Indulgence Insider is our version of Stacking the Shelves, Bought, Borrowed & Bagged and the Sunday Post, bringing you this week’s haul, bookish news and discussion posts from around the blogosphere!
Hello again peeps, here’s another Indulgence Insider, albeit a lazy version because these posts take forever to do and I’ve been busy with family and work.
May Wrap Up Video
I talk about the 12 books I read last month including raves about The Colours of Madeleine series, and my disappointment with ACOMAF and The Winner’s Kiss! Check it out below:
OZYAY May ABC Radio Podcast – Summer Skin & A Tangle of Gold
This month’s podcast had a pretty heated discussion about feminism and the themes of sex shaming and aggression in Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar! It felt really topical given what’s in the news at the moment and it was great having this discussion. Check it out below!
You can catch up on past episodes here.
Next time on OzYay: We’re talking about One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn and Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison at 7pm AEST 3 July 2016! Tune in on your local ABC radio station, ABC radio app or via https://radio.abc.net.au/.
Book Haul
I’ve been hauling way too many books lately and the publishers seem to be releasing lots of good books!
Review Copies
Forgetting Foster by Dianne Touchell
Sophie Someone by Hayley Long
Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr – I’m participating in the blog tour for this soon
With Malice by Eileen Cook
Stiletto by Daniel O’ Malley – Has anyone read Rook?
Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima
Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt
Thanks to Bloomsbury Australia, Allen & Unwin, Hot Key Books and HarperCollins Australia for these review copies!
Bought
Threader by Rebekah Turner – I’m going to the launch party next week because the author is a local, yay!
Frayed by Kara Terzis – I’m excited because Kara is an Aussie blogger from Diary of a Teen Writer who I’ve followed for a long time! Buy this YA thriller here!
The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler – This is one of Siiri’s favourite books, so naturally it has to be mine as well.
Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine – Phantom of the Opera retelling set in China, enough said.
How was your bookish week?
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Of Metal & Wishes cover looks fab, I seriously hope that the layer on the right can be lifted up..
Sounds like you had a fab month! 😀
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Ah, on the right it's just 2 notebooks!
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*Sigh* I have a few of these, but haven't read any of them 🙁 I hope you have much better luck than I did! Happy reading 😉
Thanks Liza! I read a few already but no favourites yet. I hope you are having a good week!
Thank you Lauren! Lots of great books here!
Fantastic haul. I love your vlogs. I am so not brave enough..LOL I still need to read Of Metal and Wishes. I look forward to your take on it. Stay cool and happy reading!!
Thank you so much Kimba! I\’ve heard great things about the book, looking forward to it.
Oooh such good books! I'm really excited for Forgetting Foster 🙂 Interested to see what you think of The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, too – I didn't like it but it seems to be a popular one in the blogosphere.
I can\’t wait to read it – it makes me think, we should buddy read some of these books! A shame about Summer of Chasing Mermaids – what didn\’t you like about it?
OMG YES TO OF METAL AND WISHES AND THE SUMMER OF CHASING MERMAIDS. Both those books are amazing and by amazing authors and I am so glad you bought them!!!!
Dragonfly Song looks beautiful and that title sounds amazing so obviously I need to learn more about it and then add it to my tbr (and cry about more aussie books out of my reach ;))
I hope you have a lovely June and a lovely week and a lovely day, you wonderful human bean <3
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I know you love both of them so I'm excited to pick them up Rashika! I've heard great things about it and I can't wait to share hehe. Thank you lovely, I hope you have a beautiful week too!
I've been hearing a tonne of good things about With Malice so I cannot wait to get my hands on it too. This is such a nice haul. And I recently read Summer Skin too so I'm eager to hear your discussion. I'll have to catch up asap.
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Thanks Rachel, I'm excited that you read Summer Skin! I hope you enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to picking up With Malice as well.
I hope you enjoy Frayed! Let's compare notes when you're done.
Awesome haul and wrap-up as always. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you Braine for the support as always! Yeah I read Frayed but it seemed quite messy.
Looks like you had a fantastic reading month overall despite the disappointing sequels, Jeann! And ooh, I cannot wait to see what you think of The Summer of Chasing Mermaids. I really loved that standalone last summer. 🙂
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Thanks Summer! I've heard great things about Summer of Chasing Mermaids, looking forward to reading it.
I feel like I should be reading Rook. Is it good?
Have a great week, Jeann!
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I haven\’t read it yet actually, so when I was sent this one I was wondering if anyone had read it.
I really want to read Flamecaster… but I feel like I need to finish the first series first. But what a great haul you have Jeann! Lots of fun readings ahead!
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Yeah, I haven\’t read the first series either, hopefully I\’ll be able to enjoy this one! Thank you Jesse! Have a great week.
Great great haul!! I just finished With Malice last week and really enjoyed it. Can't wait to see what you think. Enjoy them all! Have a great week!
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Thank you Grace, I\’ve heard good things about With Malice! I love thrillers, I hope you have a fantastic reading week as well.
Too many books, too little time indeed!! I also have Of Metal & Wishes on my TBR pile and I hope I'll get to it sometime this year!
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Yup, that\’s the usual life of a book blogger. I\’ve wanted to read it for ages!
Oh my gosh, I know right?? There have been *so* many great books out lately… and I've been in a terrible reading slump. On the other hand I've been getting into graphic novels lately–just about to start the Saga series, actually. I've heard wonderful things about it so fingers crossed I'll love it too. (and thank you SO much for all the support with FRAYED–I really, really appreciate it. :))
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Ahhh sorry to hear about the reading slump Kara! I hope you can pick up something that reignites the reading again. Saga is so good, I hope you enjoy it! The first volume was a bit shocking, but it\’s amazing all the same. No problems Kara, happy to support your writing!