I started my new job as a library supervisor, that's right... I am in charge of other human beings. It's been rather hard going from my old job to this one, just because I'm going in knowing nothing about their systems and everything. It sucks going from being one of the most knowledgeable people somewhere to having to constantly ask how to do everything. But I'm really enjoying it and it helps that all the people there are wonderful, wickedly smart and welcoming.
I went to a wonderful event at Waterstones Piccadilly where I got to meet David Levithan, Sally Green and Jennifer Niven. It was such a nice event and all three authors were absolutely lovely. I had been beyond excited to meet Niven because I adored All the Bright Places and she had seemed like such a lovely person in all the correspondence we'd had online. She was as nice as I'd imagined, as well as being beyond beautiful. Sally Green was an author whose first book I'd owned for ages but never read, but did before going to the event. I became obsessed and Half Bad and Half Wild are two of my top reads of the year so far. David Levithan was absolutely hilarious, especially when he performed scenes from his musical book and actually sung for us all. Genius! I got to get lots of pretty books signed too.
And I am even more excited because when this goes up no the blog I should be at or on my way to the Hot Key Books blogger event! Where I will get to meet lots of other wonderful bloggers, but I will also get to meet some Hot Key authors like James Dawson, hear about what Hot Key has coming this year and get a lovely goodie bag. I have had a very book event filled few weeks and I am loving every minute of it!
I also read The Duff, which I really enjoyed even though it was nothing like what I was expecting. Reading the book made me realise that I still really wanted to see the movie but it was going to be nothing like the book. I was right, but thankfully I still absolutely loved the movie. It's very different but both were amazing and I loved both. Highly recommend both to you all!
Now I have far too many books to show in this haul.... OOOPS! But it's been a few weeks so they have slowly started to pile up. Bear with me!
I'm linking up with Tynga's Stacking the Shelves and the Caffeinated Book Reviewers The Sunday Post.
Half Wild x2 by Sally Green
All the Bright Places x2 by Jennifer Niven
Hold Me Closer by David Levithan
Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List by David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
These are the books I bought for the event at Piccadilly. I already owned copies of Half Wild and All the Bright Places, but both were ARCs and I wanted finished copies. I bought both a hardback and paperback finished copy of Half Wild because I have the same, both signed, but Sally Green. Plus I wanted to get a copy of All the Bright Places signed for my sister for her birthday. All these pretties are now SIGNED!
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
I got this for the author event and had it signed whilst I was there. Brodi gets extra points for being willing to drink Prosecco with me at 2 in the afternoon.
Sway by Kat Spears
Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Shadows by Paula Weston
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Remember Me This Way by Sabine Durant
Seventh Son by Joseph Delaney
This is the first two books in the series in one book and I won it in a Goodreads giveaway!
The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Challenger Deep x2 by Neal Shusterman
Deadfall x2 by Anna Carey
Until the Beginning by Amy Plum
Tiny Pretty Things by Charaipotra Clayton
So many amazing books and I am very exciting to read them all. Except Deadfall because I haven't read book one yet!
The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker
How to Say I Love You Out Loud by Karole Cozza
The Dark Light by Julia Bell
The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent
Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry
The Memory Hit by Carla Spradbery
Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I'd Like To Check In With
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas: Spoiler Free Review
Films for Thoughts on Thursday: Insurgent Movie Review
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Awesome haul. It sounds like you're having a wonderfully bookish time at the moment! So pleased for you. I hope you have a great time at Hot Key! My haul!
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DeleteLooks like and exciting week! And lots of great books - I really enjoyed The Silkworm and I can't wait to get my hands on All the Bright Places
ReplyDeleteIt's an amazing book, hope you love it!
DeleteAmazing Haul!!! And such great events you've been to! #jealous. It's great to see you back :) and don't worry about the new job, everyone is the newbie at some stage, you'll be up to speed in no time R x
ReplyDeleteI know, I have been having so much fun at them all and can't wait to book more in.
DeleteOOh nice! I've been seeing Cynthia's pictures of the UK on Instagram! Awesome that you got to meet so many authors this week! That always brightens up the week!
ReplyDeleteAnd wow what a haul!! Lots of great reads! I wouldn't know where to start!
And congrats on starting the job! I'd love to work in a library, but despite applying for them, I can't seem to get an interview. Le sigh....
My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!
Have a GREAT day!
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It was a wonderful weekend and I had such a great time.
DeleteThat is quite a book haul-well done! It sounds like you had a pretty good week as well. I'm not a fan of crime novels but I'm curious to see what JK Rowling does with the genre. Enjoy your books!
ReplyDeleteI am really curious, really need to hurry up and get to those.
DeleteYou had a wonderful weekend it seems. I love meeting authors and getting them to sign books. All the books look amazing. I hope you have a lovely week.
ReplyDeleteGrace @ Books of Love
I know, I've had such a wonderful few weeks and can't wait to go to more bookish events.
DeleteI really love the Robert Galbraith books. They are some of my new favorites in the mystery genre.
