Look at what just arrived! - September 20, 2010

This meme was originally hosted by Marcia @ The Printed Page. It went on tour beginning August '10 and is hosted this month by Bermudaonion's Weblog. 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).

So after a few good weeks, my mailbox has been slowing down. I'm taking it as a good thing, because I do need to put my shelf into perspective and read more. I got two books this week, both of which I am very excited about.

Right now, Room by Emma Donoghue is probably one of the most talked about books. I don't usually go by the Booker or the Pulitzer raves. I like to read about them and then put them on my TBR, but by the time I pick the book to read, it could be ages. Which is why I wasn't initially interested in Room. But then all the hype around this book made me not want to miss out on it. Oh yeah, I know how the hype usually has the opposite effect on me when I actually start reading the book. But, I still like to have the option to read it. This one came to me thanks to an awesome blogger buddy - Danielle @ There's a Book. She had two copies of this book, and was kind and wonderful enough to give me one of them! Yay!

The other book that came in was The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah. I first heard of this one in Alyce's blog, At Home with Books. Then Helen @ Helen's Book Blog reviewed it. After seeing this book twice, I was all ready to add it to my wishlist, when Helen did a giveaway and I won! So, now I'm going to be reading it for the Middle East Reading Challenge.

Have you read any of these books?