October ’19 book haul

Good afternoon bookworms!

Book haul categories are as follows:

• book boxes
• book purchases (book mail, instore and digital)
• review copies (book mail and digital), and
• bookish items (book related, but not actual books).

I subscribe to three monthly boxes: OwlCrate, FairyLoot and the book-only subscription for LitJoy. Here is what arrived in October:

• FairyLoot’s September theme was Witches be Crazy, and the book was Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
• LitJoy’s September theme was Haunted Manor, and the book was A Treason of Thorns by Laura E. Weymouth
• FairyLoot’s October theme was Love at First Bite, and the book was The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh
• LitJoy’s October theme was Fallen Angel, and the book was Angel Mage by Garth Nix

I skipped my OwlCrate for October, but the theme was Dawn of a New World, and the books (yes, two) were Criers War by Nina Varela and I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi.

*cries because I don’t have enough time to read all of them…*

Book	Author	Series	Release year	Genre	Age group	Read?	Cover
Wayward Son (Waterstones edition)	Rainbow Rowell	Simon Snow #2	2019	Fantasy	YA	✅
Finale	Stephanie Garber	Caraval #3	2019	Fantasy	YA
Carry On (signed and personalised)	Rainbow Rowell	Simon Snow #1	2015	Fantasy	YA	✅
Wayward Son (signed and personalised)	Rainbow Rowell	Simon Snow #2	2019	Fantasy	YA	✅
Into the Crooked Place	Alexandra Christo	Into the Crooked Place #1	2019	Fantasy	YA
Bloom	Kevin Panetta		2019	Contemporary / Graphic novel	YA
Ninth House (Waterstones edition)	Leigh Bardugo	Alex Stern #1	2019	Fantasy	Adult
The Indigo Spell	Richelle Mead	Bloodlines #3	2013	Fantasy	YA	✅
The Fiery Heart	Richelle Mead	Bloodlines #4	2013	Fantasy	YA	✅
Silver Shadows	Richelle Mead	Bloodlines #5	2014	Fantasy	YA	✅
The Ruby Circle	Richelle Mead	Bloodlines #6	2015	Fantasy	YA	✅
Loki: Where Mischief Lies	Mackenzi Lee		2019	Fantasy	YA
Pumpkinheads	Rainbow Rowell		2019	Fantasy? / Graphic Novel	YA
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling	Wai Chim		2019	Contemporary	YA

This month’s superstar is a tied effort between Rainbow Rowell and Richelle Mead at 4 books each. Rainbow wins though because her books were signed and personalised and it makes my little heart so happy!!

This is still good…ish?!

Key: ? physical book | ? ebook

Book	Author	Series	Publish date	Genre	Age group	Read?	From? / Format	Cover
The Wind in the Wall	Sally Gardner		26 Sept	Fantasy	Childrens		? Allen and Unwin
The Night Fire	Michael Connelly	Harry Bosch #22	21 Oct	Thriller? Crime?	Adult	?	? Allen and Unwin
Make Your Move	Laura Heffernan	Gamer Girls #3	17 Dec	Romance	Adult	✅	? Netgalley

So… I’m not sure what’s going on with Allen and Unwin. I haven’t received a single book that I have requested since July, but I have been consistently sent crime/thrillers (which I have emailed them three times about because I don’t read them) and now children’s books. I have just sent in my requests for March, but honestly I’m not feeling too hopeful any more.

If anyone has read the first 21 books in the Harry Bosch series, please hit me up and I will send this one on – postage paid by me, open international.

So I know I said that I would share photos of ALL my pins… but it turns out that there’s an awful lot of them. Also, I’m expecting 5 more to arrive this month from a certain retailer, so I am sharing all my pins by three retailers today. They are:

• Four Seasons Fox – Sandra is based in France (website, instagram)
• Silke Tara – Silke is in Indonesia (website, instagram)
• Read and Wonder – Kim and Jess are in Australia (website, instagram)

So there’s a good mix of worldwide spread, and I’ve linked the shops and instagram accounts above too. As you can kind of see below (enamel pins are so hard to take photos of!!), there’s a good mix of characters, bookish things, and then just nerdy things. I’ll try and step them out below.

Sandra’s pins are such a lovely mix with some Harry Potter inspired (the Niffler and the Mandrake), plus the seasonal animals (fox with a flower crown – summer, raccoon with a flower crown – spring, and the fox with the berry crown – autumn). There’s also Totoro with a flower crown, a mermaid, a gingerbread fox (my fave Christmas pin ever), and some magical items with peonies (the fox witch, a cauldron, a crystal ball and the magic book).

Silke draws and writes the most amazing comic on her instagram (you can read it all by clicking on the Insignia link in her story highlights) and most of the pins here are her original characters. From left to right it’s: Argoz, Ortia, Kian, Iris, Olivier, and then Cif (my fave) and Esther. On the bottom row are Zelda and Link (Breath of the Wild edition) and a rainbow unicorn cow (just because).

Kim and Jess do some really amazing bookish pins. They have just general bookish items like the reader with the blue hair, the booklovers anonymous and the bookshop pin. They also do quote pins, the two here are Nevernight: You’ve Got Words in Your Soul; and ACOTAR: Be Glad of Your Human Heart. And just the other month they released the Bookish Babes set: Luna, Inej, Aelin, Mia, Jude (which you can bet I’ll be wearing on release day), and Feyre.

Next month I’ll do more pins!