Showing posts with label in my mailbox. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

In My Mailbox (11)

Lots to report on again this week... even though 'In My Mailbox' is actually a deceptive lie since my postpeople rarely actually put my parcels in my mailbox they usually arrange them artfully around the front door. It's actually quite interesting to find them sometimes when I get home because every now and again the postman will do something totally crazy. Like propping a package against the wall and then lifting up the doormat to sort of disguise it... which works fine if you consider a doormat shaped mound a disguise. Or wedging them between the frontdoor and the flyscreen door. Crazy :) I digress..


17-year-old Mia narrates the story of one crucial day in her life, when a perfect morning with her family turns to tragedy, leaving her on the edge of death. As she lies in a coma, she contemplates her relationship with her family, her boyfriend Adam and all the complexities of life, love, and loss. Clinging to life, and contemplating the devastation of everything she held dear, she must decide if she should die, or if she should stay.

SOLACE OF THE ROAD
Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blonde locks she feels transformed. She's not Holly any more, she's Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the super-sharp talk. She's older, more confident - the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head on.

FATE
It's been a year since Bailey, Delia, Annabelle, and Zo bought a set of enchanted temporary tattoos at the mall, and life is proceeding as usual. Almost. As the third Fate, Bailey has the lives of the world in her hands, and even though she's gotten used to weaving lives, she's not at all prepared when her own life - and the lives of her friends - take some unexpected turns. Delia sets out on a crusade to find a geeky boyfriend, and for the first time in her life, she finds herself being turned down. Meanwhile, Zo's mother reappears after a twelve year absence, and Bailey, suddenly immersed in a world in which the Furies are catty Sidhe teenagers and Aphrodite, the Love Sidhe has a strange obsession with Annabelle, is helpless to get her friends' lives back on track. But when Aphrodite possesses Annabelle, the friends must set aside their individual problems and work together to save their world - and their friend - once more.

POSSE
Amy and her best friends - the Posse - are at year 11 camp and they're bored. In the scorching summer heat, sparks start to fly. Clare and Amy might be best friends, but they're sniping as if they're enemies. Camp leader Bevan is singling Amy out for attention, and Clare's jealous. Amy's feeling reckless enough to do something major . . .
In one night everything will change. Friendships will be tested and broken; careers will hang in the balance; and everything Amy knows about her friends and her family will be ripped away. What really happened when Clare disappeared that night? Who's telling the truth? And when things go too far, should you save your friends - or save yourself?

Siggy and Amber: A boy. A girl.  A ghostly puzzle
There is something strange at Tallis Point. Siggy knows, because he's seen it. And now the mysterious, non-blonde Amber want to see it too.
Should Siggy take Amber to Tallis Point? On the good side, he might end up with a girlfriend. On the bad side, he might explode. It's a tough decision.
Funny, touching, and outrageous, Siggy and Amber is Doug MacLeod at his very best.

Angel Cake
Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged.Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. He's no angel, but she's sure there's a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes she's not alone - how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?

Halfway to Good
It's the first day of Term One, and Luke and Anna are on opposite sides of the student-teacher divide. School is the last thing Luke feels like - how can he feel halfway to good when his father is sick, his mother is sad and his older brother is painfully present?Anna's life still revolves around love, friendship and homework, but she's a graduate teacher now. Can she cope with a bullying co-worker, a persistent ex-boyfriend and a class of unforgiving Year Elevens, and still find time to help Luke?

The Red Queen's Daughter
Mary Seymour is the daughter of the great Katherine Parr--the last Queen of Henry VIII. Orphaned at a young age because of her mother's bad marriage to Thomas Seymour, Mary determines early on that love is a sentiment that causes foolishness at best, and death at worst. She is sent to be raised by Lady Strange, a mysterious noblewoman who informs her of her destiny: Mary is to be a white magician who will join Queen Elizabeth's court and ensure her safe reign.

Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to offer, Miranda faces a broken engagement, and is sent to live with her father's cousin, the Count John Hardwood, and his wife whose primary goal is to take her to Court and marry her off to the insufferable Lord Seagrave for their own profit.


