In My Mailbox: I bought books for a buckaroo each!

HELLO!!

Here are my dollar finds from Half Price Book Store:

The Marzipan Pigeon by Alyssa Donati

RD: 1994

Curiousity: This one sounds cute!

Synopsis

In her debut novel, Alyssa Donati vividly captures Manhattan's ultra posh uptown and super chic downtown art scenes as she takes readers inside the twentysomething post-brat-packer world of Generation X. Viewed through the not-yet-jaded eyes of beautiful Salty Spencer, a tough-talking, sarcastic twenty-three-year-old, The Marzipan Pigeon is a funny, moving, and contemporary story about love - and loss, and coming of age in the "lost generation." For Salty there has always been one central, all-encompassing love: the boy next door. Literally. She met him on the day her parents died when she was brought to live in the next-door apartment with her godparents and their blond-haired, angel-faced child, Minty, who stole her heart and never let it go. They grew up together as best friends and soul mates with Minty never suspecting Salty's true feelings...until now. Finally, like a dream come true, Minty suddenly sees Salty for the woman she has become and the two become lovers. Yet the dream quickly shatters when the man she'd known all her life is no longer the man she had always imagined. Forced to confront childhood dreams and timeless fantasies, Salty embarks on an emotional odyssey of self-discovery and learns the hardest lesson of all - letting go.

Battle Royale Vol. 1 by Koushun Takami

RD: 2000

Curiosity: I read the book based on the manga series about 4 years ago. No I didn't watch the movies. I started but they were SO lame and badly made I could not finish them. The first manga volume was a buck, how could I say no? teehee

Synopsis

It's a lottery. But in this lottery, there's no multimillion-dollar check to turn your life around. No, this is the worst thing that could happen to you if you're a ninth grader in the economically and sociologically bankrupt future that creators Koushun Takami and Masayuki Tagushi have dreamed up. Their controversial series about "The Program" - a game that picks random classes and puts them on an abandoned island for a televised fight to the death - has drawn an incredible following in Japan. Is America ready for it? Are you ready for it? TOKYOPOP brings you this groundbreaking series featuring an English adaptation by renowned writer Kieth Giffen. Put aside your morals, hold on to your seats and prepare yourself for an unforgettable manga experience... Prepare yourself for BATTLE ROYALE! 

On the Brightside, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God by Louise Rennison (book 2)

RD: 2000

Curiosity: I have all the other books in the series except this one. Finally I can start it! ;) Read what I thought about the movie based on the first book then watch it!!

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson is back in British author Louise Rennison's irreverent, laugh-out-loud sequel to the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. Written in diary form, these truly hilarious books chronicle the often minute-by-minute, very dramatic, and significant flip-flops of a teenager's psyche.

Total Oblivion by Alan DeNiro

RD: 2009

Curiosity: Did I read post-apocalyptic? Sold! 

Synopsis

“I remember the first time I began to understand that things might not be the same again.” 

What’s a girl to do when her world is invaded by warriors from the ancient world? That’s the problem faced by sixteen-year-old Macy, who sees her quiet, normal life in suburban Minnesota turned upside down when things that should never be possible begin to transform the landscape all around her. The cable stops working, the phone lines die–and then the horsemen come to town. It’s not the same America that she last went to sleep in. 

Ticketed to a refugee camp by the marauding Scythian armies, Macy and her family come to believe that heading down the Mississippi by boat is their one escape from the encroaching madness. But as they make their way downriver, Macy’s world just keeps getting stranger, and the wooden submarines, wasp-borne plagues, and talking dogs are the least of her problems: For in this upside-down world, old identities warp and family bonds are sorely tested. 

Acclaimed writer Alan DeNiro has fashioned a completely original, utterly beguiling melding of the surreal and the everyday.

The Adventures of Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi

RD: 1882

Curiosity: Hello! Pinnochio for a buck!

Synopsis

A humble toymaker named Geppetto carves a puppet which he names Pinocchio. Just as Geppetto adds to the finishing touches, however, Pinocchio springs to life and flees the cottage in search of adventure--only to discover that what he wants most of all is right back at home.

Twilight Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

RD: 2006

Curiosity: It sounds so very interesting!

Synopsis

From a group of variously ambitious friends delighted to find a luxurious sublet just across from the World Trade Canter in the year 2000; to a family whose tranquillity is strangely poisoned by its years spent in poor foreign lands; to the too-painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, whose life embitters him to the very idea of family, Deborah Eisenberg widens her range to focus her impeccable eye on a terrifying contemporary world in which "everything that happens is out there waiting for you to come to it".

That's all for this week! Ahhh! Today was super neato! I went to an early screening of It's Kind of a Funny Story. It was so great! Review coming up tomorrow (it'll include the movie review and book review the movie's based on!). After that I volunteered at this place where parents take classes to help them well, be better parents. I was one of the three people taking care/teaching about 7 kids. They are SO cute! Oh be sure to enter the review giveaway if interested :D

Thanks to The Story Siren and Pop Culture Junkie for IMM!

~~Lisette~~