Books That Caught Our Eye

Here at Mailbox Monday, we want to encourage participants to not only share the books they received, but to check out the books others have received.

To that end, we’ve decided to share “Books that Caught Our Eye” with you. Each week, Leslie, Serena and Vicki  will each share 2 books that caught their eye from that week’s Mailbox Monday and share them here.

We encourage you to share the books that caught your eye in the coSerenamments.

Here are the books that caught our eye this week:

SERENA
Pride and Prejudice, Retold in Limericks by Séamus O’Leprechaun @ Diary of an Eccentric
This one captures two of my favorites in one — Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Limericks. How could this not be fun, particularly banter between Darcy and Elizabeth.

 

 

 

 

The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe  @ Bermudaonion 
This sounds like a good summer read about the friendships we make in our youth and how the tragedies and other experiences we have change us and ultimately those relationships we formed when we were young.

 

 

 

 

LESLIE
The Mix & Match Guide to Companion Planting by Josie Jeffrey @ Savvy Verse And Wit 
I’ve had a mostly organic vegetable garden for years and years, and have often noticed that some plants do better or worse depending on who they are growing next to. I’m happy to find a book that will help make some of these planting decisions easier – and more fruitful.

 

 

 

A Dangerous Fiction by Barbara Rogan @ Book Dilettante 
This was published last year, but I hadn’t heard about it. Described as “A romp of a publishing mystery”, it sounds good to me. Plus, it’s the start of a new series, and I like to start at the beginning.

 

 

 

 

VICKI
Like No Other by Una LaMarche @ The Reading Date
This is about two people who meet when they are stuck in an elevator during a hurricane, make a connection, and since their being together is forbidden, they start meeting secretly. I’ve been through many hurricanes (scary) and also been stuck in an elevator (scary). Being stuck in an elevator during a hurricane? That would be scarier than scary, don’t you think? I’d like to see if their romance lasts or if society tears them apart.

 

 

Season to Taste by Natalie Young @ Bermudaonion 
A woman kills her husband. Then she cuts him up, cooks him, and eat him. Gross Gross Gross!! But…it’s like a car wreck. I don’t want to read it but I’m too intrigued not to. From the blurb: “In Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable and surprising heroines in fiction.”