ARC's Received - March 2011

On Monday, received:

Song of the Silk Road by Mingmei Yip

I got a finished copy of Death Cloud from Holt InGroup.

I requested an ARC of Memento Nora from the publisher and ended up getting that, Zitface, and Crystal Bones today.

An ARC of Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon came today

I received an ARC of The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma through the Early Reviewer program

Two more wonderful additions:

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

and

Iron House by John Hart

Received today, un-solicited. Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth By Lisa Napoli Crown (2011), Uncorrected Proof, Paperback, 304 pages

This book was actually published last month, in Hardcover, Unabridged Audio, and Kindle format, but still... the unique thing about this one is that the publisher actually wants me to pass the book on after I read and review it.

Busy week for me!

Yesterday I received Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon. I got a good start on it today and am enjoying it.

Today I received Night Road by Kristin Hannah. It looks good too!

I got two copies of Radio Shangri-La:What I Learned in Bhutan...one of which was from the Read it Forward program. I'll probably end up doing a blog giveaway for one of them, I'll read it, but it doesn't look like something I'm going to keep.

Also got 13 rue Therese, Deadly Cliche by Ellery Adams, Gideon's sword and night road by Kristin Hannah.

tututhefirst, 13 rue Therese is on my wishlist! Enjoy! I recently read and reviewed Gideon's Sword (liked it), and Night Road is happily on my review pile!

Thursday I received The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke

>7 1dragones:,

Are you sure you didn't enter the Read It Forward giveaway? I got copy at the same time as you did (I have two now, actually) with that same sharing piece on the back, and that is where it is from.

9.> Even if the publisher didn't want me to pass on Radio Shangri-La after I read it, I probably would anyway. It doesn't look like the kind of book that usually attracts my interest. Still, I'll attempt to read and review it, as I do that with almost every book I get my hands on these days.

12. I enter Read It Forward giveaways at different times, but that would normally be for books that are something I would probably buy... Radio Shangri-La isn't the type of book I would buy and I probably would not have taken time to seek out a copy - even free - as that is so far outside my realm of interest.

However, there is this: In January, I submitted a review of Think of a Number by John Verdon, which I received late last year from the Read It Forward giveaway. I'm thinking they may have sent me Radio Shangri-La because of that review.

The reason I'm thinking this is because I received an email about three weeks before Radio Shangri-La appeared on my doorstep. In part, the email says that if I post my review as a comment on their web page for this book and they choose my review to showcase in an upcoming post, then they will send me another great book.

New arrival as of 1:00PM Central Standard Time, USA

2nd Earth by Edward and Eunice Vought This is one I definitely requested around three weeks ago, and then I promptly forgot the request... but it is also well within my interests, so, in this case, there's no doubt I sent the request.

I got a copy of An Atlas of Impossible Longing from Free Press blog tours.

14,
Ah, I haven't seen that line from them before, that probably is exactly why you got it.

Yes, I am certain that is why...

#14--maybe that's why I got TWO copies? Do you think they're having trouble getting people to review that one? It isn't one I'd have asked for either.

19.> Could be. When I received Think of a Number, they said my name was drawn from thousands of requests; perhaps not so many requested Radio Shangri-La.

I received an ARC of The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin in the mail today. Did Shelf Awareness have an ad for a publisher's giveaway for this earlier? I can't think of any other way I would have gotten this book.

I do remember seeing an SA contest for The American Heiress, though I decided to pass on that one.

I did, however, receive a signed (!) copy of Dark Life by Kat Falls that I won in a goodreads giveaway.

>19 tututhefirst:,
It was also in Shelf Awareness. I forgot and requested both places, and have two copies too.

An ARC of Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim Flannery came today, courtesy of Grove/Atlantic.

Tuesday I received a copy of The Dark City by Catherine Fisher - really looking forward to this series!

So far this month:
A Formula for Murder by Diana Orgain
When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz
Something for Nothing by David Anthony
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zukoff
My New American Life by Francine Prose
The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Mary of Carisbrook by Margaret Campbell Barnes
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Very Bad Men by Henry Dolan
The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore
The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead by Paul Elwork
Mothers and Daughters by Rae Meadows
History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky

Jen....you really got a haul this month....what percentage of those do you think you'll actually be able to read and review, and do you ever have publishers asking where the reviews are? I'm always afraid to accept that many because I know there's no way I can read and review at the rate of one a day.

Today my mailbox surprise was Dominance by Will Lavender

Yesterday's mailbox brought me Chime by Franny Billingsley

An oddly oil-soaked package came today containing Dominance by Will Lavender.

Luckily the book was largely okay, but I wonder what happened to it? Maybe something leaked in the UPS truck?

tutu,
I've read 17 books so far this month, plus three audio books. I didn't actually request all of the books, some of them were simply sent to me, a few others were sent by accident. My review policy says that no reviews are guaranteed, that books are sent to me for consideration only, so people know that, while I'll do my best to review what is sent to me, they can't count on it for sure unless we've made specific arrangements.

An expected ARC of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After showed up today; I was supposed to have reviewed it by March 22. Also, I got a first: a 60+ page preview of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. I had put in a request for an ARC, but apparently the book is actually close to 350 pages. I didn't realize publishers would send out only part of a book for previews.

>32 SusieBookworm:,
I've received a small promotional piece with (much shorter) excerpts from multiple books, but it is strange that if you requested an ARC they would send you something like that. No information with it?

>33 DevourerOfBooks:,
Sorry for the confusion on that - I requested an ARC back at the beginning of February (through a Shelf Awareness ad), but it never arrived. I'm not sure if the publisher decided not to send me one (quantities are limited, after all, and I'm a new book blogger) or if it got lost. It was just ironic that I had requested an ARC and, in a package sent Mar. 23, I got the excerpt booklet.

Today's mail brought:

The White Devil by Justin Evans

The Tender Mercy of Roses by Anna Michaels

Thursday's mail: The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom

The rest of what came in March: I have 5 packages or so to pick up today to start the April thread:
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (audio)
The Upright Player Piano by David Abbott
The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith (not an ARC)
The Map of Time by Felix J Palma
The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji