A Sunday Retrospective (2)

A Sunday Retrospective is inspired by In My Mailbox at The Story Siren and TGIF at GReads!, where I share the books that I've acquired during the week, last week's posts and interesting links.

This week, I received only one book in my mailbox. It's a pretty darn special book though, as I've been wanting to read it for ages. Thankfully, my friend Elena of Novel Sounds sent it to me as part of her bid to promote the book and as a birthday present! Other than that, I picked up a few titles from Amazon for my Kindle.

IN MY MAILBOX

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Thanks Elena of Novel Sounds!)

The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (Not pictured, but on my Kindle!)
Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber (Not pictured, but on my Kindle!)

• I kicked off the event with an introduction post + giveaway!
• Estelle added a few awesome title suggestions to her Shelve It.
• Elena shared about her love for the places in Harry Potter.
• A Mutiny in Time was such a fun time travel read!
• Estelle and Magan certainly did a great job of setting the scene - I want to visit all these places!
• I ask the question: how do you like to get from here to there?

ON MY BLOG

• I celebrated the release day for the amazing Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, alongside my friend Elena of Novel Sounds. Here's my ode and a feast to celebrate! Later on in the week, I posted our BEA Book Club discussion about this book.
• I wrote a mini-screenplay for my review of the intriguing and very uniquely written Between You & Me by Marisa Calin.
• Who would've thought I'd love a story about a cyborg this much? Marissa Meyer deserves all the stars for Cinder. I am so excited for Scarlet!
• Time travel? An interactive game to go with a book series? Something like The 39 Clues? A Mutiny in Time by James Dashner is your best bet.
• This week's TGIF is all about unexpected books - books that I wasn't sure I'd like, but ended up falling in love with.
• I loved the characters and their stories in Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry.
• Reviews of The Cambridge List by Robert Clear and The Peculiar  by Stefan Bachmann in under 150 words.

AROUND THE COMMUNITY

• Tricia visited the Harry Potter studio tour in London. SO JEALOUS!
• Some great thoughts on writing over on The Grammarian's Review.
• I love this site because (a) it's New York and (b) I love seeing what people read! 
• Working with books and being a writer can sometimes be an awesome thing.
• There's a thoughtful post on Parajunkee for Twitter newbies!
• I love this post about thoughtful commenting on Creativity's Corner.
• Over at The Broke & The Bookish, it's genre talk.