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Monday is a weekly meme started by Marcia at Mailbox Monday in which
bloggers can ramble on about the books they received/bought/stole over a given
week. Each month a new blogger hosts the meme, and this month it’s Caitlin
at Chaotic Compendiums.
--- The Books ---
A
Spoonful of Sugar by Brenda Ashford - Who doesn’t know that lyric from Mary Poppins, “a spoonful of sugar makes
the medicine go down”? Of course, there
are certain types of medicine that can’t be helped by a spoonful of sugar… like
the medicine the federal government needs in order to get its head out of its
head. At any rate, it’s an appropriate
title for this book, a memoir from an English nanny who nursed babies and
changed diapers during the Blitz of World War II. In this novel the author tells the story of
her life and drops pearls of wisdom gleaned from years of raising other
people’s children. Amanda Amaya has
taken on this book as part of the blog tour being put on by Providence Book Promotions.
The
Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson - Three young women are obsessed
with games of all kinds, devoting themselves to both the academic study of play
and the design of games based on the secret history of the neighborhood around Columbia University . When live-action
role-playing based on classic Greek tragedy is introduced, the games get
dangerous. I myself have never LARPed
(Live Action Role Play), but I’ve played just about every other kind of role
playing game out there (don’t let your mind run away with you there, kay?), and
it sounds interesting as hell. Evidently
Ryan St.
Onge thought so too, ‘cos he’s taken it on for review as part of the blog tour
with TLC Book Tours. Expect to hear more sometime in May.
Lost
and Found in Russia by Olga Godim – Congratulations of the most
verbose order are to our own Olga Godim, who has recently had her first
published novel. It’s through Eternal Press and is about a mother who
learns her daughter was switched at birth thirty-four years ago and travels to Russia to find
her. That lost daughter is dealing with
her own rebellious daughter, and once through the events of the novel both
women search to find their daughters and themselves. Of course, we’ll still maintain the utmost
critical integrity in our review of the work, but it’s too cool that one of our
own got her name up in lines. And
really—if you get your book published, you deserve a little love. Go Olga!
The
Jeweler by Kenneth S. Murray– Cole Hanson, an emerald dealer in Columbia , is kidnapped
and taken to the mountain jungle lair of the Black Jaguar, a cocaine drug lord.
He witnesses a horrible triple murder, executes the killer, and escapes. Hanson is later recruited to become an
assassin for the CIA who learns of his strange predilection for death and uses
this alter ego to press The Jeweler ever deeper into espionage and
assassinations around the world. After twenty years of service, The Jeweler
attempts his toughest sanction—an assassination of an impossible target known
as “Hussein.” On April 10, the author
will be stopping by for a guest post to talk about his new novel and the real
life personalities that inspired it.
The
Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson – I guess
I’m on something of a Scandinavian crime fiction kick these days—at least, when
it comes to my library books. I got this
one as an audio book. I’m not really big
on the Swedish crime fiction, but I did enjoy The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (see the review here),
so I thought I’d give the second book in the series a whirl. So far, so good. I do have to say, though, the Scandinavian
writers seem to be a bit more verbose than their American counterparts. Or maybe I’m just used to the succinctness of
vintage crime fiction. It’s amazing the
amount of inane information Larsson throws into his narrative in order to build
up the characters, if not the story. It
works, it’s just that impatient readers might have a few “I don’t give a damn”
moments while reading it.
Vanguard
of Hope by Kathy Steinmann – This historical fiction novel is
set in Lisetville, (England ?)
in the year 1890, a time when chauvinism and racial prejudice were an accepted
part of life. This is the first in a
series of novels about the Sapphire Brigade, an organization dedicated to the
protection of children. Set against a backdrop of mystery, murder, and romance,
it is the struggle of a woman who copes as well as she can with secrets and
personal demons. Check out more
about the book and its author at kathysteinemann.com.
And now
that we’ve shown you ours, it’s time to show us yours. What did you get
in your mailbox this week?
Nice mailbox pic. I never got into those Stieg Larsson books, but maybe one day I'll read them. Happy reading :)
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