Monday, December 12, 2011

Mailbox Monday (December 12): The 3rd Montreal Book Bloggers’ Meet-Up!

Mailbox Monday buttonMailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books they received during the previous week. Warning: MM can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and huge wish lists! Mailbox Monday, which was started by Marcia (who now blogs at A girl and her books) is on blog tour—this month, it’s hosted by Jenny Q at Let Them Read Books.

I didn’t receive any books in the mail this past week, but I meet up with the Montreal Book Bloggers for our third official gathering and of course books were exchanged! Out of the 20 people in our group, 10 got together for lunch last Saturday—poor Laura, who was supposed to join us for dessert, got stuck in traffic and only made it to the restaurant as we were leaving. We chatted about books and food and BEA—it looks like Cindy and Tina and I will all be going and staying in the same hotel!

Here’s the group pic our waitress took with my camera:


Left side (L-R): Amanda from Tales and Treats, Natalia from Dazzling Reads, Ilana from From Smiler, with love, me and Tina from Bookshipper

Left side (L-R): Cat from Beyond Books, Cindy from Cindy’s Love of Books, Lucy from Moonlight Gleam’s Bookshelf, Cindy from Tynga’s Reviews and Emilie from A Beautiful Madness

I restrained myself a bit this time and only brought home four books for me (plus two for Mr. B):



From Amanda (
Tales and Treats):

From Cindy (Cindy’s Love of Books):

From Lucy (Moonlight Gleam’s Bookshelf):

From Ilana (From Smiler, with love):

Ilana also gave me American Gods by Neil Gaiman and A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin for Mr. B. (Thank you!)

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

15 comments:

  1. Birthmarked looks very interesting. I love the cover. Enjoy reading!

    Take a look at my mailbox!

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  2. What a nice photo and it looks like you recived some great books as well. enjoy

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  3. How fun that you all live close enough to get together! Black Mirror looks interesting.

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  4. Enjoy all your new books. I was thinking of the meetup on Saturday. I will be at the next one. Happy reading!

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  5. Meet ups are so fun. I really need to work on a mInneosta one this next year!

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  6. Looks like a great bunch of books...and it looks like you all have such a great time together!

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  7. Looks like you had a great time and received some good reads.

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  8. What fun to be able to meet up in person and exchange books.

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  9. Avis it was alot of fun and so happy you got some great books. Hopefully we can meet up over the holidays.

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  10. I can only imagine how fun it would be to meet other bloggers and talk about books. It makes me giddy to think about it! That is a great photo!

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  11. What a great idea. I'd love to meet other book bloggers

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  12. Nice to see a pic of your gathering... :)
    I will request Mnemonic by inter-library loan...in the meantime let me know what you think of it if you get to it before I do!

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  13. I need to get a better class of friends who like to read as much as I do!! LOL...your books look great!

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  14. Thank goodness I at least saw you guys before you left or my trek through traffic-laden Montreal would have been all for naught!

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