Mailbox Monday + Blogger Meet-Up (December 6)

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 Lady Q at Let Them Read Books.

I finally spent the gift card I received last Christmas (!) from Mr. B’s sister (my sister-out-law) and her husband—and the books I ordered arrived last week. They were:

• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. (for the 2011 “The Women of Science Fiction” Book Club at Dreams and Speculation)
• I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy and Power by Brené Brown
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha by Tara Brach
• The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These by Christina Baldwin
  
• The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk
• Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On by Anneli Rufus

I also received one book for review: Home to Woefield by Susan Juby, which will be published by Harper Collins in March 2011. Here’s the blurb on the back:

When twenty-four-year-old Prudence Burns inherits a farm from her uncle, she thinks all her back-to-the-land dreams will come true. Unfortunately, Woefield Farm turns out to be thirty acres of scrub grass, dotted with dilapidated buildings and inhabited by a lonely, half-sheared sheep named Bertie. Prudence discovers that her total lack of experience and skills might be a problem, especially since the bank is about to foreclose on the property. Needing to turn things around fast, she enlists the help of earl, a spry seventy-something, banjo-playing foreman with a substantial family secret; Seth, the alcoholic, celebrity-school drama teacher; and Sara Spratt, a hyper-organized eleven-year-old looking for a home for her prize-winning chickens. Together the four unlikely farmers tackle a series of impossible projects and create a most unusual family.

Finally, I also got together with the usual gang minus two (Cindy, Linda, Tina and I met up; unfortunately, neither Donna nor Amanda could join us) and somehow managed to be heading home without a single new book (although Linda gave us each a $5 gift card to spend at Chapters Indigo and Cindy made us lovely beaded bookmarks). But then Linda and I popped into a thrift store on the way home and I bought Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie!

What did you find in your mailbox this past week? For other Mailbox Monday posts, head over to Let Them Read Books.