In My Mailbox/Stacking the Shelves BEA Edition

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BEA was a giant success again this year.  I came home with a ton of great books and met a bunch of amazing bloggers and authors.  Here's my list of books that I got.  Titles in blue are signed.

The Boy on the Porch - Sharon Creech

Jessica Darlings It List #1 - Megan McCafferty

Treasure Hunters - James Patterson

The Odd Squad: Zero Tolerance - Michael Fry

Spirit Animals: Wild Born - Brandon Mull

Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

The Twins - Saskia Sarginson

A Midsummer Night's Scream - RL Stine

The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert

The Book of Someday - Dianne Dixon 

Super Pop! - Daniel Harmon

United We Spy (excerpt)- Ally Carter

Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas

Living With Jackie Chan - Jo Knowles

These Broken Stars - Megan Spooner & Amie Kaufman

Unfed - Kirsty McKay

How to Love - Katie Cotugno

Roomies - Sarah Zarr & Tara Altebrando

Tumble & Fall - Alexandra Coutts

Starry Nights - Daisy Whitney

Dare Me - Eric Devine

Just Like Fate - Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young

The Enchanter Heir - Cinda Williams Chima

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black

Awaken - Meg Cabot

All the Truth That's in Me - Julie Berry

Hostage Three - Nick Lake

Six Months Later - Natalie Richards

Pretenders - Lisi Harrison

Riptide - Lindsey Scheibe

Splintered - AG Howard

You Look Different in Real Life - Jennifer Castle

Cherry Money Baby - John M. Cusick

Carved in Darkness - Megan Beaumont

Hypnotize Me - Gordon Korman

Fortunately the Milk - Neil Gaiman

How to Catch a Bogle - Catherine Jinks

Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective - Octavia Spencer

"The President Has Been Shot!" - James L. Swanson

Hit the Road, Helen! - Kate McMullen

The Wolf Princess - Cathryn Constable

Fallout - Todd Strasser

Ghost Hawk - Susan Cooper

Heaven is Paved with Oreos - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Dogs of Christmas - W. Bruce Cameron

When They Were Boys - Larry Kane

Vicious - VE Schwab

The Funeral Planner Goes to Washington - Lynn Isenberg

The Witch of Little Italy - Suzanne Palmieri

The Returned - Jason Mott

Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell

The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Tandem - Anna Jarzab

Wild Cards - Simone Elkeles

Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein

Unwholly - Neil Shusterman

This Song Will Save Your Life - Leila Sales

Camp Kiss - JK Rock

Divergent - Veronica Roth

Game On - Melanie Spring

If I Ever Get Out of Here - Eric L. Gansworth

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black

When Did You See Her Last - Lemony Snicket

Zombie Baseball Beatdown - Paolo Bacigalupi

Broken - Elizabeth Pulford

The Long Way Home - Ann M. Martin

The Fantastic Family Whipple - Matthew Ward

Waking Up Married - Mira Lyn Kelly

Charming - Elliott James

Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver

Happy This Year - Will Bowen

Never Fade - Alexandra Bracken

Shadowlark - Megan Spooner

Hereafter - Kate Brian

The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Hero - Alethea Kontis

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau

The Waking Dark - Robin Wasserman

The Darkest Path - Jeff Hirsch

Gorgeous - Paul Rudnick

The Boy on the Bridge - Natalie Standiford

Blaze - Laurie Boyle Crompton

Unbreakable - Kami Garcia

Not pictured: Reality Boy - AS King

(I was reading it and totally forgot to put it in one of these pictures.)

I can't believe I came away with so many awesome books!  And here's some of the very cool things that happened and authors I met or saw.

I had an absolute blast at BEA this year and am totally looking forward to next year.  I've already jumped into my giant stack of books and started reading, which is quite a feat for me.  I hope everyone had as amazing a time as I had!

BEA-induced hiatus

Just wanted to pop on here and let you guys know that I'm going to take a little blogging break and blame it on BEA.  It's one of the MANY things I have going on this week (I'm also seeing Fall Out Boy tomorrow, woo!)  I should be back next week with some BEA inspired posts.  I hope everyone that's going has an awesome time.  I'll see you there!

BEA in pictures

We actually got the last four tickets to meet Molly Ringwald which was awesome because, hello, it's Molly effing Ringwald.

The Children's Book and Author Breakfast was amazing.  All the speeches were so great.  I think John Green's was my favorite though - about how books don't need to be messed with to compete with the new technologies (and Angry Birds).  That books engage the reader in a different way than the other entertainment mediums and we shouldn't be trying to emulate those because books already do the job they're meant to and they do it well.  He really hit some points that are exactly what I think about technology and reading and it was awesome to hear from someone else.

Sarah Maas (Throne of Glass) who is probably the nicest person ever.  I ran into her a few times that week and she was just so awesome.  I'm so glad I got to her signing early because the line was unbelievably long!

Maureen Johnson.  In the next line I waited in after this I started reading The Name of the Star and I didn't want to put it down.

