In My Mailbox : Roald Dahl and other assorted books

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted at The Story Siren.


Anyone can participate. IMM is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week.

Bought:

The Twits by Roald Dahl

Mr. and Mrs. Twit hate everything, including their trained monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, who now want revenge.

The BFG by Roald Dahl

This is the well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

George's grouchy grandma needs a taste of her own medicine, and George knows just the right ingredients to put into it!

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Danny’s dad had a secret, but now the secret’s out and it’s going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The gates of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory are opening at last . . . and only five children will be allowed inside.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Charlie and Willy Wonka are back, this time in a fantastic journey to outer space in their glass elevator.

The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

A brilliant FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori

The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer

It is only days before Britain declares war on Germany. Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of a familyscandal, and realizinghe can never marry Emma Barrington, has joined the Merchant Navy. Whena German U-boat sinks his ship, Harry and a handful of sailors are rescued by the SS Kansas Star, among them an American named Tom Bradshaw. That night, when Bradshaw dies, Harry seizes a chance to bury his past—by assumingthe man’s identity.

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.

[ What I spent on the books : RM 133.25 ]