Top Ten Tuesday: Last Ten Books That Came Into My Possession

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

 

So here is a little peak into my bookshelf over the past few weeks. There's an interesting spread here,
from books I bought, those I received for review and those I stole from my sister's bookcase.  

 

So diving in first with those I received for review:

 

Book post! My favourite kind of post. Thanks to Atom and @hotkeybooks for these beauties. Loved Keren David's Salvage so high hopes for This is Not a Love Story. Didn't get on famously with We Were Liars so curious about the new E.Lockhart. And Almost Grace is a coming of age surf novel set in South Africa - so very promising. Reviews for all soon here and on the blog (link in description) #bookstagram #bookpost #newreleases #ireadya #YA

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jun 7, 2015 at 1:53am PDT

I am lucky enough to be on the Hot Key Books Blogger List and I was asked at the start of June which books I would like to receive from their list for that month. How To Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle and Almost Grace by Rosie Rowell, recent winner of The Banford Boase Award for her other title Leopold Blue. Both appealed to me as coming-of-age, summer road-trip/holiday stories. I quite enjoyed We Were Liars but had some serious issues with it, so my hope for HTBB is high. I'm currently half-way through AG and it's going to be my very next review. I'm enjoying it thus far, but it's just taken a turn for the odd that I'm intrigued to follow.

I also received This Is Not A Love Story by Keren David from Atom (which I previously reviewed here). I'm a huge fan of Keren and #TeamSalvage was my pick for the YA Bookseller Award.

#bookreview So my review of #thisisnotalovestory is up on the blog (link in profile). I loved Salvage by Keren David and had high hopes for this. I really enjoyed it and look forward to more from Keren. If you look closely at the cover, the heart is actually a map of Amsterdam... clever. #bookstagram #YA #ukya #ireadya

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jul 9, 2015 at 12:40am PDT

I also won a copy of Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley from Chicken House. Circus Mirandus is about a young boy who's grandfather becomes very ill and the only hope is a mystery man from a travelling circus. I'm a sucker for anything with a circus (I have undying love for The Night Cirucs by Erin Morgenstern and Water For Elephant by Sara Gruen) so this is right up my street. And the giveaway was ridiculously fun - using the guide below, make your circus names  My circus name was Luna, The Magnificent Strong Woman.

Use your initials to find out your circus name - tell us yours and RT to win 1 of 5 copies of #CircusMirandus! pic.twitter.com/zHk4f0Qkhp

— Chicken House (@chickenhsebooks) June 4, 2015

I also received not 1, but 2 copies of The Next Together by Lauren E. James! Lauren is a fellow Nottingham Uni Alumn, and I'm super excited to read this. I'm going to be doing a giveaway of the 2nd copy at the beginning of August, so watch out! Also, isn't this a lovely print of Alice in Wonderland...

#bookpost Awsome delivery to come home to! Been waiting for #thenexttogether for ages, can't wait to read it. And who doesn't love Alice? Thanks Walker Books and @penguinrandomhouse

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jun 10, 2015 at 10:33am PDT

I then bought Remix by Non Pratt at Waterstones on Oxford Street, along with this amazing, beautiful, wonderful, every superlative out there for the graphic novel version of Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, with artwork by the grossly talented John Aggs.

It's finally here! The thing I've been waiting for since I was 13... Noughts and Crosses the Graphic Novel! So excited to get my teeth into this #bookstagram #YA #ireadya #ukya #noughtsandcrosses #x&o #graphicnovel

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jul 6, 2015 at 11:20pm PDT

Here is a little snap of my of my June Book Haul:

#bookhaul So these are all the books I either bought or recieved in June. The Noughts and Crosses graphic novel is really lovely, an fan of Malorie should pick it up for certain. This is Not a Love Story is also great, a wicked summer read for a plane or beach. The other three are at the top of my TBR - in particular Remix before YALC #bookstagram

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jul 12, 2015 at 11:56pm PDT

Believe it or not from the above, but June was a quiet-ish month for me. So to get to 10 books, we have to look back to May. I picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. I had heard so many good things about this book, and I was really in the mood for some fantasy after a lot of contemporary. I'm afraid it and I just didn't get on, just like with Throne of Glass series. I just don't think Sarah is for me sadly...

Just picked this up - felt like an injection of the fantastical today #bookstagram #ireadya #YA #courtofthornsandroses

A photo posted by Rachel Kennedy (@yabberingbooklover) on Jun 2, 2015 at 1:18am PDT

And finally, I have perused my sister's bookcase and temporarily stolen Paper Towns by John Green and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I am planning something on the run up to the release of the Paper Towns movie so keep your eyes peeled.

So those are the last 10 books that have come into my possession. It's been an awesome month, my first receiving review copies from publishers, and I have loved it! My TBR is about to explode with YALC this weekend. Follow me on Instagram for lots more bookish pics, reviews, updates and event reporting.

Bookish love,

Rachel