Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Books in the house

Two wonderful people have weekly memes about what has shown up in our mailbox the previous week.

Kristi at The Story Siren
& Marcia at The Printed Page.
Jump over to see what others have received this week.

I'm sorry, I wanted this to have more info, like last week, but I'm too tired...
Review books that have arrived this week:

The Male Factor
A Rainbow in the Night
Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart


Purchased (physical store):

Onmivore's Dilemma (for a gift)
and Another Thing (for M but I'll read it too)
Morning Light


Purchased (Mail order delivered):

The Unexpected Dragon
Zanna's Gift
StoneFather
Empire
Invasive Procedures


Thank you to J.Kaye's Book Blog
One in a Hundred Million
Pistonhead
School of Fear (audio)

6 comments:

fredamans said...

Great books!

http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-my-mailbox.html

J. Kaye said...

So glad the books arrived! Hope you enjoy those. :)

Juju at Tales of Whimsy.com said...

Sweet week ahead :)

Laughing Stars aka The Stark Raving Bibliophile said...

My father sang the praises of The Omnivore's Dilemma. It looks like you have a lot of good reads there!

Here's mine

Katy said...

I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart! Happy reading!

Laura (The Bookie Bunch) said...

Great books!

Here's what I got this week! http://bookielaura.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-my-mailbox-12-23-09.html

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Stats

New blog goal for 2010. I'm going to try keeping a running total of the following. We'll see how long it lasts... well, let's try this again for 2011! Just remember, anything with an ISBN counts, even the short stories.
Up to date as of December 18 (to the best of my knowledge)

Books read, new: 231
Books read, re-read: 27
New to me authors: 64
Pages: 19,841 plus 168 ebooks
Reviews posted: 29


Nonfiction: 10
Picture Books to Young Adult: 34
Banned/Challenged Books: none? fix this next year!

books left to read in 2012

Don't know if this will work or not but will give it a try. . .

As of May 25, early a.m., I have the following books left to read to complete all of my open challenges.

68 separate ISBNs
22 21 specific states
1-6 :: 0-5 :: 0-4 cozy mysteries
1 Mystery/Suspense with a weapon in title (Poison)
4 3 Dystopia
1 Fairy Tale
1 from 100 Best list
1 Science Fiction
1 Literary Fiction
1 Classic (Hound of the Baskervilles)
3 Memoirs
1 Fae
?? The Unread Book
7 Harry Potter
7 Narnia
3 by Dean Koontz
5 Song of Fire and Ice series - Game of Thrones
7 free ebooks
Redwall
Easy Prey
Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold
1 Disney Lit
311 Pelican Court
5 specific colors
1 foodie
12 11 specific...Summer Book Challenge
8-10 8-9 specific...Summer Reading Challenge
5 specific..Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book
1 AlA's Top Ten/2011
"x" title
review 2+ personal books
review 8 already read ARCs
review 15 ARCs
Room
11 Shelf Discovery books


Some of these can/will overlap but it is still a HUGE list.