October 7, 2013 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ October 7th

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. Currently on tour, it is hosted by a different blog each month.

The October host is Book Dragon’s Lair.

I can’t believe it’s October already. The leaves are changing color and the summer blossoms have all faded away. My mini pumpkins all turned bright orange last week and for the first time the squirrels left them alone – no chew marks.

Last week was a slow reading week – I’m still reading the same two books. My mailbox received a couple of wins and one audiobook.

Print Books:

The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli, a win from Bookreporter.
A breathtaking novel of a California ranching family, its complicated matriarch, and the enigmatic caretaker who may destroy them.

Disgraced: A Play by Ayad Akhtar, a win from Little, Brown and Co.
In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another.

Audiobooks

Rivers by Michael Farris Smith
An audiobook download from Simon & Schuster Audio.

Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.

What are you reading?

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