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 April host is Mari @ MariReads
Another busy week at the mailbox with four print books and one audiobook. Now all I need is some nice summer weather so I can sit outside in my backyard and read them.
For review from St. Martin’s Press:
Sweet Salt Air
by Barbara Delinsky
Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole’s coastal island house off of Maine. But many years, and many secrets, have kept the women apart. A successful travel writer, single Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, keeps house in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. But what both women don’t know is that they are each holding something back that may change their lives forever.
For review from Harlequin MIRA:
Spear of Summer Grass
by Deanna Raybourn
The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather’s savannah manor house until gossip subsides. Amidst the wonders-and dangers-of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart. Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for-and what she can no longer live without.
For review from St. Martin’s Press:
Always Watching
by Chevy Stevens
In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years.
A twitter win from Penguin:
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species.
For review from Post Hypnotic Press through Audiobook Jukebox:
This funny and thought-provoking memoir traces one day on Trauma Farm. In it, Brett explores the natural history of the small mixed farm, meditates on the perfection of the egg, offers critiques of factory farms and the slaughtering industry, muses on the uses and misuses of gates, and ponders the constant presence of death as he goes about the activities of farming – birthing lambs, contending with rats, helping an aged horse to his death.
What are you reading?
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Ah, you got Always Watching as well. I loved her other two books. Happy reading.
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Some good books in your mailbox, Leslie. Trauma Farm sounds fascinating.
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I like the look of Trauma Farm and the Deanna Raybourn. Enoy!
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These all look good! I especially like the idea of Sweet Salt Air and Always Watching. And of course, a Pollan book usually doesn’t disappoint either.
Happy reading!
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Looks like a good collection of books. I started blogging again. Please stop by my site when you get a chance. Enjoy your books!
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I really enjoy Delnski!
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Spear of Summer Grass does look good!
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Ooh, Always Watching…and Sweet Salt Air! Both should be coming to me soon! Can’t wait. Hope you enjoy all of your reads.
Here’s MY MONDAY MEMES POST
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A few of these titles caught my eye.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2013/04/mailbox-monday_29.html
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My husband’s reading Omnivore’s Dilemma. Enjoy your new books, Leslie. They sound very good!
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I got Sweet Salt Air too. I love memoirs so Trauma Farm looks good to me!
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Some interesting books, enjoy.
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Great variety this week Leslie – enjoy. I was too busy to do a MM post sadly.
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You will LOVE Sweet Salt Air. Spear of Summer Grass looks good.
ENJOY all your books!!
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Mailbox Monday
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Enjoy your books!
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Great mailbox this week. Enjoy!
2 Kids and Tired Books MM
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I see two books that are on my must read list!
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Very cool that you got Deanna Raybourn’s newest! I like her writing!
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