Monday 24 February 2020

Mailbox Monday - February 24th

Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It now has a permanent home at the Mailbox Monday blog. Head over and check out other books received during the last week. 


Happy Monday!

I attended a wonderful bookish lunch with the Aussie Readers Goodreads group. We get together a few times a year to chat books and swap books and I always come home with a few extra books to add to my TBR.


It's been a relatively quiet fortnight, which is a good thing. My sister and brother visited from Interstate and it was nice to catch up over lunch on both Saturday and Sunday. We always tend to do lots of reminiscing and laughing over a few of my brother's antics when he was younger. 

Books received over the last two weeks:

 


From the publisher:

Symphony for the Man by Sarah Brill
1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry’s been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he heads to the beach to chat with the gulls. Or he wanders through the streets in search of food, clothes, Jules. When the girl on the bus sees him, lonely and cold in the bus shelter that he calls home, she thinks about how she can help. She decides to write a symphony for him.

So begins a poignant and gritty tale of homelessness and shelter, of the realities of loneliness and hunger, and of the hopes and dreams of those who often go unnoticed on our streets. This is the story of two outcasts – one a young woman struggling to find her place in an alien world, one an older man seeking refuge and solace from a life in tatters. It is also about the transformative power of care and friendship, and the promise of escape that music holds.
 


Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men – employees at the resort - are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives.

Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth - not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? 


I would love to hear what you received in the mail lately!

 

16 comments:

  1. Your luncheon looks like so much fun! Enjoy your new books!

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  2. Your bookish lunch looks like fun.

    I have been noticing Saint X around and now I want to read it. Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.

    Have a great week.

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  3. The luncheon sounds like a good time. Both of your new books sounds interesting. Happy Reading!

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    1. Lunch was fun and I always come home with a new book or two.

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  4. That bookish lunch sounds like fun. Maybe I should start something like that around here. Enjoy your new books. Have a great week!

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. Book club lunches are so good. We get to talk books for a few hours and then do a book swap. What could be better!

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  5. That looks like a fantastic meetup. Have a great week

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  6. Saint X sounds great! I've seen it around a lot on bookstagram and that kind of thing, so it sounds like a lot of people are enjoying. Last time I cleared my mailbox, I found a copy of Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives off Extremists by Julia Ebner - it looks fascinating!!

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  7. Saint X is on my to-read list. I hope you enjoy it.

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  8. The bookish lunch sounds great, enjoy your books!

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    1. Thank you. The meet ups are fun. We talk books for hours then do a book swap.

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