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I've been gone a while. I started reading fanfiction to escape and I got sucked in an abyss.

I have no idea if someone else is hosting similar challenges. I just grabbed some of what I have hosted before.

Here's to a happy year of great reading
Jan2023: Not much has changed. Writing a fanfiction now O_o as well as reading but I bought 7 new books in December and hope to get those read soon. Crossing fingers about adding challenges (late!)

Monday, November 4, 2013

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is a place to share all the wonderful books that have come to live in your home; print, electronic and audio. Started by Marcia (who now posts at To Be Continued) the mailbox is currently on tour. Check it out so you know where to go next month.

Thank you to October's host . . . Me  ;-)

November's host is Crystal @ I totally paused! 
Backup host is Bob at Beauty in Ruins






~ here are the new books in my house this week ~
I'm expecting three books this week and three Christmas music CDs! My local Target must have a new supervisor over books :p They rearranged things which is bad enough but I didn't see the Harlequin series or any cozy mysteries. Come to think of it, I didn't see the magazines either. Grrr. . . and don't get me started on Costco!

Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings by Madeleine L'Engle



Christmas in Snowflake Canyon (Hope's Crossing) by Raeanne Thayne
I haven't read any of the other books in the series but it is a Christmas book and sounds really good!

No one has ever felt sorry for Genevieve Beaumont. After all, she has everything money can buy. That is, until she discovers her fiancé has been two-timing her and she's left with two choices: marry the philanderer to please her controlling father or be disinherited and find a means to support herself.

Genevieve's salvation appears in the most unlikely of prospects: Dylan Caine, a sexy, wounded war vet whose life is as messy as hers. Dylan's struggling to adjust after his time in Afghanistan, and the last thing he needs is a spoiled socialite learning about the real world for the first time. True, she may have unexpected depths and beauty to match. But he knows he could never be the man she needs…and she knows he could never be the man she thinks she wants. So why are they each hoping that a Christmas miracle will prove them both wrong?


The Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn (book three of the Smythe-Smith Quartet)

Sarah Pleinsworth can’t forgive Hugh Prentice for the duel he fought three years ago that nearly destroyed her family, sent her cousin fleeing, and left Hugh himself with a badly injured leg. That’s fine with Hugh, who can’t tolerate Sarah’s dramatic ways. But when the two are forced to spend a week together, they find that unexpected kisses, and mutual passion, may have the power to change both of their minds.




So far, I haven't received the other review book I'm waiting for, won any contests or received any books as a gift. I have added several (cough, 36, cough) to my ereader. Yikes, good thing most were free!



The Faceless One by Mark Onspaugh

Jimmy trained with his uncle to the the shaman of his village in Alaska. As such he learned the old legends, the old myths, the old secrets. Chief among them was that of a mask locked in a prison of ice, and of the faceless god imprisoned within: a cruel and vengeful god called T'Nathluk, dedicated to the infliction of pain and suffering.

Now all but forgotten in a Seattle retirement home, Jimmy finds his life turned upside down. For when an unwitting archaeologist pries the mask free of its icy tomb, he frees T’Nathluk as well.

The Faceless One has foes as well and Jimmy Kalmaku must at last become the shaman of his boyhood dreams.


Wanted! by Vicki Lewis Thompson

Photographer Dominique Jeffries has come to Wyoming to find herself--her creative self, her sexual self. After escaping the engagement from hell, she's dying to break loose and live a little. And seducing a shirtless, sweaty cowhand looks like just the place to start....

Nick Chance isn't exactly a cowhand but, hey, he'll be whatever the lady wants! Only he soon realizes that this is more than just a quick roll in the hay. There's something about Dominique that calls to him, something about her that completes him.



Sweet Tea and Secrets (An Adams Grove Novel) by Nancy Naigle

When beloved town matriarch Pearl Clemmons dies on a warm June afternoon, the folks of Adams Grove, Virginia, can hardly believe it. Sure, Pearl was eighty-five years old, but everyone—particularly her granddaughter Jill—just assumed she would live forever. Now Jill must return home to settle Pearl’s estate, comfort a town in mourning…and face Garrett Malloy, the man who broke her heart years ago.

Making matters worse, a string of break-ins at the Clemmons place has Jill and the rest of the town on edge. She can’t imagine what Pearl possibly could have had that is worth stealing. But when Jill’s safety is threatened, she and Garrett must join forces to unearth Pearl’s secrets before someone else—someone dangerous—gets there first. Garrett may have been the last man Jill wanted to see, but now, she may not want to let him go.


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2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Sweet Tea and Secrets looks good.

ENJOY all your books and your week.

Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
My Mailbox Monday

Shoshanah said...

Sweet Tea and Secrets looks like it will be adorable and the one I'd most want to read. Happy reading!

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