Monday, October 10, 2011

Mailbox Monday! What Showed Up in Your Mailbox This Week?

Some more great things came in via the mailbox this week!

Seymour Chwast's graphic novel adaptation of The Canterbury Tales came in from Bloomsbury, a win from LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. It's fun; I started reading it last night and should have a review soon.


I won The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, from Penguin. They did a giveaway of some classic banned books for Banned Books Week.

How cool is that, right? I haven't read Grapes in years and I've never read Huckleberry Finn (!) so I'm pretty excited to have such nice editions of these classics.
Finally, I got a copy of My Own Country, by Abraham Verghese, from Bookmooch. Verghese is of course the author of the wonderful Cutting for Stone, one of my favorite books of the last few years, and I can't wait to dig into Verghese's real-life memoir of his time as a young doctor specializing in AIDS patients. I used to volunteer at a local AIDS service organization and this is a topic close to my heart, and written about by one of my favorites. So this book has to be a winner.

I think that's a pretty good week in books!

7 comments:

Sandy Nawrot said...

I think I want all of them! I'm particularly intrigued by the graphic novel of Canterbury Tales. I'm going to have to see if my library has that.

Harvee said...

How nice to be reminded of the classics again. Enjoy your books!

(Diane) Bibliophile By the Sea said...

What a great selection. I bet the Verghese memoir is fascinating - enjoy Marie.

bermudaonion said...

I LOVE the cover of the The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It's been years since I read that one too.

Kathleen said...

It certainly has been a good week for books! You have some great ones that you received. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts on Huckleberry Finn. I have to say that I don't really like it myself but I know it is considered a classic.

Zibilee said...

What a great mailbox this week! Lots of classics to choose from, and that Verghese memoir looks fantastic! Enjoy them all.

Anna said...

I can't wait for your thoughts on the Canterbury Tales! I read it in college and it was quite interesting. I'm intrigued to hear it's been turned into a graphic novel.