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In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

ARCs received from publisher to share with my teens (thank you, Little, Brown!): Two copies of Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff, Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler, and Pi in the Sky by Wendy Mass!

Borrowed from the library:

• Free Fall by Chris Grabenstein (adult fic)

Um, yeah, that's it! I have some other movies on hold but I'm not checking them out until next weekend, so I'll add them to next week's IMM. And I have most of last week's stuff to catch up on, anyway.

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Happy Mother's Day! I hope all the moms out there have a great day. This is my first Mother's Day without my mom, and also my first Mother's Day as a single mom, so it's a bit difficult for me. But I've got my Best Girl and that's all I need!

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

A big, beautiful box of ARCs from a co-worker! She knows that I host a huge giveaway for my teens at the end of the summer:

(The Originals by Cat Patrick and Nantucket Blue by Leila Howard have been on my to-read list forever, and since my nook is no longer working, these are the two I have chosen to accompany me on vacation...the timing couldn't have been more perfect!)

Borrowed from the library:

• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• Freak Show by James St. James (June's Book Club selection at my library)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Broken City
• The Impossible

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (133)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Panic by Sharon Draper
• Notes from Ghost Town by Kate Ellison
• The Sin-Eater's Confession by Ilsa Bick
• That is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems (picture book)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Parental Guidance
• Rise of the Guardians
• This is 40
• Life of Pi

What did you get?

Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (132)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Pretty Girl-13 by Liz Coley

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Django Unchained
• The Sessions

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (131)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
• Period 8 by Chris Crutcher
• Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett, pictures by Adam Rex (picture book, super funny)

What did you get?

Enjoy your reading!

Christi

In My Mailbox (130)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.
So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Four Secrets by Margaret Willey (it's been on my radar ever since I processed it a few months ago)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Zero Dark Thirty
• Killer Joe
• Killing Them Softly

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (129)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (adult fic)
• The Adults by Alison Espach (adult fic)
• Hysteria by Megan Miranda

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Robot & Frank
• Breaking Dawn Part 2 (It's over. Thank the lord, it's finally over!)
• Last Play at Shea (Billy Joel's concert, the last one held at Shea Stadium. My brother thought I'd enjoy it.)

ARC received from publisher to share with my teens at the library (thank you, Little, Brown Books!):

• Wise Young Fool by Sean Beaudoin 

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (128)

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate!!!

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library (I actually made a trip to work--during my vacation!--to pick up my holds!):

• Bluefish by Par Schmatz

eGalleys downloaded from NetGalley:

• Rotten by Michael Northrop
• Dare You To by Kate McGarry

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Argo
• Lincoln (see why I made the trek to work?)
• Girls, Season 1

What did you get?

Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (127)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Banished: surviving my years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain (adult nonfic)
• Six Years by Harlan Coben (adult fic)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Easy A
• Boiler Room
• Arbitrage

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (126)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

So here's what I got this week!

Received from author for review:

• When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney

DVDS borrowed from the library:

• Compliance

A pretty slow week for me, but that's OK. Some weeks are like that.
What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Click here to enter to win a copy of Island Eyes, Island Skies!

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

Here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Who Done It? Investigation of Murder Most Foul (an anthology compiled by Jon Sceiszka featuring over 80 children's and YA authors proclaiming their innocence in the murder of an editor)
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (adult fic)
• Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun (adult nonfic)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Looper
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Red Dawn (2012)

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (124)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

Here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• The Zodiac Killer: Terror and Mystery by Brenda Haugen (nonfiction)
• Leverage by Joshua Cohen 
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Inglourious Basterds
• Seven Psychopaths

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (123)

In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

Here's what I got this week!
Borrowed from the library:

• Crash by Lisa McMann
• The Ruining by Anna Collomore
• Cross My Heart, Hope to Die (Lying Game #5) by Sara Shepard
• Candy Experiments by Loralee Leavitt (for Best Girl. I have to get a review of this up for you guys, she's having such a good time with this book!)
• Hotel Transylvania (DVD)

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren to showcase new books received.

Borrowed from the library:

• 12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn by James Proimos (for award committee)
• Seventeen's Ultimate Guide to Style: how to find your perfect look by Ann Shoket (for nonfiction award committee)
• Little Rock Girl 1957: how a photograph changed the fight for integration by Shelley Tougas (juvenile nonfiction for award committee)
• World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky (for nonfiction award committee)
• The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo (adult fiction, for award committeee)
• Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson (you guessed it, award committee assignment!)
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi (sequel to Shatter Me!)
• Sever by Lauren DeStefano (final book in the Chemical Garden trilogy!)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Flight
• Tiny Furniture

Have to get my committee work done so I can get back into my must-read list!!
What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (121)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Dreamland Social Club by Tara Altebrando (for reading committee)
• In Darkness by Nick Lake (Printz winner and it's up for consideration on the summer reading list)
• Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alie Saenz (BIG award honoree and winner)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Here Comes the Boom
• Red Dawn (original)

I have a ton of reading to do for the award committee I'm on, so a lot of what I've been wanting to read might have to wait for a while. I think I have nine books to read before the next meeting (which is in early March), and unfortunately for me, I'm in a bit of a reading funk lately. Sigh.

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (120)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (Newberry winner and I put it on hold before that!)
• Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
• Shadowlands by Kate Brian
• Return to Me by Justine Chen
• Back to Front and Upside Down! by Claire Alexander (picture book and winner of the Schneider Family Book Award)
• This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (picture book and winner of the Caldecott Medal)

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• The Dictator
• Bernie (Jack Black and Shirley MacClaine? OMG!)
• Waiting
• Zombieland
• The Expendables 2 (I know, I know. I just think it's going to be so awful it might be funny.)
• Broken Lizard's Super Troopers

Wow, I've got some baaadddd movies to watch!!!
What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (119)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

So here's what I got this week!

Received from the author in exchange for an honest review: Island Eyes, Island Skies by Richard Levine (and an extra copy for a giveaway, too!)


Borrowed from the library:

• Falling for You by Lisa Schroeder
• What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Pitch Perfect

What did you get?

Enjoy your reading!

Christi

In My Mailbox (118)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

Here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Just One Day by Gayle Forman
• Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
• Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
• Fall to Pieces by Vahini Baidoo
• The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
• Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli
• The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (who is only writing this because his therapist said he had to, which stinks) by Susin Nielson

DVDs borrowed from the library:

• Frankenweenie
• The Bourne Legacy
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• Beasts of the Southern Wild

Whew! I've got my work cut out for me this week!!
What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (117)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

Here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• My Beautiful Failure by Janet Ruth Young (YAY!)

Eep, that's it for this week, but one book from one of my favorite authors is better than 20 from authors that are just OK. Plus, I've got some TBR stuff, and I've gotta start on my assigned reading list for the 9-12 section of the award committee I'm on!!

What did you get? Enjoy your reading!
Christi

In My Mailbox (116)

In My Mailbox is an Internet meme hosted by The Story Siren to share new books received, purchased, or borrowed.

So here's what I got this week!

Borrowed from the library:

• Heads in Beds (adult nonfic about the inner workings of hotels) by Jacob Tomsky
• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (adult fic)

eGalleys from NetGalley:

• The S-Word by Chelsea Pitcher
• The Sin-Eaters Confession by Ilsa Bick

What did you get?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi