Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is hosted for the month of August by Chick Loves Lit

This week was my lucky week. I was contacted by a member at PBS who offered me an awesome deal on a bunch of literary fiction I had on my reminder list. I live about 10 minutes from Lake Michigan and a 2 mile stretch of gorgeous beach. When it's nice like it has been, on weekends I take my boy down there for an ice cream and a ride by the lake. Sometimes I'll bring the mutt and let him run on the dog beach. Saturday we headed down that way and I stopped by Booked for the Season another of the consignment bookstores I mentioned in an earlier post. I didn't find as many here as I did at the other one. Apparently all the readers of historical fiction live in Grand Haven so I think I will continue to go to that one. I did manage to find three though and after that boy and I took our cruise around the lake, parked with the window down and listened to the waves crash onto the beach as we ate our ice cream. So without further ado:

From PBS:

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
• I am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

And from Booked for the Season:

• A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle Bk 1) by Libba Bray
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Now to enjoy my wonderful Starbucks as I fold mountains of laundry :)