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Last weekend was my best friends wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and so much fun. I had a blast and she looked beautiful. I love her and her new husband. I have known them both since high school, so that was pretty special. (They have been dating for 10 years!)
This week was a catch up week at work. Even if you take 2 days off, there is always plenty waiting for you when you get back. I went to a wine walk yesterday with my boyfriend and his parents. That was a lot of fun. You buy a book of tickets and a “wine passport” and you walk around the street festival and sample different wines. It was a very nice day.
And my books this week were pretty epic because I did my sunday post early last week, so this week is actually a week and a half of books.
Books I got this week:
The Leveller by Julia Durango (ARC from Publisher)
The Fill in Boyfriend by Kasie West (finished paperback from Publisher)
Don’t Ever Change by M. Beth Bloom (ARC from Publisher)
Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid (ARC from Publisher)
The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings (Hardcover from Publisher)
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge (ARC from Publisher)
Illusionarium by Heather Dixon (ARC from Publisher)
The Night we said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi (ARC from Publisher)
Between us and the Moon by Rebecca Maizel (ARC from Publisher)
This week on the blog I brought you:
- 19 Apr:{Weekly Wrap Up} Week of April 12-19th
- 20 Apr:{Excerpt+Giveaway} Finding Thor by Kai Strand @KaiStrand @NereydaG1003
- 21 Apr:As Red As Blood by Salla Simukka ★★½
- 22 Apr:Paradise City by C.J. Duggan ★★★★
- 23 Apr:Fated by Donna Augustine ★★★★★
- 24 Apr:Flirty Dancing by Jenny McLachlan ★★★★
- 25 Apr:Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross, Mark Perini ★★★½
Next Week on the Blog:
*Note: These are not final. Some posts may change*
{ARC Review} Hot and Nerdy by Shannyn Schroeder
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Awesome haul! Your friend’s wedding sounds like it is so fun. I love when you are close to the couple and can share in their joy.
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
Yea, MIssie, those celebrations are so much fun. My friends are just starting to get married now, so it seems like I have a lot of wedding s to go to.
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Aw congrats to your best friend! My husband and I dated for… 5 years before getting married but we were so young!
Awesome books this week too! I am currently reading Crimson Bound and might DNF. 🙁 🙁
Have a good week! 🙂
Bummer you don’t like Crimson Bound. I am super excited for that one.
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You sure did get some awesome books! The wine tasting sounds fun. We have something similar here with wine and food. It’s always good times:) Ten years before they married. I bet it lasts:)
This was my first time going to the local wine walk but I will def be back. It was a really nice day. Adding food to the mix would be a great idea!
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Great haul this week! I can’t wait for Never Always Sometimes and The Leveller. I requested both of them but was denied on Edelweiss. :/ I will definitely be looking forward to your reviews on them! 🙂
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
I can’t wait to read the Leveller! I have a while before I get to Never Always Sometimes because they want me to hold the review until August, but maybe I will sneak a read earlier haha
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Nice haul of books this week. I see quite a few that look quite enjoyable. Savage Light sounds interesting. Have a lovely weekend.
Grace @ Books of Love
I love the cover for savage light.
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Congrats to your friend, and I’m glad it all went well. My fiance and I have actually only known each other for just under 2 years, so it almost feels like we’re rushing into things. In reality though, he knows me better than anyone else with exception of (maybe) my parents. And vice versa. I can’t imagine dating for 10 years!!! The wine walk sounds like it was a lot of fun! And oh my there are a lot of books there 😉
I know 10 years is a long time. I am so happy for them.
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Awesome haul! There’s so many books there that I’m DYING to read, The Fill In Boyfriend is at the top 🙂
I hope you enjoy everything!
I can’t wait to read the fill in boyfriend too. I have it coming up on my TBR soon.
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Now that is some exercise I could get into. A Wine Walk..what fun. Hmm, you could probably do a summer party type one with local neighbors. Each home could share their favorites wines and we could walk from house to house. *grins*
That is a great idea Kimba. I want to organize a block wine party too now!
So glad your friend’s wedding was a success! Congrats on all the great books this week!
Thanks, I want to go back and do her wedding all over again because it was so nice
Oh, super curious about Never Sometimes Always and Between Us and the Moon! And maybe The Leveller. I’ll be interested to see what you have to say about that – it sounds like it could be potentially good but also very very bad.
I am so excited to read the Leveller. I hope it is very, very good haha
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Aww, congrats to you friend. Oooo you got the Fill-in Boyfriend! I can’t wait to read that.
Thanks Christy! It was so much fun to go and celebrate with everyone.
Amazing haul. Now if you can only tell me how you managed to get these guys to send you all these books, that’d be great. 😀 Happy reading!
Lots and lots of reviews over many years. haha I think I am close to 750 reviews on my blog now.
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You got lots of great books! I want to read the fill-in boyfriend so bad!
Fill in boyfriend looks really cute. I think I am reading it next week.
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Wow, look at all those gorgeous books! I literally want to read every single one of them. O.o Especially Crimson Bound, though–even I’m yet to read Cruel Beauty, this one looks fantastic. 🙂
I haven’t read Cruel Beauty yet either. I won it in a giveaway last year but it got lost in the mail and I never got it 🙁 But they are different fairy tales so I think it should be fine to read Crimson Bound first.
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I really want to read The Fill In Boyfriend. Looks like you got a lot of great stuff this week. Happy reading!
Fill in boyfriend looks super cute. I can’t wait to read it either.
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Here’s a question: Did you actually email the publisher for the physical arcs (Specifically Illusionarium/Crimson Bound)? I’ve been wondering how people get those; I use Netgalley of course, but the physical ARC is a mystery to me.
The wine passport sounds fun! They have something like that at Disney World at EPCOT (more of a pub crawl lol) and in each country you buy a drink and they’ll sign your passport. It’d be pretty fun to get traditional drinks from each country!
I think Harper Collins books are on Edelwise so if you are looking for ebooks, I don’t think Netgalley is the way to go there. But I have a few publishers that I work with over the years at Harper and they send me books. But yea, an email is a good way to go.
Introduce yourself and your blog. Give them some of your stats and write down the books that you would like to read and review. (include your address too)
Here is the link for their publicity contacts
http://corporate.harpercollins.com/us/media/publicity-contacts
Oh, goodness! Those are a lot of books. Crimson Bound, The Murder Complex and Illusionarium are the books I badly want to read too. Hope you enjoy them!
The Dreamer looks amazing!