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 Goodreads for review:

Giving Up The Ghost
by Eric Nuzum

At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story like no other. Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in his parents’ attic.
 
 
 
From Little, Brown for review and giveaway:

This Bright River
by Patrick Somerville

Ben Hanson’s aimless life has bottomed out of a series of bad decisions, but a surprising offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin. There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his cousin’s mysterious death a decade earlier. A compelling family drama and a surprising love story, rich with the dark humor and piercing intelligence that made The Cradle so beloved, This Bright River confirms Somerville’s status as one of the most talented writers at work today.
 
 
From Quirk Books for review:

The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters

What’s the point of solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Hank Palace, a homicide detective in Concord, New Hampshire, asks this question every day. When it first appeared, 2011L47J was just a speck, somewhere beyond Jupiter’s orbit. By mid-October it revealed itself to be seven kilometers in diameter, and on a crash course with the Earth. Now it’s March, and sometime in September, 2011L47J will slam into our planet and kill half the population immediately, and most of the rest in the miserable decades that follow.
 

From Doubleday for review and giveaway:

The Pigeon Pie Mystery
by Julia Stuart

With her trademark wit and charm, Julia Stuart introduces us to an outstanding cast of lovable oddballs, from the palace maze-keeper to the unconventional Lady Beatrice (who likes to dress up as a toucan—don’t ask), as she guides us through the many delightful twists and turns in this fun and quirky murder mystery. Everyone is hiding a secret of the heart, and even Alexandrina may not realize when she’s caught in a maze of love
 
 

From Penguin Audio for review:

The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty

A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone.

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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 is Audiobook Week so I will be posting audiobook reviews that I have saved up over the past few weeks plus a few other surprises and giveaways. Check back for more Audio Goodness this week.

I’m currently taking part in the Literary Blog Hop which runs through Wednesday and I am giving away, you guessed it, an audiobook!

Finished Listening/Reading Last Week:

My review of The Age of Miracles is posted. I am also giving away a copy of the book, enter by June 30th.

Reviews for Stolen Prey and House of Velvet and Glass up later this week.

Reading/Listening This Week:

I am finishing up Beautiful Ruins which is excellent. My review will be posted on Thursday. Then on to Red Shirts, which is a Star Trek spoof. Some science fiction humor should be interesting. I’ve given up on Fifty Shades of Grey. Although I’d like to know how the book ends, the audio is just too awful to finish. I’ll be posting my thoughts on that later this week. Now on to my next audiobook, The Cove.

What Are You Reading?

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