Xmas Wishlist - Jaimie Admans

Ampersand necklace
http://www.etsy.com/listing/164659990/ampersand-necklace-sterling-silver-chain



I love ampersands! I don’t know why, maybe it’s a writer thing! I have a massive wooden one on the wall above my computer and looking at it reminds me that I should be writing more words, so maybe that’s why I like them. I don’t really do dainty little necklaces like this one, but for some reason I really like it, although have stopped myself buying it as I’d be so afraid of breaking it I’d probably only ever wear it on really special occasions!

New Kindle, and/or never-ending Kindle battery



I absolutely love my Kindle, I don’t know how I ever survived without it, but the most frustrating thing in the world is either when you settle down in bed, all ready to curl up with a book, and the battery dies. Or when you get to a vital part, the heart-in-throat moment of a thriller, and the damn thing turns itself off and the charging icon comes up on the screen! Then you have to wait quarter of an hour while it’s plugged in before you can even turn it back on and sit in front of the plug socket to finish the chapter! My Kindle has rapidly deteriorated this year in terms of battery life and how much warning it gives before switching off. It’s a couple of years old now so perhaps it’s coming to the end of it’s life, but I wish there was such a thing as a never-ending Kindle battery, or at least some emergency contraption you could plug into it to give it an extra boost until you’ve got past the exciting book moments!

A bookshelf with unlimited space



A common problem faced by all booklovers – how much space books take up! I love paperback books, but I hardly ever buy them anymore due to my multiple bookshelves being full! Let’s face it, even full is an understatement. Full-to-bursting or about-to-explode also work. I always buy the ebook versions of books now, and try to get my fix by lovingly stroking paperbacks in the shops and toddling off home to my Kindle which has almost unlimited space but is sadly lacking that real-book smell.

Comfy reading chair and/or nook



It might sound silly but the only place I have to read is in bed! The sofa is in the living room which is always too noisy for reading, so my only reading option is the bed! I would love a little reading nook, you know, a cosy chair surrounded by shelves of gorgeous books… I might need a bigger house first though!

Once Upon A Time notebook
http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/heatheralsteaddesign/product/once-upon-a-time-notebook



Like lots of people I know, I have an addiction to stationery! Pretty notebooks, pens, note cards, boxes. Notebooks are my biggest downfall, I always swear I won’t buy any more but then I find the stationery section in a shop and they’re all just so pretty, it would be wrong to walk out without at least one! Of course, I now have so many notebooks that it will take me three lifetimes to get through them, and I still make a beeline for the stationery section! It’s impossible to resist a nice notebook! I tell myself I can count them as ‘writerly expenses’ but my notebook drawer(s) could supply ten writers by now!

A multitude of books that people have recommended to me this year.



There are so many books on my to-read list that sound amazing! I follow quite a few avid readers on Twitter and almost every day someone will recommend a book that sounds brilliant, I just need more hours in the day to read them all! I won’t write the list out or we’d be here all night, but there are so many books I really want to read, I would be thrilled to find any of them under the tree this year!

Ferrero Rocher



No Christmas list would be complete without mentioning food of some sort, and I couldn’t possibly read all those books without some kind of sustenance by my side, so I’ll have a giant box of Ferrero Rocher, please! They’re my absolute favourites! I’m actually really lucky at this time of year because my birthday is a few days after Christmas, so no sooner have I eaten the boxes people bought me for Christmas, I get given more!

Thanks, Santa!

Xmas Wishlist - Jo @ Cometbabesbooks

Hi Everyone

I volunteered to take part in Sheli’s Xmas wish list feature in October. I am new to blogging and only created my blog in September, so I am especially thrilled that Sheli has allowed me to be apart of this

My wish list is:-

A Diary to organise my blog, I always seem to be on the last minute getting posts ready or reading books for blog tours, for 2014 I would like to be a little more organised.

A Nexus 7, been told these are one of the best tablets after an IPad.

