ARC's Received - June 2010

Good lord. Received the new Ken Follett and it's a behemoth. I looked down at the door and thought, 'oh look, someone's mailed me 4 or 5 books. But oh no, it's just one big, 2 pound book.' And it's one of three!

Anyone else?

Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany and In the Belly of Jonah by Sandra Brannan came today.

Dewey's Nine Lives showed up via Fed-Ex today. I loved the first Dewey book, so I was super-excited about this one!

So far this month:
Actual ARCs
Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
Finny by Justin Kramon
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
The Language of Trees by Ilie Ruby
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Review Copies
Commuters by Emily Gray Tedrowe
For The King by Catherine Delors
The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leila Marouane (unsolicited)
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth (unsolicited)
Shadow of the Swords: An Epic Novel of the Crusades by Kamran Pasha (unsolicited)
Ten Minutes From Home by Beth Greenfield (Read-It-Forward)
Sorta Like A Rockstar by Matthew Quick (win from Sarah Pekkanen's Facebook page)

The Clouds Beneath the Sun by Mackenzie Ford arrived yesterday. It was a May LTER win.

1: Yes, I got it too! Ken Follett is one of my favorite authors. I've been reading his books since the 80's. So far the book is very good. Out of curiosity I put it on the scale and it weighed in at 2 lbs, 12.3 oz.

Three more today:
My Wife's Affair by Nancy Woodruff (finished copy)
Simply From Scratch by Alicia Bessette
Captive Queen by Alison Weir

Today brought finished copies for review of:
The King's Mistress by Emma Campion
The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico by Sarah Mccoy

Yesterday I received
The Replacement by Brenna Yavanoff
Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin

The Handiest Things in the World by Andrew Clements arrived today.

Got a 'book club pack' of Simon & Schuster books with: 29: A Novel by Adena Halpern, Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom and All The Queen's Players by Jane Feather in it on Wednesday night.

Thursday brought a paperback finished copy of The Tricking of Freya.

Today it was an ARC of Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman.

This month:

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson (May Early Reviewer book from LT)

Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel (actual ARC-from Shelf Awareness???? i forgot to make any note when i requested it)

An ARC of The King's Mistress by Emma Campion...and I don't remember requesting this one, at all!!

The Outer Banks House came yesterday.

In the past week, I received

Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
Deeply, Desperately by Heather Webber

Oh, and also Virals by Kathy Reichs

I received Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel last week. I started it and it looks promising.

Received Dracula in Love today- paperback ARC. Last week I received The Embers which is my latest LT ER book. It's a paperback, finished copy and is (so far) very good.

In the last 10 days:
ARCs:
The Debba by Aner Mandelman
The King's Mistress by Emma Campion (funny, because I already got a finished copy of this earlier this month)

Finished Copies:
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
What He's Poised to Do by Ben Greenman
The Sister Wife by Diane Noble
Coop by Michael Perry
Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntrye
By Fire, By Water by Mitchell Kaplan
Spartacus Road by Peter Stothard

The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch came today from Read it Forward

Yesterday I got THE EXTRAORDINARY SECRETS OF APRIL, MAY, & JUNE by Robin Benway.

Touchstones don't work!!!

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise arrived at my doorstep today. Paperback ARC, which also came with a bunch of extras- press sheets, fact sheets on the Tower of London and it's menagerie, maps, and a time line on the Tower of London. The cover art is adorable, the story sounds really good, and the extras are fascinating.

Oooh, I'm terribly, terribly jealous about that one, Pirate! It sounds fabulous.

Dracula in Love.

Don't know when it came. Was on vacation.

Also:
Whose Eyes are These?
Whose Ears are These?
Whose Tails is This?
Whose Feet are These?

I received Dracula in Love by Karen Essex as well. It must be vampire month.

Well, mail came in and here's what's come in in the last 2 weeks:

Finished:
Pope Annalisa
It Wood be Fun: Woodworking with Children
Foreign Influence
The Handiest Things in the World

Arc:
The Fall book two of Del Toro's Strain Trilogy.