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Jan 2016 Book Haul —
Boxing Day & A New Year
I don’t know why but most of my 95% of the images turned out grainy then the last shots I took for the ARCs looked fine. I have no idea why.
A Darker Shade of Magic Goodness
Victoria Schwab and Tor hosted a contest on Twitter for an ARC of A Gathering of Shadows and the prompt was to snap a photo of your A Darker Shade of Magic copy somewhere in the world. Unfortunately, I didn’t win the grand prize (the ARC) but I did win the AGOS art cards as a runner up! I think they’re the same cards you get from mailing in your pre-order information.
(The ARC of AGOS below is actually Shelly @ Read Sleep Repeat’s copy that she so kindly let me borrow.)
My entry: when you see it…
Boxing Day
Boxing Day is supposed to be like American Black Friday but we have both (although the former is a statutory holiday in Ontario). Either way, sales are usually terrible so…
I also cannot understate how much I was playing with the checkout card to manipulate the sales. If I recall correctly, it was a lot of “do I spend 50 and save $20” or “should I just spend 30 and save 10?” AND IT WAS TOUGH, OKAY?
Anyhow, I have now completed my Jasper Dent trilogy, replaced my previous copy of How It Went Down, hauled 2 MG titles in Rain Reign and The Night Gardener and the other two are titles I thought I might try out. I clearly have limited intents to read them LOL.
That Haul Because of Golden Son
I left 2015 (last haul above) thinking “I am on a book buying ban [in the new year] unless it’s for Abercrombie’s Half A War or Pierce Brown’s Golden Son“. I was doing well on this promise. Then two weeks ago, news came to me that Pierce Brown was having a book signing in Toronto on Feb 18, 2016. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
If you don’t already know, I try my best, if possible, to haul most of my books at a discount. It was $18 CAD on Indigo and that was still much better than cover price. But I waited and hoped that this would be stocked somewhere (e.g. Book Outlet, Abe Books, or somewhere!). There was nothing for days and I was edging closer to wanting to just check out on Indigo.
Last thursday, there were copies stocked and I melted. I also insta checked out for fear that though it said the default 100+, it could have been a glitch (I’ve come across times it said 100+ then hours later it was at like 10). I can confirm that there were still currently 350+ copies when this post goes live.
I IZ DA HAPPY.
The Passenger below was actually purchased in December last month when Indigo stocked their shelves too early but I just didn’t have any time to read it.
Reviewing Goodness
Two are from Goodreads Giveaway, one is from Shelly (mentioned above), and one was by request.
Afterthoughts:
Okay now I will return back to my ban…for the next weeks until Calamity and Morning Star comes out. Aye. :/….
Cheers,
Joey
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thoughts and afterthoughts. 
I have broken my ban for Golden Son (among a couple others for signings) as well but I figured “man I’m meeting Pierce Brown, I may as well get all of his books signed at once” Also, we will be at the same signing! Also also, I think you did pretty well lasting as long as you did!
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Ooooh. Awesome! I’m hoping to put together a meet-up of some sort, ish, thing, which most probably is just a get together post signing for some grub or something (because I imagine everyone wanting to get there early for seats or whatever).
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Ooh, great haul!! I loved I’ll Give You the Sun, and Passenger and Golden Son look so good! Enjoy!!
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I was super excited for Passenger (I even got it early because Indigo stocked it early for some reason idk) but I heard that the first chapter is like…30? 40? pages omgwhy.
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To be fair I think breaking a ban is justified when it comes to Pierce Brown haha. This is definitely an impressive haul and I am very happy to see I’ll Give You the Sun in the mix.
Now because I am oh so eagerly waiting for the release of A Gathering of Shadow I feel like I have to ask for a tease to help tie me over. On a scale of 1-10, how is the epic multi-functional coat of Kell’s fairing in the book? 😛 Plus how epic are those art cards!!
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I hope to not let you down when I do my Red Rising/Golden Son binge in the next while.
YO BUT YOU SAW MY REVIEW FOR IT ON GOODREADS — THAT IS HOW I FEEL AND MORE. I CAN TELL YOU MORE. BUT I SHOULDN’T OK.
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Morning Star comes out next month so it’s definitely the ideal moment to binge read the series!
TEASE!! The closer we get to the release date the more impatient I get. At least tell me on a scale of 1-10 how evil is this cliffhanger? Am I going to need tissues?
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Awesome book haul! 🙂
I got Zeroes and Passenger this month as well.
So glad you got all the Jasper Dent books now! I love the hardcovers and when you take the jacket off.
I’ve been so good about staying away from Book Outlet. Well….kind of. I mean I went on there, looked at books, seen a bunch I wanted, but managed to not actually buy them. I did wishlist them, because maybe some will still be around when I allow myself to buy more. HAHA.
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The hardcovers are quite nice under the jacket and what’s even nicer is that my copy of Game came signed LOL. That’s a win in my book.
My cart currently has 19 items last I checked. This is not a good sign…
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Ughh! Signed!! Lucky!
Yikes 19 in your cart! Lol. You need to stay away from Book Outlet too. Haha.
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Oh my gosh those AGOS cards are uber cool. And lol, you wouldn’t believe how much I spent on Book Outlet this month… My January haul will be insane. I think I’ll make it a double month haul with February so that people will think I bought those books in a span of two months instead.
It doesn’t help that Jenna and Savindi has me into magnetic bookmarks now. XD
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No one will judge you for hauling already discounted books…I won’t at least. Everyone seems to love magnetic bookmarks and I’m living in circa 2000 with post-its…
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I put Golden Son in my basket as well!! I’m just waiting till Wednesday and then I’m snatching up 5th Wave, the infinate sea, golden son and maybe 1 or 2 more just to treat myself. But shipping from bookoutlet to Australia is always astronomical! It’s like your books all add up to $50 but your shippings going to be $100 enjoy. 😦
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Wait…have you ordered from BO before? Is it really worth the shipping costs for cheaper books? I mean unless you’re mainly buying hardback adult fantasies…idkkkkk.
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Nah I’ve never done it before. But I think I may do it think time. I’ve worked it out and if you add the shipping price to the price of the books your still getting hard backs for like $14 which is still way cheaper then book depository
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Your AGoS in the world entry is so clever. It took me a while to get it, but nice job!
Good luck with the book buying ban, at least until Feb 9 when Morning Star comes out.
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I should have titled it “when you see it”. I actually called it “london 4 ways” in my tweet cause I thought no one would get it :(!
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I’m on a book-buying ban every week. And every week, I fail. MISERABLY. Le sigh.
Enjoy your loot!
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If only there were a way for me to un-enable you from hauling more books… (actually, there totally is–put me as the mailing address…)
…unless it’s like “The Deal” level stuff then nevermind.
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Oyyyy I know the author of Fell of Dark. Which is unfortunate, because I didn’t exactly have great feelings about that book.
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That’s neat! I picked up Fell the Dark on a whim (actually, that’s not true, I totally hauled it thinking it was another book–willful machines LOL) but the premise sounds fun so I’m not that torn.
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