{"id":1698,"date":"2010-10-18T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2010-10-18T00:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:56:16","slug":"in-my-mailbox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"In My Mailbox #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another week’s look at what’s In My Mailbox<\/a>. This meme is hosted by The Story Siren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, I did not actually receive any books in my mailbox. I did, however, check out plenty of books from the Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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The books are:
\nThe Library Doors<\/em>, by Toni Buzzeo. I’d been wanting this book, to see if it would be a good one to use for library tours. Of course, I’m currently not in a position where I’m offering library tours, but maybe again some day….<\/p>\n

Orangutans Are Ticklish<\/em>, by Steve Grubman. Need I say more?<\/p>\n

Front and Center<\/em>, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. I finished her earlier books Dairy Queen<\/em> and The Off Season<\/em> in audiobook form, and I can’t wait for the audiobook to find out what happens next! Besides, next week I get to hear the author speak at the MAYALIG conference!<\/p>\n

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise<\/em>, by Julia Stuart. This is a book for adults for which I read a good review. Last time I checked it out, I had to return it unread.<\/p>\n

The Magical Ms. Plum<\/em>, by Bonny Becker. I love Bonny Becker’s books about Bear and Mouse. Surely this will be good, too.<\/p>\n

Not pictured, I also checked out Touch Blue,<\/em> by Cynthia Lord, based on a good review.<\/p>\n

I didn’t read this many books this week. Of the books pictured last week, I had to return Reckless<\/em> unread. I did, however, stay up all night last Sunday night reading Coronets and Steel,<\/em> by Sherwood Smith, and thoroughly enjoyed it. (Monday was a holiday, so I went to sleep after I finished the book. It wasn’t a smart way to do it, but it was fun.)<\/p>\n

I made a policy after getting back from ALA with 124 new books. From now on, I will read one library book, then one book I own. Coronets and Steel<\/em> was a book I own, so next I read a library book: I have almost finished Behemoth,<\/em> by Scott Westerfeld. Next I would like to tackle some of the review copies I’ve received, but I may finally tackle Wuthering Heights<\/em>, as I was prompted to by reading Clare Dunkle’s The House of Dead Maids.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week I also finally finished Women Who Run With the Wolves<\/em>, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from my nonfiction pile. I go through nonfiction chapter by chapter in a rotating pile, so it tends to take me a long time. I’ve been reading that excellent book for a very long time and finding it inspirational.<\/p>\n

I’m actually trying to slow down my reading a little bit, because I currently have 28 books I have read and want to write reviews for, and 15 books I have written reviews for and want to post. I did get more written this week than the number of books I finished, so that means I made progress, right?<\/p>\n

Hmm. This may get discouraging reporting on how many books I check out and how slowly I’m getting them reviewed! I’ll try it a little longer and see if I make progress….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another week’s look at what’s In My Mailbox. This meme is hosted by The Story Siren. This week, I did not actually receive any books in my mailbox. I did, however, check out plenty of books from the Fairfax County Public Library. The books are: The Library Doors, by Toni Buzzeo. I’d been wanting […]<\/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-1698","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\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}