In My Mailbox # 25

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren , find out more about it on her IMM-page.


Hello and welcome to my IMM. I got a few books this week I'm really excited about and can't wait to read. Please excuse the bad quality of the photos, I only had my phone at hand when it came to taking pictures, that's also why there are so many of them :). All links go as usual to Goodreads.

Chain Reaction - Simone Elkeles. I loved the two previous ones in the serious, looking forward to reading this.

Shut Out - Kody Keplinger. OMG, I'm Kody's biggest fan! Review coming on Monday.

And for Your Information... - Denise Deegan.( A Butterfly Novel, #2 in a series) I loved this one, it made me cry. The butterflies on the cover are cute :)

Soul Beach - Kate Harrison. The Colors! Look at the colors! I want to have this cover as a poster on my wall. It's so gorgeous. Really looking forward to reading this, as I'm a big fan of Kate's adult novels.

Pure Red - Danielle Joseph. Cute little book with lots of color in the story.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - Claudia Carroll. This book was sent to me from Harper Collins. Not really sure why, maybe I won it in a competition somewhere?

Star Struck - Jane Lovering. I love Jane's previous novel, short review here. Can't wait to read this one!

Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts - Claire LaZebnik. I'm currently reading this and l'm loving it so far. I'm a big fan of Claire LaZebnik.

Welcome to my World - Miranda Dickinson. When I was browsing on the bookdepository I saw that this book was really cheap, so I just had to buy it :)

Kindle Books:

Graffiti Moon - Cath Crowley (Netgalley)

The Sweetest Thing - Christina Mandelski (Netgalley)

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

If I Tell - Janet Gurtler (Netgalley)

That's it from me this week, what did you all get?

Happy Reading!

My Best of 2010

Well, I'm late with this, as usual. I had great plans for this post, had it all mapped out in my head, it was going to be awesome. But time got the best of me so this will have to do.

According to my Goodreads account I've read 105 books in 2010 and 14 books that I've started but not finished. As I've joined Goodreads in June I can't be sure that I remembered all the books I read before that and of course, all my rereads and books for my university-studies aren't counted in that number. Anyway, it's still a pretty high number and deciding which books I liked best in 2010 was really hard.

Here are a few of my favourites, without any particular order, the links provided are to my reviews (if there's one)

Lovely Summer Beach Reads ( or warming reads for snowy days...)

You're The One That I Don't Want - Alexandra Potter

Living La Vida Loca - Belinda Jones

About Time - Niamh Shaw

Swimming with Dolphins - Deborah Wright

Katy Carter Wants A Hero - Ruth Saberton

Single in the City - Michele Gorman

The Year of 2010 was also the Year where I discovered contemporary YA

Boys, Bears, and A Serious Pair of Hiking Boots - Abby McDonald

The Duff - Kody Keplinger

Anna and The French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins

Psych Major Syndrome - Alicia Thompson

North of Beautiful - Justina Chen Headley

Going to Far - Jennifer Echols

My Favourite Series

The Iron Fey

The Iron King - Julie Kagawa

The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa

I can't wait for the third, the waiting is excruciating!

Two very heavy hardbacks that are sooo worth the pain in my wrists (from holding them while reading) and back (from carrying them around with me all the time)

Getting Away With It - Julie Cohen

Becoming Scarlett - Ciara Geraghty

Hilariously Funny Books - oh the Joy of reading these books, couldn't stop giggling, perfect!

Hello, Heartbreak - Amy Huberman

A Girl Like You - Gemma Burgess ----(Review to come SOON!)

The Dating Detox - Gemma Burgess

There's Cake in my Future - Kim Gruenenfelder  (Review to come SOON!)

Book recommendations #2

Have you all read The Duff  by Kody Keplinger?

If not, and you like a very very well-written YA-novel with problems, issues and sex ..read it. I read it in one night when I couldn't sleep. It was my saviour. I loved it.
I really recognized myself in it. The self-sabotaging streak we all have, at least I did, I didn't use the same method, but I could relate. But most of all I got sucked into the story by the wonderful writing.

New Books # 16

Hello again, I've been very busy lately and I haven't read a single book this past week. I'll be busy with uni, kitchen and my upcoming internship in the next few weeks as well, but hopefully I'll manage to find more time to read!
Anyway, during the past week I got some really interesting and beautiful books.

 These four books were kindly sent to me by Bookalicious Ramblings , THANK YOU!

The WAGS- series by Anonymous

A Reluctant Cinderella - Alison Bond

The following books I've bought myself. 

The (Im)perfect Girlfriend - Lucy-Anne Holmes

I know I'm a bit late with this one, but I only read the prequel 50 Ways to Find a Lover last week, is has been collecting dust on my shelf since like forever..tsts. It's hilarious, funny and I stayed up late to finish it, so of course I had to order the sequel immediately!

The DUFF (designated ugly fat friend) - Kody Keplinger; The Atlas of Love - Laurie Frankel

Before I Forget - Melissa Hill

This is the start of my catching-up on Melissa Hills books. I read Please Forgive Me recently, (I actually bought it on my desperate book-shopping-day in Switzerland) and was completely blown away...Now I only need to have some free-time to read!!