Hoi and Merry Christmas! It is time to
unwrap some bookish presents. This is my December haul
I got some books at several blogger events that I went to
last month and I also got a wonderful box of bookish presents from Pan Macmillan
and obviously I'm going to unwrap those first. Here we go this is the pile I have
no idea what’s in here
so let's get started. The Guest
Cat by Takashi Hiraide.
Number two, this is one I already have I don't think mine has blue pages I’m not entirely
sure. This is The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton. I am really really excited to read this.
I'm probably gonna pass this on as a Christmas present to someone else.
This is actually set in Amsterdam, in the
the Golden Age. It's about a girl who has to marry someone and then in their house
they have sort of miniature house.
Recently when I went to Amsterdam actually saw one of these miniature
houses.
So yeah, excited to check this out. This is adorable. The Christmas Truce,
which is actually the same as the little card I got from them. It’s a picture book
about be the truce that happened during
Christmas I guess, or around Christmas during the First World War
and this is the last one. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the
original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
Nice end papers! So it is just a huge, beautiful edition of Alice in Wonderland.
Thank you very much Pan Macmillan for your lovely Christmas presents.
Now I'm gonna continue with all the other books that I got at some blogger
events.
This is mostly going to be YA first of all I have Steve Camden's
Tape and on the cover it says “rewind play I'm here
I always was”. All I know about this is that it is a sort of
time travel-y time warp-y thing it’s signed by the author
and this is from HarperCollins and the book also starts off with a play button
I wonder if it's a little bit like Thirteen Reasons Why but I guess I'll
find out.
Then I have solitaire by Alice Oseman. I was actually on a panel with Alice
a couple months ago
she is a huge lover of Twitter and tumblr, apparently you can follow the
main character of this book
Tory Spring on Tumblr as well which I’ll put in the description.
The back of the book again doesn’t
reveal a lot about what the book is about but does have an epigraph from
Pride and Prejudice and then again part one starts with a quote “Elizabeth Bennett:
do you dance Mister Darcy? Mister Darcy: Not if I can help it.”
Then I also recently went to the Pan Macmillan blogger event and
one of the books I got there
was The Rain by Virginia Bergin
and it says “just one drop will kill you” now I do love my apocalyptic
fiction I haven't read a lot of apocalyptic YA, I have read a lot of dystopian YA.
There's little raindrops
on the letters that you can kinda feel. Its about rain that kills people
and it's about a girl trying to survive in that world and the author
read from the book and I think I'll really enjoying this. Then I also went to
the Walker
blogger brunch both those were on the same day which was really fun
loads of new books that day and the book I have here is I’ll give you the Sun by Jandy
Nelson and it came with a little
pencil and this sort of artist's sketchbook. I think they're gonna do lots of
interesting things with this book this year.
It is about two twins, Jude and Noah and they’re interested in art and drawing and then
something traumatic happens in their life. Let me just
unwrap this. Inside there are lots of sort of
illustrations but also just paint marks and every chapter looks like this
and they also had the person who illustrated this book at the blogger
brunch so we got to listen to her talk about her illustrations. Finally I got a
book to review from
the Netherlands and it is in Dutch. It is called Waar Komt Pindakaas Vandaan?
which means “where does peanut butter come from?”. It is basically a book filled with
Dutch expressions
and words and where it comes from. I will be doing a video about
this in the future because I think you'd really enjoy and I probably have a lot
to learn from this book.
It has 100 questions about different Dutch words. That was my christmas slash
December haul. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that you found
lots and lots of books
under your Christmas tree. Let me know in the comments which books you got for
Christmas and I’ll talk to you guys later.
Doei!