Mailbox Monday, March 11

A surprisingly lovely weekend given the surprise snow storm on Friday!  It is gorgeous sunny out so the snow is beginning to melt and while chilly, one could almost imagine spring is close. Plus, the arrivals for the last two weeks were pretty amazing so I'm a very happy girl.

Here's my Mailbox Monday for this first half of March (hosted this month by Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums).

To learn more about a title, click the image -- it will open in a new tab/window.  What did you get this week?

For Review



















Comments

  1. Wow, what a mailbox! I'm very curious about The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.

    ReplyDelete

  2. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards and In the Garden of Stone both caught my eye. Wonderful mailbox.

    ReplyDelete

  3. Genre-bending literary historical fiction seems like it might be popular this season - I also got The River of No Return this week, and The Age of Ice looks fascinating.

    ReplyDelete

  4. What a fantastic haul of books!

    ReplyDelete

  5. What a great list of books! Murder as a Fine Art looks particularly intriguing.

    ReplyDelete

  6. Definitely interested to hear your thoughts on the Trussoni. I found Angelology just ok, but if the second is better I'd likely get back to it. I'm reading Bitter Greens at the moment, it's more serious than I thought but compelling nonetheless.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. I'm curious too -- Angelology was more fun than I anticipated, but now I can't remember a single detail! So we'll see if I can get into Angelopolis.

      Delete

  7. I feel like I'm in sight of possibly catching up on reviews, so I'm rather relieved that I didn't get a mailbox haul like this! But the books look great!

    ReplyDelete

  8. Wow, what a nice looking collection! I'm curious about Bitter Greens....Enjoy your week!

    Here's MY MONDAY MEMES POST

    ReplyDelete

  9. You have such a wide interest span, Audra! I need to look into that Raw Head and Bloody Bones!! :)

    ReplyDelete

  10. I'm hearing great things about River of No Return....looking forward to your thoughts!

    ReplyDelete

  11. Nice, fat mailbox. Enjoy them all.

    ReplyDelete

  12. Some wonderful titles in this collection. I hope you enjoy Bitter Greens as much as I did. It was in my Best Books of 2012 list.

    I have Anther Sun on my reading pile and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards on my wish list. This is the first time I have seen The Age of Ice - what a stunning cover.

    ReplyDelete

  14. A great mixture of reads, enjoy!

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2013/03/mailbox-monday_11.html

    ReplyDelete

  15. OK You READING MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    My heart palpitates at these great covers, but then I remember it would take me decades to get through these at my current reading pace.. so I must live vicariously through you again =)
    Enjoy them!!
    Come visit my bookish memes post and send me some love!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies

    1. Marie, this is me limiting myself, too!! EEEEK!

      Delete

  16. Wow....you received some GOOD Books...ENJOY!!!

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Mailbox Monday

    ReplyDelete

  17. These are the books that caught my eye from your mailbox:

    The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
    Murder as Fine Art

    Happy reading

    ReplyDelete

  18. Awesome mailbox! I'm so excited about Angelopolis coming out. Enjoy your new books! :)

    ReplyDelete

  19. You got lot of books! The Age of Ice sounds very good. Would be nice to read something that isn't focused on Catherine the Great. Bitter Greens sounds good too.

    ReplyDelete

  20. Oooh, just saw The Bitter Greens on another blog and must say, I love the look of that cover. And the Bloody Bones cover looks like a whole bunch of ghosty entertainment. What a fun pile!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Winter 2017 Bloggiesta To Do Post

Image
I love Bloggiesta for reminding me to brush up and take of my blog, and doing it "in community", so to speak, makes this housework a little more fun.

Given my earlier whining about feeling out-of-it with my blog, I'm really excited there's a mini-event this coming weekend in which I can do some backend work here.

My to do list is pretty simple:
make a top 10 of 2016 post (even if it is just a list!)review the book I just finished!I'd like to start 2017 without a backlog of reviews, so it feels important I keep up. We'll see if I'll tackle my 2016 backlog. (Perhaps for another Bloggiesta!)
Read more

Book Review & Giveaway: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Image
First line: The first person I met in England was a hallucination.

Everyone, this book. This book!! Plot, characters, place, era, details, drama, villains, heroines, and wonderfully compelling storytelling -- everything was there that I wanted, unfolding in that delicious way that makes me just want to skip meals and read.

The novel follows Charlie St. Clair, a pregnant college student shipped to Europe to get an abortion, who yearns to find her beloved cousin who went missing during World War II. She meets Eve Gardiner, an pistol-wielding woman with a drinking problem, foul attitude, and destroyed, mangled hands. In alternating chapters, we learn Eve is recruited to work as a spy during World War I, part of the famous Alice Network, and her important but dangerous work changes her life.

Normally I'm not a dual narrative fan, but Quinn sucked me in with both stories/heroines and I really can't say which was my favorite. What I loved most about this book was its depiction of f…
Read more

Book Review: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Image
First line: A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon.

I wanted to read this book the instant I heard about (shortlist for Baileys Women's Prize, I believe), and my hunger for it was justified because now, a week after finishing, I'm contemplating whether I can reread it before it's due (and if I can justify buying it).

Set in 1893, the novel follows Cora Seaborne, a new widow, who has a voraciously hungry intellect and a naturalist's passions. Freed from her cruel husband, she goes to Essex on a friend's suggestion, where she meets William Ransome, the parish vicar. Expecting him to be brutish or comfortably corpulent, she instead finds a mind like her's, hungry for knowledge -- but where she honors science, he honors faith.

The wild stories of the Essex serpent -- blamed for the deaths of livestock and children -- shape the landscape, the people, their experiences. Cora hopes to find it while Will believes it to be imagina…
Read more

Book Review & Giveaway: Lost Boy by Christina Henry

Image
First line: Once I was young, and young forever and always, until I wasn't.

This book ruined my life in the best way.

Christina Henry's novel imagines that James Cook wasn't originally a villain. Once, James was a boy named Jamie, and he was Peter Pan's first playmate. His most beloved one.

But after years and years and years of living with Peter, Jamie has aged in some ways -- not physically, but mentally. He sees the arbitrary, insane cruelty of Peter Pan -- someone who yearns only for fun, but whose idea of fun includes real bloodshed and death -- and Jamie eventually tires of it.

I haven't actually read any of Barrie's original work on Peter Pan, but am familiar with the story as portrayed by Disney and popular culture. Henry's take is so achingly good, because when you get down to it, there is something horrifically vicious in Peter's behavior and world. Jamie -- who wants nothing more than to just love Peter as he once did, and be loved in return …
Read more