Books of the Month (5): Part 1

Books of the Month is where I share books I got In My Mailbox, read, and reviewed during the entire month. This month I've added a new category: Shared from My Shelves. This includes books that I've loaned to my friends and other readers. Variations of these types of posts exist on many blogs so I am not claiming credit for this idea.

Books of December

Purchased

On Writing by Stephen King
Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar
Kissing Tennessee by Kathi Appelt
Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready
The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode
Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl
With or Without You by Brian Farrey
King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
Derby Girl by Shauna Cross
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Thou Shalt Not Road Trip by Antony John
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst    

The Stone Girl by Alyssa S. Sheinmel (ARC)
(Random Buzzers/BuzzBucks)

From the Library
What Boys Really Want by Pete Hautman
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (audiobook)

Won
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
from YA Romantics
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
from For What It's Worth
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo (ARC)
from RandomBuzzers

For Review/Blog Tour/Promotion

And By The Way ... by Denise Deegan
And For Your Information... by Denise Deegan 
And Actually... by Denise Deegan 
Alchemystic by Anton Strout 
Tag by Aimee Doneyhue

Gifted

 Blubber by Judy Blume
If I Lie by Corrine Jackson
Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
 bookmark, post-its, magnet
The Strand button, pin, pen, and tote, and holiday mix cd  

from Estelle at Rather Be Reading

The Broke and the Bookish Secret Santa Swap

I'm not even going to lie, I teared up a little bit when I opened this package.

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Shared from My Shelves

(books borrowed by friends)

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
Dead to You by Lisa McMann
Easy by Tammara Webber 

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Many thank yous go to bloggers Estelle, Jen, Jamie, and Karen, Random House/Random Buzzers, Penguin, Comfort Publishing, Hachette Books Ireland and Green Valley Book Fair for making this one of the biggest and best months of books yet.