Stacking the Shelves - 1.24.15

Stacking the Shelves
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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

Parade
by Shūichi Yoshida
-Japan, Thriller, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
For Review:

The Vagabond Vicar
by Charlotte Brentwood
-Historical, Jane Austen theme, Romance
courtesy of author
Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

Afterworlds
by Scott Westerfeld
-Paranormal, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she's made the right decision until she falls in with a crowd of other seasoned and fledgling writers who take her under their wings…

Told in alternating chapters is Darcy's novel, a suspenseful thriller about Lizzie, a teen who slips into the 'Afterworld' to survive a terrorist attack. But the Afterworld is a place between the living and the dead and as Lizzie drifts between our world and that of the Afterworld, she discovers that many unsolved - and terrifying - stories need to be reconciled. And when a new threat resurfaces, Lizzie learns her special gifts may not be enough to protect those she loves and cares about most.

=====> reading this for today's National Readathon Day

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

Spandau Ballet
=====> had a blast from the past and saw this 80s English group in concert

READ about them here:

Spandau Ballet:
The Authorized Story
by John Travis
-Biography, Music
Amazon | Goodreads
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* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

Advert: Goliath

Dash leans over and interrupts Edward's reading.

What news of the war? he asks.

Edward hands him a section of the newspaper...

Goliath
by Scott Westerfeld
illustrated by Keith Thompson
Release date: September 2011
Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies.

The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is at it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant trilogy.

It's not THE END end...

Wait. Last book? But there’s only been three! Don’t you know the secret meaning of trilogy?

Um, right. What I meant was that the three Leviathan novels are done. There’s still the Manual of Aeronautics to come. This book four, which may have a different title, will be a Spiderwick Field Guide-like large-format book of Keith’s art.

It’s going to be awesome, with big, full-color deck plans of the Leviathan, cutaways of the Stormwalker, and lovely portraits of many beasties, machines, and uniforms. Finally you will know what color everything is! There are also a few how-to diagrams, like Huxley Semaphore and sliding escapes.

It comes out in October 2012. -per Scott Westerfeld

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* image source newspaper advert

::= SteamBoyz schedule =::

SteamBoyz: Behemoth

"The Sultan's Airyacht"
art by Keith Thompson
Giada wraps up her report with details on the second book in the Scott Westerfeld series...

Behemoth
by Scott Westerfeld

Release date: October 6, 2010
Scott reveals the new cover at his site and hints about a future Behemoth westerfeldii ;-D

Excerpt of interview of Scott Westerfeld on cover art with Suvudu:
S: The US cover for Behemoth is gorgeous, especially the greens. Did you have any input into it? And will Keith Thompson be reprising his role as interior artist, supplying those beautiful images we saw in Leviathan?

SW: Yes, Keith is doing the interiors again, except this time there are 55 instead of 50. A ten percent bonus! Also, we're doing a few double-page spreads for the first time, and a whole new set of color end papers. So like Leviathan, but moreso.

Another cool thing about Behemoth is that we get to see Clanker Istanbul, which has its own levantine steampunk style. The Ottomans use machines, but in the shapes of animals (giant mechanical elephants! The Sultan's falcon-beaked airyacht!). And I know it doesn't sound drool-worthy, but Keith's tiled floors are amazing.

As for the cover, I do have consultation, but it's mostly the publisher's job. They have a sales force who talk to booksellers every day, and who know what sells and what doesn't. In a way, the cover is the single biggest advertisement for the book, and advertising isn't my forte. I wouldn't WANT too much control. read the rest of the interview here

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I'm putting this on my wish list!
How about you?

::= SteamBoyz schedule =::

SteamBoyz: Italian Leviathan

"Mooring at Hyde Park"
Leviathan art by Keith Thompson
On the Italian front, Giada has discovered a Leviathan Rap.

Quite a funky beat! Jane exclaims as she snaps her fingers.



English translation...

