In My Mailbox #4

Happy Sunday everybody!

This is our fourth post for the amazing weekly feature "In My Mailbox" hosted by the lovely Kristy @ The Story Siren.

But let's cut straight to the chase and see what your two librarians got this week:

Maja’s:

It has been a somewhat slow reading week at my house, and things aren’t looking up, I’m afraid. Nevertheless, I’ve managed to add a few books to my overflowing bookshelves. Here they are:

I’ve received an advanced copy of The Catastrophic History of You and Me from the lovely people at Puffin/Razorbill UK. I’ve only just started it, but I can already tell that it’s incredibly cute and that I’m going to love it. It’s one of those books that make you smile the second you read the first sentence.

The Anathema is the second installment of The Central Series by Zach Rawlins and one of my most anticipated 2012 releases. I’d discovered the first book entirely by accident, loved the synopsis, bought it and read it the very same day. The Anathema was even better than its predecessor and I enjoyed every word. I’ll be posting my review sometime tomorrow so make sure to stop by and read more about it.

I have finally replaced my copy of Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey. Without a doubt one of my all time favorite paranormal YA novels, Cold Kiss has everything it takes to make me happy as a reader. If for whatever reason you still haven’t read this book, please step away from your computer and do so immediately.

Oh, and before I forget: as for my little Name My Kindle impromptu contest from two weeks ago, I finally decided to name him Ferguson, and the paperback of choice went to the lovely Bonnie @ Sweet Tidbits, who chose to receive the beautiful Walker Books UK edition of one of my all-time favorites, The Sky Is Everywhere.

And that’s it. Love you, guys (well, mostly ladies) and see you next week. :)

Lisa's:

I haven’t written a single review this week *sigh*.

What with the new job occupying a good part of my time and of my synapses, I just couldn’t put a sentence together.

On the bright side though, this doesn’t mean that I haven’t managed to read or hoard new books! Here’s what the mailman dropped in my mailbox: after getting Cracked up to Be by Courtney Summers in my IMM a few weeks ago, this week I got her new book, This is Not a Test, who should also be right up Maja’s alley since it’s about zombies.

Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder is also a book I’ve been checking out for a while now, so I’m happy I got a chance to finally read it.

Genesis by Bernard Beckett was sent to me by Ms. Flannery from The Readventurer and it’s my award for participating and winning one her lovely contests (which we all hope she will organize soon again!)

Finally, following Maja’s recent enthusiasm for John Green (she read The Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska), my awesome book-partner decided I should also own Green’s other works: An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. I WILL NOT READ ANY REVIEWS FOR THESE BOOKS.

This is very sad, but I never got around to finishing Looking for Alaska because I accidentally read a major spoiler of someone’s review which totally ruined it for me... I’ll get back to it but ladies, please remember! Try to write spoiler-free reviews...Aaaand we’re done for the week. Now, after showing all the bounty, let’s get down to actually doing what we most love to do: READING!

Love to ya all,

Lisa and Maja