Showcase Sunday # 10

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Books, Biscuits, and Tea! 

This is where each Sunday, we can "showcase" what we've gotten in the way of books; 

in the mail, at the bookstore, the library, or as a gift!

Only a few books to share from these past 2 weeks. I was lucky enough to attend Erin Bowman's release party in CT for Taken with my aunt, sister, and cousin. We made it a girls day with mani/pedi's and topped it off with a fabulous chicken taco dinner with my aunt, uncle, sister and cousins! :)

Showcase Sunday #4

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Books, Biscuits, and Tea! This is where each Sunday, we can "showcase" what we've gotten in the way of books; in the mail, at the bookstore, the library, or as a gift! 

I haven't done a Showcase Sunday in months and I think it just comes down to the fact that planning these out takes more time and finesse than I'm usually able to come up with, but I think I finally found an easier system to execute this each week, or every other week. :)

WARNING: VERY LONG POST WITH LOTS OF PRETTY PHOTOS OF BOOKS!

ENTER AT YOUR OWN WALLETS RISK!

The Breathless Reads Tour 2012

I am completely and utterly envious of those who are able to attend (or have attended) these fabulous tour sites. Not only because these cities are themselves awesome and fun to visit, but because of the amazing authors that will be there! Signing copies of their books! Letting you bask in their amazingness! Taking photos with you! Talking to crowds of their spectacular literature and their personal journeys that brought them here!

Let's do this!

As of 2012, these are the books I have read:

Alice in Deadland ebook - Mainak Dhar

Lothaire - Kresley Cole

The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) - James Dashner

Blood Red Road - Moira Young

Away (The Line #2) - Teri Hall

Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi

These are the books I have on my bookstand:

A Million Suns (Across the Universe #2) - Beth Revis

The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) - Suzanne Collins

Prized (Birthmarked #2) - Caragh M. O'Brien

Crossed (Matched #2) -Ally Condie

Zone One - Colson Whitehead

Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood #9) - J.R. Ward

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Note: I do this very weird thing where, even though I count down the days until a book is released to the public, the day I buy it and it's nestled in my hands as I safely travel back home, it happens to stay on my bookshelf for a good amount of time before I am ready to crack it open. It started with Breaking Dawn, and I held onto it for about a year and a half, before I could finally open it and start reading. It drives my local bookseller crazy! It doesn't keep me from buying new books that have come out, but the really special ones, just like wine, they get better with age, I guess I'm trying to say. The longer they sit on my bookshelf, the more I want to read them, but I don't want the illusion to end, I want their story to continue on and on and by reading them, they eventually come to an end.

End weird and ridiculous disclaimer.