December 9, 2013 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ December 9th

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 December host is Rose City Reader.

I don’t usually put up my Cardinals-in-the-Snow mailbox until January, but cardinals and snow are what I was looking at outside my window today. Five cardinals at the feeders and snow all afternoon. It looks pretty right now but my patience for snow runs out after a few days, and unfortunately it’s only December.

I only received one print book last week but it’s one who’s arrival I’ve been eagerly awaiting. I also received a few audio downloads for my mp3 player.

Print Books

After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman from William Morrow & Co.

When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative-if not all legal-businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s comfortable world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes.

Audiobooks

Jony Ive by Leander Kahney from Random House Audio
Jony Ive’s designs have not only made Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world; they’ve overturned entire industries, from music and mobile phones to PCs and tablets. But for someone who has changed the world as much as he has, little is widely known about Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design.

The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani from HarperAudio.
For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This historic business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the school teacher turned shoemaker, to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a complex past . . . and a secret.

Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin from Random House Audio
All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities—including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin.

What are you reading?