In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. I've been reading other people's IMM's for a long time and I was pretty excited for when I'd get to do one of my own. And today, I received books in the mail!

I got two books in the mail that I won in a contest on Elizabeth Scott's blog (it was very exciting. Thank you Elizabeth!!): an ARC of The Replacement and a hardcover copy of Only the Good Spy Young.

I was excited to read The Replacement from the first time I heard about it (on Maggie Stiefvater's blog, actually). It looks delightfully creepy and exciting and wonderful and I cannot wait to read it.

Also, the cover. It's like...the epitome of creepy, but it's awesome. And in person, it's even more awesome, because the cover is this really cool silvery color and it shimmers.

I confess to already having read Only the Good Spy Young. Actually, I already have a copy of it - I just got it for my birthday. So, it is very possible that I will be giving away my extra copy. (My dad, who teaches a graduate class on YA Lit, is trying to talk me into giving it to him for his classroom library, but we'll see.) BUT - it is an awesome book and I did receive a copy, so I'm going to talk about it for a minute.

Only the Good Spy Young is the fourth book in Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series. It's got spies and cute boys and a mystery about a secret organization, and terrorists,  and all sorts of other super-awesome fun stuff like that. I will tell you that this is probably my favorite of the Gallagher Girls books so far (and also that you definitely have to read them in order...so go read the first one now, if you haven't!).

Also "in my mailbox" are the books that I'm reading for school, A Prayer for Owen Meany (which I'm finally almost finished with) and The Things They Carried (which is just going to get put off until I get to read some more fun books. Not that Owen Meany is horrible, but it's not exactly my cup of tea. I need some fun YA books).

I also have two library books on hand right now, just waiting for me to finish Owen Meany: The Necromancer by Michael Scott (book four of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel), which I'm very excited about, and The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan (*squee of joy*). You'll hear more about those once I read them, I'm sure.

That's pretty much it for me this week! What's in your mailbox(/library stack/bookstore bag/etc)?