Sunday, October 7, 2012

Added to the Bookshelf - 10/7/12





Sharing the week's bookish news and the books & bookish goodies that I've bought, borrowed, won, or been gifted and have added to my bookshelves over the past week!

(Inspired by Mailbox Monday, IMM, Clock Rewinders and the like)


Notes From Melissa:

So, it's official....I'm married!  
Thank you to everyone who commented or emailed wishing me the best for our wedding on Sunday :) We had a gorgeous day!  Perfect for a garden wedding and the time spent with family and friends, good food and drink, was priceless. 

We don't get the "official" pics back for 1-2 months...but I'll share one that my brother-in-law took:)


For those of you waiting for packages from me--they will be going out this week:)

 October is my favorite month of the year - the weather is perfect and then there's Halloween!  Tomorrow I plan to get my decor from the attic and spookify my house.  Do you guys decorate for Halloween?
If you are planning on any Witchy or Magical reading this season, why not join my Reading Challenge? Just click the button below!


And don't forget to stop back all month for lots of Witchy Goodness and giveaways! Click on the button for more details and links to all the posts and contests!

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Recently on Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf:

Reviews:
Book Review: Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
Witchy Mini Book Reviews: Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz, Destiny by Laura DeLuca, & The Familial Witch by Bri Clark

 Guest Posts:
"The Writing Life", Guest Post & Giveaway with At What Cost author Jessie Anderson
Flight author Alyssa Rose Ivy talks "Summer Romance"
Guest Post & Giveaway with Author Victoria Danann

 Interviews:
A Chat & 4 Giveaways with Misty Provencher for The Keystone Tour

 Promo posts:
Except & Giveaway: The Book of Paul by Richard Long
There are Witches in the Air: Giveaway of A Modern Witch Series with Debora Geary!

 Cover Reveals:
Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Hollywood Holiday by Sasha Summers
Cover Reveal & Giveaway: His Black Wings by Astrid Yrigollen

 Other:
Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge OCTOBER Review Link Up
Fraterfest Read-A-Thon #Fraterfest

What I Read Last Week:

I've been crazy busy this past two weeks but I did manage to read three witchy books.  I finished:
  • The Witches of East End - Melissa de la Cruz (Review Here)
  • Pies and Prejudice - Ellery Adams 
  • The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe

What I Am Reading Today:

  • Gone Girl  - Gillian Flynn
  • Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1) - 

Ongoing Giveaways:

There are Witches in the Air
CLICK TO SEE ALL THE EVENTS & GIVEAWAYS!!

FLIGHT (10/16 US/INT)
THOUGHT I KNEW YOU Swag, $20 GC, $10 GC (10/11 US/INT)
Signed HIS BLACK WINGS, Tote & Swag (11/1 INT)
AN AUTUMN DANCE, $10 GC & Swag (10/31 INT)
KINDLE FIRE HD (11/30 INT)

Added to the Bookshelf This Week:



From the wonderful authors Victoria Lamb and Maxine Mansfield, personalized copies of:

Witchstruck  - Victoria Lamb
The Queen's Secret  - Victoria Lamb
Touched by Magic  - Maxine Mansfield

Victoria Lamb will also be stopping by later in the month as part of my "There are Witches in the Air" Event and she'll have a great giveaway!


For a blog tour that I am participating in:

Mrs B's Guide to Household Witchery  - Kris Bradley
(Super cool fact: I just found out that Kris Bradley lives less than 5 minutes away from me!)



 Authors Kimberly Kinrade and Misty Provencher sent lots of cool signed swag. I'll be tossing lots of these goodies in with my giveaways.  And I won an awesome bookmark from Sharon Cameron during her The Dark Unwinding Tour. I loved the book - See my review here.
I also added the following e-books/audiobooks to my bookshelf:

All the Broken Pieces  - Cindi Madsen
The Night Strangers  - Chris Bohjalian


That's all for me for the past 2 weeks! 
What new goodies have arrived on your doorstep?
Leave me a link in the comments and I'll come check out your post!



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61 comments:

  1. Congrats on all of the new books and more importantly your recent marriage! Happy reading! ^.^ If you would like to check out my Stacking The Shelves you can do so here. :)

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  2. Wow, lots of witchy goodness! And I'm loving your wedding pic - stunning location! xx

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  3. You got married? Congrats :)

    And it seems to be another good week for you

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  4. Congratulations!! You're a MRS!!! You guys look beautiful! How many times did you guys get yelled at to take off your glasses for pics, though? ha, ha!! What a gorgeous day, too! Are you still floating or more relieved? I LOVE hearing about weddings b/c for us old married folk, we get to relive our day. Seriously, many congrats!!

