Mailbox Monday + Blogger Meet-up (September 27)

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books they received during the previous week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists! Mailbox Monday, which was started by Marcia at The Printed Page, is on blog tour—this month, it’s hosted by Kathy at Bermudaonion’s Weblog. (Note that I will be hosting this meme next month.)

I didn’t receive a single book in the mail this week (which is totally fine by me), but I did meet up with the usual gang (Cindy, Donna, Linda and Tina) at the tea room yesterday, as well as a new local blogger, Amanda from Tales and Treats.

I came home with three new books (all from Cindy):

• Fables: Legends of Exile* by Bill Willingham
  
• The Queen of Cool by Cecil Castellucci (a giveaway win)
  
• Perfecting by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
  

Here are the back cover blurbs for these books (in order):

Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. but only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case—and, along with Rose’s sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams.

Libby Brin has the hippest friends, the hottest boyfriend, the trendiest clothes and the most easygoing parents. She’s the most popular girl in school and she’s never been more bored. Then she signs up for an internship at the Los Angeles Zoo, where she teams up with Tina, a Little Person and aspiring actress, and Sheldon, an introverted boy with a brilliant mind. Libby’s friends think the zoo is for losers, but Libby begins to realize that she may actually enjoy working there and even like Tina and Sheldon. Will the Queen of Cool have to give up her crown?

With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment of his own damaged soul. Then his lover, Martha, finds his gun and goes south to discover the truth, whatever that might be. Curtis sets out to bring her back, lest the Family fall apart. In the half-light of a nursing home sits Hollis, dragon lord of a lost Mormon line, who has anointed Curtis, damned him and now awaits his return...

What did you find in your mailbox this past week? For other Mailbox Monday posts, head over to Bermudaonion’s Weblog.

*Cindy actually gave me this book during our last meet-up, which I completely forgot to blog about!