Mailbox Monday

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. The June host is Burton Book Review.
 

From Little, Brown for review and giveaway:

Summerland
by Elin Hilderbrand

It’s June 15th, the night of Nantucket High School graduation. Four juniors are driving home from a party when something goes horribly wrong and there is a crash.

Summerland delves into the circumstances surrounding this accident, the roots of which lie deep in the past, with the first interactions between these four friends and their parents. It’s a novel about how tragedy affects individuals, families, and the island community as a whole, and how healing can happen, in even the most devastating circumstances.

For review from Penguin:

Thy Neighbor
by Norah Vincent

Obsessed with understanding the circumstances surrounding his parents’ deaths and deranged by his relentless sorrow, Nick begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and disbelief all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that his neighbors do to themselves and to one another, and as he, in turn, learns that he is being stalked, he begins to slowly unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.
 
A win from Soho Books:

Detour
by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich’s Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to Gestapo custody. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately.
 
 
For review from HarperAudio:

The Cove
by Ron Rash

Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe–just as they know that Laurel Shelton, the lonely young woman who lives within its shadows, is a witch. Alone except for her brother, Hank, newly returned from the trenches of France, she aches for her life to begin.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

Share what you read last week and what you are currently reading.

This was a busy week. While I didn’t go to BEA in New York, I did participate in Armchair BEA and spend more time than I had planned writing posts and visiting other participants. I had fun and it was a great opportunity to meet some of the other bloggers. Needless to say I didn’t get any reviews written and not a lot of reading done. On Saturday I went to LitFest, which is the Chicago Tribune’s book fair and I’ll be posting more on that later this week.

Finished Listening/Reading Last Week:

I was a little disappointed in The Lifeboat. I was expecting more action, more drama, more excitement… but got none of that. I’ll have a review up sometime this week.

Summerland was fantastic. I started reading it the minute it arrived in the mail and didn’t want to put it down. My review is scheduled for next Monday, June 18th, plus I will be hosting a giveaway for three finished copies of the book (US/Canada only).

Reading/Listening This Week:

Just starting both of these.

I will also be hosting a giveaway for a copy of Age of Miracles next week (US/Canada only).
 

What Are You Reading?

 
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