    I love witches! Sometimes I feel like the only one :) I'll make sure to come visit more this month!! Have a great week!!!

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  5. Great wedding picture. I am glad you had nice weather. Your book haul looks great.

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  6. OMG darling wow! I love it. Beautiful dress. Gorgeous setting. Wow. Yayyyyy! So I take it the weather held up? Thank you so much for sharing. I love it and really do hope to see more. FAB FAB!

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  7. Ooh wow congrats! And you're beautiful! I love wedding pictures!!

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  8. Congrats on getting married. You look beautiful in your wedding dress. Have a wonderful honeymoon.

    Grace

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  9. Sounds like you had a great week, and I'm so happy the wedding went well. You were a beautiful bride!

    I too love October and Halloween. My husband and I haven't been collecting Halloween decorations much yet, but this year I've really been in the mood to decorate for Halloween. Good luck getting your stuff out!

    All of the Broken Pieces is definitely catching my eye, and I just requested Magisterium from NetGalley. I definitely need to read more witchy books, it's been a while. I would have joined in There Are Witches in the Air, but I just don't have enough witch related books on hand to justify it.

    Check out my IMM & SP.

    Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know

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  10. Awe you guys look wonderful, your BIL takes a great pic. Have fun decorating for fall, and be sure and read and enter challenges today! I really like Chris Bohjalian and hope you enjoy his book. The Sunday Post

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  11. Aww ... congrats on the wedding!!! You look beautiful! And geesh -- you read 3 books during the week before your wedding? That's awesome!

    So many great magic books this week! Hope you like them all! :)

    Have a good week!

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  12. congratulations on your wedding! You look beautiful in your wedding picture!! Thanks for stopping by my Sunday Post this week :) Book Savvy Babe

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  13. You are a beautiful bride! Sounds like the wedding was perfect. Congratulations!!

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  14. Congratulations on your wedding! Great book haul by the way - I've never heard of any, but looking at the covers, I think I'll put Witchstruck on my TBR!
    Thanks for stopping by earlier!
    Katie @ Fiction Predictions

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  15. Congratulations on your wedding! You look gorgeous :)

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  16. Congratulation on your wedding! You were gorgeous as well as your dress!! ^^

    I wanted to partecipate too in the Mrs B's Guide to Household Witchery but I hadn't time, still I think it is a great and funny book!
    Never heard of the remaining books but Happy Reading! Hope you'll like them!

    Thank you for stopping by!
    Sara @ Sara In Bookland

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  17. CONGRATS!!!!! You're stunning! Heh.

    Oooh, and signed books are always the best! And swag, mmmm!! Happy reading, hope you enjoy all of your goodies and congrats again :)


    Here's my this week's IMM.

    Siiri

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  18. Congratulations! You look stunning! And the setting for the picture looks beautiful!
    So cool that author lives right by you! I love when that happens. :)

    It looks like you got some good books this week. I'm gonna go check out the Victoria and Maxine books, I'm curious about them.

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  19. What a beautiful wedding picture! I really love your dress, it's gorgeous! Congrats to you and hubs :)

    Oh, I have been wanting to pick up Beautiful Creatures for ages, lol! And now with that movie trailer, it has really piqued my interest!
    And for some odd reason, I couldn't finish Witches of East End - I'm think I wasn't in the mood for an adult book, but I can't believe it, lol!

    Enjoy your new reads! I look forward to seeing what you think of Gone Girl too ;)

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  20. Congratulations on your wedding! You look beautiful! :-)

    I loved The Queen's Secret - so will be stopping by for Victoria Lamb's visit later this week! :-)

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  21. Congratulations on your wedding! I hope everything went smoothly.

    A wedding and a busy week at the blog, how do you do it?

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  22. Congratulations on getting married! That photo is lovely and you look beautiful!

    Love your three personalised books! So lucky! Also I love halloween so I hope you have fun decorating the house! :)

    Thanks for stopping by my blog!
    Becca @ Lost in Thought

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  23. Congratulations. The picture is beautiful.

    Great haul. Enjoy your week ahead.

    Thank you for stopping by
    Jenea @ Books Live Forever

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  24. Ahh you look lovely. So many good witch books. I would seriously join your challenge but I am only reading two witch books in October for Something Wicked. I love the look of the book with the black cat, I will be watching for that tour! Have a great week!

