Follow Friday #1 and In My Mailbox #1

Alright! Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee and is a way for book bloggers to get to know each other better. Just go to her page and follow the directions, and you'll be making some new friends! This week's blogger is Marla @ Starting The Next Chapter.


This week's question...

Q. Keeping with the dystopian and apocalypse theme that seems to be running rampant on parajunkee.com, I have one very hard question for you: If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?

A: Had to go to my shelf and think about this for a minute. Here's my ten:

1. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
2. Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
3. Waiting For You by Susane Colasanti
4. Anne Of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
5. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
6. And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
7. The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols
8. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
9. Summer In The City by Elizabeth Chandler
10. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher


To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers -Starting The Next Chapter
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don't just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don't say "HI"
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you're new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!




In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.

It's where we post about the latest books we've purchased, gotten from the library, or received for review... it doesn't necessarily have to be ones you got in the mail. Although a lot of mine DO come from my mailbox. :)

I got several books this week. Ended up placing a couple Amazon orders due to their wonderful 4 for 3 deal AND bargain books. Also saw a really expensive book almost half price online. Can't pass those deals up.

So, what did I get?

Wings and Spells by Aprilynne Pike, Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick, I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder, Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Faria Stolarz, Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver, AND from a private seller on Amazon, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume One. I used to have the last one, but sold it when I thought I was over the whole Twilight thing. Apparently not. But then again, the pictures in there are pretty amazing.


And this one.

E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

1136 pages of awesome.

E.E. Cummings is my favorite poet. The first poem I read by him was "If everything happens that can't be done" and I actually memorized it at one point, I love it so much. I was planning on buying all this books separately, since I already had an earlier edition in my book collection. Somehow it seemed easier to just get the complete works all at once instead of spending all the time trying to find every single book. This book will take me forever to finish.



That's it for today!

~Jessica