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 March host is Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums.
 
Last week was a slow reading week but a good week for the mailbox.

From the publicist for review:

The Apple Orchard
by Susan Wiggs

Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother’s beloved necklace-despite Tess’s advice. To Annelise, the jewel’s value is in its memories. But Tess’s own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in a coma. And that she has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista, a hundred-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called Archangel.

For review from AmazonVine:

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. more

From the author for review (ebook):

The Knightmare
by Deborah Valentine

Historical time travel fantasy…
France, 1209: A Knight Templar riding through an eerie forest is suddenly attacked by an assassin as a man and woman watch from a distant hillside. When his death seems certain, the woman takes up a sword… Present, Formula 1 race, Magny Cours: Observed by the very same couple, Conor Westfield, a career-obsessed Scottish driver, is in a horrible racing accident. Miraculously, he survives what seemed to be certain death…more
On 3/11 and 3/14 there will be a free promotion for the Kindle ebook.
 

Two audiobooks for review from Penguin Audio:

How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia
by Mohsin Hamid

the astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his…

Written In Red
by Anne Bishop

As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others.

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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.

Last week

I finished the audio of Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton and started reading Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

It was a slow reading week for fiction as I spent a good amount of time with a pile of library books offering a wide range of advice on how to update my resume for today’s job market. Oddly enough the most helpful was the insultingly titled, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Resume.

I posted three reviews:
The Urban Hermit by Sam MacDonald
The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
The National Geographic Bird-Watcher’s Bible edited by Jonathan Alderfer.

The winner of the giveaway for a copy of The Mapmaker’s War is Susanna P. @ SusieBookworm.

This week

I plan on finishing Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Gardening for the Birds, and listening to Farside by Ben Bova. Next in line is either Unremembered by Jessica Brody or The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

What are you reading?

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