Libba Bray.  Talk about a long freaking line.  It was so worth it though, she was awesome!

Oh, this?  This is my new best friend HOLLY FREAKING BLACK.  There was a super secret (I mean, I'm pretty sure it wasn't actually super secret, but it felt like it) Holly Black signing with Ellen Kushner for Welcome to Bordertown.  By the time we got there they were out of books, but we did not care at all.  My goal was to tell Holly Black how much I love The Curseworkers series.  Mission accomplished.  Also, we took this awesome picture.  So yeah, life made.

Alexandra Bracken, whose tumblr I've followed for over a year now (and I told her so when I met her).  I really like her and I've been dying to read The Darkest Minds since she announced it.

Siobhan Vivian & Jenny Han.  Very awesome ladies who gave me sunblock.  Apparently Siobhan Vivian is from very near where I am from, that was cool to find out.

Kirstie Alley, whose line we found by accident and hopped on.  She was super nice and I told her I loved her on Dancing with the Stars.

One of my favorite signings that I didn't get a picture of was Diana Peterfreund.  I finally got to tell her how much I love the Secret Society Girl series and that I have re-read it every summer since 2007.

To sum it up, BEA was exhausting and amazing.  I met some amazing authors and bloggers (I met Anna from Anna Reads and Katherine from The Lady Critic's Library, both of them awesome.  I've followed their blogs for a while now and it was very cool to meet them in person.)  I'm so glad I had the chance to go, and I'm very much looking forward to going again next year.

In My Mailbox: BEA edition!

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Warning: this is going to be a giant post.  I went to BEA last week and had the best time ever.  I love being surrounded by book people.  I met some awesome authors and bloggers and got a crap ton of books.  I had my sister as a guide and no idea what I was getting into.  It was really an overwhelming experience, but I loved it and I can't wait to go back next year!  So, I'm going to break down this IMM by day.

Day One (Tuesday):

City's Son - Tom Pollock (signed!)

The Spindlers - Lauren Oliver (signed!)

Level 2 - Lenore Appelhans(signed!)

Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys (signed!)

Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys

Black City - Elizabeth Richards

Time Between Us - Tamara Ireland Stone

The Diviners - Libba Bray

Partials - Dan Wells (signed!)

Sun of Apollo - Darab Lawyer

The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken

Confessions of a Murder Suspect - James Patterson

When It Happens To You - Molly Ringwald (signed!)

Feedback - Robison Wells

Glass Heart - Amy Garvey

Because It Is My Blood - Gabrielle Zevin (signed!)

Beta - Rachel Cohn

What's Left of Me - Kat Zhang (signed!)

Rules of Civility - Amor Towles (signed!)

Jepp Who Defied the Stars - Katherine Marsh

The brown case is a Lemony Snickett thing they gave away.  It has an advance chapter of the next book, a calendar, some soap, a pen...very awesome stuff.

Day Two (Wednesday):

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

Princess Academy, Palace of Stone - Shannon Hale

The Butterfly Clues - Kate Ellison (signed!)

The Future We Left Behind - Mike A. Lancaster

The Demon Catchers of Milan - Kat Beyer

Chanel Bonfire - Wendy Lawless

I Funny - James Patterson

The Immortal Rules - Julie Kagawa (signed!)

Shadows - Ilsa J. Bick

Beta - Rachel Cohn (signed!)

Lone Bean - Chudney Ross (signed!)

A Mutiny in Time - James Dashner (signed!)

The Diviners - Libba Bray (signed!)

Every Day - David Levithan

Throne of Glass - Sarah Maas (signed!)

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (signed!)

For Darkness Shows the Stars - Diana Peterfreund (signed!)

Falling Kingdoms - Morgan Rhodes

Bootlicker - Steve Piacente (signed!)

In a Glass Grimmly - Adam Gidwitz

The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson (signed!)

The Daughter of Smoke and Bone (with a Days of Blood and Starlight preview!)- Laini Taylor

Altered - Jennifer Rush

Fathomless - Jackson Pierce

The Land of Stories - Chris Colfer

Day Three (Thursday):

Gold - Chris Cleave

Every Day - David Levithan (signed!)

Starry River of the Sky - Grace Lin

Soho Teen Spring 2012 Sampler

Nothing Special - Geoff Herbach

34 Pieces of Us - Carmen Rodriguez (signed!)

The Theory of Everything - J.J. Johnson (signed!)

Burn for Burn - Sioban Vivian & Jenny Han (signed!)

Ferocity Summer - Alissa Grasso (signed!)

The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken (signed!)

Entice - Jessica Shirvington

Skylark - Meagan Spooner (signed!)

Fathomless - Jackson Pierce (signed!)

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

The Hollow City - Dan Wells

The Curiosities - Maggie Steifvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff (signed!)

So, yeah, I had a busy week.  Oh!  And then only one day after Book Expo what do I get in the mail but ANOTHER BOOK!

Seraphina - Rachel Hartman

I really have to thank all the publishers and everyone involved in Book Expo for such a great time and all these great books that I got last week.