Welcome back to The Sunday Mix! Thrilled to be sharing another two weeks worth of fantastic links and awesome books with y'all, so sit back, relax, and scroll on down to see them.
WHAT I READ
- Amber created a bookish guide to parallel universes.
- Hazel shares two beautifully designed graphics featuring This Lullaby quotes.
- Jamie muses on choosing your next read amid so many choices.
- Hannah created a gift guide inspired by Girl Before A Mirror.
- Y'all need to check out Cassie's new venture - The Casserole.
- And Hazel also has a new venture - Films & Reveries.
- Kristen asks "Is our audience our competition?"
- Ira Glass has inspiring creative advice. (Thanks Lizzy!)
- Asti talks about how it's hard to leave books behind.
- Estelle gives us a great bunch of young adult books set after high school.
- Asti started a new feature where she's asking people to send her postcard book recs!
- Wendy shows you how to make temporary tattoos (and made some Winner's Curse ones!)
- In the spirit of Valentine's Day, Hazel has collected some awesome bookish valentines.
- As part of a new blog series, Lili shares thoughts on the perfect email request.
- Asti shares the results of her survey on blog tours.
- Shae posts about her harem of fictional boy types (and it's perfect).
- As a fellow Potterhead, I loved how Jaz wrote a post for Harry Potter Book Night.
- Andi + Brittany team up for "Have You Seen This?" - Andi's post || Brittany's post
- Lindsey shared some of her favorite movies, shows + books about all kinds of love for Valentine's Day.
- Rachel talks about friendship, in honor of Valentine's Day.
- Heather Demetrios shares about getting personal in your writing.
- So many gorgeous cover reveals these past two weeks! Here's one for Ten Thousand Skies Above You, one for The Glowing Knight, one for Ice Like Fire and one for Six of Crows.
- Estelle hosts a fictional birthday party (and it's amazing!).
- Every word (and GIF) in Hannah's Top Ten Tuesday post about romance is perfection.
WHAT I ACQUIRED
borrowed from the library
physical: Everbound & Evertrue by Brodi Ashton / I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Only the Good Spy Young, Out of Sight, Out of Time & United We Spy by Ally Carter / The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne & The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima / The Duff by Kody Keplinger / Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen / The Archived by Victoria Schwab / I Was Here by Gayle Forman / Every Breath by Ellie Marney / The Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel / Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting / Lost & Found by Brooke Davis / Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel / Written in Red by Anne Bishop
e-book: Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil, Loop by Karen Akins
from publishers (Thanks Bloomsbury, Random House, Macmillan, Big Honcho Media
physical: Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas / The One That Got Away by Bethany Chase / The Sculptor by Scott McCloud (+ poster) / The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence by Stan Lee, Stuart Moore and Andy Tong (+ poster, tattoos, calendar)
e-galley: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
from friends + family (Thanks Gaby, Hannah, Orchid, Maura & Macky!)
The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey / Before I Go by Colleen Oakley / Incarnate by Jodi Meadows / Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling / The Spirit of the Wild by Tom McGowen
bought
physical: I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios / Jane Austen's England by Roy and Lesley Adkins / A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
Kindle: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
just for Valentine's Day
Animorphs #1-54 + 11 extra books by K.A. Applegate / Kindle Touch (+ card + chocolate)
links to check out
Rachel's Playing with Matches review
Leah's Lost & Found review
Hannah's Before I Go review
bloggers/author mentioned
Kelly of Belle of the Literati
Rachel of Hello Chelly
Hannah of So Obsessed With
Leah of The Pretty Good Gatsby
Racquel of The Book Barbies
Lili of Lili's Reflections
Gaby of Bookish Broads
Brittany of The Book Addict's Guide
Andi of Andi's ABCs
Orchid of The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
Maura of The Whimsical Mama
Aw thanks for linking up my new blog and Valentine's post, Alexa! Also, you have so many amazing books to read! I really hope you enjoy THE DUFF! I'm jealous you're going to get to see the movie soon. From your haul, I just added Playing With Matches to my to-read. It sounds like a cute book. :D PS: You look totally lovely on your haul video!
ReplyDeleteI'm very surprised you haven't read either THE DUFF or THE ARCHIVED! They are both great books. My feelings on STATION ELEVEN and I WAS HERE were mixed. I hope you and Macky have a great Valentine's Day and that you love your new Kindle!
ReplyDeleteOMG so many books! How do you have the time?? I know we all ask ourselves the same question... never enough time and too many books!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the mention Alexa. Also, you always have wonderful book hauls. I personally haven't gone to the library in a long time though since I buy all my books.
ReplyDeleteWoah all 54 Animorphs books, that is amazing. I used to love the TV show.
I'm really keen for I'll Meet You There, I've heard you and so many other people gushing about it! I bought Something Real because of you haha. Can't wait to get into it.
Keep up this awesome feature Alexa, I love discovering new blogs/catching up on other people's features.
Happy reading!
Book Rec: The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy. I think you will like this one. I read it a few years ago and it STILL haunts my thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing all those posts! Great round up. There's still a few I need to check out. :) I hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day, Alexa, and you enjoy ALL of your new books. I'm really looking forward to Every Last Word myself - it sounds fantastic. :) Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI love the Gallagher Girls series! They read a little bit young but they're SO FUN and I've reread Cross My Heart & Hope to Spy sooooooo many times. It's such a comfort book for me. Oh! Really good girl group friendship plus SPYING plus hot teacher plus awesome mom so yeah (-; I really need The DUFF too. The movie is already here and I haven't gotten to it yet *hides*. I plan to read Every Breath this month since the last one comes out next month in Australia so its time. BROOKE DAVIS! One Tree Hill! Fiction is clashing with reality! WRITTEN IN RED WEEEE! It's actually straight up, reimagined world fantasy so its perfect for your flight of fantasy challenge and there is a slooooooooooooooooo*insert a million more Os here*w burn romance. Just a hint during this book. The Girl at Midnight arc cover *beating heart eyes* sooo pretty! YAAAY NEW KINDLE! Mine got passed around too before I got it back again. It's a touch and I'm dying for one with a backlight because most of my reading is done past midnight :P btw, Life in Outer Space is SO nerdtastically epic! Such a delightful read and this is one HECK of a haul. You're doing it right, Alexa (-;
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