Book Haul | January 2016
My January ended up being a fanstastico month. I sacrificed enough pizzas and saved enough
petrol to be able my swipe my card to buy eleven books this month. Five out of
eleven reached me before 31st January, while the rest are still in
transit. Pushing away the remaining six books to the February haul, let’s dive
in to check the books I got in the first month of 2016 -------
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| One is missing. I lent it out. |
1. Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick
Riordan
“My day started out normally enough. I was sleeping under a bridge when some guy kicked me awake and said, ‘They’re after you.’ Next thing I know, I’m reunited with my obnoxious uncle, who casually informs me that my long lost father is a Norse god.”
That part of the blurb was enough to make me pick up
Magnus Chase. Besides, it is from Rick Riordan, the writer of so many awesome
fantasy books. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is one of my all time
favourites. Magnus Chase and the sword of Summer is the first book in an all new
series called Gods of Asgard. Rick is fusing modern day with Norse mythology in
this series and I think it very nice. I read this one as soon as I received it.
Discovering Norse myths out of the marvel movies was such a new experience. I
can’t wait till autumn this year because that is when the next book is
scheduled to come out. {Check my review of the book here)
2. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell had impressed me a lot with Eleanor
and Park which I read almost a year ago. But for some reason I didn’t pick up
any of her other books. In the last few months of 2015, she was all over the
Internet with her newest release, Carry On. I liked the cover of Carry On and I
wanted to have a taste of Rainbow Rowell once again, so I order this book as
soon as I got my pocket money. Carry On is a fantasy book and I have heard so
many good things about this one. It has got magic, vampires, mysteries. I plan
to read this soon.
3. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The catch in getting Carry On was that I had to buy
Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl too. The characters of Carry On are based out of a
fictional story inside the plot of Fangirl. While it is not necessary to read
Fangirl to read Carry On, a major amount of bookworms recommends that you
should read Fangirl first. I read Fangirl this week and enjoyed it a lot. I shall post a review soon.
4. Our impossible love by Durjoy Datta
I always pre-order any book that Durjoy Datta
releases. His new book was launched this month and even though I have no idea
what it is about, I can safely guess it will be filled with peppy romance. I am
saving this book to read in long distance bus or train journeys.
5. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass
Now this one is a book I discovered somewhere around
November. A quick Google search took me to the fandom surrounding this book or
the series that goes by the same name. I ended up reading a lot of good reviews
of this series and it created a slot for itself in my to-buy-books list. I had
enough cash this month to order the first two books of the series. The first
book is here, adding decor to my shelf while the other is still in transit. I
will start this series as soon as I finish collecting the third and the fourth
instalments of the series.
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