Artist: Mondo Marcio (Rotten World)
Song: Leviatano (Leviathan)

Believe me, we are in a fork
if I look to the horizon
a war is coming
the sky is so dark
I want another future
Don’t you see that you are running on a yarn?
bro, sometime we should have an alternative past
because the sky is so dark
I want another future
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
Maybe you didn’t notice
that the life is a jungle
it’s like a performance
every time more absurd
by now it’s natural
to make a selection
there is nothing we can do
Darwin was right
we are only people
but so complicated
a lot of different stories
but, at the end, all are the same
I haven’t more an S
printed on the chest
I tried to fly
but I found a cold land
I can bring you
back into the years
when, maybe, the sky wasn’t so dark
I can tell you about heroes and deceives
but can you give me another future?
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I see machines, monsters, bro I’m going crazy
good boy, stay away from me or I catch you with a lazo
I haven’t space
I jump from the terrace
before making an herb tea and going in space
I stood
I stood alone
look at the mixture
but leave that argoument
I’m not a rising star
I am a shining sun
a storyteller about terrible stories
the thing that the first piece of shit push you to buy
2010, it’s hard to think
It’s true that I have closed the curtains
I read and I can travel
In the first world war, I was there
in another future
this one isn’t so dark
I don’t know if my name is so resistant to don’t go crazy
we need another world
not another rotten world
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my drama
we can run
away from Milan
Because
Believe me, we are in a fork
if I look to the horizon
there is a war coming
the sky is so dark
I want another future
Don’t you see that you are running on a yarn?
we need an alternative past
because the sky is so dark
I want another future
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan
I can bring you
back into the years
and make you fly
like a leviathan
I can tell you
all about my dramas
we can run
away from Milan

*** Steampunk book giveaway ***

Signup to win this book (English version) at Cecelia Bedelia's.

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* English translation from Giovanni's comment at Scott's site

::= SteamBoyz schedule =::

SteamBoyz: Biological Airship

"Ascending"
Leviathan art by Keith Thompson

Today we have a report from a fellow passenger of the Tiny Bubble.

Giada has prepared her findings regarding Leviathan to share with us.

Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
Paperback release date: August 10, 2010

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by Giada
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Giada's mini review of Leviathan:

Much of steampunk is set in Victorian-era settings, however Westerfeld brings us to the heart of Europe at the dawn of the First World War (even if the First World War remains in the background).

Through the eyes of Deryn and Alek, we observe the war from two opposing factions: the Darwinists and the Clankers. The two points of view alternate regularly, switching from one character to another every two chapters.

The novel is smooth and without any dead spots, the pace is always high.

Leviathan is an introduction to what will become the real focus of the story. There are still many mysteries to be revealed and many questions that need answers.

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by Giada
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Scott's airship travel thoughts...



*** Steampunk book giveaway ***

Signup to win this book at Cecelia Bedelia's -ends July 17.

::= SteamBoyz schedule =::

Leviathan dress

If books were dresses...

(a weekly post where I create fashionable wear with book cover art)

Some steampunk this week to get ready for SteamBoyz week ;-D

Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld

This is the UK cover.

Paperback release date: August 10, 2010


*** Blogosphere giveaways ***

You can win this book...

Fiction State of Mind -ends July 9

DBRL Teen -ends July 23

AND

You can try to win this book from giveaways during my SteamBoyz week which starts tomorrow!

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* see the Book Fashion Coat I created last year

* source for silhouette

* if you would like to learn how to make your own Book Fashion silhouette, let me know in comments with your email

Uglies dress

If books were dresses...

(a weekly post where I create fashionable wear with book cover art)

Published: 2005

Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
(YA dystopia)

Get bubble-y!


Description from the amazon:
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

Series:
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
Extras

My two-bits:
This series rocks!

*source for silhouette

Steampunk Weekly - 1

-my weekly post on things steampunk

-totally inspired by steampunk posts written by Celia of adventures of cecelia bedelia

steampunk = a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld

Release date: October 6, 2009

Do you oil your war machines?

or

Do you feed them?

*source header image

Leviathan Coat

If books were coats...

(a weekly post where I create fashionable wear with book cover art)

Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (Illustrator)

It's on its way...

Release date: October 06, 2009

Synopsis on Barnes & Noble:
A brand-new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld!

Description from Amazon.com:

A brand-new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld!

That's all? what's up with that? so I found this...

Scott's book description from an Interview with Scott Westerfeld at SFF World which gives a little more teaser info:

SW: I’m working on an alternative history set in a world of advanced Edwardian biotechnology, during the first days of World War I. There are living airships and diesel-powered walkers, and the romantic leads are the son of Archduke Ferdinand and a cross-dressing young Scottish girl. It’s called Leviathan and is, obviously, the first of a trilogy.



U.S. cover from Scott's blog. However, I love the version above.










* source for silhouette