When the story begins in Evernight, Bianca has just left the small town where she's spent her whole life. She's a new student at Evernight Academy, a creepily Gothic boarding school where her classmates are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.Then she meets Lucas, another loner, who seems fiercely determined not to be the "Evernight type." There's a connection between Bianca and Lucas that can't be denied. She would risk anything to be with him—but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart... and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed to be true.








Saturday, May 2, 2009

In My Mailbox (9 & 10)

There was no In My Mailbox (brought to you by The Story Siren with Pop Culture Junkie) last week so there will be a bumper one this week...

Paper Towns - John Green
Marked - P.C. and Kristin Cast
Red-Headed Stepchild - Jaye Wells
The Adamantine Palace - Stephen Deas
Pearl Versus The World - Sally Murphy
Malcolm and Juliet - Bernard Beckett
Bait - Alex Sanchez
The Awakening - Marley Gibson
Ballads of Suburbia - Stephenie Kuehnert
Coffeehouse Angel - Suzanne Selfors
Hidden Voices - Pat Lowery Collins

I know I've forgotten some but two weeks is kind of a long time! Haha it doesn't look very impressive without pictures. It is impressively daunting in person though.







Saturday, April 18, 2009

In My Mailbox (8)

Is it Sunday already? Wow the week went fast. In My Mailbox is brought you by The Story Siren. This is what I got in my mailbox this week...

And Then Everything Unraveled
Delia Truesdale has no idea her life's about to change forever. She's too busy enjoying the California summer. Her internet tycoon mother, T.K. Truesdale, is out of town, and that means Delia can spend all her time at the beach, surfing. That is, until everything unravels.


Envy: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)
Jealous whispers.
Old rivalries.
New betrayals.

In this next thrilling installment of Anna Godbersen's bestselling Luxe series, Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything they desire: Wealth. Beauty. Happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets. . . .








Sunday, April 12, 2009

In My Mailbox (7)

Happy Easter everyone! Two books this week! (In My Mailbox is brought to you by The Story Siren from an idea by Alea)

I'm pleased as punch. I got...

Secrets of Truth and Beauty by Megan Frazer


The Good Daughter by Amra Pajalic
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Good holiday reads! Which I will be enjoying for the next two weeks. Which will mean lots more posts, sorry for the lack of posting lately. It will pick up again, promise :)







Monday, March 30, 2009

In My Mailbox (6)

Hmm.. what was in the mailbox this week?

Carrie Ryan cover
The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
Yay!! So happy to get this :) I prefer the US cover to the Australian one (this cover reminds me of Twilight).

And then I got...

13 Treasures - Michelle Harrison
The One and Only - Sophie McKenzie
The Secret Ministry of Frost - Nick Lake









Saturday, March 21, 2009

In My Mailbox (5)

I got tired of my unruly tag cloud so I neatened up the tags a bit and compressed them into the navigation bar you can see on the left hand side. So if you want to look at past In My Mailboxes just click the appropriate button, fun! Also, does anyone know how to have a search feature on blogger?

Without further ado, In My Mailbox (which is hosted by The Story Siren) is a weekly feature in which you get to find out what books I received last week :)

Not a big week, which is nice because it gives me a chance to catch up!

Willow - Julia Hoban
I post that I am eagerly waiting on Willow by Julia Hoban on a Wednesday and it arrives Thursday morning! Made me so happy :)

Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead
I already had the set of these books but for some reason I received another one.. except this time there were one copy of the first one and two copies of the second one!

Behold my Vampire Academy stack!Perhaps I will have to have a competition to get rid of a few of them? :)







Saturday, March 14, 2009

In My Mailbox (IV)

If I keep doing these In My Mailboxes I'm going to have to learn my Roman Numerals past 15 haha, or maybe I'll just switch to numbers.

