and I can't deny that I am already looking forward to October and Halloween. If you are planning on any Witchy or Magical reading this season, why not join my Reading Challenge? Just click the button below!
I'm planning to try to pre-schedule as many posts as I can for the next week or two...but you probably won't hear much from me until after the day!
For those of you waiting for packages from me--I'm a little behind...you'll get them, I promise...but it might be after the wedding!
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn (my favorite season) and I can't deny that I am already looking forward to October and Halloween. If you are planning on any Witchy or Magical reading this season, why not join my Reading Challenge? Just click the button below!
And don't forget to stop back on October 1st for the beginning of a month of Witchy Goodness! Click on the button for more details!
Recently on Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf:
Reviews:
Guest Posts:
Dina Rae talks Conspiracy Theories and offers a Giveaway!
Interviews:
A Chat & Giveaway with Kate Moretti, Author of Thought I Knew You
Interview & Giveaway with Isobella Jade, Author of Careful
Interviews:
A Chat & Giveaway with Kate Moretti, Author of Thought I Knew You
Interview & Giveaway with Isobella Jade, Author of Careful
Cover Reveals:
Reviews That Have Me Adding to My Wishlist:
- Added Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff based on a ton of reviews I've seen the past few weeks including those at: Bewitched Bookworms, Book Brats, Book Nerd, Rainy Day Ramblings , & Candace's Book Blog.
- Added Second Sight (The Arcane Society #1) by Amanda Quick & After Dark (Harmony #1) by Jayne Castle after Kim's review of The Lost Night reminded me of how much I love Jayne Ann Krentz aka Amanda Quick aka Jayne Caste.
What I Read Last Week:
I am so in love with The Mercy Falls series...can't believe I waited so long to read (errr listen) to them! And I fell back in love with cozies this week. I finished:- Crewel - Gennifer Albin
- Forever - Maggie Stiefvater (audiobook)
- Brownies & Broomsticks - Bailey Cates
What I Am Reading Today:
- Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family #1) - Melissa de la Cruz
- Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1) - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Audiobook)
Ongoing Giveaways:
- SHELTER, SECONDS AWAY & Tote (9/23 US)
- HEREAFTER (9/26 INT)
- THE LAST DEGREE (10/2 INT)
- THOUGHT I KNEW YOU Swag, $20 GC, $10 GC (10/11 US/INT)
- KINDLE FIRE HD (11/30 INT)
- AN AUTUMN DANCE, $10 GC & Swag (10/31 INT)
Added to the Bookshelf This Week:
Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on Infinite Jest? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you who’s pontificating on Cormac McCarthy’s “recurring road narratives”? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?
For all those overwhelmed readers who need to get a firm grip on the relentless onslaught of must-read books to stay on top of the inevitable conversations that swirl around them, Lauren Leto’s Judging a Book by Its Lover is manna from literary heaven! A hilarious send-up of—and inspired homage to—the passionate and peculiar world of book culture, this guide to literary debate leaves no reader or author unscathed, at once adoring and skewering everyone from Jonathan Franzen to Ayn Rand to Dostoyevsky and the people who read them.
Author: Emmy Laybourne
Format: Personalized & Signed Hardcover
Source: Won from Proud Book Nerd
Find It: Goodreads
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.
Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.
In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.
Format: Personalized & Signed Hardcover
Source: Won from Proud Book Nerd
Find It: Goodreads
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.
Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.
In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.
There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Titles: The Spring Before I Met You & The Summer Before I Met You
Series: The Lynburn Legacy # 0.25 & 0.5
That's all for me for the past week! I probably won't have a post next week as it's the big day so I'll catch up on the 7th!
What new goodies have arrived on your doorstep?
Leave me a link in the comments and I'll come check out your post!
(I'm linking up to: Mailbox Monday, The Sunday Post, Showcase Sunday, & Stacking the Shelves)
I enjoyed Monument 14! It was different. Happy reading!
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I hope you get everything done before your wedding and that you manage to stay relaxed - I hope it all goes well!
ReplyDeleteNice haul this week, Monument 14 sounds really good!
I'm curious about beautiful creatures, I hope you'll enjoy all your new books. Happy reading!
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Judging a Book by Its Lover sounds fab :) I love the cover.
ReplyDeleteThe final week before the big day! That's great!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Maggie Stiefvater's writing. I just got The Raven Boys in this week and will be starting that today or tomorrow. I wasn't so thrilled with Beautiful Creatures. I've only read the first two. I do intend to finish the series, but I can't say I'm exactly looking forward to it.
Sounds like you've had a great week! Good luck next week! Check out my IMM & SP if you have time.
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Beautiful Creatures! I almost bought that the other week! I've heard it's awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for your upcoming wedding!!
Have a good week!
A handfasting ceremony? How wonderful! I wish you all the best!
ReplyDeleteOooh, I would love to snag a copy of Monument 14. Witched Of East End is great, hope you like it.. Nice haul.. Enjoy them and happy reading.. :)
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Been thinking about getting The Beautiful Creatures series. Great haul this week.
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Congratulations in advance for your upcoming wedding! I can't believe you've even managed to keep up with anything on the blog, I was a blithering idiot the last couple of weeks. :)
ReplyDeleteYou picked up some terrific books this week, I hope once the fun and furor dies down, you love them. But just relax for now!
OOOo Stormdancer was phenomenal and so so so unique! I hope you'll love it! And OMG Beautiful Creatures... I LOVE this series, it's so wonderful!
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Monument 14 is so on my wish list, hope you like it. Good luck with all the wedding plans. Congrats in advance on your nuptials. I hope it's a perfect day for you. Hugs and thanks for being a part of The Sunday Post
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Monument 14!! I still need to buy a copy of that one. It's been on my wishlist for ages.
ReplyDeleteAnd good luck with the wedding!!!!!!! And congratulations! <3
I still have to read the Monument 14's first book. I hear it's amazing, but for some reason I havent gotten it yet lol. Great haul and I'm gonna go check out your october thing now.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn't dislike Beautiful Creatures, I wasn't madly in love, and never read the rest of the series. But I am pretty excited about the movie!
ReplyDeleteHave fun with all the books.
Here's my IMM
Hey lovely! Best wishes for your wedding! Thanks for the shout out! I just wrote my review last week for Forever, not sure when it will go on the blog with Something Wicked starting.I did the whole series on audio and adored it! Cole.....I just loved it! Besutiful Creatures kicks off one of my fav series and I am eagerly awaiting the last book! I hope you love it! Can't wait to catch up on all your witchy stuff!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good reading week ahead, congrats! on your upcoming wedding.
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Oh Monument 14 was really good - a department store is totally where I would hide out during the apocalypse!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the wedding, I'm sure it's going to be a perfect day!
Nice post...haven't heard of any of these books. ENJOY!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the wedding.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
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