In My Mailbox – Heather’s Going To Be Busy

Posted 22 July, 2012 by Heather in Heather, meme / 23 Comments

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Weekly meme from The Story Siren. The idea is to post the books you got this week, whether you bought them, got them as a gift, from the library, or received them to review.

Hi, everyone! I have five books for you guys this week, and I didn’t spend a penny. I likeย those kinds ofย weeks!ย (All links for books and authors are to Goodreads, descriptions are from Amazon, click the book covers to go to the Amazon.com page for the book)


I bought Anna Bank’s Of Poseidonย using my birthday Barnes and Noble gift card.

Galen is the prince of the Syrena, sent to land to find a girl he’s heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on vacation at the beach. When she runs into Galen โ€” literally, ouch! โ€” both teens sense a connection. But it will take several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, for Galen to be convinced of Emma’s gifts. Now, if he can only convince Emma that she holds the key to his kingdom . . .


Told from both Emma and Galen’s points of view, here is a fish-out-of-water story that sparkles with intrigue, humor, and waves of romance.ย 

Pushy and I met Anna Banks a few months back at a book signing. She was such a funny, snarky, lovely person that I knew if only a fraction of that transferred to her writing, her book would be fantastic. This book also comes highly recommended by Danny too, so I headed right for this one with my birthday Barnes and Noble gift card in hand.

 

Received for a TLC Book Tour in August: Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, A Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means To Be Hauntedย by Eric Nuzum

At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story like no other.

Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in his parentsโ€™ attic. It began as a weird premonition during his dreams, something that his quickly diminishing circle of friends chalked up as a way to get attention. It ended with Eric in a mental ward, having apparently destroyed his life before it truly began. The only thing that kept him from the brink: his friendship with a girl named Laura, a classmate who was equal parts devoted friend and enigmatic crush. With the kind of strange connection you can only forge when youโ€™re young, Laura walked Eric back to โ€œnormalโ€โ€”only to become a ghost herself in a tragic twist of fate.

Years later, a fully functioning member of society with a great job and family, Eric still canโ€™t stand to have any shut doors in his house for fear of whatโ€™s on the other side. In order to finally confront his phobia, he enlists some friends on a journey to Americaโ€™s most haunted places. But deep down he knows itโ€™s only when he digs up the ghosts of his past, especially Laura, that heโ€™ll find the peace heโ€™s looking for.

Off the Grid (Monkeewrench #6)ย by P.J. Tracy from Putnam Adult

On a sailboat ten miles off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in Monkeewrench Software, thwarts an assassination attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. A few hours later, in Minneapolis, a fifteen-year-old girl is discovered in a vacant lot, her throat slashed. Later that day, two young men are found in their home a few blocks away, killed execution-style. The next morning, the dead bodies of three more men turn up, savagely murdered in the same neighborhood.

As Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes, they learn that there have been similar murders in other cities around the United States. Piece by piece, evidence accumulates, pointing to a suspect that shocks them to the core, uncovering a motive that puts the entire Midwest on high alert and Monkeewrench in the direct line of fire. Before it’s all over, Grace and her partners, Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, find themselves in the middle of a shocking collision of violence on a remote northern Minnesota reservation, fighting for their lives.

 

 

The Book of Tomorrow by Cecilia Ahern from HarperCollins

Raised in the lap of luxury, spoiled and tempestuous sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin has never had to think about tomorrow. But when her world is irrevocably shaken by her father’s self-imposed death, she and her mother are left drowning in debt and forced to move in with Tamara’s peculiar aunt and uncle in a tiny countryside village.

Lonely and bored, Tamara’s sole diversion is a traveling library. There she finds a large leather-bound book with a gold clasp and padlock, but no author name or title. Intrigued, she pries open the lock, and what she finds takes her breath awayโ€”for what’s written inside is not only impossible and magical . . . it’s her future.

I loved P.S. I Love You (one of the few books to make me bawl like a baby), and this book sounds really intriguing. It came out a few years ago in the author’s native country, and it’s finally available here in the States. I can’t wait to dig into this one. And there’s just something about this cover that’s just breathtaking…

 

 

The Hollow City by Dan Wells from Tor

Dan Wells won instant acclaim for his three-novel debut about the adventures of John Wayne Cleaver, a heroic young man who is a potential serial killer. All who read the trilogy were struck by the distinctive and believable voice Wells created for John.

Now he returns with another innovative thriller told in a very different, equally unique voice. A voice that comes to us from theย  realm of madness.

Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. Thatโ€™s bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? Who can you trust if you can’t even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind.

 

I can’t wait to read these. Now to find more hours in the day.ย What’s in your mailbox this week?

Heather

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23 Responses to “In My Mailbox – Heather’s Going To Be Busy”

  1. kit

    Giving Up The Ghost sounds excellent, and kind of spooky. I like the reference to 80s rock in the subtitle. ๐Ÿ™‚ Hope you enjoy all your books this week!
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    I’m really looking forward to reading Giving Up the Ghost, Kit. The tour stop is scheduled for August 15, so look for my review to by up that day.
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  2. Sounds like a good book week to me. Giving Up the Ghost sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out. Happy reading!

    Ashley @ Dr. Pepper Diva
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    Thanks for swinging on by, Ashley! Giving Up the Ghost was one of those books that sounded so interesting I just had to pick it up.
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  3. Hollow City sounds great! I’ve only read Partials, but I have his others on the list. Now I want this one too. Enjoy! My STS
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    I have Partials at home just waiting for me to read. But I listen to Dan’s podcast “Writing Excuses” that he does with Mary Robinette Kowal (author of Shades of Milk and Honey, and Glamour in Glass) and another guy, and it’s a great listen.
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  4. Oh there’s definitley a lot of funny convos and snark transferred to Anna’s writing. I adored that book and I hope you like it too!:) I haven’t heard of the rest, but I hope you enjoy reading them
    Happy reading!:D

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    Heather 7/23/2012

    That’s good to hear, Addie! I’ll certainly enjoy Of Poseidon then.
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  5. Love the books you got! Of Poseidon was such a fantastic read! I hope you enjoy it too ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m curious about Giving Up The Ghost! I love me a good ghost story. I hope you enjoy all the books you got this week.

    MaryAnn @ Chapter by Chapter
    What we got this WEEk!”
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    I hope Giving Up the Ghost is good. My review will be Up on August 15, and there will be a chance to win a copy of the book.
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  6. Ooooohh! I loved Of Poseidon! Was my first mermaid book! I hope you enjoy too! ๐Ÿ™‚
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    Of Poseidon will be my first mermaid book too, Mariya! So many people have loved this book, so I’m sure it’s great! Thanks for stopping by!
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  7. Great books, hon!!! I can’t wait to hear what you think of Of Posiedon!!! I hope you love it as much as Danny did!!! ๐Ÿ™‚
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    Heather 7/23/2012

    Of Poseidon has to at least be funny. Is it possible for an author to be so sarcastic and funny without her writing to be like that too? I hope not, because the book might not be so awesome if that were the case!
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