In My Mailbox & Week in Review

In My Mailbox was started by The Story Siren and Reviewer X came up with the Week in Review/Retrospective meme.

Here's what I blogged about this week:

Suite Scarlett Giveaway

First look at the Beastly movie

Review: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Want It Wednesday (with cool cartoon bookshelves!)

Twenty Things in Twenty Days Clue #15

Review: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler


YA Movie & TV News


Audiobook contest for Julie Halpern's Get Well Soon

I only got two books this week, which worked out well since I need to make room for all the books I'll bringing back from ALA!



Once a Witch by Carolyn McCullough
(Thank you to Deobrah Sloan for sending me a copy!)

About the Book: Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and she was supposed to be one of the most Talented among them. But Tamsin's magic never showed up. Now seventeen, Tamsin attends boarding school in Manhattan, far from her family. But when a handsome young professor mistakes her for her very Talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a lost family heirloom for him. The search—and the stranger—will prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the sins of her family, and unleash a power so vengeful that it could destroy them all. This is a spellbinding display of storytelling that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.

Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

(Thank you to Big Honcho Media for my copy!)

Check out my Suite Scarlett Paperback Giveaway!!

About the Book: Her new summer job comes with baggage.
Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small hotel in the heart of New York City, and Scarlett lives there with her four siblings - Spencer, Lola, and Marlene.

When each of the Martins turns fifteen, they are expected to take over the care of a suite in the once elegant, now shabby Art Deco hotel. For Scarlett's fifteenth birthday, she gets both a room called the Empire Suite, and a permanent guest called Mrs. Amberson.

Scarlett doesn't quite know what to make of this C-list starlet, world traveler, and aspiring autobiographer who wants to take over her life. And when she meets Eric, an astonishingly gorgeous actor who has just moved to the city, her summer takes a second unexpected turn.

Before the summer is over, Scarlett will have to survive a whirlwind of thievery, Broadway glamour, romantic missteps, and theatrical deceptions. But in the city where anything can happen, she just might be able to pull it off.