Jess and Rach's Book-Hauling Trip of Awesome The Return - Day 2

After the fabulousness of Wednesday Jess and I were very much looking forward to hopping onto the train into Coventry to go and raid our favourite charity shops and the two Waterstones shops. We cut things a tad fine in the morning for catching our train but we made it and caught our breath once we had a seat :P

The first order of business was to meet Jess's mum and give her the bags which we didn't want to carry round all day then we dashed into Waterstones to get Jess a copy of Mockingjay before she went mad. We then proceeded to buy more books than was prudent but since I found some cracking bargains I really didn't care.
At one point we had to buy Jess some cheap and comfy shoes since the ones she was wearing were murdering her feet *silly Jess* :P.

I did a vlog when I got home showing the books that *I* got but I'm hoping Jess will put up a picture of all the books she got on her blog Jess Hearts Books



Rachel's Books from the Second Day
The Enemy by Charlie Higson (Bought)
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan (Bought)
I'd Tell you I love you but then I'd have to Kill You by Ally Carter (Bought)
Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin (Bought)
Cross my Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter (Bought)
Numbers by Rachel Ward (Bought)
The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick (Bought)
The Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick (Bought)
The Marsh-King's Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwick (Bought)


It was brilliant being able to see Jess even if it was only for two days since once I go back to University it'll be several months until we can meet up again and it really sucks not being able to see your best friend on a regular basis. We had a great time doing what we do best - buy books! Thanks for being Awesome Jess *hugs*


LadyV

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Jess and Rach's Book-Hauling Trip of Awesome The Return- Day 1

Howdy hey folks sorry for the absence of posts over the last few days, I've kind of been ignoring my blogger and Twitter in the hopes of avoiding Mockingjay spoilers (Thankfully I've been successful so far). But since the Roadtrip of Awesome is now over *sad face* I thought I'd better tell y'all about it as soon as possible.

This trip was only to be a two-day venture since last time Jess felt really ill after the second day and had to go home so we didn't want to risk that happening again. Thankfully there were no mishaps along the way.

To save repeating myself I shall simply embed the Youtube Videos we filmed telling you about the first day adventures and showing off our wonderful haul. Apologies for the cut-off at the end of the second video- it was originally *much* longer than that but when it was processed loads of it has been lost :( I shall summarise the contents for you at the bottom.





Rachel's Books from Day 1
A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Ivy by Julie Hearn (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
Lament by Maggie Stiefvater (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
The Lady in the Tower by Marie Louise Jensen (From Jess's Weeded Bags)
The Poisoned House by Michael Ford (From Jess via Bloomsbury)
Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper (From Jess via Bloomsbury)
Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow (From Jess via Quercus)
Betrayals by Lili St. Crow (From Jess via Quercus)
Jealousy by Lili St. Crow (From Jess via Quercus)
The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Bought)
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushell (Bought)

Jess's Books from Day 1
Vampire Beach - Bloodlust & Initiation by Alex Duval (From Rachel's weeded pile)
Vampire Beach - Ritual & Legacy by Alex Duval (From Rachel's weeded pile)
Vampire Beach - High Stakes & Hunted by Alex Duval (From Rachel's weeded pile)
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf (From Ellie)
Sabriel by Garth Nix (Bought)
The Angel Experiment By James Patterson (From Ellie's Shop)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (Bought)
Dewey by Vicki Myron (Bought)
The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell (Bought)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Bought)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Bought)


There may be one or two books of Jess's that I've forgotten so forgive me. We had an awesome first day and even though the weather wasn't quite as sunny as would have been preferable at least it didn't chuck it down with rain like was predicted. When we got home we had pizza for dinner *nom nom nom* and then we watched The Little Mermaid on dvd *nerdy grin*. A generally fabulous day all round :D

Check out the next post for my second day haul and the picture of all my books and I'll link to Jess's post with the photos of her books.
LadyV

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Jess and Rach's Book-Hauling Trip of Awesome - The Conclusion!

Even with the trip being cut short we still managed to buy almost 40 books between us in just two days which is pretty good by anyone's standards. I'll now list the books we each got and show you the pics of them all laid out on the floor.

