January 30, 2011 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ January 31st

Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.

Mailbox Monday is currently on tour, hosted by a different blog each month. This month’s host is Rose City Reader.

Last week’s new books were:

The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton, from the author for review.

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbors, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that’s before the arrival of Catherine’s sister, Bryony.

What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir by Alice Eve Cohen, a win from At Home With Books.

At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiancé that she’s never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin.

In her unflinchingly honest and ruefully witty voice, Alice nimbly carries us through her metamorphosis from a woman who has come to terms with infertility to one who struggles to love a heartbeat found in her womb – six months into a high-risk pregnancy.

Twin: A Memoir by Allen Shawn. I’m not sure where this came from, possibly a win.

There was no letter or card inside the envelope.
When Allen and his twin sister were two, she began exhibiting signs of autism. More than fifty years later, Shawn realized their natures were not so different. Twin is about the mystery of being inextricably bonded to someone who can never be truly understood.