Mogsy's Book Haul

Okay, I've pretty much given up on trying to control my to-read list or limit my book acquisition by now. To be fair, it's been an incredible summer for reading, lots of books popping up on my radar and catching my eye and such. Actually, I think I've been pretty good with sticking to my current batch of books in my summer reading list so far, even though I've stuck in a couple impromptu additions here and there.

But of course, in true bibliophilic style, I'm already planning my next batch of books.

Speaking of which, I made a pretty big change in my reading habits recently. For the longest time, I have been predominantly an ebook reader, but earlier this year saw a few ARCs coming in to me as hardcopies, so I've slowly made the shift to picking up physical books again. Admittedly, I do miss buying hardcovers and seeing them looking all pretty and lined up on the shelves, and what do you know, BookCloseouts is all too happy to oblige me, ain't I lucky.

Eyes to See and Thieftaker are two books I have on my TBR, so I was pretty happy to find them both at bargain prices. And for a couple of bucks, I couldn't resist The Rogue since I already have the first book of the Traitor Spy trilogy.

Emperor of Thorns was a complete surprise that the post left on my doorstep yesterday. The book won't be out until next month, but I had put in my name when the author said the publisher was calling for US book bloggers interested in reviewing it, and I guess fortune and Jorg Ancrath has smiled upon me. I was still so shocked at what I saw when I opened the package that I almost dropped the damn book. Really looking forward to reading this next.

And finally, in celebrating my return to reading dead-tree books, The Thousand Names was a totally indulgent present to myself. AND IT'S FREAKIN' AMAZING SO FAR. I'm already almost done the book with only about 100 pages to go and I'm already pretty confident in saying it's going to be a 5 star read from me. Up there amongst my top reads of 2013.

eARCs currently reading or to review include:

I really really really need to ban myself from requesting any more books from NetGalley until I catch up a bit on my reading list. We'll see how long until I crack.