mailbox monday

Lots of books last week.  I recently renewed my Box-of-Books subscription on PaperBackSwap, and it must have bumped me up to the top of the new users list, because I have received a mess of B-o-B requests lately.  I think I sent out 4 boxes last week alone.  This isn’t helping my goal of sending more out than I have coming in! Anyhoo, here’s what

Well, it the magic number this week isn’t four.  I think I hit the jackpot! I got home from my long weekend away to find 12 brand new books on my doorstep. I received all of the Pelecanos books because I called in to the Little Brown Blog Talk Radio show and asked him a question a couple of weeks ago.  How awesome is that? 

Four is the magic number yet again this week! And from four different sources, even. The 37th Hour I got in a PaperbackSwap swap.  Breathers I received through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Group. Reunion I received because I’m participating in a Pump Up Your Book promotional tour next month.  And Naamah’s Kiss was sent to me by Hachette! By the way, I’m less than an

(Better late than never, right?) Four seems to be a popular number for me lately.  Last week I received: They all came to me via PaperbackSwap, except for Afraid, an audiobook sent to me by the author, Jack Kilborn/J.A. Konrath — autographed, even! Speaking of review books, I started Laura Rider’s Masterpiece, but had to give it up about 40 pages in.  I just didn’t