Early Recommendation: The Snow Child

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.


3 Reasons why you should read this book

1. It is absolutely amazing, one of the best books I have read in 2011.

2. Ivey has a poetical and beautiful writing that will make your eyes tear up.

3. It is a book you fall in love with.

The Snow Child will be released February 1st 2012. Read about the book at Goodreads here.

In My Mailbox #32

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by the Story Siren, where we talk about the books we got our hands on last week.

I have not done an In my Mailbox - post since april. After that I have been attending Book Expo America, have gotten some books for review and bought a lot of books. The post would have been too long if I should have written about each book, so this is a selection of books I have accquired during the summer.

For review:

Rebecca Lim: Exile Lizzie Enfield: What You Don't Know


Eowyn Ivey: The Snow Child

Louisa Young; My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You


Moira Young: Blood Red Road ( e-galley)



K.K Ross: Daughter of the Centaurs (e-galley)


Jenny Wingfield: The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (e-galley)


Juliet Grey: Becoming Marie Antoinette (e-galley)

Juliet Dark: The Demon Lover (e-galley)

Mike Mullin: Ashfall (e-galley)
Sylvia Day: A Touch of Crimson (e-galley)

Mary McGarry Morris: Light from a Distant Star (e-galley)

R. William Bennett: Jacob T. Marley (e-galley)

Julie Kagawa: The Iron Knight (e-galley)



Mette Ivie Harrison: Tris & Izzie (e-galley)



Stacia Brown: Accidents of Providence (e-galley)


Adrian McKinty: Deviant (e-galley)


Cayla Kluver: Legacy (e-galley)


Bought:

Rachel Caine: Working Stiff

Melissa Marr: Enthralled

Alyson Noel: Everlasting

Ellen Feldman: Next to Love


Sarah Addison Allen: The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Sarah Addison Allen: Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen: The Peach Keeper


I read The Sugar Queen, and fell completely in love with this author's writing style, so I bought the rest of her books too.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh: The Language of Flowers


Katherine Webb: The Unseen


Chevy Stevens: Never Knowing


Sarah Blake: The Postmistress

Jennifer Donnelly: The Tea Rose



Kathleen Grissom: The Kitchen House
Michelle Moran: Madame Tussaud


I have been hooked on historical novels lately, and I have not bought a lot of YA - titles since I received so many at BEA. I need to read those first. But I have preordered some titles, that I will show to you once they show up in my mailbox during autumn.

What did you get in your mailbox?