In My Mailbox is a weekly Meme sponsored by The Story Siren where you share all the new books you get each week to read or review.
We took a trip into Fayetteville this week to see Tao: The Art of the Drum at the Walton Arts Center, and took the time afterward to visit the wonderful independent bookstores nearby.
At Nightbird Books I purchased a copy of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern for myself, the boy got Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia by Hannah Dolan, and we were given an ARC of Moo Hoo by Candace Ryan (which will, of course, become the girl's as soon as it is reviewed.)
We also hit the jackpot at the Dickson Street Bookshop, our local used and out of print bookstore. (They also sell on AbeBooks). I cannot even begin to describe how much I love that store.
My son found a pristine copy of The American Boy's Handy Book (seriously, the spine still cracks when it opens), and my husband and I were excited to find really good copies of Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth and The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (we've been looking for a while).
There were also a few books in the Young Adult section that just insisted they come home with me. Whispering To Witches by Anna Dale looks like it may be an interesting book that suffered from being released admidst the Harry Potter books. I'm willing to give it a shot. Little Fur: The Legend Begins by Isobelle Carmody just jumped out at me - the book is sueded. And fuzzy. And such a perfect little size. And did I mention fuzzy? Birdwing by Rafe Martin caught me with the beautiful cover illustration and kept me when I found out it is a retelling of “The Six Swans.” Finally, how could I pass up a Phillip Pullman I did not already own? Especially when confronted with the huge fold out map pasted halfway through? I couldn't - Cartographic blackmail, I tell you! Lyra's Oxford came home with us as well.
I also recieved a few galleys from Bloomsbury Children's Books and downloaded a new book onto my Nook prior to our mad Dickson Street shopping spree.
Ordinary Magic by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway looks like it will be a nice middle grade fantasy novel, and The Académie by Susanne Dunlap is a YA historical fiction novel set in a boarding school. I downloaded Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane after reading this review of Sacrificial Magic - its looks like a series I might really enjoy.
Whew! What are you reading this week?
