March 10, 2014 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ March 10th

Welcome to Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia of To Be Continued, a place where readers share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

After several years of being on tour with different blogs as the monthly host, the Mailbox Monday Blog is now the permanent home for the meme.

It finally feels like spring is in the air – never mind that it is supposed to snow again on Wednesday. Today it’s warm out there! I went for a two hour hike on Saturday for the first time in months and my body is letting me know about it. Time to get back into shape and use my new fitness tracker to monitor my progress and keep me motivated.

Here’s what showed up in my mailbox last week:

New Arivals

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert from Amazon Vine and Simon & Schuster Audio.
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo from Amazon Vine and Blackstone Audio.
A gripping literary thriller, North of Boston combines the atmospheric chills of Jussi Adler-Olsen with the gritty mystery of Laura Lippman. And Pirio Kasparov is a gutsy, compellingly damaged heroine with many adventures ahead.

NIL by Lynne Matson from Macmillam.
On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape—or you die. Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s naked in an empty rock field.

Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor from HarperOne.
With her characteristic charm and literary wisdom, Taylor is our guide through a spirituality of the nighttime, teaching us how to find our footing in times of uncertainty and giving us strength and hope to face all of life’s challenging moments.