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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Goodie Basket (1): Weekly Book Haul and Recap


Goodie Basket...is a weekly feature hosted here at Word Spelunking that showcases all the goodies (books, bookish things, reviews, interviews/giveaways/guest posts, blog tours, etc) that popped up in the Goodie Basket that is Word Spelunking each week.

Welcome Cupcakes, to the first ever Goodie Basket weekly post! As you can see I will no longer be participating in IMM and will use this feature instead.
First up, let's see what bookish awesomeness I got this week...

WON

ARC  The Hero's Guide to Saving the Kingdom Christopher Healy
Walden Pond Press
I won this from the pub on Twitter and am so excited to read and review it, but I'm also glad to have been able to connect with the awesome people at Walden and I look forward to reviewing more of their MG books in the future.

FOR REVIEW

ARC  Three Times Lucky Sheila Turnage
Dial (Penguin)
sent from pub for review
I was so excited to get this in the mail, I actually squee'd! 

Anteater-Boy Dean Ammerman 
Kabloona
sent from author for review
This looks like a fun read!

EBOOKS FOR REVIEW
e-ARC  Flutter Gina Linko
Random House
sent from pub for review via Netgalley

eARC  Liar & Spy  Rebecca Stead
Random House
sent from pub for review via Netgalley

I want to thank Walden Pond Press, Dial, Dean Ammerman, and Random House for all the book goodies!

Weekly Blog Recap
Blog Tours/Interviews/Guest Posts
- Return To Eden Blog Tour: video interview question
- Elemental Blog Tour: interview with author Emily White
                                    givaway: ARC, signed bookmarks
- Guest Post: S.M Boyce
- Guest Post: Anna White

Cover Reveal
-Pyxis and Alight (K.C. Neal) covers

Giveaways
-Elemental Giveaway: ARC and signed bookmarks (US/INT)

Reviews
-Return to Eden (Soulkeepers #3) by G.P. Ching
-Elemental by Emily White
-Insurgent by Veronica Roth

What's Coming Up This Week
Cover Reveal
-Closed Hearts (Mindjack Trilogy #2) by Susan Kaye Quinn (4/30)

Guest Post
-Scott Cramer: guest post and ebooks giveaway (5/1)

Reviews
-Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelly Coriell
-Purity by Jackson Pearce
-Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock

Thanks for stopping by for the first Goodie Basket post! Please leave links to your weekly hauls/recaps (whether they be IMM's or your own weekly features) and I'll stop by :)
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13 comments:

  1. FarahApril 28, 2012 at 10:05 PM

    Eeeppp!!! Awesome haul! :D

    Drop by my mailbox?

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  2. PaigeApril 28, 2012 at 10:42 PM

    I hope you enjoy everything you got this week! Here's my IMM!

    http://paigebradish1996.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-my-mailbox-32.html

    ~Paige @ Comfort Books

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  3. Bumbles and Fairy-TalesApril 28, 2012 at 11:51 PM

    The Hero's Guid to Saving the Kingdom! I am looking forward to this one! I really do hope it's one that I can eventually hand over to my kiddos :)
    Enjoy all of your new books!

    Here's mine:
    http://bumblesandfairytales.blogspot.com/2012/04/welcome-to-my-first-beehive-news-vlog.html

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  4. Kimberly @ Caffeinated ReviewerApril 29, 2012 at 1:56 AM

    I am looking forward to your review of Flutter..sounds like you had a great week. You can read my news on The Sunday Post

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  5. jennApril 29, 2012 at 1:59 AM

    I'm seeing a bunch of The Hero's Guide around this week! Enjoy your haul:)

    jenn | my shelf stuffers

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  6. Vicky @ A Backpack Full of AdventuresApril 29, 2012 at 5:49 AM

    Liar & Spy looks really good! *runs to Goodreads to check it out* Flutter looks good too! I hope you'll enjoy all your new reads.

    Here's my haul for this week.

    Vicky (:
    Books, Biscuits, and Tea

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  7. Kari Po-Ku ▲April 29, 2012 at 5:52 AM

    The Hero's Guide to Saving the Kingdom sounds interesting. Happy reading! :D

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  8. UnknownApril 29, 2012 at 6:13 AM

    These are mostly new to me books but Flutter looks intriguing. Happy reading!
    My Stacking The Shelves

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  9. Grace FonsecaApril 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM

    Me and you cam up with the same name for our alternatives to IMM. Guess great minds think alike. Tynga over at Tynga's reviews also came up with an alternative called Stacking The Shelves. Nice haul.

    Grace

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  10. AngeApril 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    Three Times Lucky looks SO good! I'm hoping it'll get picked up as a Junior Library Guild pick so we get it at my MMS LMC! I haven't heard of the others and will have to see what they're all about. Here's Our Week in Books @Libby Blog! Happy reading!

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  11. MellianeApril 29, 2012 at 3:02 PM

    I didn't know these ones but I hope you'll like them all! Happy reading!

    here is mine

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  12. Gimme The ScoopApril 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM

    I haven't heard of any of those but I must check them out! Flutter looks good for sure! Gimme's Goodies

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  13. JenniferApril 29, 2012 at 8:10 PM

    Nice haul. Three Times Lucky and Flutter are definitely going on my TBR list. Enjoy!

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After much thought and only recently being introduced to blog awards and blogger tagging, I'm going to have to declare this an award/tag free blog. I'm honored, humbled, and so very grateful for simply being considered for an award, but I simply do not have the time to return the favor. If I could, I'd award y'all with dozens of yummy cupcakes ;) Thanks for understanding.