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In My Mailbox (8)

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Written by: Kelly on October 2, 2010.

Welcome to In My Mailbox, the weekly meme hosted by Kristy at The Story Siren. It’s a showcase of what books I got this week, either for review, from the library, or I purchased.

For review:

Empty by Suzanne Weyr (out now from Scholastic). Abby’s reviewed this one and it sounds like a really good speculative/realistic book.

You Are Not Here by Samantha Schutz (out now from Scholastic). This one is a surprise but it sounds pretty good — and you’ll see this cover again pretty soon in a cover feature.

From the library (or as I should probably say, Cybils books to read):

Heist Society by Ally Carter

Nothing Like You by Laura Strasnik

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Purchases (or, I guess I like buying craft books):

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amigurumi: I’m working through a crochet book I bought a couple weeks ago, pattern by pattern right now. It’s got 6 patterns, and I’ve done 3, so I need a few simple things for when I finish it. I really want to make amigurumi!

Other mailbox goods:

I purchased a canvas bag to support the Cybils (and haul the reading load) and it’s really nice! I also got my Hunger Games Blog Tour prizes in the mail. I won 2 pins and a water bottle. Both of those will be going into a giant cabinet I have of awesome summer reading prizes for the kids at work.

Speaking of Cybils…:

Make sure you go nominate books for The Cybils! You don’t need to be a blogger, a librarian, a teacher, or anything. You may only nominate one in each category, and all you need is the 13-digit ISBN, which you can find on Amazon.com. They must be books published between October 16, 2009 and October 15, 2010. Since I’m a panelist and will be reading gads and gads of books in the next couple of months, I’d like to read some stuff I’ve been itching to read or some stuff I really liked the first time I read it. If you’re stuck on titles to nominate for the YA category, here’s a few suggestions (conveniently linked to their Amazon pages with ISBNs) I’m deleting them as they’re earning nods:

Hopefully that gives you an idea or two! Be prepared for tons more YA reviews in the next few months….and then I promise I’m going to offer up a lot more adult and non-fiction book reviews.

Comments

  15. I read Stolen by Lucy Christopher and liked it 🙂 I reviewed it with "3/5 *** Good choice, very important and serious YA literature! Watch out, Australia’s creatures are more poisonous than expected!"
    Let me know how you liked it?

  16. I nominated April May and June in the fantasy category. Not traditional fantasy by any stretch of the imagination but I don't have any amazing superpowers.

    I'd also recommend The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt which was fabulous but hadn't been nominated last time I checked.

  17. I'll be interested to see what you think of Stolen. I read it some time back (still need to review it though) based on a rec from a friend who loved it. I hope you do too!