ARCs Received - May 2011

As I have been reminded, it's May. :) Time for a new thread!

The Map of Time (really, no touchstone for it?) arrived today along with a promotional copy of The Time Machine.

Touchstones for new books aren't being added at present, however, you can often force a touchstone by adding the work number and two colons ahead of the book title thusly:

7073311::The Map of Time and then enclosing the whole thing in square brackets.

I really wanted to get an ARC of The Map of TimeThe Map of Time but I was not lucky... therefore, I might purchase that book at some time in the near future. The two books you received make a good pair.

For myself, I received Rise of the Raven by Steven R. Drennon (ebook format) from Member Giveaways this month and I have one pending from Early Reviewers; The Inheritance by Robin Hobb

I have The Map of Time on my reading/review list for this week soon; totally looking forward to it!

So far for May, I've received:

Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
Half a Life by Darin Strauss

Received yesterday
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill

This month:

Among the Missing by Morag Joss (LT Early Reviewers)

The Twisted Threadby Charlotte Bacon (I can't recall having requested this...It's been a long time since I received a "mystery" ARC!)

;-}

jdthloue ... I think when I read The Twisted Thread synopsis, it came across as more of the sort of literary fiction/YA type of read than as a mystery.

On Friday, I received (and it looks SO good)

73082120::Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson

>6 jewelknits: Oh golly..I meant that receiving the ARC was a Mystery...since I don't remember requesting it!!

That being said..it looks to be pretty good!

;-}

So far this month:

Finished copies:
If I Loved You I Would Tell You This by Robin Black
Mom by Dave Isay
Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
Night Road by Kristen Hannah
Man with a Pan by John Donohue

ARCs:
Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
Games to Play After Dark by Sarah Gardner Borden
One other I can't talk about yet

DevourerOfBooks

Night Road was a very very good read; enjoy it!

Received today:

A Young Wife by Pam Lewis

This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park

Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch came today.

Jamrach's Menagerie arrived today for me, too.

Steve Berry's The Jefferson Key

Today I received Hotwire by Alex Kava

More for May:

Pompeii: City of Fire by T. L. Higley
The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birth
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan came today from Penguin.

An ARC of Tighter that I won off of Random Buzzers' Twitter account arrived today.

Sanctus by Simon Toyne was in my mailbox today.

I'm with #18......Sanctus showed up in my mailbox today!!!

I won an ARC of Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott off of a blog giveaway; it arrived today with a finished copy of one of her other books.

Last day of May! An ARC of The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman arrived today - seems really early to start getting these out, the book's not published until October.