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 July host is Jennifer D @ 5 Minutes for Books.
 

From the Little, Brown for review and giveaway:

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette’s intensifying allergy to Seattle–and people in general–has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

From Atria’s Galley Alley for review:

The Color of Rust
by P. A. O'Reilly

Set in the Australian bush, a wryly funny, beautifully observed novel about friendship, motherhood, love, and the importance of fighting for things that matter. Loretta Boskovic never dreamed she would end up a single mother with two kids in a dusty Australian country town. She never imagined she’d have to campaign to save the local primary school. She certainly had no idea her best friend would turn out to be the crusty old junk man. All in all, she’s starting to wonder if she took a wrong turn somewhere. If only she could drop the kids at the orphanage and start over . . . But now, thanks to her protest letters, the education minister is coming to Gunapan, and she has to convince him to change his mind about the school closure.

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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 has been a slow reading week for me. I only finished one print and one audiobook. I don’t know if it’s the weather or just a lack of focus, but I haven’t felt much like concentrating on reading. Perhaps the new wide-screen TV that arrived this week has consumed much of my attention. Moving from old-style square tube analog to HDTV is a real eye-opener. I’ve never been much of a television person but I think movies at home will have a whole new dimension now!

Reading/Listening Last Week:

Last week I finished listening to City of Women, excellent historical fiction set in Berlin during the second World War. I’ll have a review sometime this week.

I also posted a review and giveaway of The Violinist’s Thumb, a science book written in an engaging and lively style.

Reading/Listening This Week:

I’ve just started the new Nicci French novel, Tuesday’s Gone, and I’m currently listening to Earth Unaware, by Orson Scott Card. For science fiction fans, this is the first volume in a new series set in the same world as Ender’s Game, a prequel.

What Are You Reading?

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