This meme is hosted by Marcia @ The Printed Page. It is the gathering
place for readers to share the books
that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t
count, eBooks & audio books do).

I guess I had a good week in books, considering what I received. After seeing
The Map of True Places by
Brunonia Barry almost everywhere, I was so glad to have won this on twitter thanks to
Brain Candy BR. I also have Brunonia Barry's
The Lace Reader, but didn't get to it yet. So that's two books by the same author. Need I any more motivation to pick one up?

I won
Zeitoun by
Dave Eggers at
Nancy's 2010: A Year of Books. I have read many good reviews of this book and am now very curious about the protagonist - every one of the previews or reviews stops at how he disappears and then comes the question - Will he come back? Alright people - you have me curious. I want to know what happens now. Usually I don't like fiction that are based on some real tragedy, be it the 9/11 or Katrina or the tsunami. I almost hear the words "exploitation" and "money" and "advantage" churning in my head. So I hope that none of that steps into my head when I pick this one up, since I really am interested.
I won this galley at a giveaway I signed up for two months ago and forgot about.

I didn't even read
Hush, Hush by
Becca Fitzpatrick, nor did I have plans to, so I'm not sure why I requested this galley. Still, I'll make an attempt to read both books, and if I fail, I'll put up a giveaway. I'm sure there will be takers for
Crescendo. I thought
Hush, Hush was less than 200 pages - I could have sworn about reading it somewhere. But apparently it is almost 400 pages, as is this one.

I received this one from
Random House via
TLCBookTours.
Finny by
Justin Kramon has a really delightful synopsis about a young girl's foray into adulthood. Also, I don't remember reading a book with banana peel-yellow cover, so I'm attracted to that too.

Over
lunch on Saturday with three other bloggers, Kathy brought three books to the "party" for us to choose from, and boy, did we have fun! So this is what I chose,
A Fierce Radiance by
Lauren Belfer - the moment I read World War 2 somewhere in the synopsis, I knew the one I'll pick up. Plus that cover - doesn't it make you think of one of those classy movies with hatted ladies and well-dressed gentlemen?
Have you read
any of these books?
Comments
:D
Here is mine!
Here's my MM:
http://laurelrainsnowcreations.blogspot.com/2010/07/monday-mailbox.html
Happy reading!
I still have "A Lace Reader" by Brunonina Barry in my TBR -- I should read that one before reading her new one!
Happy reading!