Mailbox Monday – May 20, 2013

Mailbox 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 Abi at 4 the Love of Books

--- The Books ---

Title: World War Z

Author:  Max Brooks

Publisher: Broadway

Genre(s):  Horror, Zombies

About the Book:  A while back I reviewed the abridged (freaking ABRIDGED!) audio version of Max Brook’s imagining of a global zombie conflict.  When I saw that book sitting on a shelf at Target this weekend, the sticker on the cover advertising a dirt-cheap price, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to own the actual book and find out what the free-wheeling editor Nazis over at Random House had amputated from the original text when they did their backroom Hostel impression on what became the abridged audio version.  Did I mention I hate abridged audio?

Relevant Links:  author webpage

Title:  All the Summer Girls

Author:  Meg Donohue

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Genre(s):  Literary Fiction, Women’s Lit

About the Book:  Set among the sunsets and dunes, All the Summer Girls is the story of how three former best friends, their lives rapidly unraveling, are reunited at the beach town of their past, where they are encouraged to explore new experiences they would never otherwise attempt.  When dark secrets threaten to survace, they begin to realize just how much their lives and friendhips were shaped by the choices made one fateful summer night years ago.

Relevant Links:  author webpage

Title:  Sight Reading

Author:  Daphne Kalotay

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genre(s):  Literary Fiction

About the Book:  After a long New England winter, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Under ordinary circumstances, this meeting might seem insignificant. But Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the Scottish composer Nicholas Elko--once the love of Hazel' s life, now struggling with a masterwork he cannot realize. In the twenty years since Hazel' s world was tipped on its axis, these three artists have faced unexpected joys, mysterious afflictions and other puzzles of life, their fates irrevocably interlaced.

Relevant Links:  author webpage

Title: Strong Rain Falling

Author:  Jon Land

Publisher: Forge Books

Genre(s):  Thriller

About the Book:  Fifth Generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong and her lover, Cort Wesley Masters, both survive terrifying gun battles whose targets are Masters' teenage sons.  This sets Caitlin and Cort Wesley off on a trail winding through the past and present with nothing less than the future of the United States hanging in the balance.  Along the way they will confront terrible truths dating all the way back to the Mexican Revolution and the dogged battle Caitlin’s own grandfather and great-grandfather fought against the first generation of Mexican drug dealers.

Relevant Links:  author webpage

Title: Spoonful

Author:  Chris Mendius

Publisher: Anything Goes Publishing

Genre(s):  Thriller

About the Book:  Living in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago during the late nineties, Michael Lira and his friends are a bunch of junkies, artists and has-beens. Between slamming dope and slipping away for trysts with a free-spirited painter/stripper, Michael has what he needs but it s not enough. When he meets two frat boys from Northwestern University looking to score, Michael sees his chance and takes it. He pulls together a bundle of money and puts it in the stock market. One hot tip leads to another until it all erupts in a bloody confrontation that will change his life forever.strong

Relevant Links:  Goodreads author page

And now that we’ve shown you ours, it’s time to show us yours.  What did you get in your mailbox this week?