Now In My Mailbox (which is hosted by The Story Siren) is a weekly feature in which you get to find out what books I received last week :)

This week there were lots of series(es) lol but first there was the beautiful A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell which should be put on everyone's go-out-and-read lists because it's wonderful, I'll elaborate more in my review.

Then I got the first two books in The Elite Series by Jennifer Banash (who I interviewed a little while ago) which are The Elite and In Too Deep. They look like fun.


And lastly, I got the entire Unwritten Books by James Bow. They go The Unwritten Girl, Fathom Five, then The Young City. I'm looking forward to reading these as well! I really like the cover of Fathom Five.







Sunday, March 8, 2009

In My Mailbox (III)

In My Mailbox (which is hosted by The Story Siren) is a weekly feature in which you get to find out what books I received last week :)

This week's mailbox featured...

Shadowed Summer - Saundra Mitchell
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Nothing ever happened in Ondine, Louisiana, not even the summer Elijah Landry disappeared.
His mother knew he ascended to heaven, the police believed he ran away, and his girlfriend thought he was murdered.
Decades later, certain she saw his ghost in the town cemetery, fourteen-year-old Iris Rhame is determined to find out the truth behind "The Incident With the Landry Boy."
Enlisting the help of her best friend Collette, and forced to endure the company of Collette's latest crush, Ben, Iris spends a summer digging into the past and stirring old ghosts, in search of a boy she never knew.
What she doesn't realize is that in a town as small as Ondine, every secret is a family secret.


The Lucky Ones - Tohby Riddle
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Set in 1980s inner-city Sydney, The Lucky Ones follows maverick teen Tom, as he tries to make sense of life after school.The novel reveals in poignant and hilarious ways the workings of a young male mind – with all its misplaced romanticism, youthful delusions, bewilderment about girls and need for adventure.


Pop Princess - Isabelle Merlin

book cover of   Pop Princess   by  Isabelle Merlin
It's a simple twist of fate that catapults Australian teenager Lucie Rees from her ordinary life in an ordinary town to a strange, exciting job in Paris as friend to ultra-famous but troubled young pop star Arizona Kingdom. But it is more than a simple twist of fate that will see Lucie entangled in mysterious happenings that soon put her in terrible danger. Who can she trust? Will the holiday of a lifetime in Paris turn into her last days on earth?


The bottom two are Australian books (in case the giant Sydney Harbour Bridge didn't give it away!) I've started reading The Lucky Ones and I'm really liking it.

What was in your mailbox this week?








Saturday, February 28, 2009

In My Mailbox (II)

I've decided I will keep doing In My Mailbox (which is hosted by The Story Siren). It was good fun last week :)

This week's mailbox featured...

Chains - Laurie Halse Anderson

As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.

Before I Die - Jenny Downham

Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out.

Bad Girls Don't Die - Katie Alender

When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in.

How To Ditch Your Fairy - Justine Larbalestier

Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy, like a specialized good luck charm, is vital to success. And in the case of the students at New Avalon Sports High, it might just determine whether you make the team, pass a class, or find that perfect outfit. But for 14-year-old Charlie, having a Parking Fairy is worse than having nothing at all—especially when the school bully carts her around like his own personal parking pass. Enter: The Plan. At first, teaming up with arch-enemy Fiorenza (who has an All-The-Boys-Like-You Fairy) seems like a great idea. But when Charlie unexpectedly gets her heart’s desire, it isn’t at all what she thought it would be like, and she’ll have resort to extraordinary measures to ditch her fairy. The question is: will Charlie herself survive the fairy ditching experiment?

Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols

All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back.John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge -- and over....

Arrival - Charlotte McConaghy

It has been foretold. Two worlds will collide when six mortals from Earth enter Paragor through a portal.
They will face forces of terrifying darkness.
Their journey will become the stuff of legends.
It is time.

I've already finished How To Ditch Your Fairy and Bad Girls Don't Die. They were both great! And Bad Girls Don't Die was actually genuinely creepy (well I thought so at least), more on that in my review. Right now I've started on Arrival, with the author started writing when she was only 14!