On My Bookshelf: Uni Edition

I initially moved into my uni home and it had no internet. It was more or less a reason for me to bring as many books as possible because I wouldn’t have the internet to distract me. I thought I’d do a quick (what a joke, there’s no such thing as a ‘quick’ anything on blogs!) ‘on my bookshelf’ post showing you what I’ve taken to uni on my first move. Since the first move, I have read a few of them so will likely be swapping them over with some that I have at home.

So, this is my bookshelf in all it’s glory. The bookshelf that comes with the room isn’t the most stable of shelves so my books sit at the bottom so it doesn’t topple over. The books stacked to the right of the shelf are for my modules this term and have been taken out from the library. All these, minus one book that I’m not sure if I can say I have yet, are the ones I’ve taken to uni. I keep Am I Normal Yet? on display because of the previous post. On the top shelf there is a frog money box, which I’ve had since I was a child. My detergent lives on my bottom shelf along with a Ikea multigrain bread mix, which I still need to make as well as an owl money box that I got from my sister for my birthday.

Now, onto the books! They aren’t in any sort of order so there are authors scattered and books that sit in a series dotted around.

Top Shelf: 

1. Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne  2. Penguin Little Black Classics: The Tinder Box by Hans Christian Anderson, The Old Man of the Moon by Shen Fu and The Robber Bridegroom by Brothers Grimm 3. A Thousand Nights by  E.K. Johnston 4. Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan 5. This Books is Gay by James Dawson 6. All of the Above by James Dawson 7. Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan 8. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan 9. Poems that Make Grown Men Cry Edited by Anthony and Ben Holden 10. My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins 10. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 11. The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent 12. The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Argango 13. Into to Alien Invasion by Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier, illustrated by Nancy Ahn 14. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 15. The Poison Princess by Kelsey Cole 16. Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson 17. Conspiracy Girl by Sarah Alderson 18. Bridget Jones Diaries Omnibus The Singleton Years by Helen Fielding 19. Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick 20. Extraodinary Means by Robyn Schneider 21. The Remains by Annie Freud 22. The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 23. Hold Your Own by Kate Tempest 24. Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates 25. Death Note Black editions Vol 1 & Vol 2, story by Tsugumi Ohba and art by Takeshi Obata

Bottom Shelf:

1. The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood  2. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro 3. Wilful Disregard by Lena Anderson 4. Famous Last Words by Katie Alender 5. Galgorithm by Aaron Karo 6. Wild Swans by Jung Chang 7. Infinite Sky by C.J Flood 8. Severed Heads and Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider 9. Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian 10. Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas 11. Hunting Lila by Sarah Anderson 12. Everneath by Brodi Ashton 13. Vowed by Liz de Jager 14. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 15. Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld 16. The Diviners by Libba Bray 17. Losing Lila by Sarah Anderson 18. Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash 19. Robot Uprising edited by Daniel Wilson and John Joseph Adams 20. Robocalypse by Daniel Wilson

And that’s all of them. Thanks for checking out this post – have a good day!

Book Haul #1: Charity Shops Rule!!!

On a shop that was supposed to be a very very very small one, I ended up being a buy of seven books from three different shops.

I am still on the search of a good photo spot to use for my books at the moment so bear with some of the dodgy lighting, the windows are tiny and my room faces away from the sun

First purchase was somewhere I didn’t even know sold YA books  – TKMaxx! I was even more surprised when I also saw the Hush Hush series, The Maze Runner boxset and then a tonne more! However this was the only boxset which I don’t own. So I bought the Benedicts series by Joss Stirling.

Finding Sky

Stealing Phoenix

Seeking Crystal

all by Joss Stirling

The only annoying thing about this boxset is that the box is damaged. There wasn’t any other boxset of the same type and because of its cheap cost I bought it anyway. But is the box worth keeping? I was considering throwing it away but I don’t know…. Lemme me know. 

My next set are all from charity shops and I can conclude that CHARITY SHOPS RULE!!

Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas

The Illusionist (Fearsome Dreamer #2) by Laure Eve

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

I admit that I haven’t even read the first novel by Laure Eve but it was only 99p and basically brand new – how could I resist?? Dangerous Boys was one that I saw round on other blogs and I thought I’d just pick it up to check it out. I was also super happy about nabbing The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight in the American cover because I always thought it was so much cuter than the UK cover…and now I have it! 😛

White Teeth is a book that I had to get for my reading list for my second term so grabbed it as soon as I saw it on the self.

Lastly, from months and month and months ago, I did a book swap with Fionnuala from Books for Birds. And here it is!

The Archieved by Victoria Schwab

Beautiful cover and an American floppy cover, a lot of love and thanks to Fionnuala!!! *hugs*

Shopping Haul #1

I haven’t gone on a leisurely shop and come back with something in a long time! I, myself, am a very picky shopper but in Uxbridge, there was a shopping centre student lockin. This is an event that happens every year and the shopping centre is shut down for 2 hours for students to raid the stores with many of them having huge discounts. Since I haven’t done a show and tell in a long time, or on this blog for that matter, I jumped at the chance to try and take a nice-ish photo to show you what I got!

 

First up is this adorable Moomin cup. Unfortunately, this isn’t actually an item I bought in the lockin but a gift that my parents got me for my birthday after they came back from Sweden! The mug also has a lid that helps keep my hot drink warm – which is handy here in my accommodation because my drinks get cold very quickly!

 

 

 

 

Next up: books! And four of them too, but then of course, all on offer!

Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson (Goodreads)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass (Goodreads)

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Goodreads)

The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey (Goodreads)

So next along the shelf, I also grabbed a few DVDs. Two of them I’ve wanted since moving to uni as a welcome gift to myself but the other two is the beginning of my “must-see” film collection.

From Up On Poppy Hill (Trailer)

The Wind Rises (Trailer)

Schindler’s List (Trailer)

The Breakfast Club (Trailer)

 

I finally found myself a pair of boots!! Yay! I spend ages looking for shoes and when I find a pair that I want – BOOM – I get them. I’m so glad I have them now because I can wear them for during the day and night!

I picked up a pair of Vagabond Chelsea boots from Office.

 

 

 

 

Then finally at the bottom of my shelf, I have the Books Are My Bag Tracey Emin edition tote! I absolutely adore this bag and I was so glad when I saw that Waterstones still had a lot in stock!

And there concludes my shopping haul for the student lockin. One year down, two more years to go! 😉