Second month of the year already! Nothing much has changed, still reading and still buying books! I thought this would be an empty mailbox week until 9pm Friday when a slim parcel was found on the doorstep (despite there being nothing there at 6pm!).
I opened it and yay! Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge! (Thank you Random House!) This book contains 11 twisted tales with common motifs (such as strawberries and kiwi fruit…yum). I look forward to Ogawa’s sparse prose and slightly disturbing stories.
Unfortunately, the bookshop I went to Saturday didn’t have any of those books I was planning to buy with my Christmas/birthday vouchers! I did spot Amber Road by Boyd Anderson, which piqued my interest. It’s a fiction book about Singapore in World War II. How could I resist?
I’ve been reading a lot of eBooks lately and added to my digital pile two new titles.
The first is Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life, which looks really interesting. (Actually it is, I started it last night). It looks at having multiple chances to live your life until you get it right. It’s released in Australia (and I believe the UK) in March.
The second eBook is a memoir, The Gunners of Shenyang by Yu Jihui, to be released in May this year. It’s about the author’s university days and daring to be different during Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
Please do visit our host for February, Unabridged Chick, to explore lots of exciting mailboxes!
So jealous happy that you have Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge! Wonderful mailbox!!! Congratulations for receiving such fine novels.
Soooooooooooooooo envious of Revenge!! I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
I’m looking forward to the Revenge Collection as well — enjoy
I like the Singapore based one. Sounds a really good story.
All your books look wonderful to me, especially Revenge. Can’t wait to hear what you think of it.
I’m not sure if I would enjoy Life after Life. I will look forward to your review of it.
Oh wow, I REALLY want to read Life After Life too – enjoy!
Amber Road looks good so I hope you love it!
I’ve heard Life After Life is outstanding. I hope you love it!
I love Kate Atkinson’s books…and Life After Life is one I’ve preordered. Can’t wait! Love the cover of Amber Road. Enjoy!
Here’s MY MONDAY MEMES POST
Gorgeous cover on revenge. Enjoy all your books.
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Amber Road sounds great, and who could pass up that cover! I have Life After Life too and hope to get started on it soon.
A nice surprise at 9pm! LOL I read The Housekeeper and The Professor (also by Ogawa) in 2009 and really enjoyed it.
Here is my Monday memes post.
Life After Life caught my eye.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2013/02/mailbox-monday.html
Revenge sounds fascinating. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to your review. It’s also pretty interetsting that it showed uplate at night on a Friday…ah, the life of books!
The cover of Amber Road is beautiful. And Kate Atkinson is one of the authors I have yet to read but want to. I hope you enjoy this book!
I hope you enjoy all of your books!
Life After Life appeals to me. I hope you enjoy all your new reads!
The Ogawa…want! How fantastic, enjoy, I love Ogawa. And the Atkinson sounds great, too. Happy reading
Just finished Revenge which was fantastic and now am reading Kate Atkinson, it’s a great to the reading year indeed!
Amber Road looks interesting, I may have to look into that