A case for a Nexus 7, to make it easier to type my tweets and blog

I have also asked for Amazon vouchers, I’m sure these are must for all bookish fiends as I have 110 books on my wish list in Amazon, if not Amazon vouchers then of course I want books, books and more books.

Topping my wish list are the following books, despite the fact that my TBR pile seems to be getting out of control.

April Fools by Karli Perrin, I still have April Showers to read, but loved Karli’s Christmas offering The Gift.

The Elemental World series by Elizabeth Hunter, read the Elemental Mysteries Series earlier in the year and these tie in with the Characters in those books.

All the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead

The Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix

The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth

Top of my wish list is
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran

Hope Santa brings my wish list and everyone else’s wish list.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thanks again Sheli.

Jo xx

My twitter is @cometbabe

Please come and visit me on my blog: cometbabesbooks.blogspot.co.uk

Xmas wishlist - Louise

There are so many fantastic things out there for the discerning bookworm so I’ve tried to be very good and limit myself to 5 items and I hope you appreciate how much restraint this is taking for me!

 

1. Firstly, as a full time mum to a wonderfully lively 3 year old, top of my wishlist would be an afternoon of peace and quiet on a wonderful sofa, under a cosy blanket with a drink, snack and of course a good book.  As I don’t drink tea I would have a hot chocolate and it would be lovely served in one of these with the chocolate bar too of course!!

2. I love and collect nearly as many bookmarks as I do books and think this is one of the cutest I have seen.

3. I have been lucky enough to get a new Kindle Paperwhite this year and as Pride and Prejudice is one of my favourite books in the world I would love one of these to keep my Kindle safe from a toddler’s hands!!

4. Although I usually have so many books on my bookshelves that I don’t usually need bookends, I think these guys are so cute I’d have to make room for them!!

5. I think that this may be the only book in the world where I couldn’t give a hoot about the words, it’s all about the pictures :)

Thanks to Sheli for asking me to be part of her Christmas feature.  I wish her and you a lovely, bookish Christmas.   Louise

I review for Laura at  http://shelovestoread.weebly.com/

I tweet at @jaustenrulesok

Xmas Wishlist - Shaz @ Shaz's Book Boudoir

When Sheli asked me to write a guest post about what book related gifts were on my Christmas wishlist it was actually quite difficult to narrow it down as there have been so many fabulous books published in the last couple of years that I’ve not had the chance to read yet.

Top of the Christmas wishlist is a cover for my new Kindle Paperwhite that I treated myself to in October as I didn’t realise my existing cover wouldn’t fit it.



This is the one I’ve chosen as it combines two of my favourite things other than books, the colour purple and butterflies although sadly it’s currently out of stock but secretly hoping it becomes available again soon http://www.casehappy.co.uk/kindle-paperwhite-satin-effect-slim-case-516-p.asp

As my first chance cover is not currently available I have also added this one as a substitute choice http://amzn.to/17HEPYd



So now onto a selection of the books that are currently on my Amazon wishlist which was a lot harder to narrow down!
I don’t generally buy Trade Paperbacks as I normally wait for the regular paperback publication but I’ve read some really good reviews for The First Time I Said Goodbye by Claire Allan http://amzn.to/18h47zc



Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye forever? In 1959, factory girl Stella Hegarty finds herself falling unexpectedly for the charms of a handsome US marine based in Derry. Caught up in a whirlwind of romance, Stella finds herself planning a new life in America with her beloved Ray. But when tragedy steps in, both their lives are thrown into turmoil and they come to realise they may have said their first, and last goodbye. In 2010, Annabel Jackson, reeling from the loss of her father, agrees to accompany her mother Stella back to Ireland to meet her family for the first time. In Derry they both start to realise that sometimes you have to say goodbye to what you thought you always wanted, in order to find what you have needed all along..

