In My Mailbox and Mailbox Monday – 11/1

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Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.   


This week I got three books.  The first was the The Witches’ Kitchen by Allen Williams which I got through the Amazon Vine program. 

The second and third we ones I got through paperbackswap.com and those were: Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Both of these are classics that I am interested in reading.

You can see more information on these books below!  I hope that you all have a great week of reading 🙂



The Witches’ Kitchen by Allen Williams

First Sentence: “Give her to me.” The voice sliced through the silence like a carving knife, and in the total darkness Sarafina imagined her sister’s thin, outstretched hands, grasping, expecting to be obeyed.
From Amazon.com: “Deep in the walls of a witches’ cottage lays an ancient magical kitchen. Dangling over that kitchen’s cauldron, pinched between the fingers of two witches, is a toad. And the Toad has no idea how she got there, and no memory of even her name. All she knows is she doesn’t think she was always a Toad, or that she’s ever been here before. Determined to recover her memories she sets out on a journey to the oracle, and along the way picks up a rag-tag team of friends: an iron-handed imp, a carnivorous fairy, and a few friendly locals.

But the Kitchen won’t make it easy. It is pitch black, infinite, and impossible to navigate, a living maze. Hiding in dark corners are beastly, starving things. Worse yet are the Witches themselves, who have sent a procession of horrific, deadly monsters on her trail. With some courage and wisdom, the Toad just might find herself yet-and with that knowledge, the power to defeat the mighty Witches.”

Animal Farm by George Orwell

First Sentence: “Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.”
From Amazon.com: “Orwell’s brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones’s farm.”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

First Sentence: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
From Amazon.com: “This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald’s extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule. Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author’s words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all the language of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Drawing on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald’s later revisions and corrections, this is the authorized text — The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.”