Saturday, March 19, 2011

In My Mailbox #2


In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. It's an awesome way to share what new books you got during the past week.

So this week is super cool because I actually got something In My Mailbox...

I was super excited to recieve my copy of Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness






I won it as a part of the 2011 Locus Challenge being hosted over at The Ranting Dragon... You can find out more here. I think this is the first time in my life that I have actually won anything... ever... haha.

Monsters of Men is the third book in the Chaos Walking trilogy. I'm really looking forward to reading all three books. They seem like great books to review here on the GUYde.

So thanks again to The Ranting Dragon and of course to Candlewick Press for hooking me up!

So what did you get in your mailbox this week?
Posted by readersGUYde at 7:35 PM
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9 comments:

  1. KelliumSimsMarch 20, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    I've heard that Monsters of Men is really good :) I entered a contest this week to win it, too. I didn't realise it was a third in a series though... I guess if I win I'll need to buy the first two
    Hope you enjoy your new book :)

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  2. SallyMarch 20, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    I've got the first two books in the trilogy just got to get the third and then I will start reading them.
    Happy reading.
    Sally.
    http://theelifylop.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-my-mailbox-11.html

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  3. Aaron VincentMarch 20, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    I don't want to set your expectations high, but this trilogy is reallllllyyy good. One of my favorite dystopian novels. You're going to enjoy reading this, I'm sure of it.

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  4. readersGUYdeMarch 21, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Yes I definetly will have to go buy the first two in the series now.... the contest was a great marketing tool wasn't it? It sure worked on me!!

    Thanks for the heads up Aaron... now I'm looking forward to it even more!

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  5. Sami JoOctober 31, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    Hi Brandon -

    I have a book suggestion for your blog I'd love to send over if you would be interested - can you e-mail me? samantha@jkscommunications.com

    Thanks!! :)

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  6. John Michael CummingsMarch 23, 2012 at 6:46 PM

    RESENT: book review request by award-winning author

    Dear Brandon,

    I'm an award-winning author with a new book of fiction. Ugly To Start
    With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about teen life
    published by West Virginia University Press in November
    of 2011.

    Can I interest you in reviewing it?

    I wrote to you this past fall, but lost much of my AOL mail from that
    time, thanks to overwhelming SPAM. If you replied, my apologies.

    Perhaps you now have more time to consider a book review or Q&A?

    My book's only 160 pages short. The writing is easy and open, and all
    the stories are interconnected--same hero and story arc throughout. It
    reads like a brisk novel in the form of stories.


    If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book.

    My publisher, I should add, can also offer your readers a free excerpt of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher's website:
    http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084

    Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of
    Dyads and The Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: "In Ugly to Start With, set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut, crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human affection and suffering--emotional truths that the members of his audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and adolescence.”

    My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.

    I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group, 2009), winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades 7-12) and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.

    For more information about me, please visit:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings

    Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

    Kindly,

    John Michael Cummings

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