Next book I would love to receive is The Birthday Girls by Pauline Lawless as I’ve read and enjoyed all of her previous books. http://amzn.to/1egn2Zg



They'd met on their first day at school four little girls who were all very different from each other but who somehow became close friends. Their friendship has now lasted thirty-five years. As their birthdays all fall in the same week they long ago made a pact to spend each big decade birthday together. So far they'd managed it. Now as their thirty-ninth birthday looms, Angel, a famous Hollywood actress, announces that this will be her last birthday. Terrified of aging, she absolutely refuses to turn 40. So Lexi, the mother hen of the group and an artist, invites them to Florida for a week-long celebration of this, their last birthday together. Brenda, mother to five grown-up children, flies in from Dublin, eagerly looking forward to her first foreign holiday ever. Mel, however, has to be prised away from New York where she is a successful partner in a law firm - Mel is a workaholic with no other friends or love in her life. The four come together for the celebration but soon things start to unravel and the week ends disastrously. Lexi is distraught. Can their friendship endure? Only time will tell.

Having just bought The Murder Wall, the first book in the Kate Daniels series by Mari Hannah I’d like to read the other books in the series before the fourth book, Monument to Murder, is published next year. http://amzn.to/I57k9a
Settled Blood http://amzn.to/1eqU4GY

When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably alive before she hit the ground. Then a local businessmen reports his daughter missing, has Daniels found the identity of her victim, or is a killer playing a sickening game? As the murder investigation team delve deeper into the case, half truths are told, secrets exposed, and while Daniels makes her way through a mountain of obstacles time is running out for one terrified girl.

Deadly Deceit http://amzn.to/17ZJ0M3

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene, Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage and mayhem that quickly becomes one of the worst road traffic accidents in Northumberland’s history. But as the casualties mount up, they soon realise that not all deaths were as a result of the accident . . . On the other side of town a house goes up in flames, turning its two inhabitants into charred corpses. Seemingly unconnected with the traffic accident, Kate sets about investigating both incidences separately. But it soon becomes apparent that all is not what it seems, and Kate and her colleagues are one always step behind a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

The fifth and final book I’ve picked to choose for this feature is one that’s not out until January so it can be pre-ordered to receive as a late Christmas present or earlier birthday present, The Winter Folly by Lulu Taylor http://amzn.to/17HMIwX



In this house there are many secrets…
It is 1965 and young Alexandra Crewe obediently marries the man her father has selected for her. But very soon both she and her husband Laurence realize that their marriage is a disaster. When real love finds Alexandra, plucking her out of her unhappy existence, she is powerless to resist. Her home becomes Fort Stirling, a beautiful Dorset castle, but Alexandra fears that there will be a price to pay for this wonderful new life. When tragedy strikes, it seems that her punishment has come, and there is only one way she can atone for her sins…

In the present day, Delilah Young is the second wife of John Stirling and the new chatelaine of Fort Stirling. The house seems to be a sad one and Delilah hopes to fill it with life and happiness. But when she attempts to heal the heartbreak in John’s life, it seems that the forces of the past might be too strong for her. Why does John have such a hatred for the old folly on the hill, and what happened to his mother when she vanished from his life? As Delilah searches for the truth, she realizes that perhaps some secrets are better left buried...

I’m sure I’ll probably do a blog post on what I did actually receive for Christmas so hopefully one or two of these will be featured!

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Xmas Wishlist - Kirsty @ Love of a Good Book

Friends often scream out 'No way. you don't need anymore books!' When they see my Christmas list.
But as any bookworm will tell you, there is no such thing as too many books!

And this Christmas is no exception:

I'm very lucky to be sent books before they are released, so for Christmas I'm asking for books people love and have read time and time again.

Here are some on my list:

I keep hearing wonderful things about 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' from Laura http://shelovestoread.weebly.com/
I'm really excited about reading the book that Laura found life changing.

Megan from http://readinginthesunshine.wordpress.com/ has recommended 'The Time Travellers Wife' now I've seen the film of this but I've been told the book is amazing.

