I was hoping to have this post up Sunday evening but as many of you know I was out of town this weekend and honestly I was just too tired to work on it last night. I am stepping into another crazy week with dinner with our oldest son tonight, a funeral tomorrow, tomorrow evening and Wednesday evening I stay overnight for our churches commitment to housing the homeless one week per quarter, Thursday is the fall Library book sale (YAY!) and on Thursday we move out youngest to Mankato for college (not so yay… sad, but will get easier I know)… by Friday I suspect there will be nothing left of me…LOL and Saturday if my cousin has his way I will be biking 50 miles in Bemidji.
ANYWAY- today it is about the books and I have lots of book things going on too so dont think this blog will be quiet this week as that is not true – I will have something new up every day!
Here is what was in my mailbox this past week:
1. The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni Halevy sent to me for review
2. The Blue Star by tony earley and The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser are both Hachette Book Group books sent to me to review as well as current giveaways. See the giveaway for The Blue Star here and The Lost Dog here.
3. It Happened in Minnesota by Tony Bridwell is a lovely book about my home state sent to me from Singing River Publications for review. Bruce the Sugarbuggy as well as the quite large and gorgeous book, The Mesisel Family Violin Makers were also sent from Singing River Publications for review.
4. Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels Young is a Blog Tour I am on tomorrow (Tuesday). This book was given to me by Tywebbin Creations for review.
5. Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble is a blog tour in September. This book came from Source Books.
6. Girl Naw! by Lacricia A. Angelle is a Blog Tour by Tywebbin Creations. This tour is in September.
7. Summer of Two Wishes by Julia London is a Blog Tour for Pocketbook later this month
8. The Green Pear is a review sent to me by Authorhouse
9. The Curse of The Tahiera by Wendy Gillesen was sent ot me by the author for review and Wendy also sent along a giveaway copy!
10. On The Bluffs is a book sent to me by Miss Remmer’s Reviews in a recent contest she had.
11. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows book with 10 year anniversary pin is from a contest I won
12. The darling “Dream Big” angel was a prize I won from You 2.0. I have hung it up in my reading room so I can see it all the time!
13. Last but not least is my truly exciting find that I purchased at the Gold Rush Oronoco Flea Market I was at this weekend. They are 7 of the original Nancy Drew books. Now that I have a start to these I need to find the rest to complete this collection in this format.
Busy week ahead thats for sure and in the middle of all of it I will be reading and posting! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
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Wow, your mailbox must have been straining from the load! :–) Those are some great acquisitions.
I biked 70 miles once – that was my record. It was hard, but I will always remember it. 50 is a lot as well!!! Good luck if you do it!
I am so envious of those Nancy Drew books! Will you be giving any away? Please, please!! lol
I am in a crazed state at the moment, having started still another blog!! Can you believe it??
This one is not, however, on WordPress. I decided to give Blogger.com another chance, since I discovered I could do custom headers there, too.
It’s here: http://laurel-rain-snow.blogspot.com
and it’s called RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS.
Oh, sweet!! And congratulations on winning Harry Potter and the pin, I am a little envious 🙂
Hi Sheila, you are certainly on the move. And if your incoming mail rate keeps up, you’ll need a new bookshelf or two in your reading room in the very near future.
Wow..It looks as though you will be super busy! Happy Reading!
That is quite a haul for one week! Sometimes I look out the window and see my mailperson caring all these books and wonder if she grumbles that she has to deliver to my house. She’s always so friendly though.
Very cool slide show! Good luck getting through your week!
Love that slideshow, BTW…I’m just stopping by with info about another contest, for the remaining book that I haven’t put on a giveaway…up until now!
I’m doing it on one of my ning sites, to draw traffic and members, hopefully. But I’ve also put a page about it on all my wordpress blogs.
It’s at this site, A RAINY, SNOWY DAY, at:
http://laurelrainsnowcreations.ning.com/profiles/blogs/calling-all-readersnew-contest
Wow, what a busy week you have. I know how sad it can be when a child moves out, but it does get easier to handle.
If you do go on your bike ride, I wish you legs of steel so they don’t tire. I when biking yesterday and out biked our 11 and 9 year old GK’s. We rode 7 miles and they were done!
I also received The Triumph of Deborah, The green Green Pear and On The Bluffs. Can’t wait to compare reviews!!
Hope your week goes smoothly!
LOLOL! I love the slide show! That is way cool.
Wow! That’s a lot of books! Happy reading. 🙂