In My Mailbox monday (June 27)

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This week was fairly quiet. I received one book (Angus), which I had ordered last week because I want to read the book before I watch the movie. The other two books were pretty sponaneous acquisitions. In other words: I can't leave a book store without buying a book *sigh*


Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison



Precious aka Push by Sapphire



The Best American Short Stories 2009 by Alice Sebold & Heidi Pitlor (eds.)

In My Mailbox Monday (June 20)

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf


Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles


Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott


Wings by Aprilynne Pike


The Line by Teri Hall


What Would Emma Do? by Eileen Cook

In My Mailbox Monday (June 7)

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After the BEA madness (yes, I know I haven't told you anything at all about my wonderful, awesome time in America and at BEA and who I met, but I will get to that later this week!), I was glad this week slowed down a bit. I'm still recovering from jetlag and all that, but enough with the whining!

During the last few days I unpacked the most awesome swag package I won from Jen @ The Extreme Reader! I got a Change of Heart by Shari Maurer soccer stress ball, a The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting sticker, a signed The Emerald Talisman by Brenda Pandos bookmark, a Mistwood by Leah Cypess bookmark, a Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus bookmark and magnet, and an Angel Star by Jennifer Murgia card and author business card. In short: I. Am. Thrilled! Thank you so much, Jen, for all this!

A review copy for Erin Healy's Never Let You Go. As the book is already out, I guess I'll hurry to read it very, very soon! (Plus, it of course sounds very interesting!!!)

Also, my pre-ordered copy of The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan finally arrived, so I have to read the first in this trilogy (The Demon's Lexicon) sooner rather than later!

Also, I received my very, very long awaited (and also pre-ordered!) copy of Nice and Mean - which, oh yeah, is not supposed to be out until tomorrow, but was announced for early May in Europe (now I'm confused!)...

But Nice and Mean is a completely interesting story anyway. I picked up this huge (!!!) package and wondered what it was all about:



To give you a better idea about the size, I placed a standard, one-disc DVD case next to the box...

And this is what I pulled out of it:



That's the same DVD case next to the book that was inside the huge box!!!

In My Mailbox Monday (Apr 18)

Please don’t forget my two current giveaways: My 4th Blogiversary Giveaway ending April 24 and my Birthday Giveaway ending April 26!

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Last week I've been really, really bad about visiting all your Mailboxes. Sorry! I hope and plan to be better this week.


Beth Fantaskey's Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side


Gail Carriger's Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)


Batya Gur's The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case (Michael Ohayon Mysteries, No. 1) - I'm reading this series a bit out of order, because I can't always find the right book in the book store.


David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - my first book about the current president of the USA, and I'm already curious!

And two German books:

Entschuldigung, sind Sie die Wurst? (Excuse me, are you the wurst/cold meats?), a birthday gift from a dear friend. It's a compilation of things overheard in public - similar to Overheard in New York and Overheard Everywhere. (You really need to check these out if you don't know them already!)

Daniel Kehlmann's Ruhm (Fame), which is a novel in nine stories, where one story links to the others in one way or another. This was a birthday gift from a colleague and friend.

In My Mailbox Monday (Apr 11) and what else I got this week

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This week was filled with good things for me. After all, it was my birthday and I needed some comfort after having my wisdom tooth extracted.

So, for books I got :



My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman via the International Book Tours. I already finished the book and it is ready to be sent on to the next person.

Then I got a German book written by former Israeli ambassador in Germany (I hope I got his title right!) Avi Primor, in which he talks about his work as ambassador and his life. I'm really curious about that one - and I was really lucky, because I bought a used copy with his signature!


I also got Exclusively Chloe by J.A. Yang. I think I'll break my rule of reading the older books first with this one. I'm cuuuuuurious! :D


William Sleator's Fingers just had to come to me, now that I finally remembered the title of a childhood favorite, which I read only once when I got it from the library. For years I've been trying to remember the title, because the story of a young boy, a wonder child pianist, haunted me! I hope it can live up to my memories.


Do I have to say anything about this? I had to get Hex Hall (Book 1) by Rachel Hawkins!

Also, I got a bunch of DVDs:



Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds - it's the first BBC classic I ever watched and I just had to get my own copy.



Don't worry! I got the collectors box with all three movies for a small price. Persuasion with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry Jones, Mansfield Park with Billie Piper and Blake Ritson, and Northanger Abbey with Felicity Jones and William Beck.
I just love the Jane Austen movies from BBC!

