Sunday, 20 May 2012

In My Mailbox (39)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, in which book bloggers post about the books they've bought, borrowed or received in the past week.


Happy Victoria Day long weekend if you live in Canada! I'm really excited about these books: Grimms' Fairy Tales and Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. I love the covers and they were $5 each, which is pretty good for new books. I have an old copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales already but it's not the complete works, just a small selection.


From the library, I took out Inkspell by Cornelia Funke. I read Inkheart a year ago and finally decided to check out the sequel. My hold on Thumped, the sequel to Bumped, by Megan McCafferty came in. I liked Bumped well enough, but I'm not sure if I'll get to its sequel quite yet. If I run out of time before it's due I'll just read it later, if at all. In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard was recommended to me on my other blog and it looks really good. I took out The Gates by John Connolly, who also wrote The Book of Lost Things (which I loved.) I also bought books from my library: Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I read the latter a year ago and loved it. 

What new books did you receive this week? 



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  1. Anonymous20 May 2012 at 06:43

    I love fairy tales, and those editions are so pretty! Looks like you have a much better library than I have, mine hasn't stocked new books in years lol. Hope you enjoy them all :)

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  2. Read Write Reviews20 May 2012 at 07:22

    Grimms fairy tales look so good! I'd love to read the originals! Thumped looks great too!

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  3. prettybooks20 May 2012 at 07:56

    I NEARLY bought The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society yesterday but I couldn't decide whether to get the paperback or ebook...

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  4. Anonymous20 May 2012 at 07:58

    Those are gorgeous editions of the fairytales! Nice find.
    I have that same edition of Middlemarch - I won it from my local radio station in ... umm....1996! When the BBC did a big costume drama of it! Enjoy.
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  5. Unknown20 May 2012 at 08:39

    Great books you got there! Hope you'll enjoy them :)

    Happy Reading!
    Filia @ Anima Libri - Booksoul

    My IMM

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  6. Anonymous20 May 2012 at 10:53

    Those editions of the fairy tale collections are great! Love those covers. I started listening to Inkheart a while back but had to stopped because the disks were too scratched. Here's my IMM: http://whatsontheshelf.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/in-my-mailbox-12/

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  7. Muggle Madness20 May 2012 at 12:29

    Awesome Book Haul! Inkspell was probably not as great as we thought when we read it, but Inkheart was definitely amazing, it makes us wish we could bring characters or items out of books, or maybe even go INTO the book itself, we can only dream *le sigh* Let us know what you thought once you finish it! And Happy Victoria Day Long Weekend from us fellow Canadians to another <3!

    -Calamity & Chaos

    http://mugglemadnesss.blogspot.ca/2012/05/in-my-our-mailbox-imm-2.html

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  8. Unknown20 May 2012 at 15:47

    I got the same copies of Grimm and Hans Anderson! But I lost them during my move :(

    Check out what I got this week here!

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