Sunday 2 February 2014

January Book Haul

So... books. I got a lot of them this month. Christmas, birthday, and just a total irresponsibility when it comes to money results in this tonne of books.


  
  • Small Damages - Beth Kephart
  • White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  • The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
  • The Girl in the Opal Mask - Jenny Lundquist
  • Charming - Elliott James
  • These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
  • Well Wished - Franny Billingsley
  • Once We Were - Kat Zhang 
  • The Bread We Eat in Dreams - Catherynne M. Valente (signed and numbered! Hnnnng!!) 
  • Roses - G.R. Mannering
  • Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Thing Around You Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Here starts my obsession with Kate Forsyth:

  • Dragonclaw
  • The Pool of Two Moons
  • The Cursed Towers
  • The Forbidden Land
  • The Skull of the World
  • The Fathomless Caves (books 1-6 of The Witches of Eileanan series)
  • The Tower of Ravens
  • The Shining City
  • The Heart of Stars (books 1-3 of the Rhianon's Ride series)





  • Night Witches - L. J. Adlington
  • Fearsome Dreamer - Laure Eve
  • Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones
  • Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
  • Shaking a Leg - Angela Carter
  • The Outcast Blade - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
  • Perdition - Ann Aguirre


  • New 52 Superboy vol 1-3 - Scott Lobdell & Tom deFalco
  • Supergirl: Power - Jeph Loeb
  • Wonder Woman: Odyssey vol 1 & 2 - J. Michael Straczynski
  • New 52 Birds of Prey vol 3 -  Duane Swierczynksi
  • Lazarus vol 1 - Greg Rucka
  • Avengers: Enemy Within - Kelly-Sue deConnick
  • American Vampire vol 1-4 - Scott Snyder

Man, I'm tired just typing that up. I hope I'll be able to read through them soon, and perhaps post mini-reviews or whatever.
Have you read any of the stuff I got? Thoughts?

1 comment:

  1. So I spent a lot of time salivating over your books. THE PRETTY, omigoodness. Read Small Damages as soon as you can. It is SO SO SO beautiful. It just takes your heart and squeezes the hell out of it. I hope you enjoy them all to the max.

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