And my brother and his girlfriend got me the 2nd and 3rd season of King of Queens for my birthday. How awesome is that?

In My Mailbox Monday (Apr 4)

Now, a rainy, sunny, cold, warm - all in all, weird - week is over. Of course, I had some delicious food, and tons of "card board" bread (those of you who have been eating it for the past 6 days know what I'm talking about - and no, I caved and had some real bread when I realized I was about to fall up and down several stairs...)

But I think you want to know more about the book-ish stuff I got last week, right? So there you go.

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I got one book only, and this was one of my pre-ordered books:



Jill Shalvis' Instant Temptation, the last in the Wilder Brothers trilogy - and I'm already sad! I will miss not only the people, but also the surroundings, the places featured and the mountains and everything!

So now you know what I found in my mailbox last week. What did you find?

In My Mailbox Monday (Mar 28)

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This week was fairly quiet with only two books:


I finally got my copy of North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley! I can't wait to read it, but for now, there's so much more I have to read, it will be a while until I get to it.


And I got The Seeker in Forever by the author himself, Alan Fox. Thanks a lot! I'm curious about it :-)

In My Mailbox Monday (Mar 21)

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As I forgot to write my post last week, I'll give you a run-down of what I got during the last two weeks. Therefore the list will be a bit longer and without pictures.

Double Fault: A Novel by Lionel Shriver - I got this for the THIB 20 Minute Book Club Challenge and am reading it right now. It is my first book by Lionel Shriver and so far I really enjoy it.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which I bought for my online book club. We'll be reading it in April, so it is on my very, very short stack and does not fall in my general rule to read older books first.

Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale is another book for the THIB 20 Minute Book Club Challenge. I hope I can read this in time so I can call in and discuss along with Nicole, Kate and whoever else calls in.

My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions by Becca Wilhite - and here I admit right out: I've already finished it! It was so cute and I absolutely love the cover. I enjoyed it a lot.

Megillat Esther by J.T. Waldman. I'm curious about this as it is the Book of Esther in graphic novel form.

Hunted (House of Night Novels) by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast - I have the first four and as I somehow rush through these books and only had one left, I ordered this one to have one more in stock, just in case!

The 19th Wife: A Novel by David Ebershoff is a book I won from the wonderful Wendy. I first heard about The 19th Wife in a Books on the Nightstand podcast and I hope to read this sooner rather than later!

In My Mailbox Monday (Mar 7)

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I am a bit disappointed in myself. I wanted to not buy any books until I had at least finished all the books from January. But then I met a good friend on Thursday (March 4) and on our way from university to Starbucks we came across a book store. That's how the story goes, right?

Anyway, it's a small indie and they always have two boxes of marked down books right outside, so we decided to just sift through them, not really expecting to find anything. Right! Sure! Whom were we kidding anyway?



A Mercy by Toni Morrison - acually, we both got a copy because one of our professors had mentioned (and recommended) it during a class on American Lit and Culture (the beginnings up until 1820), so when we saw two copies in the boxes it was clear we would get them.



When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson was also in those boxes and I remembered a review I read a while ago (no clue where, but once I find it I'll link back).

And while we were having our coffee I got a text message with the information that I could pick up a package at a "Packstation" (sort of like a PO box, only they're distributed all over the place and you can access each and everyone with a card and a PIN). That's when I got the following three books:



Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter is the second in the Gallagher School series and I finished the first one short before I ordered the 2nd (and pre-ordered the 3rd). I can't wait to read it!



Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver - I admit it, I caved. I wanted to wait until it is out in paperback, but in the end... Well, I'll get to it soon, I guess. In - oh! 25 books *sigh*



Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu - just because!



The Cold Room by J.T Ellison is a book the wonderful Marcia from The Printed Page sent me so I could also enjoy it. Thank you sooo much!

In My Mailbox Monday (Feb 28)

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Last week I got:



I got Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility from a fellow German blogger. Now I have all of Austen's works, I believe :-)



I got Lauren Mechling's Dream Girl from the same German blogger. Thanks a lot, Melli!

And then I bought:



Becca Fitzpatrick's hush, hush



Tera Lynn Childs' Oh. My. Gods.



Chloe Neill's Firespell

In My Mailbox Monday (Feb 21)

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Someone just please stop my hands from ordering books! I just ordered 5 books (I think, my memory's a little blurry). But that's subject for later IMM posts, when the books actually arrive.

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I got Wake in a weak moment (yeah, I have a lot of those lately), and I'm really curious about it!



