ARCs received February 2010

Can't believe it's February already!

Today I received Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro via Goodreads.

Lucky you! I've enjoyed some of her other books.

I received an ARC of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner a couple of days ago, and got 31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan today.

I should stop reading this thread! Jeaslousy always ensues when I do.

Oh you lucky thing DevourerofBooks! The Catherine de Medici book is #1 on my list of most highly anticipated books this year!

Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds showed up on my doorstep today.

I've loved Lamott ever since we read Bird by Bird in my freshman writing course back in 2000. Super-excited about this one!

Darn... I haven't gotten an ARC in a very long time. Not that I haven't been requesting my share of them, but I've just not been that lucky lately.

Heresy by SJ Parris came today from Doubleday/Random House

Yesterday I got Mornings in Jenin and The Man from Saigon.

Got Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), as well as Preston & Child's latest Pendergast novel, Fever Dream.

Heresy by SJ Parris and Anne Lamott's Imperfect Birds have arrived this month.

Monday I received:
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares
Heresy by S.J. Parris
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor

#12 Wow! How do you get so many ARCs? I'd like your secret:)

>13 lilmanmom:,
Partly Shelf Awareness (there's where Heresy and Beatrice and Virgil came from, sadly Random House only sends me books from Shelf Awareness and LTER), and partly just because I've been a book blogger for 2 years now (as of this coming Monday!) so I've built relationships with publicists.

This week I've had a good run:

Wild Romance
The Brontes Went to Woolworths
The Dead Travel Fast

The Executor by Jesse Kellerman came today from Penguin via SA.

This is a good moth for ARCs-I wish I had more time to read!

I got War Lovers, War and The Disappearing Spoon (all nonfiction), Little Giant of Aberdeen County, all from Hatchette. Then from Archipelago I got Georg Letham, A Time for Everything and The Waitress was New.

Just for fun I got A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainan.

I received Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between yesterday in the mail. Paperback ARC copy. It was from a SA ad earlier this month. I love memoirs. :)

Yesterday was Restoring Harmony, which is on a one ARC tour, so that will be leaving my house again in a couple of weeks. Today I received The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott for a book tour.

I got lucky with an email from Candlewick press and got Encyclopedia Mythologica Gods and Heroes series, Mythology, the pig Scrolls and the Pig who Saved the World and Metamorphosis Junior Year. Five books to review. The first one is up at www.studentofsaga.wordpress.com

Received Nobody's Angel by Jack Clark from Hard Case Crime. Editor Charles Ardai seems unusually excited about this book, so I'll be knocking it out soon.

I just got Dog Tags and How to Knit a Love Song.

White Cat by Holly Black (White & Black... lol) showed up in my mailbox today. Looks good. Paperback ARC copy. Was from a SA ad, I believe.

White Cat for me too!

Although I guess it's technically March already-whoa!