Collective Summer Book Haul!

During the summer holidays (and even before that!) we had ordered so many books from Amazon.in and had them delivered to our address in India. So, while we were holidaying in India, we were able to receive/collect them; it was glorious to see such a huge stack of books piling up on our shelf! So, this is a collective book haul post of the books we bought from the beginning of the year up until September (and still counting :p). But we didn't stop with just books that we had ordered, we also had to go and buy some more! So, here is a post deicated to ALL the books we've brought back from India (from this Summer Holiday):

March-April (2015)

Book Details:

(Top to Bottom):

1. The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield
2. Elizabeth Is Missing- Emma Healey
3. Shatter Me- Tahereh Mafi
4. Second Life- SJ Watson
5. The Girl On the Train- Paula Hawkins

June (2015)

Book Details:

(Top to Bottom):

1. 365 Days Of Wonder- R.J. Palacio
2. The Sandman- Lars Kepler
3. Strangers On A Train- Patricia Highsmith
4. Naked- Kevin Brooks
5. Thirteen- Tom Hoyle
6. Muder Most Unladylike- Robin Stevens
7. Rooftoppers- Katherine Rundell
8. One Step Too Far- Tina Seskis
9. All The Bright Places- Jennifer Niven

July-August

Book Details:

(Anti-Clockwise from the top):

1. The Mysterious Benedict Society (Box-Set)- Trenton Lee Stewart
2. Death Note- Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
3. Room- Emma Donoghue
4. Prince Of Fools- Mark Lawrence
5. I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend- Core Harrison
6. Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend- Cora Harrison
7. Pretties- Scott Westerfeld
8. Uglies- Scott Westerfeld
9. Frankenstein (Book 3): Dead Or Alive- Dean Koontz
10. Here, There Be Dragons- James A. Owen
11. The Wonder Journal- R.J. Palacio
12. The Divergent Trilogy- Veronica Roth

September (2015)

Book Details:

(Anti-Clockwise from the top):

1. Les Misérables- Victor Hugo
2. Goosebumps~Most Wanted (Special Edition): Zombie Halloween (#1)- R.L. Stine
3. Goosebumps~Most Wanted: Planet Of The Lawn Gnomes (#1)- R.L. Stine
4. Tell Me No Lies- Malorie Blackman
5. Diary Of A Wimpy Vampire- Tim Collins
6. Labyrinth- Kate Mosse
7. Superman: Last Son Of Krypton- Geoff Johns, Richard Donner, Adam Kubert & Gary Frank
8. Superman: Secret Origin- Geoff Johns, Gary Frank & Jon Sibal
9. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Fortunately, The Milk- Neil Gaiman
11. Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson (Book 10): "Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?"- Louise Rennison
12. Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson (Book 8): "Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing"- Louise Rennison
13. Thora- Gillian Johnson
14. Kiss- Jacqueline Wilson
15. The Worry Website- Jacqueline Wilson

So, totally, we lugged 41 books back to Dubai, and we CANNOT wait to read all of them! We just hope we can resist buying anymore books till we finish these off... but we can't make any promises!

Have you guys read any of these? Or do you wants us to do a book review of any particular one? Please do let us know in the comments!

You can even have a look at our Youtube video for a better look at the covers, here:

https://youtu.be/RQ1Vz8WYIXM

We hope that this post was helpful to you and wish you a wonderful morning/afternoon/evening!

Salam | Peace!

Comic Book Haul!

I'm sure all of you know Comic Con (or at least have heard of such a thing!). And just like the ones held in San Diego and New York, the UAE has one known as the Middle East Film and Comic Con (or MEFCC, for short!).

Both of us have been meaning to buy and read comic for a very long time now. And we got the chance to fulfil our wishes during MEFCC 2015!

So, at MEFCC, we were just wandering around and we found a comic book stall called High Grade Comics.We were just going through the boxes of comics, when we found several comics that were being sold at clearance prices! We found comics for $2 and $3! Therefore, we decided to grab as many as we could!

Here is a list of all the comics we got (although we were not able to get all the books in a sequence, we managed to get some books in a series):
Iron Man:
The Invincible Iron Man:
(Heroes Return) Avalanche! (#2)
The Invincible Iron Man (#3)
The Revenge of the Mandarin- Part 1 & 2 [from a 2 part series] (#9, #10)
Marvel Annual:
Atlantis Attacks

Thor:
The Mighty Thor:
The Thor War- Part 2, 3 & 4 [from a 4 part series] (#439, #440, #441)
Tales of Asgard (#1)

Fantastic Four:
Atlantis Rising

Vision and the Scarlet Witch:
Night of the Living Druid! (#1)

Spider-Man:
The Sensational Spider-Man:
The Sensational Spider-Man (#1)
The Amazing Spider-Man:
The Official Marvel Index to the Amazing Spider-Man (#5)

Firestorm:
The Fury of Firestorm:
The Nuclear Man- Squeeze Play! (#18)

Superman:
Annual Superman- To Tame A Titan (#1)

Others:
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up:
Spider-Man and Wolverine (#1)

Marvel Age Annual:
From the Marvel Universe to the New Universe

(Heroes Return) The Avengers:
Rough Cut (#1)


That's all the Superhero comics we got! But aside from that, we also spotted some cool other comics. Here they are:

Team Muhafiz is about a group of teenagers from different religious and racial backgrounds, and together they fight against daily evils! (We were quite excited to read this!!)

We were looking for Miss Paige Hartman (whom we saw in last year's MEFCC) because we wanted to get her comic, "Blades of Hope". But unfortunately, she didn't attend this year. However, her colleague, Mr Sohaib Awan, was there and he gave us the free preview of his comic Jinnrise (pictured above). But, sadly, his books were also sold out, so we only got this.

This book we actually got from last year's Comic Con. It's about this Muslim lady who gets into an accident and wakes up thinking that she is a Superhero! It was a real laugh, and we wanted to get the second part of this, but we weren't able to find the author.

Last year, by a chance encounter, Shifa said "let's go see Despop Art!", and we did. And we are so glad that we did because we got to meet the very funny and kind Mr Des Taylor! He was such a lovely man and we even attended a workshop that he was holding. It was really great!! This year, when we went up to his stall, he had remembered us, and that really touched us. He even told us that he had a tiny scene in the Avengers; Age of Ultron movie (which we kept our eyes peeled for!). So, we are very excited for his comic "Scarlett Couture" (pictured above is a signed poster).

That's about it! Please let us know which comics you like and which ones you would recommend us to buy!

You can also check out our video on YouTube, here:

http://youtu.be/kt9mtzEoV0A

We hope you enjoyed reading this, and we wish you a lovely day!

Salam|Peace!

WHSmith and Post-Crossing Purchases!

Recently, we went to The Dubai Mall to redeem our WHSmith voucher. Along with that, we spotted a sale at Gallery One and had to stop and look at (and of course, buy!) the things. Here are the books and post-crossing things that we bought:

Books from WHSmith:

I Am The Messenger ~ Marcus Zusak

We actually picked this up because we read The Book Thief and we loved it to bits.

This story is about Ed Kennedy, a young man who lives a pretty bleak life. But one day, he accidentally stops a bank robbery. After this things in his life start to change, and the story sees who is the person behind Ed's mission.

Goodnight Mister Tom ~ Michelle Magorian

Set in the Second World War, the story revolves around a young boy who is evacuated off to the countryside to be taken care of (away from the danger of the war). He is taken good care of by a kind gentleman named Tom Oakley. However, after a while, his cruel mother brings him back to London, and we don't know if he will ever see Mr Tom again.

The Boy Who Fell To Earth ~ Kathy Lette

We are expecting lots of tears after we read this book!

This is the story of Lucy and her autistic son, Merlin. We will be taken on a roller coaster ride of Lucy and Merlin's life, as Merlin becomes 10 years old and Lucy starts getting back into the dating game.

The Girl With All The Gifts ~ M. R. Carey

When we read the blurb, both of us got chills, so we are just going to let you read the original synopsis:

"Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while tow of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh".

So, we are very excited to read all of those books, and we're probably going to be doing a review on all these books some time in the future!

Post-Crossing Things from Gallery One:

Notecards Featuring Places in Jumeirah

These are pretty cards (like any normal birthday or greeting card), which have different landmarks of Jumeirah on them, where you can inscribe your message on the inside and post it!

3D Build-up Mosque Cards

These are very simple and cute Do-It-Yourself build-up mosques. You can write a message on the back and post it, and the recipient can build up the model and enjoy your cool card and message!

Jigsaw Puzzle Cards

This we are very excited about: they are a postcard but double as a jigsaw puzzle! All you have to do is write a message on the back, break it up, post it and the receiver will assemble the puzzle and will be pleasantly surprised to see a message!

Long/Panoramic Cards

These beauties are longer than normal postcards by around 9 centimetres. We got these because they were gorgeous and usually they cost around Dhs 10-20, but during this sale, only Dhs 3!

Seahorse Notebook

We got this adorable notebook for our cousin. The pattern is so simple yet so please to the eye. We love it!

If you guys have an suggestions, ideas or questions, please let us know in the comments!

If you would like to buy the books, you can click here:

I Am The Messenger:

http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Messenger-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375836675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435409401&sr=1-1&keywords=i+am+the+messenger

Goodnight Mister Tom:

http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Mister-Tom-Michelle-Magorian/dp/0141353848/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435409432&sr=1-3&keywords=goodnight+mister+tom

The Boy Who Fell To Earth:

http://www.amazon.com/Fell-Earth-Lette-Kathy-Paperback/dp/B00IIARMCI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435409599&sr=1-2&keywords=the+boy+who+fell+to+earth

The Girl With All The Gifts:

http://www.amazon.com/Girl-All-Gifts-M-Carey/dp/0316334758/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435409381&sr=1-1&keywords=the+girl+with+all+the+gifts

If you would like to check out Gallery One's website, you can click here:

https://www.g-1.com/

You can also watch our video on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/hpcqw_aYSBg

We hope this post was helpful for you :)
See you later!
Salam | Peace