In My Mailbox #24 or Holy Book Jackpot, Batman!

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Monday I came home to TWO large bubble envelopes shoved in my mailbox - soaking wet. Tuesday I came home late (after seeing Fame!) to find the most entertaining package ever waiting for me on the kitchen counter - soaking wet. Wednesday day I came home drugged (after having had 2 45-minute long MRIs in a row (wheee! fun!)) to find ONE  bubble envelope shoved in my mailbox - soaking wet.

See a theme here? My mailbox is tiny, but has these little hooks under it and rather than leave me a pick-up notice and leave the parcels at the post office (which is far away) my mailman leaves the parcels shoved in the little hooks - it doesn't matter if it's raining or not. And my mail is ALWAYS soggy on rainy days. Sometimes he doesn't even close the top of the mailbox and regular mail gets soaked. ARGH! Anyhow... This will be photo-heavy because I was SO excited about Tuesday's parcel that I took photos of the opening process.

Monday:

Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit (A Novel of King Arthur)by Mercedes LackeyFor Review - Penguin Canada

The bestselling author of the "Valdemar" novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur's legendary queen.Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the "son" her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur's queen-only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..

I was so excited when I was asked to review this book! And it's such a beautiful hard cover, too! Thanks, Penguin Canada!!Marvel Runaways - Vols 4 - 7Marvel ComicsMooched from Bookmooch. A friend at work got me hooked on this series and I am determined to get my own copies. I now need Vols 1 - 3 and er.. anything after Vol. 7! It's rare that I find something this awesome on Bookmooch - especially that ships to Canada. (Looks like Volume 9 is set to publish in November. I can't wait! I'll be ordering the rest through my comic book store!)Tuesday:The. Best. Book. Package Ever!Random Magicby Sasha SorenFor Review & Blog Tour

When absent-minded Professor Random misplaces the main character from “Alice in Wonderland,” young Henry Witherspoon must book-jump to fetch Alice before chaos theory kicks in and the world vanishes.Along the way he meets Winnie Flapjack, a wit-cracking doodle witch with nothing to her name but a magic feather and a plan. Such as it is.Henry and Winnie brave the Dark Queen, whatwolves, pirates, Strüths, and fluttersmoths, Priscilla and Charybdis, obnoxiously cheerful vampires, Baron Samedi, a nine-dimensional cat, and one perpetually inebriated Muse to rescue Alice and save the world by tea time.

And this is how it arrived:

A present? For ME? Woohooo!!

So much fun when I opened it up (after taking 5 minutes to cut through ALL the tape. I think the tape is the only thing that kept the book & other fun things safe from the rain!)

Such a pretty package and bow!

And more fun! Posty cards and bookmarks!

Proof that the book is for me! :)

Surprise on the inside!

Shiny copy of the book! Does she look like Nicole Kidman to anyone else?

I do so hope the book is as exciting as the packaging. ;) I had requested this book on LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program, so when I was asked to take part in the blog tour I was so thrilled. I un-requested it from LT, just to be fair. ;)Wednesday:Fireby Kristin Cashore

Sometimes beauty is the most deadly danger of all ...

Wait.. isn't the description longer than that? How come that's all I can find? Seems rather useless to blockquote just that one sentence. Hmm. Anyhow, my Book Depository UK version arrived! WOOOO!!!I was sort of hoping I would get a package a day, but I think I am out of pending book mailings. There is one ARC I was supposed to get in the summer that got lost in mail so it was supposed to be resent to me, though I am not sure if it was. Which is sad because I was so looking forward to that particular book! Oh, well the world's not going to end because of that one missing book. (Gee, I hope not!) But  I am beyond thrilled with my week in books - even if they did come all soggy (luckily the books themselves were undamaged.)