Mailbox Monday (October 4)

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—and I’m thrilled to be hosting during the month of October!

I received one book for review in the mail this past week: Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean about Her Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding by Jessie Sholl, which is for a blog tour in January.

Here’s part of the blurb on the back:

When her divorced mother was diagnosed with cancer, New York City writer Jessie Sholl returned to her hometown of Minneapolis to help her prepare for her upcoming surgery and get her affairs in order. While a daunting task for any adult dealing with an aging parent, it’s compounded for Sholl by one lifelong, complex, and confounding truth: her mother’s is a compulsive hoarder. Dirty Secret is a daughter’s powerful memoir of confronting her mother’s disorder, of searching for the normalcy that was never hers as a child, and, finally, cleaning out the clutter of her mother’s home in the hopes of salvaging the true heart of their relationship—before it’s too late.

I forgot to mention last week that I also bought the second book in the Maisie Dobbs series (after reading and loving the first), Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear.

Here’s part of the blurb on the back:

Birds of a Feather finds Maisie on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London between the wars. It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress’s old friends are found dead, Maisie must race to find out who would want to kill these seemingly respectable young women before it’s too late. As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of the Great War.

What did you find in your mailbox this past week? Let us know by leaving a link to your post below! (Note that I’m posting particularly early this week because I’m off on vacation later this morning [after some sleep!]. Generally, I’m planning to post late on Sundays.)