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  25. Congrats! I love your dress and you look so pretty! I agree that Oct is awesome. I'm doing a Halloween event too. Broken Pieces looks interesting. The covers really cool to look at. My STS/Sunday Post

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  26. Congrats on getting married! Your dress is so pretty! The Three Lost Kids sounds like fun.

    Have a great week!
    Alison at The Cheap Reader

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  27. Congrats on your wedding day :) Great book haul too! I enjoyed Witchstruck hope you enjoy it and your other new books :)

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  28. Congratulations! Beautiful photo. I love October too.

    Great book haul, as usual.

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  29. I really enjoyed Cindi Madsen's Demons of the Sun so I can't wait to try All the Broken Pieces. Those Victoria Lam books sound interesting too! I hope you enjoy them. :)

    Congratulations on getting married! :)

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  30. Congrats on your wedding!! You look BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!

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  31. Congratulations on your marriage...many happy years together. Very nice photo.

    Enjoy your books.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/10/mailbox-monday-1082012.html

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  32. Hi

    New follower here! Congrats on your marriage. You looked beautiful :) Loved your dress! You got some great books over the last few weeks. I love witchy books as well!

    Happy Reading!

    My IMM: http://readingawaythedays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/imm-weekly-update.html

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  33. Congrats on your wedding! Lovely picture :). I'm not reading anything witchy right now but I always loved the Sweep series as a teen. Here's Ours

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  34. Great haul this week. And I believe a huge congratulations is in order :)
    Book Sniffers Anonymous

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  35. Love the wedding photo..beautiful!!

    All the books you added look wonderful!

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  36. Congratulations on your marriage! The picture you shared is lovely. I really hope you enjoy all your books this week. Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

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  37. Congrats on your marriage! I wish you both great happiness.

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  38. Congratulations on your wedding! The picture is grand. Looks like you had a busy week and are ready for spooky things in October. Have a great week.

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  39. Congratulations!! I'm glad you had a wonderful time and I wish you both the best!

    Happy reading and thank you for stopping by!

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  40. You look gorgeous. Many congratulations and wishing love and happiness always!

    <3, Nikki

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  41. Congrats on your wedding! Thanks for sharing the good news. Enjoy your new books and happy spooky reading :)

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  42. I've seen All the Broken Pieces on so many blogs! The cover is gorgeous! Thank you for stopping by at my blog earlier. You have a lovely blog. :)

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  43. Congratulations on your wedding! I think a professional photographer is going to have a hard time beating that photo.

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  44. Congratulations! :)) Lovely picture. ;)

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  45. Awesome looking goodies! And I like Halloween decor, too. Your wedding looks and sounds lovely...a garden event is so romantic.

    Enjoy your week....and here's MY MONDAY MEMES POST

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  46. Some great books for you~ and congrats!! And I love that super cool fact too, how fun!
    Here's my Monday post!

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  47. OH MY GOSH MELISSA CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! Your dress is beautiful, you look happy...:)Married and books, its like heaven right!!

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  48. Wow you've been busy! :) Congrats on getting married!
    Thanks for stopping by.
    Leah @ Uncorked Thoughts

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  49. Congrats in your marriage! You look lovely!

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  50. Much luck and happiness in your marriage, a beautiful photo.

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  52. So many great books that you've added to your shelves this week! Always love signed books and totally making grabby hands at the swag you got! Enjoy all the books you got, and happy reading :)

    MaryAnn
    Chapter by Chapter

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  53. And congratulations on your wedding! You were a beautiful bride. I hope everything went well and that you made many memories <3

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  54. Congratulations! *throws confetti*, it looks like you had a wonderful day!

    And hurrah for signed books!

    Kat @ The Aussie Zombie

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  55. Great book h... What am I saying? Forget that, congratulations on your wedding. You both look lovely.

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  56. What a nice haul you have there! Have a great week reading all those super yummy books!

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  57. CONGRATS! I'm so glad you had good weather on your wedding day too. :) Your look stunning in your photo! Can't wait to see more.

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  58. You've been busy! Congratulations on your wedding!!!

    I have All the Broken Pieces coming up too.

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  59. I'm so excited about All the Broken Pieces. Enjoy all the books!

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  60. Congratulations, Melissa! Your look gorgeous and I'm glad you had a wonderful day :)

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  61. Congratulations!!!!!!!! You look beautiful - and the weather must have been lovely :) I'm so happy for you!

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