Victoria from https://victorialovesbooks.wordpress.com/ loves 'The Lady of Hay' and has highly recommended this to me.
And I mentioned recently on my blog http://theloveofagoodbook.wordpress.com/ that I've not read any Jane Austen and I find this something I need to rectify, so I am also going to ask for Pride and Prejudice.

Now I've all these lovely new books on my list, I couldn't imagine anything better to carry them in other than a Cambridge Satchel
https://www.cambridgesatchel.com/collections/colour/pinks/
My particular favourites are the pink and brown colours.

The thing about being a bookworm is that books can come in many forms and I love this book charm to add to my Pandora bracelet
http://www.pandora.net/en-gb/explore/products/charms/791109

Im obsessed with books, reading them, touching them and pictures of them so when I saw this, I just fell in love.
How gorgeous is this skirt, it has my dream library on it!
https://www.thehunt.com/the-hunt/EBrKk4-beauty-and-the-beast-library-skirt

Since I probably won't be able to wear the skirt until it's sunny, I'm going to ask for a nice snuggly hoodie and this one seems highly appropriate http://www.zazzle.co.uk/funny_i_need_more_books_t_shirt-235759418099397237

And finally since it's Christmas, I wouldn't mind discovering this hot book-boy under the mistletoe!





Have a fantastic Christmas all!
Kirsty

@loveofagoodbook
@minionsofbooks

Xmas Wishlist - Ems @ Afternoon Bookery

1. Book quote mug - this last year has seen my love for books grow, and rekindle what was once a grand love affair, this sums up my feelings, and well I need something for the copious tea I get through?





2.I Capture the Castle hardback - this is a beautiful edition, I never read this book as a child, but I admit I saw it in Waterstones and ever since I have fallen in love and clearly need this in my life, stat.





3. Mary Poppins hardback - likewise, I spied this and the cover is beautiful I dont recall ever reading the book only ever watching the film but I cant turn down something as beautiful as this.

4. Sherlock Holmes Cluedo - this is another thing that has taken my fancy this year, I mean it's like the best show into one of my favourite games, that been said I'm sure I would only play it christmas day and that be it, but indulge me?

They are the main things im hankering after on my book life this year - thankyou for having me!! :)
you can find me at; www.afternoonbookery.blogspot.com or @afternoonbooker

Xmas Wishlist - Zoe @ The Book Lovers

Hey everyone!

For those who don't know me, I'm Zoe and own my own blog over at The Book Lovers. Today, I'll be letting you know which books I am excited to be getting this Christmas – courtesy of myself buying them for me!

For people that know me, you know that my kindle is my baby and that if I want an ebook, I just go to Amazon and 1-Click it...I admit, I am a 1-Click addict and my wages are mostly spent on me not understanding a little thing called 'Savings', but books are technically savings to me ;)

My parents don't buy me books for Christmas and that is mainly down to me. Ever since I had a kindle, ebooks are just instantaneous. If I want a new book, I'll go search for one on Amazon and download it; if I want the paperback of that book, well it's either not available or I have to wait months for it to become available. I have no patience – hence why I dont ask for books for Christmas.

Also I only buy the paperback copies of books that are a favourite of mine....and despite not receiving books from the 'rents, my grandparents HAVE to buy me one every year so this year I had decided that they can buy me The Edge OF Never – J.A Redmerski...This is MY favourite book and I have yet to purchase it, so what better way than opening it up from my grandparents on Chrsitmas day?

The three books that I am excited for this month, for myself to buy as a present are:

1) The Sweetest Game (#3)– J. Sterling
“It’s one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end. It’s like you finally realize that baseball never loved you back. All the sleepless nights, the hours spent at the gym trying to stay fit, the conditioning, the training, the mental preparation, the holiday’s missed, the birthday’s passed, the memories you didn’t get to make with your family…all for what? It’s not like baseball lost any sleep over you. She didn’t stay awake for nights on end trying to figure out how to make you a better player. She didn’t care. Baseball’s a business. A sport. A game. And as much as my entire life has been wrapped up in it, it’s time to let it go.”
- Jack Carter

Out on Christmas day!

