In My Mailbox #22
The Story Siren hosts this feature and I end up adding a ton of books to my wishlist every week.
All my IMM posts can be found here!
I have neither bought, nor received in the mail any books for the last (almost) month. And then I went a little crazy and ordered 4 books from The Book Depository online and I bought a new iPod Nano. Almost everything came this week - PLUS a review book! On Friday my husband exclaimed "You have got to be kidding me!" as we pulled into the drive way and saw a large bubble envelope sticking out of the mailbox. It was like that almost all week. Haha! So, technically, I should have had 3 of these books in an Out of My Pocket post last weekend, but as I didn't actually HAVE the books in my hands, I didn't think it counted. ;)
Without further ado:
Graceling - UK editionKristin Cashore
In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council, whose purpose is to combat the destructive behavior of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the seven kingdoms, and each of them is ruled its own king with his own personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates ...and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to safety? Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one eyed king ...
Now I read this one already, and I am now giving my copy away as I desperately wanted the UK version of Fire (due out next week) and I couldn't have two books in the same series NOT MATCH! Heavens no! So I bought this UK version of Graceling as well. I'm not just OCD about matching my bookmarks to my books, I need my BOOKS to match as well.
The Gypsy Crownby Kate Forsyth
Living under the tyrannical rule of Oliver Cromwell, the Finch family, a tribe of gypsies, are flung in jail with only three weeks to live. Two young cousins, Emilia and Luka, manage to escape. They find themselves entrusted with the task of recovering the five lucky charms that, once united, will restore the Finch family's good luck.
I adore Kate Forsyth and this book (and the one below) do not seem to be available in Canada and if you do order them you get an ugly cover for this book. So since I was over at The Book Depository already buying the Cashore books, I thought, "Eh, why not?"
The Puzzle Ringby Kate Forsyth
Hannah Rose Brown is twelve years old when she finds out that her family is cursed. Desperate to find the truth about her father's disappearance, she travels to her ancestral home in Scotland, and discovers a chain of dark secrets that plunge her into different worlds, timeframes and dangers.
I have wanted to read this book since I first read about it in Kate Forsyth's newsletter a year or so ago!
Primitiveby Mark NykanenBell Bridge Books - for review
Sonya Adams steps into a limo at a Montana airport expecting to be driven to her next modeling assignment. Minutes later she realizes the horrifying truth: she's been tricked and kidnapped. Plunged into the world of a neo-primitive survivalist cult in the snow-locked mountains of the Pacific Northwest, Sonya becomes a pawn in their mission to reveal a doomsday environmental secret -- a secret the government and the energy corporations will kill to keep.
I'm excited about this one because it's a thriller/mystery and it's set in Canada and the author lives in British Columbia, too! I like Canadian stuffs!
iPod Nano - 5th GenerationApple
IT'S PURPLE AND SHINY!!! And has a video camera in it. Yay! I love my 1st generation black nano, but this is so much cooler and I was debating getting an iPhone this October, but as my cell contract isn't up for another 2 years it was looking to be difficult, and I would use this one so much more. My iPod lives with me, like you know, internal organs that are all important and stuff.
Hey, speaking of health... I don't have a lot of it right now and I am going through tests and a tough time as they try to solve the medical mystery that is me. I have not been reading (can't focus and can't hold a book due to pain) and I am not as online as I normally am. I don't plan on letting this blog go, but I will not be as frequent with the posting as I would like to be. I am saying this even if some people do think it's a Pet Peeve *cough* because I don't want the readers who might just have discovered my blog through BBAW to think I don't actually maintain it!