ReplyDeleteTsuki’s STS
Yay, so happy to hear that! I need to get to them.
DeleteOh...my...goodness! Amazing haul!! And you got to meet so many awesome authors! You sure are lucky! I really want to read The Stars Never Rise and Nowhere But Here. Have a great weekend and good luck with the new job!
ReplyDeleteMichelle @ Michelle's Minions
My StS
Thank you, it's going well so far.
DeleteThat is so awesome that you got to go to all of those book events and meet authors! I've only met one author (Jodi Picoult) but it was such an amazing experience. I really hope you enjoy all of your books this week, I can't wait for Everything Everything!
ReplyDeleteKrystianna @ Downright Dystopian
I loved all the events and am going to be making sure I go to tons more from now on.
DeleteWhoa, that is a lot of books. And I'm jealous about you meeting David Levithan!
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It was so much fun!
DeleteIt seems so cool that you were able to go to all of these events! I would love to meet more authors but sadly I am not in the country for it :( So you have to have double the amount of fun for me now as well. I look forward to hearing what the Hot Key blogger event is like!
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My heart and other black holes is a book on my TBR that I really want to try, so I am curious to know what you think of it! And it must be super satisfying to have all those books signed :3 Tiny Pretty Things is a book I also have and cannot WAIT to read because it looks so... pretty :D
The Hot Key event was amazing, I plan to do a post on it very soon. I had so much fun and look forward to going to a lot more author events in the future.
DeleteVery exciting about the new job and getting to do meet authors, how cool is that?
ReplyDeleteIt was amazing!
DeleteGreat Haul!
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy them.
Diane @ Diane's Book Blog
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DeleteOMG what an amazing haul! Enjoy!!
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Leydy @ OUaT
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DeleteI'm soo ridiculously curious to know what you think of Everything, Everything. That book is INSANE, but interesting, but ahhhh I'm so torn about it. XD
ReplyDeleteAND ZOMG YOU MET JENNIFER NIVEN AND SALLY GREEN?! TWO OF MY TOP FAVOURITE AUTHORS EEEEEVER. *flails* So lucky. ;-) And YESSS I'm really glad you like Half Bad. Half Bad is amazing. It is one of my top-favourite books of the universe (you know, apart from all the SJM books and Maggie Stiefvater, gawsh, I have a lot of favourites).
I can't wait to get to it, really hope I love it. You should be jealous, the event was AMAZING!!! ;)
DeleteCongrats on the job, great to hear it is going well Charnell! Wowww, I can't believe you got to meet so many amazing photos! JENNIFER NIVEN would definitely be one I want to meet as well! Exciting that you have a few bookish events coming up too. Your book haul is super amazing, so many awesome books! I loved Diviners and All the Bright Places. Have an awesome week ahead!
ReplyDeleteThanks! The events have been amazing and I have loved every single one.
DeleteCongrats on your new job. Sounds like a dream. Who wouldn't love working around books! And wow! What a fantastic book haul. I didn't purchase anything last week but I see several here I'm going to go check on.
ReplyDeleteMy Sunday Post - http://fuonlyknew.com/2015/04/19/whats-new-on-my-bookshelf-105-and-the-sunday-post/
Thank you!!! :) I miss the old one but I am getting into it now.
DeleteHave a great time with your new job! I love meeting authors too, it is so much fun to see the mind behind the book. I did not realize that the Seventh Son movie was based off The Last Apprentice series, I've been meaning to read them. I saw the movie last night, but it lacked with character development. Everything else was pretty good. I have a feeling I will like the books better.
ReplyDeleteThank you, the new job is going well.
DeleteUmmm...I'm jealous of all your fun bookish events and author meetings. Especially Cynthia Hand. Her books are some of my favourites. Have you read The Last Time We Said Goodbye? I think you'll love it as much as All the Bright Places. Annnd I've been excited for Lady Jane since it was announced. I can't even imagine what a book written by those three will be like. Nothing but amazing, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new job. Scary but so exciting. Especially since I know you were worried about job cuts at your previous job.
I don't even know where to start with your books. So I'll just say I've got some ARC envy going on(Nowhere But Here and Everything Everything especially). I'm reading Challenger Deep right now(actually have been for like two weeks). It's very very real and obviously a personal story. Heart wrenching but so so so good. As long as I finish it today, review will be up tomorrow. Lol
Happy reading!
Brittany @ This is the Story of My(Reading) Life
The events were so much fun. Lady Jane sounds so good and I can't wait to read it. I'm excited to read Challenger Deep, but I feel it might make me sad.
DeleteSorry I am a little late with this, but great haul this week. so many of these look awesome!
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy :) Happy Reading!
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Michelle @ Book Briefs
Thank you! :)
DeleteUrghh I've been away for such a long while and you've done so MUCH! This is all very exciting. c: I been wanting to go to some events but I've just been so busy >.< It's brilliant you've met so many authors and got so many new books. =D
ReplyDeleteI've missed you!!! Hurry up and come back with some posts, I need them!! :)
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