I was a very good girl at the ALA Conference last week. The only print book I picked up was a signed copy of Laurie R. King’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, and I read that long ago (and more than once). There was an author event at the conference I went to JUST so I could get her to sign a copy of whatever she was handing out.
This doesn’t mean that I didn’t get a few tempting books from NetGalley and Edelweiss, just that I didn’t haul away a bunch of print ARCs from the conference floor. If I’d picked up anything, we’d have had to have bought another suitcase or shipped them. And the line for the on-conference post office was ginormous!
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For Review:
Forged by Desire (London Steampunk #4) by Bec McMaster
Generation 18 (Spook Squad #2) by Keri Arthur
Ghost Layer (Ghost Seer #2) by Robin D. Owens
Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
A Hero for the Empire (Dragon’s Bidding #1) by Christina Westcott
The Hot Zone (Harmony #11) by Jayne Castle
Light Up the Night (Night Stalkers #5) by M.L. Buchman
Maplecroft (Borden Dispatches #1) by Cherie Priest
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Moment of Everything by Shelly King
Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers #1) by Rachel Aaron
Night of a Thousand Stars by Deanna Raybourn
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Sky Pirates (Chronicles of Light and Shadow #3) by Liesel Schwarz
Soulminder by Timothy Zahn
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Purchased:
Heaven’s Queen (Paradox #3) by Rachel Bach
Honor’s Knight (Paradox #2) by Rachel Bach
Summer Rain by Ruthie Knox, Molly O’Keefe, Cecilia Tan, Charlotte Stein, Mary Ann Rivers, Amy Jo Cousins, Audra North, Shari Slade, Alexandra Haughton. Edited by Sarah Frantz.
Borrowed from the Library:
The Devil’s Workshop (Murder Squad #3) by Alex Grecian
Nice haul – I see 7 or 8 there that I’d like to get my hands on.
Here’s how I stacked the shelves.
Maplecroft and ghost layer looks awesome. and I am beyond impressed that you were able to go to ALA and just pick up one book. You have the best self control!!
Happy Reading!
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