{"id":1652,"date":"2010-10-11T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2010-10-11T00:48:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T04:48:49","slug":"in-my-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"In My Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to post my first In My Mailbox<\/a> blog entry. This blog meme is hosted by The Story Siren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t get a lot of review copies in the mail, but I do check out an awful lot of books from the library. Now, mind you, I don’t always get them read as fast as I want to — So many books, so little time — You know the story. I thought this would be a fun way to mention the books I’m excited about reading — and hope that some day I’ll be able to follow up and give you a review.<\/p>\n

First, last weekend at the Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, I got three books signed by their authors!<\/p>\n

A Conspiracy of Kings<\/a>,<\/em> by Megan Whalen Turner, When You Reach Me<\/a>,<\/em> by Rebecca Stead, and First Light,<\/em> by Rebecca Stead. I’ve already read and loved the first two of those, but now want to read Rebecca Stead’s first book, First Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Next, I really did get some books in my mailbox the past week or so. Enchanted Ivy<\/em> came from author Sarah Beth Durst, because I loved her earlier book, and the same with Penny Dreadful<\/em>, by Laurel Snyder. It’s so exciting to get books in the mail that I’m quite sure I will like!<\/p>\n

The other book came in an Amazon order because it’s a new Sherwood Smith book I don’t have, Coronets and Steel<\/em>. I want to try to read it before October 15th, because I have a feeling I will want to nominate it for a Cybils Award<\/a>, and I’m not sure it has already been nominated.<\/p>\n

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Finally, there are Library books I’ve checked out in the last week or so — or some of them.<\/p>\n

Now, I ALWAYS overdo it on checking out library books. Plenty of these I will not get to before they are due, and if they have holds, now that I’m not working for the library with that mighty “override” power (that I try not to use, honest!), I will have to turn them back in, unread. However, I pictured the books that I checked out recently that I really really want to read.<\/p>\n

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The books are:
\nZombies vs. Unicorns<\/em>, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier. This book contains stories written by many outstanding authors, including Diana Peterfreund, who wrote Rampant<\/a><\/em> and Ascendant<\/a>.<\/em> She told me about this collection a year ago at the Kidlitosphere conference, and I’ve been eager to read it ever since. Go Team Unicorn!<\/p>\n

Behemoth<\/em>, by Scott Westerfeld. This is the sequel to Leviathan<\/a><\/em>, so I’m very eager to read it. A little disappointed the library doesn’t have the audiobook form yet, though.<\/p>\n

What Happened on Fox Street,<\/em>, The Boneshaker<\/em>, Reckless<\/em>, Keeper<\/em>, and The Search for WondLa<\/em> are all books I’ve heard good things about on kidlit blogs.<\/p>\n

Two adult books in the pile are Baking Cakes in Kigali<\/em>, which has a really cool title, and The Franchise Affair<\/em>. I am on a Josephine Tey kick lately, after having listened to her classic The Daughter of Time<\/em> and two of her other books. She wrote mystery novels during the Golden Age of detective fiction, a contemporary of Agatha Christie. I haven’t yet posted my reviews of her books, but I am definitely hooked.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I will NOT get even close to reading all these books in a week. Will posting what books I check out each week help me to control myself and limit myself to the number of books I can actually read? I doubt it very much, but there is something satisfying about telling people about all these great books I can read if I can just find the time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to post my first In My Mailbox blog entry. This blog meme is hosted by The Story Siren. Now, I don’t get a lot of review copies in the mail, but I do check out an awful lot of books from the library. Now, mind you, I don’t always get them read as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-my-mailbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}