Mailbox Monday for 9/26/11

Mailbox Monday is a weekly meme created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books and is being hosted all this month by Leah at Amused By Books.

I receive a trade paperback of Deary Bully edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones for review from PTA.

I received hardcovers of Motor City Shakedown by D.E. Johnson and Instant City by Steve Inskeep for upcoming TLC Book Tours.

I won a hardcover of Creep by Jennifer Hillier from Michelle of red headed book child.

I won a trade paperback of The Ghost of Greenwich Village by Lorna Graham from Tasha of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Books.

I had a wonderful surprise of two paperbacks show up at my house from the lovely Becke of The Mysterious Garden Muse.  She is also the moderator of a few book clubs on the Barnes & Noble site, including the Mystery one.  She sent me The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and certain other members of the Detection Club.  I also got Unfinished Portrait which Agatha Christie wrote under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Book Review: A Discovery of Witches

The leather bound volume was nothing remarkable. With this opening line, Deborah Harkness begins a mesmerizing tale of witches, daemons, and vampires living, learning, and competing in our normal human world.

Diana Bishop, studying and writing a paper about alchemy while in Oxford, tries to control her witch tendencies. However, when she breaks the spell on the leather bound volume, senses hidden secrets, and returns the book, all manner of otherwordly deeds transpire. Not the least is attention from Michael Clairmont, a wordly vampire.

History, romance, magic, and suspense are combined in A Discovery of Witches with superb prose, richly drawn characters, and intellect. Sparks fly as Diana delves into her past, her legacy, and recognizes her witch powers. I was mesmerized, drawn into this six hundred page book, reading it as if it was the life blood I needed to stay alive. Excellent. Become possessed and obsessed, too.

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