Over-Booked is my version of the book haul post, where I am linking up with Stacking the Shelves at Tynga’s Reviews and The Sunday Post at the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s been an entire month since I’ve done an Over-Booked! What with my daughter’s choir show taking up most of October so far (and it’s over now, so *sigh of relief*), I just haven’t had time.
Luckily for my teetering review pile, I don’t have too many review books, but I was lucky enough to win a giveaway, so you can see my winnings below. Here are my new books this week:
Won:
I entered a blogoversary giveaway on a whim, and was lucky enough to win $50 worth of books from The Book Depository! I couldn’t have been more excited when I got the news! HUGE thanks to Carrie at The Mad Reviewer for these awesome books:
Winger and Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith. After finally reading my first Smith book (100 Sideways Miles), I was hooked, and I wanted to go back and read some of his earlier books. These two have been on my wish list for a while!
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes. This is one of Beukes earlier books, and I’ve heard it’s pretty amazing. Plus Angry Robot published it, and I love most everything they publish.
Generation V and Iron Night by M. L. Brennan. Many bloggers love this series, and I finally took the advice of Mogsy, Tabitha and Nathan, and now I have my own copies of the first two books (book three comes out soon!). My plan is to read Generation V this month, review pile be damned!
Review books:
The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue. I got an unsolicited ARC of this a few months ago, and then this finished copy showed up. Now I must read and review it! Thanks Tor Books:-)
J by Howard Jacobson. Big thanks to Blogging for Books for this one. I hadn’t even heard of it until I saw it on their website, and it’s a bit risky for me, but I’m giving it a shot!
Covenant’s End by Ari Marmell. Thanks to Pyr books for this ARC. Although this is Book #4 in the series, I believe it can be read as a stand-alone. (And if not, I’ll let you know as soon as I read it). This doesn’t come out until February, so it will be a couple of months before I get to it.
Digital ARCs from Edelweiss & NetGalley:
Young Woman in a Garden: Stories by Delia Sherman. I have a book by Sherman in the older part of my personal library, and I didn’t realize she was still writing. This short story collection looks really good, and big plus, it’s published by one of my very favorite small presses: Small Beer Press. Thanks Small Beer!
Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunne. This one sounds like a bunch of fun! Girl superheores…Yes! Thank you, Harper Voyager Impulse!
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick. I was excited to be approved for Sedgwick’s latest, after really enjoying We Are Not Invisible. Thanks to Roaring Brook Press.
The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley. I’m taking a chance on a new, small UK publisher with this title. They claim to publish “weird” fiction, and I am looking forward to checking this one out. Thanks to Unsung Stories for the review copy!
That’s my haul! Have you read any of these? What’s your haul like this week?
OMG. *face melts*
A happy *face melts* I hope?
Jealous face melt. 😉
oh lots of pretties, enjoy!
Thanks Lily:-)
Those are some gorgeous books! Congrats on your win too- wow! Superheroes Anonymous looks fun, and J looks very intriguing. Hope you enjoy them all.
PS. The choir show was awesome! 🙂
So glad you saw the show, thanks Lucy:-)
I have heard that Winger is awesome and would love to get my hands on that book! I hope you enjoy all you got 🙂
Here’s my STS!
I’ve heard the same thing about Winger:-) I hope to read it soon.
Woohoo, Generation V and Iron Night!
And I adore Ari Marmell’s Widdershins series – Covenant’s End is the fourth and final book of the series, I think. You might be able to read it on its own, I’m not sure, since so much as happened in 1-3, but if you ever have time I do highly recommend starting from the beginning. I thought the first book was good, but it gets better with the sequel – which totally broke my heart at the end (in the good way) and got me hooked!
It will be interesting to see if I can get into the book without reading the previous three. So glad to know you love the series!
That was an awesome win! Grasshopper Jungle is really good! Great haul this week!
Check out my STS
Oh good, I can’t wait to read it:-)
Zoo City was Sooooooo goooood!
Oh yay!! I’m so excited to read it, hopefully soon!
The Ghosts of Heaven is AMAZING! Seriously.
I’m not so sure about the US cover, personally I like the UK.
Looking at your books I feel how my TBR pile is growing. Not that I’m complaining but… when I’m gonna read them all I dunno. Happy reading! 🙂
My STS:http://readingadd.blogspot.ro/2014/10/stacking-shelves-13.html
Enjoy your books. 🙂
Over booked, I like it. What a haul! Congrats on winning a big contest. 🙂 I hadn’t heard of most of these books, but the superheroes one looks fun. Happy reading.
Holy smokes! I want to read all of those books. A lot of them are new authors for me so I’m off to Goodreads to check them out.
Here is my Sunday Post – http://fuonlyknew.com/2014/10/19/whats-new-on-my-bookshelf-83-and-the-sunday-post/
nice haul of books, enjoy!
Great books this week! I love getting eARCs for space reasons but there’s something extra fun about print copies. I haven’t read Sedgwick but he’s been recommended a few times. I’m definitely going to have to check him out. Have a great week!
I haven’t heard of any of these, Tammy D: This is almost a first, I feel like I always recognize something in your haul posts! Weeeeeellllllll, I hope you enjoy all of your new books! 🙂
Thanks for visiting my blog! Have a fabulous week, Tammy.
Alyssa @ The Eater of Books!
Nice books! I love to have The Ghosts of Heaven 🙂
Here’s mine:
My Week in a Wrapped #4
Great haul!! I have Zoo City from when it was part of the Humble Bundle, and after reading Broken Monsters, I really need to read it. Also, The Boy Who Drew Monsters sounds amazing!
I wish I could say I didn’t have a teetering review pile. lol Wow! $50?! That’s amazing! I’ve heard great things about Winger. I’ve been excited for Monsters for a while but I haven’t been able to make time for it yet. J sounds very interesting but I haven’t been hearing very great things about it. I look forward to your thoughts! Maybe I’ll still have to pick it up. 🙂 I got the Ghosts of Heaven too! I picked up Midwinterblood by Sedgwick from the library.. hoping to read that one before Ghosts. Happy Reading!!