Let's Go to the Hop

Welcome to my book blog! Thanks for spending some time here. If you'd like me to visit your blog, please leave a comment.

Jennifer's Book Blogger Hop is a fun way for bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs. I have discovered many wonderful book blogs in this way. This weekly, virtual event is an opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends and followers, and share an appreciation of books. It gives us a chance to "hop" over to other blogs, to comment and "party" (after all, it begins on a Friday!). Visit Crazy-for-Books to sign-up for the July 16 - July 19 BOOK PARTY, and start hopping!

This week, we are supposed to let readers know which book we are dying to get our hands on, old, new, or soon to be released, but in my case, my TBR stack is so large, that I can't answer that question!

Mailbox Monday: I'm Back!

I'm back! My family had a fabulous vacation in Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York, to see family and some friends.

While away, I read--and thoroughly enjoyed--The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees, the book I won on Kristi's blog, peetswea. In Cambridge, MA, we stopped by The Coop, Harvard's bookstore. Even though I didn't buy anything, it was wonderful to visit this bookstore and browse for a few minutes.

When we returned home to California, I was excited to find three new books in the mail, a novel and two memoirs. I received Whiter Than Snowby Sandra Dallas from St. Martin's Press, Not That Kind of Girlby Carlene Bauer from Harper Perennial for a TLC book tour, and What We Have by Amy Boesky from Gotham Books, also for an upcoming TLC book tour.

Mailbox Monday, hosted by Marcia from The Printed Page, is one of my favorite memes. What new books have you gotten recently, by mail or from elsewhere?