Wrapped Up in Books

Things have been arriving! A while ago I won a contest at SavidgeReads (the second one this year) and the other day my prize was delivered:

A lovely cloth bag from Daunt Books in London, filled to the brim with novels! ‘A Fearful Symmetry’, ‘Swimming’ (with a blurb from Judy freaking Blume how could I fail to enjoy that one), ‘Mr Rosenblum’s List’ and ‘Prep’ all greeted me when I returned from London.

As a little bonus ‘The Jewel Box’ was sent by Stefanie of the ‘Bah! To Cancer Blog’. Every once in a while she runs the Bah! Brilliant Book Bonanza (next one coming soon), which hands out and uplifting read to one lucky commenter. This time around it was me and all I had to do was leave a comment and make an (optional) £2 donation to Cancer Research. I enjoyed ‘the Shoe Queen’ so much and there simply isn’t enough slightly grittier, yet glamourous historical chick-lit around.

Then the lovely and it seems very blogger friendly Peirene press sent me Maria Barbal’s ‘Stone in a Landslide’. I’m looking at it now and the design is just the pretty side of minimal that I really like – good job emerging press!

And then there might have been some others that just...I don’t know how they got here…(more later).

I’m off for the weekend at the Cardiff speedway Grand Prix so I will see you all next week with another bookish picture, my review of ‘Down to the Bone’ and much excited jumping for ‘Latitude’! Talked your ears off quite enough this week though I think.