The Cat's Meow: Mail Mices

We have Mail Mices!

I wanted to share with you some of my Mail mices that I've gotten the past few days, one was from Mindy Ruiz author of Enchanted Heart and the second was Chloe Neill author of Chicagoland vampires. 

 

Both mail mices came in large sizes, from a brown package to a large white tube . . . Yes a large white tube I wondering the same thing. 

 

Mindy Ruiz

I had won one of the prizes from Mindy Ruiz Enchanted Heart Book/Blog tour awhile ago and it wasn't the grand prize of cash prizes for Vegas since the book is taken place in Vegas. But here's a photo of what I won . . .

 

 

Prizes includes:

Water bottle with a pair of dices design and Mindy Ruiz's name

Key Chains of each house with poker chip

Two pins that says "Keep Calm and Date a Royal"

A Poker chip with an heart in the center

a Stick to place on a phone, it's has a heart shape diamond necklace

A Thank you card with an apology about a "Lost Prize" so that's where $10 Amazon Gift Card comes in

And last but not least

A Signed Book! 

Chloe Neill

Next is Chloe Neill prizes, how I came to win this prize was by a FB contest for Who should play the Characters . . . this one was for Ethan Sullivan. 

Now to be completely honest, I haven't read the books yet but picking a person to portray a character wasn't hard . . . so I went with Channing Tatum in a suit 

 

Prizes included:

A large Poster that you would see at a signing if the author was going to be present at a bookstore, she also signed it as well.

6 bookmarks consist of some chicagoland vampirs and her Elite series

Two little business cards both very different

A Cadogon  House Lanry 

A Cadogon House key chain (it's heavy!!!!) 

A button 

and a pen with Chicagoland vampires written on it

 

 

The Cat's Meow: Stacking the Shelf

Armchair BEA/BEA Expo has come to an end,while I didn't win anything from Armchair BEA like last year but that okay. Actually life took me away from doing much participating this year, I'm prepping for my upcoming trip in two weeks and there's a lot to check off and To-Do List. 

So happy book hauling all those beautiful ARCs Bloggers/Readers, they all look pretty and there's a lot of MOUSE WATCH for me :-) Trust me those ARC are Mouses. 

Moving on . . . 
It's been awhile since I've shared some books that have made it to my shelves, a couple won and purchase books. Some of my purchase books were for my trip so I won't say what they are until I have everything that I got from UtopYA Con. 

You know those pesky Goodreads Giveaways? Well after entering god knows how many, I finally won one! 
What book was it?

Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly

She even signed it to ME of SassyCat's Books Review per to my request, I thought why not? Blogger often get books that are signed with their blog title and name. 
Also isn't the inside beautiful? the light air/sea blue that highlights the book so well, now from what I know it's got MERPEOPLE and I've never read anything with that theme.

NEXT is my favorite WON book ever! Kristin Miller and I have such a great reader/author relationship, I fell in love with her Seattle Pack from the first pages of Gone with the Wolf and I stuck with her series! She had gotten these pretties in paperback and decided to host a giveway and much to her response and mine was in AWE and Shock that the randomizer picked my NAME!

I have said to Kristin that I would love a paperback of her Seattle Pack series & she said if she ever get any I'll be the first one to get it! So it works in a very funny FATED way. 

I did get bookmark of Gone with the Wolf and Four Weddings and A werewolf, but they are still inside the book . . . These are so pretty that I never want them to wear and tear, so minimum pawing/opening the pages

I finally got my copy of TMI: City of Heavenly Fire,

and WOW it's a pretty thick book! I won't be reading it anytime soon since I'll be on my trip and am planning to bring a light book. So now I have every book of the TMI as well the TID which I have yet to start.










Another book to add is ORIGIN by Jessica Khoury, 
her book in Hardcover was in the discounted section in my store since that is the only area I'm allow to shop for now since my trip will have my biggest book haul that it will be like Christmas/Birthday all over again. 

Plus did you know that you actually save more money if you wait until after Christmas day? My family and I found that out when we were shopping on my birthday which is 3 days after Christmas. So if you don't want to break budget before Christmas try to wait out on buying them after Christmas Day.

The Cat's Meow

Man I've really been lacking on some of my meme posts that I was determine to do once a month but as you know January came then February came.

Some of my books that have been added to my shelf are books that I have won, Ive won pretty much every month this year So 2014 is starting out good

Defy by Sarah B Larson curtsey of Rockstar Book Tours and Scholastic Press



ARC Resistance by Jenna Black curstsey of Tor Book



ARC The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski curtsey of Bekka from Great Imaginations

Omens by Kelley Armstrong the paperback version curstsey of Kelley Armstrong

 

All the while I brought in my new book shelf that been sitting on the porch, its got 6 shelves and I can place two books deep so I was able to shelf more books than I could with the 3 shelf bookcase. So now my top shelf of my 3 shelf is now stock with books that I have won. It's getting full but I'll never stop wanting more and I can separate that from my other books.