Rachel's Books
A Kiss in Time - Alex Flinn
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
The Sky is Everywhere - Janny Nelson
Prophecy of the Sisters - Michelle Zink
The Alchemist's Daughter - Katherine McMahon
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler
Gone - Lisa McMann
Crusade - Robyn Young
The Summer I turned Pretty - Jenny Han
Dreamland - Sarah Dessen
Sister's Red - Jackson Pearce
Requiem - Robyn Young
Cracked Up to Be - Courtney Summers
Guitar Girl - Sarah Manning
By Midnight - Mia James

Jess's Books
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
The Magician's Guild - Trudi Canavan
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Petals on the Wind - Virginia Andrews
Desire - Louise Bagshawe
Be Careful What you Wish for - Alexandra Potter
Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
The Bed I Made - Lucie Whitehouse
The Forbidden Game - L.J. Smith
Into the Garden - Virginia Andrews
My Single Friend - Jane Costello
Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Numbers - Rachel Ward
Hunger - Michael Grant
Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
My Worst Best Friend - Dyan Sheldon
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
By Midnight - Mia James
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews
Cuban Heels - Emily Barr

Phew! My 16 books to Jess's 22 means she wins on the quantity front but since this wasn't exactly a competition it doesn't matter all that much how many we both got. A lot of these books were from charity shops so we got some awesome bargains on books we really wanted. As much as I love Waterstones and their evil 3 for 2 offers I do much prefer to pay either Amazon prices or even cheaper for books even if that means they are not going to be top quality condition.

All 38 books in their prettiness - considering how many books we both have already we're gonna have *soo* much trouble finding where to put all these new additions.

I have loved doing this trip with my best friend especially since we don't get to see each other very often - although we're only an hour apart it's a bit too far for frequent meet-ups :( We spent so much time talking and laughing that my throat was actually quite sore by Tuesday night but heck I didn't mind.
We were incredibly lucky to have found each other as neither of us have another friend who is anywhere near as compatible and bookishly nerdy so I have to thank the Twilight Lexicon for providing the means of beginning of a most valuable friendship that I will cherish for a very long time.

Jess, I miss you already and I can't wait until we next get to meet up. Love ya hun! *hugs*
Now if you good folk will excuse me I'm going to get a cup of tea, get in to bed and watch the third Little Mermaid Film just because I feel like it.

Night
LadyV

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Jess and Rach's Book-hauling trip of Awesome - Day 1!!

Right ok I know I said I would post *aaages* ago since I've been back from Barbados for over a week but it's only now that I'm able to get back to a normalish posting schedule. But I have an excellent reason for my absence - on Monday and Tuesday, my best friend Jess (From JessHeartsBooks) and I went on a little roadtrip with one purpose - buying books. Being the book addicts that we are, the mere idea of running about the country raiding whatever bookshops we can find is immensely exciting, actually getting to do it though was fantastic.

On Monday I had to get up rather early to drive and pick Jess up (we live about an hour apart) so we could both head up to a lovely little town in Derbyshire called Bakewell. We have a friend called Ellie who lives there and also runs her own second-hand bookstore (jealous? Heck knows we were :P) so we were determined to go visit her and find some books of course ;-). The one downside to the day was that it absolutely chucked it down all freaking day and since I was wearing bloody sandals I got rather wet feet *sigh*. We also went to visit Chatsworth House while we were in the area (you know in the new P&P movie when Elizabeth is in the statue room at Pemberley? That's Chatsworth and some of those statues are actually there). It was a gorgeous mansion and I wanted to take a load of photos but I was daft and didn't charge up my camera before we went so I had to be sparing with the battery and couldn't take many photos. I'll show you the good ones from the visit.

When we got back to my house we recorded a couple of vlogs for you lovely people, one explaining what the hell we were up to and the other showing off the books we bought over the day. God I apologise for the insanity of these videos - we should *not* get in front of a camera when we're together cos there will be mayhem!

This is (L-R); Jess, me and Ellie in her lovely bookshop. We spent nearly an hour talking to her and it was a terrible shame that we couldn't stay all day. Hopefully we're going to go back again later this summer for a lengthier visit when Ellie's not working. Also check out Ellie's blog Musings of Bookshop Girl where she does reviews and hilarious stories about some of her weird and wonderful customers.

This is the rack of gorgeous bookmarks in Ellie's shop which Jess gleefully raided with abandon. If she could have bought one of each she would have done it in a second.

The amazing Chatsworth House from part-way across the grounds. I actually stopped the car on the road through the estate to take this because the view driving up to the house was so fantastic.

Just for Jess- NEKKID BABY CHERUBS!!! hehe We're *soo* mature.

Of Course I had to get a picture of the library in Chatsworth although this is only a little bit of it, soo many books!




So there you have our first day of bookish mayhem, I'm sorry that this post is so unbelievably long but if you've stuck with it then well done you! Please do continue on with the second day's post (when it's up tomorrow) and once I've got that finished I'll do a final summary post actually listing properly the books we bought and I'll throw in some pictures of them all laid out on the floor.


I'm hoping also to do a Booking through Thursday Post tomorrow and I will be working on a review for Dreamland by Sarah Dessen because it had quite an impact on me and I really want to say thank you to Jess for lending me her copy to read (thankfully I now have my own) *massive hugs* for you my dear.


Right to sleep with me, I'm shattered and I'm having a massive lie-in tomorrow :D
LadyV

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