Alex Eats Books

Waiting on Wednesday #5

2012-01-12T06:16:00.000Z

Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine) Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce Published June 21st, 2012 by Gollancz (This is Goodreads:) For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good.

Book review: Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

2011-10-23T11:36:00.000+01:00

"This whole thing is symbolic, symbolic of a system that's hopelessly short-sighted." Pg 21 It's the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions. The ensuing journey spans decades and offers a sharp-eyed perspective on a hardscrabble future, as a boy jettisons

Book Trailer Spotlight #3

2011-09-15T06:46:00.002+01:00

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente. Published by Macmillan, May 2011. This book is ridiculously gorgeous with it's illustrations. And the song is rather charming too! (On a side note - I just want to apologise profusely for not updating at all recently! I'm moving interstate this weekend so life has been go go go for the

Maria V. Snyder Giveaway WINNER!!!

2011-08-27T05:11:00.000+01:00

First off I'd like to say a big THANK YOU!!! to those who entered my very first giveaway, I was really pleased with how it worked out and I plan to have many more giveaways in the future! So, using random.org I was able to choose a winner of the signed copy of Inside Out...... And that winner is.......... AMANDA FROM BENTON, KY!! WOOHOO!! Her favourite character is from a series called

Waiting on Wednesday #4

2011-08-23T14:26:00.000+01:00

Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine) The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternPublished September 13th, 2011 by Doubleday(This is GoodReads:) The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique

Maria V. Snyder in Melbourne and a GIVEAWAY!

2011-08-12T05:48:00.001+01:00

On Tuesday the 9th of August in overcast (but not raining!) Melbourne - Hawthorn Readings bookshop played host to the wonderful author of 8 books (so far!) - Maria V. Snyder. It was a very relaxed atmosphere inside - everyone was chatting excitedly as we waited for Maria to make her entrance - comparing book covers, favourite characters and scenes as well as (naturally) talking about the

Book Trailer Spotlight #2

2011-08-09T10:56:00.000+01:00

Todays book trailer is for a picture book that is very dear to me. Quite possibly one of my favourite picture books after Oliver Jeffers 'Lost and Found'.This is: 'It's a Book' by Lane Smith.Published by Macmillan Children's books in August 2010.

Update and what-not

2011-08-06T13:22:00.000+01:00

Hey grand folks of the Internet world - it is I, you're illustrious occasional-blogger *grins* So I thought I'd give a little overview of what I'll be getting up to, book-wise, over the next month! Tomorrow (Sunday) I'll be shooting off to Melbourne for the week, which I am rather excited about for a few reasons - Firstly I have a job interview on Monday (!!!) in a bookshop no less (!!!!!!) so

Book Review: Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

2011-08-05T16:25:00.002+01:00

"There wouldn't have been a rebellion or the Force of Sheep without you. You started everything and you need to finish it." Pg 55. Me? A leader? Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside that we knew. That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion - between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that

Teaser Tuesday #4

2011-08-02T16:34:00.000+01:00

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:- Grab your current read- Open to a random page- Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page- be careful not to include spoilers! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! you don't want to ruin the book for others!)- Share the title and author,

August Highlights

2011-07-29T03:21:00.001+01:00

Hey folks! Well it's coming to the end of July - so I thought I'd do a little post on what I'll be looking forward to in YA this coming month! (As if I didn't have enough to read as it is *grins*) There is no Dog - Meg Rosoff Published: 4th August by Puffin Meet your unforgettable protagonist: God, who, as it turns out, is a 19-year-old boy living in the present-day and sharing an apartment

Waiting on Wednesday #3

2011-07-27T07:51:00.000+01:00

Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine) Crossed by Ally CondiePublished November 24, 2011 by Puffin(This is Amazon:) Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has

Book Trailer Spotlight #1

2011-07-25T02:23:00.000+01:00

Little Owl's Night by Divya Srinivasan, published by PenguinYoungReaders in September 2011.Isn't it absolutely adorable?!!?! *gushes*

Book Review: The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley

2011-07-23T04:28:00.002+01:00

"Once I am in the Cellar, proving myself indispensable to the safety of Marblehaugh Park, they'll never send me away. I will be safe then, absolutely safe." Pg 39 She doesn't really know who she is or what she wants... Corinna is a Folk Keeper. Her job is to keep the mysterious Folk who live beneath the ground at bay. But Corinna has a secret that even she doesn't fully comprehend,

Teaser Tuesday #3

2011-07-05T09:54:00.002+01:00

Book Rant - Differences

2011-06-29T16:52:00.000+01:00

It's always disconcerting when you read reviews of a book you've read and loved - only to find that others have not loved it at all... I have just recently finished Wither by Lauren DeStefano and enjoyed it immensely. However upon logging into my GoodReads account I noticed that one of my friends had just started reading it - only she wasn't enjoying it at all. In fact she seemed to be deeply

Waiting on Wednesday #2

2011-06-29T01:19:00.000+01:00

Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine) 1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiPublished October 17, 2011 by Harvill Secker(This is Amazon:) The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a

Book Review: Shift by Em Bailey

2011-06-25T07:52:00.001+01:00

“Anyway, aren’t we supposed to be staying away from Miranda?” Shift is a sinister psychological thriller that tears through the themes of identity, loss and toxic friendship. Olive Corbett is just a bit mixed up. Dealing with a family break-up and surviving a suicide attempt, Olive has turned from being the popular girl at school to the introverted ‘freak’ that everyone ignores.

Teaser Tuesday #2

2011-06-21T07:32:00.001+01:00

Book Review: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

2011-06-20T16:59:00.002+01:00

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." Pg 110. When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He's also a washed-up child prodigy with ten

Waiting on Wednesday #1

2011-06-15T00:39:00.002+01:00

Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases to be excited about! (Created by Jill at Breaking the Spine) Naked by Kevin Brooks Published: October 6th, 2011 by Puffin (This is Amazon:) London 1976: a summer of chaos, punk, love... and a boy they called Billy the Kid. It was the summer of so many things. Heat and violence, love and hate, heaven and hell. It was the time I met William Bonney

Teaser Tuesday #1

2011-06-14T04:53:00.002+01:00

Book Review: The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

2011-06-12T16:35:00.004+01:00

"You know what I think? she says. What do you think? She points through the hole into the dark throat of the diseased landscape. I think you're more dangerous than what's out there. Well, girl, he says, that's a funny thing you just uttered. Because I was just thinkin the same thing about you." Older than her years and completely alone, Temple is trying to live one day at a time in a

Book Review: Inside Out - Maria V. Snyder

2011-06-02T05:01:00.007+01:00

"I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy." I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of the thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own... until I accidentally start a rebellion and

2010 in review

2011-01-02T21:26:00.003Z

Fortunately 2010 was an amazing year as far as the book reading went. Thanks to working in the bookshop I was privileged to read quite a number of proof copies, as well as reading novels already published. Here were my favourite reads of 2010: Temeraire - Naomi Novik (Published by HarperCollins Voyager, UK) Unquestionably one of the most brilliantly crafted fantasy novels that I have read in

Alex Scarrow – HSBC Book It! Tent – 09/10/10 5:30-6:30pm

2010-10-21T21:24:00.003+01:00

"Books are like an epic, budget-less movie." - Alex Scarrow Aaah, what could I say to give this man justice? Well, first off and most importantly – he is the author of a series of children’s books called: TimeRiders. Currently there are two books available, with the 3rd coming early next year, and the plan is it will be a 9-book series. W-O-W! But Alex is no novice in the novel universe

Darren Shan – The Playhouse – 09/10/10 2:30-3:30pm

2010-10-17T20:26:00.002+01:00