And then I finally got Maus 2, if in a combined copy with Maus 1, even though I've owned Maus 1 for quite a while now. Also, I've already read / re-read this one, so it doesn't really count, does it?

In My Mailbox (Feb 14)

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The Naughty List by Suzanne Young is the last title I pre-ordered in December. I can't wait to read it :-)



The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan also finally arrived!



And then, a review copy of Michele Wahlder's Alphatudes: The Alphabet of Gratitude arrived. Thanks to Rebecca from The Cadence Group!

In My Mailbox (Feb 7)

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I read a few really intriguing reviews about this book. Some of the reviewers enjoyed the book while others did not like it that much, but I have a feeling I will have fun reading Dreaming Anastasia: A Novel of Love, Magic, and the Power of Dreams!

Then, I was book shopping with a friend in a longer-than-usual lunch break at university (a class was cancelled). Of course, we tried our best to stick to having coffee, but after almost two hours we decided we should just check out the book shop next door. I came away with the following three books (plus the book my friend bought which she'll borrow me to read as soon as she's finished it):



Yes, I gave in and bought Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go! All the reviews made me curious...



How could I not want Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston? It's been on my wish list for a while...



... as has Gayle Forman's If I Stay. (Now my look for the best price list is down to 31 books!



Usually I'm not so much into pink, so I tend to stay away from pink covers, but Princess for Hire by Lindsey Leavitt sounded too good to stay away. I'm pretty certain already it will be a fun read for the break I'm going to have starting a week from now!



Yes, I gave in with this one as well. I wasn't sure at first, but then I read more and more about it and also got to read a bit about their book tour, so Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures had to help feed my mailbox!



I got Admit One: My Life in Film by Emmett James from the wonderful Lisa from Online Publicist for review - and signed at that, with a personal note... A big, heartfelt thanks to Emmett James for that :D I'm really curious about it!

In My Mailbox (Feb 1)

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I got The Espressologist when my brother asked me whether I needed anything from Amazon. Thinking he had something he wanted but wouldn't get over the 20 Euros for free shipping, I said sure. Duh! He got a new electric razor, so he wouldn't have needed me to order anything.
Anyway, now I have The Espressologist and I can't wait to read it.



This is one of the books I pre-ordered in December, when I first watched a few of the Class 2k10 videos featuring authors debuting in 2010. It is the first book in the Iron Fey series.

In My Mailbox (Jan 25)

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My voice is still not what it used to be, so no vlog this week either. I usually like doing a vlog for this event, but well, maybe next week.

This week I got:


Rachel Ward: Numbers
Somewhat early, and I can't wait to read it! When Jem looks in people's eyes, she can see the date they will die.


Jen Nadol: The Mark
A debut novel I'm really curious about. I read so much about it already!


Jaclyn Dolamore's Magic Under Glass
I'm curious to see the new cover the publisher will use, so maybe I will just get another copy once it is out with the new cover as well. I took a short peek at the girl on the cover and while I wasn't sure from the pictures I had seen online, looking at the cover in front of me, I can see the controversity. She is definitely pale for a character who is supposed to be "of darker skin".

In My Mailbox (Jan 18)

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This week, I won't do a vlog. I've been out cold this weekend (and still am) with a 24x? hour bug that left me first with a horribly sore throat (I'm talking about "swallowing isn't possible" here), then motion sickness whenever I moved only the slightest, and right now I'm dealing with head cold-like symptoms that make it difficult for me to breathe, so talking is not an option right now (great thing when you know that I have to give a presentation tomorrow!)...

So, to make this short, here's what I found in my mailbox this week:



Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I ordered this book for the THIB! Twenty Minute Book Club Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Linus's Blanket, and because I've been dying to read this book for a few weeks now (ever since I first heard about it).



Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
I heard so many interesting things about this book, I just had to get it!



Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers
Same as with Some Girls Are, I heard so many good things about the book, I couldn't resist.



The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
I am curious about the book and it is part of the Japanese Literature Book Group over at tanabata's blog, for which discussion will start in about a week (so I better hurry!). By the way, is it just my copy that has a "fizzy" cut for the pages or was that the publisher's decision for the book in general?



All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
I just had to order it after I saw Anna @ Book Nerds tweet about it. Now it's happily on my shelves waiting for me to read it (rather sooner than later, I'd guess).

And one last, that should be waiting in my mailbox since Saturday, but which I haven't saved yet due to unforseen circumstances (see symptoms mentioned above):



The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
This one is also for the THIB! Twenty Minute Book Club Challenge.