Posted by Teddyrose@1 on March 21, 2011
Posted in Mail Box Mondays | 7 Comments
MailBox Monday now has it’s very own blog, Mailbox Monday. It is also on tour and is being hosted by I’m Booking It in March.
I received this book in my mailbox:
The author of Deadly, Julie Chibbaro held a giveaway for this book and I won. It sounded too good to pass up. Here’s the description:
A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If Prudence Galewski is ever going to get out of Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls, she must demonstrate her refinement and charm by securing a job appropriate for a young lady. But Prudence isn’t like the other girls. She is fascinated by how the human body works and why it fails.
With a stroke of luck, she lands a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of the fever bound to change medical history. Prudence quickly learns that an inquiry of this proportion is not confined to the lab. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, she explores every potential cause of the disease. But there’s no answer in sight—until the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. Strangely, though, she hasn’t been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in a new scientific discovery?
Prudence is determined to find out. In a time when science is for men, she’ll have to prove to the city, and to herself, that she can help solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century.
The Booklounge.ca was holding a giveaway for this book. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to read it or not but I have a friend that I think would love to have it so I entered and won. I’ll probably give it to her first and then perhaps, take a crack at it. I am almost ashamed to admit it, but when I was very young, I loved David Cassidy, so this book would be pure nostalgia for me.
This is yet another book that I didn’t request, that ended up in my mailbox. It seems that St. Martin’s Press is automatically sending me all of their newly released historical fiction, automatically.
On the one hand, it is fun to receive surprises in the mail but on the other, I wish they would ask me if I am interested first. The Silver Eagle is a sequel to The Forgotten Legion. I haven’t read the first book and the description of this book doesn’t really speak to me. I would hate for a book to go to waste, so I will have to find a home for it. Perhaps my public library.
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