New To My Book Closet

It's that time of the week again. Time to show you what bookish goodies made their way into my home and book closet (to be saved from the evil book eating cat monster named Aria). This is inspired by the various "mailbox" posts out there (eg. In My Mailbox by The Story Siren, and Stacking the Shelves by Tynga's Reviews).

I had an awesome book week. I purchased a few books that I am super excited about

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (goodreads)
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater (goodreads)
Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin (goodreads)
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (goodreads)

I enjoyed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn a lot, and cannot wait to read Dark Places. I read Shiver and really enjoyed it, so I grabbed Linger and hope to finish off the trilogy before Sinner comes out. Dance of the Red Death is a replacement for the copy my friend destroyed (said friend is never borrowing a book from me again). Lastly, A Long Way Down is an impulse purchase because I saw the trailer for the movie, and had to read the book.

I also got two review books. A huge thank you to Raincoast Books for these. I've heard good things about both of them.

Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira (goodreads)

The Cellar by Natasha Preston (goodreads)

Happy weekend, and happy reading!

Weekly Obsessions

The awesome Kelly at KellyVision started posting a weekly post highlighting whatever she happened to be obsessed with that week. I LOVE this idea, so much in fact that I will be doing it myself every Saturday.

Here are my obsessions this week.........

BOOKS

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

I was fortunate to have gotten an advance copy of this. I read it, and needless to say LOVED it. It's a dark, twisty take on the Wizard of Oz tale, and it's a well plotted, gripping story. My full review is to come, but this one totally gave me a book hangover.

Cover for Even In Paradise by Chelsey Philpot

This cover is summer wrapped in contemporary goodness. I can't wait to read this. Epic Reads referred to the family in this as Kennedy-esque and obviously, I was sold. The Goodreads synopsis has only increased my need to read this book.

OTHER

Heathers, The Musical

Heathers is one of my favourite 80's movies. It's filled with insanely quotable lines - 'Our love is god, let's go get a slushie' being my personal favourite. The fact that they are turning this into a musical is amazing. Kelly (Kellyvision) and I will be going to see this while in NYC for Book Expo America and I am SO VERY EXCITED! #HowVery

A Long Way Down trailer

AARON PAUL! Enough said. He's adorable in this trailer. Sigh. (yes, okay, I might have a bit of a celebrity crush on him right now). Rosamund Pike and Imogen Potts are both so pretty. Super excited to see Rosamund in this because she'll be Amy in the Gone Girl movie. I just bough this book, and I am hoping to read it before the movie comes out. Yes, I totally bought the book because I want to see the movie (this surprises nobody).

So what are you obsessed with this week?