In My Mailbox #56

Dec
19
2010
This week marked both the beginning of my holidays and the first day on work experience, luckily it'll keep me occupied on the holidays and still leave plenty of free time over the new year. I'm hoping to get a few books for christmas and maybe even an e-reader but we'll have to wait and see what santa brings me! For more information on the blogopsheres obession with In My Mailbox, check out The Story Siren.


In Order of Excitement:
There's Cake in My Future | The Lover's Dictionary
I'm truly surprised that a wedding novel has caught my eye but CAKE in my FUTURE just looks so cute. So far I've read four books written by David Levithan, so it's safe to say I'm a fan and I'd love to know more about LOVER'S DICTIONARY but so far it's coming across as a story story novel for Valentine's Day.

The Secret Lives of Dresses | The Unidentified
SECRET LIVES completes the succession of adult novels for today but there just seems to be so many interesting ones released lately. I've read a couple novels where the government transforms our every day lives into technological mayhem and this looks like it could be another good title to add to that shelf.

Unfortunately, I've already read a couple of the PLL series books and caught the entire first season of the television show but the brand new cover of this book makes me want to re-read it asap. You should see the blood drooling from the cover of BLOODY VALENTINE in real life, it's amazing how much effort has gone into the style of this book!
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The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott 
He's looking at me like—well, like he wants to look at me. Like he likes what hes sees, and he's smiling and hiw eyes are so blue, even in the faint flow of the porch light they shine, and I nod dumbly, blindly, and then grope for the door handle, telling myself to look away and yet not able to do it. "Sara," he says, softly, almost hesitantly, and my heart slam-bangs, beating hard, and this is what it's like to want someone you can't have. To want someone you shouldn't even be looking at.

I've been wanting to order THE UNWRITTEN RULE for so long now, luckily my library got in a copy recently. It' a much thinner book than I expected but I'm sure it'll live up to the authors usual greatness as I saw in Something, Maybe not too many months ago.

Q: What are your favourite genres besides Young Adult?

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Great haul this week! I hadn't heard about Lover's Dictionary; am adding it to my to-read pile! I'm so late getting into PLL (have only read the first 2 and didn't see the show at all), but it's SO great!

Here's my list, if you're interested: http://christitheteenlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/...

Have a great week!
1 reply · active 745 weeks ago
I haven't heard much about L. Dictionary either, I think it's because the book doesn't sit within the YA genre.
Another great stack of books! The Lovers Dictionary looks good so does The Unidentified.

My favourite other genre apart from YA would be Adult Urban Fantasy. Happy reading :)
Nice books! Haven't read the PLL books yet but I really like the TV series. Before I started reading YA I read romance novels but now I don't read a lot of romance anymore.
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I'm not sure how interesting the books would be after already figuring out the mystery via the TV Show...
Nice books. I read The Unwritten Rule last week and I,too, was surprised how thin it was but trust me, it is amazing.
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It's really good, so far :)
Great pile of books for this week!

My fave genres are parnormal/urban fantasy, detective/crime and thrillers and some horror. I really enjoy Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series too.
OMG it happened to me again, Holly!

I. Got. Another. Package. On. A. Bloody. Weekend!!! And it was Sunday this time.
Yeah, it was PLL. I've already read it, too. But I want to re-read it and review it on the blog this time around, since the only PLL book I have reviewed on the blog is the sixth one, and that was when I started out.

I'm praying that I'll also be getting a copy of The Unidentified. I've been eyeing it for a while, but I don't request titles from publishers anymore (I am no longer shameless :P). Those first two books look really interesting. Are they YA?

I guess besides YA, I enjoy Mystery with a dash of romance.
3 replies · active 745 weeks ago
You don't request books from publishers anymore? Do you mean, you only accept when they offer books or have completely gone off review copies? I don't think I could do that, it's become my new addiction anyhow I'd end up spending megabucks on books since the blogosphere brings so many awesome books to my attention.
As in, I don't request specific books. I seem to be getting a lot of unsolicited books in the mail, which is fine by me, since I do want to venture out from my comfort zone every now and then. :) I only get to buy a few books, but once I find myself a job . . . which is really hard, since I don't have any previous experience and I'm already past the golden age :P (extra cheap labour, $8 an hr).
Wow, I had no idea employers could pay eight dollars an hour, I thought the Aussie minimum was $15 P/H...
OH SNAP! I can't wait to read "The Unwritten Rule". I can't wait to see what you think of it. :)

You got some great books this week! ^_^

-Amelia
So many great books!
Look forward to seeing what you think of them!

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