2) A Beautiful Wedding (#2.5)– Jamie McGuire
You know that Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. But what do you really know?

Why did Abby pop the question?
What secrets were shared before the ceremony?
Where did they spend their wedding night?
Who else knew about it . . . and didn’t tell?

Everything about Abby and Travis’s elopement was top-secret . . . until now. Fans of Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster will get all of their questions answered in this whirlwind tale of the wedding day (and night!)—and as with all good stories, this one will definitely have been worth the wait.

Out the 10th December

3) Castle Hill – Samantha Young
Braden Carmichael never imagined he’d fall as hard and as fast as he did for Jocelyn Butler. He also could not have anticipated how difficult it would be to convince her to give in to love. But now that he has her, he’s never letting go. He’s got it all planned—the passionate proposal, the dream wedding, the sexy Hawaiian honeymoon—even the perfect family they’ll start.

After trying to flee from her painful past, Joss is finally allowing herself to embrace the future. But when things start moving faster than she anticipated, she finds herself panicking over something Braden can’t understand. After everything they’ve been through, Joss is sure that their love can survive even her worst fears. But, this time, she may push Braden too far—and risk losing everything all over again…

Out 3rd December


What are the books you are most excited about this christmas?

My Xmas Wishlist

Well December is here once again! So to celebrate the festive season here at Sheli Reads I am running a Christmassy feature in the run up to the big day where lots of lovely guest posters will be telling us what bookish treats and goodies that they are hoping for from Santa this year!

So to start us off, I am posting my bookish xmas wishlist!

Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M. C. Beaton



I'm hoping that Santa will bring me the latest Agatha Raisin book! Over the last two years I have made my way through the other 23 (I think!) books in the series and it has become a guilty pleasure which is in the same category as Midsomer Murders for me. I think Agatha Raisin books are becoming a staple Christmas present for me, like the Beano annual! This is the blurb:

Gloria French was a jolly widow with dyed blonde hair, a raucous laugh and rosy cheeks. When she first moved from London to the charming Cotswolds hills, she was heartily welcomed.  She seemed a do-gooder par excellence, raising funds for the church and caring for the elderly.  But she had a nasty habit of borrowing things and not giving them back, just small things, a teapot here, a set of silverware there.  So it's quite the shock when she is found dead, murdered by a poisoned bottle of elderberry wine.  Afraid the murder will be a blight on the small town, Parish councillor, Jerry Tarrant, hires private detective Agatha Raisin to track down the murderer.

But the village is secretive and the residents resent Agatha's investigation. Of course that doesn't stop the ever-persistent Agatha from investigating and sticking her nose where no one wants it—especially as the suspect list grows. And, as if it isn't enough that Agatha's ex has reentered the picture, the murderer is now targeting Agatha!

With M.C. Beaton's Something Borrowed, Someone Dead  the bossy, vain, and absolutely irresistible, Agatha Raisin continues to be a fan favorite.

I have also had my eye on this canvas book bag for ages. http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/i-capture-the-castle---dodie-smith---canvas-shopper-1056-p.asp



I read I Capture the Castle a few years ago and absolutely loved it! I've been tempted by this bag ever since :-)

As no full on reading session is complete without a cup of tea, I'd also like this mug: http://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/go-away-im-reading-bone-china-mug-1185-p.asp

Just in case anyone was in any doubt about what I was doing, I think the message is nice and clear!

Lastly, I'd love to have a proper study/library space!



Somewhere like this would be amazing! I have bookshelves, a small desk and an armchair in our box room, but it would be amazing to have a space like this where I could work, write, read and relax. I'm not sure Santa will fit this in his sack (or our house) though! Maybe one day ...

What bookish goodies would you like Santa to bring you this year?