Welcome to Mailbox Monday, the weekly meme created by Marcia, formerly from The Printed Page, where book lovers share the titles they received for review, purchased, or otherwise obtained over the past week. Mailbox Monday currently is on tour, and this month’s host is chaotic compendiums.
Here’s what I received over the past couple of weeks:
The Annotated Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, annotated and edited by David M. Shapard — a purchase for my Austen collection (Amazon/IndieBound)
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,000 annotations on facing pages, including:
- Explanations of historical context
- Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
- Definitions and clarifications
- Literary comments and analysis
- Multiple maps of England and London
- An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events
- More than 100 informative illustrations
Filled with fascinating information about everything from the rules of inheritance that could leave a wealthy man’s daughters almost penniless to the fashionable cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, David M. Shapard’s Annotated Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining and edifying delight. (publisher’s summary)
The Red Kimono by Jan Morrill — from The University of Arkansas Press for review (Amazon/IndieBound)
In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nine-year-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live with their family. When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, anger erupts, and one afternoon Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends.
What Sachiko and Nobu do not know is that the morning of the beating, Terrence’s family received a telegram with news that Terrence’s father was killed at Pearl Harbor. Desperate to escape his pain, Terrence rushes from his home and runs into two high-school friends who convince him to find a Japanese man to get revenge. They do not know until later that the man they attacked is Sachiko and Nobu’s father.
In the months that follow, Terrence is convicted of his crime and Sachiko and Nobu and their mother are sent to an internment camp in Arkansas. While behind bars and barbed wire, each of the three young people will go through dramatic changes. One will learn acceptance. One will seek a path to forgiveness. And one will remain imprisoned by resentment. (publisher’s summary)
I also won these awesome bookmarks from Dogear Diary. They are so cute, and The Girl and I are using them already! Thanks, Jeane!
What books did you add to your shelves recently?
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Enjoy your books 🙂
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The Red Kimono sounds so interesting. Enjoy both your reads.
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Red Kimono also caught my eye from this list. Are there other Austen annotated books that you don’t have?
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Not of the ones edited by Shapard. There’s another coming out soon I believe. I need two of the hardcover Harvard annotated editions, though. lol
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The Red Kimono is one that looks really good to me too!
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I like the look of The Red Kimono…enjoy your reads! Here’s MY MONDAY MEMES POST
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I have never read Sense and Sensibility!
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Well you need to change that! 😉
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EEe, S&S — yum!
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The bookmarks are cute. Have you see To The Arctic Imax documentary? The scenery with the bears are awesome!
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The Red Kimono sounds intriguing. Hope you enjoy all your new books!
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The book marks are adorable. Your new books sound wonderful, Anna.
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Loving your books!!! the bookmarks are so cute!
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Dog Ear Diary has THE BEST bookmarks. I have a couple of koala bears that I use constantly. And I desperately want to get my hands on an annotated Jane Austen.
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I have a few other bookmarks by Jeane, and I use them all the time, too!
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I just received my copy of the Jane Austen book. I can’t wait to read it! Tweeted.
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Enjoy your books. Those bookmarks are cute.
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I didn’t know everyone liked my bookmarks so much! It made me grin to see them on your post.
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They are awesome! You are very talented. 🙂
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Thank you all for stopping by to check out my mailbox. Happy reading!
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How exciting to find my novel, The Red Kimono, on your blog. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks so much!
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Hi Jan! I hope to read and review it next month. 🙂
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