Sunday, January 16, 2011

Mailbox Monday and Giveaway



Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! I also have a new GIVEAWAY this week and three winners of last week's giveaway.  Keep reading through the post to find all the goodies.


MAILBOX MONDAY
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. (Library books don’t count, but eBooks & audiobooks do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists!
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it into a touring meme (details here). I am very pleased to host this month.

Please leave the link to your Mailbox Monday post with Mr. Linky. If you do not have a blog, leave your mailbox list in a comment.



GIVEAWAY WINNER

I had three copies to give away of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry by Rachel Hadas.  This looks like an incredible book -- a great book club choice, I would think.


THE BOOK: In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of sixty-one. STRANGE RELATION is her account of "losing" George. Her narrative begins when George's illness can no longer be ignored, and ends in 2008 soon after his move to a dementia facility (when after thirty years of marriage, Hadas finds herself no longer living with her husband). Within the confines of those difficult years, years when reading and writing were an essential part of what kept her going, she "tried to keep track....tried to tell the truth."

THE WINNERS:  Using random.org, I picked the following winners of this compelling memoir:

Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to the winners!  I will contact you shortly.


THIS WEEK'S GIVAWAY

Again thanks to book publicist extraordinaire, Mary Bisbee-Beek, I have three copies of Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money by Kate Levinson, PhD.  I confess I had to read the title twice -- at first I read it as using money to build a relationship, which would be pretty nefarious. :)



THE BOOK: Emotional Currency gives women the tools to understand – and challenge – their psychological relationship with money so they can make smarter decisions about their current and future financial responsibilities.
Here’s the book every woman (and most men) need: a clear, thoughtful, and beautifully-written guide for how to cope with the myriad of emotions caused by money. Kate Levinson – practicing therapist and businesswoman –shows how money is both mercilessly public and intimately personal – stirring up our deepest feelings about dependence and independence, status, attractiveness, and terrifying confusion between net worth and self worth. Women in today’s economy are especially vulnerable because of gender biases in the workplace, patterns of parenting and upbringing that assume women do not “handle” financial matters well, and social norms that still disapprove of money-wise women. This book is a wise and important antidote.
Robert B. Reich
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

RULES: The contest is open until Sunday, January 23, 2011. To enter, do any or all of the following, but you must leave a comment for each one:

1. Leave a comment on this post. You must include a way to contact you (email or website address in your comment or available in your profile). If I can't find a way to contact you I will draw another winner. (1 entry)

2. Blog about this giveaway. (Posting the giveaway on your sidebar is also acceptable.) Leave a separate comment with a link to your post. (1 entry)

3. Subscribe to my rss feed, follow me on blogger, or subscribe via email (or tell me if you already are a subscriber or follower). Leave a separate comment for this. (1 entry)

4. Tweet this post on Twitter. Leave me a separate comment with your twitter user name. (1 entry)

5. Stumble this blog, digg it, technorati fave it, or link it on facebook. Leave a separate comment. (1 entry)

There are a lot of ways to enter (maximum of five entries), but you must LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT for each one or they will not count. I will use random.org to pick the winners from the comments.

This contest is open to entries from the U.S. and Canada only. The deadline for entry is 9:00 PM, Pacific Time, on Sunday, January 23, 2011. I will draw and post the winner's name in my Mailbox Monday post for January 24, 2011.


MY MAILBOX

I ended up with several new books last week, some that came in the mail, some that I picked up while I was traveling in the Bay Area for work.

The Losing Role by Steve Anderson.  WWII espionage from the German point of view. I got it for Hubby but am going to read it myself first.  See my interview of the author here.



Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. This is my Book Club book this week and will be the first book I don't read before we meet. I had it on hold at the library and realized too late that it wouldn't get here in time.  Neither did the one I ordered.  Oh well.



Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.  This is a fancy, annotated edition.  Apparently Santa didn't remember that I asked for this for Christmas, so I had to take matters into my own hands.  I only recently read this for the first time and fell in love with it (review here).



Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais. I read this in college and am not likely to read it again, but I found this Modern Library Giant edition on the "take one, leave one" shelf at my hotel and convinced myself that I would reread it.  I must have been inspired by staying a block from the Berkeley campus.



The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen.  The Friends of the Berkeley Library bookstore was also only a block from my hotel. I found this one and the Buckley novel, below.



Getting it Right by William F. Buckley, Jr.



Exit Lady Masham by Louis Auchincloss. I also went to Moe's Books on Telegraph Ave. and found this beautiful edition that goes with the fancy books I got for Christmas.



25 comments :

  1. Hi there 'Rose City Reader'

    You can't believe how many childhood memories you brought back, with your 'mailbox' and review of 'The Wind In The Willows'.

    Whenever a meme comes up, or a fellow blogger asks 'what was one of the first books you can remember as a child?', that one is always near the top of the list.

    I would read the book over and over and never tire of the story, one of the true classics, that I hope will never be subject to a 're-write', unlike many of our other classics!

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  3. fiction-books: I wish I had read Wind in the Willows as a child, but I think I got more of a kick out of it as an adult. I laugh every time I think of it, and I think of it often. Toad Hall, messing about in boats, Moley's tour of his house -- all of it. I love it.

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  4. Santa forgot my Annotated Wind in the Willows too. Oh well. It will still be on my list at my birthday!

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  5. You had a great week! I've heard Cutting for Stone is wonderful. The House in Paris catches my eye too.

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  6. Great assortment of books! The Losing Side looks fascinating as it would be interesting to read the other pov.

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  7. I have Cutting For Stone on my bookshelf and plan to read it this year!

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  8. Oh, I love the look of The House in Paris...captivating cover and synopsis....

    Thanks for sharing and for hosting this month.

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  9. I saw Cutting for Stone on either iBooks or Kindle for only $5 and was tempted to get it - will be interested to hear what your book group thinks. Enjoy all your new reads!

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  10. I've read a couple of books by Elizabeth Bowen but not The House in Paris. I hope you enjoy it!

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  11. What a great list. Enjoy! You've made me want to read Wind in the Willows again, too.

    carolsnotebook at yahoo dot com

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  12. Good books, I've heard of Elizabeth Bowen. Never read one of her books.

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  13. Great mailbox :) Tehy all look good.
    The Louis Auchincloss book looks like a lovely edition. Happy reading.

    heres mine

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  14. Thanks for the win from last mailbox monday! Looks like you got a lot of good books as well.

    No need to enter me in the current giveaway.

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  15. Oh, man, what a great list of books! I want to know more about The Losing Side--and I certainly would like to be entered for the giveaway! toepferblue at gmail dot com.

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  16. Also duly tweeted by @HeyToepfer, but I should have included your blog's name.

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  17. You got some great books this week! More than once I've had to take matters into my own hands when Santa "forgot" my book requests! No need to enter me in the giveaway. Enjoy all your new reads!

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  18. I love your mailbox! The Wind in the Willows IS definitely one to buy beautifully bound as one for the keeper shelves. Enjoy all of the wonderful new reads!

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  19. I love the look of Cover for Stone, and listening to the others makes me think I should add The Wind in the Willows on my pile of reads.

    Enjoy the reads :)

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  20. If your giveaway book is good enough for Robert Reich, it's good enough for me, too. Fingers crossed.

    www.hotchpotcafe.blogspot.com

    Please, please tell me you went to Serendipity Books while you were in Berkeley.

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  21. It's kinda late for Mailbox Monday but I just had to share this =)

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  22. And now you're featured in my blog, though part of me hopes no one reads the entry!

    toepferblue at gmail

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  23. I need to read Cutting for Stone - it's been sitting on my shelf and I keep hearing great things about it!

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