Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Staci from Life in the Thumb  is hosting for the month of August.
I received two books, thanks to the author/publicist:

1) Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend

Using various fortune telling tools to interpret her visions, Sunny seeks to aid the residents of Divinity, New York. But when she uses tea leaves to read the frazzled town librarian, what lies at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful.

2) Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz

In May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, lands near a displaced persons camp in the British occupation zone of newly defeated Germany. Alone, possessing nothing but a map, a few tins of food, a toothbrush, and his identity papers, he must scrape together a new life in a chaotic community of refugees, civilians, and soldiers.

Gifted with a talent for black-market trading, Pavel soon procures clothing, false documents, and a modest house, where he installs himself and a pair of fellow refugees—Fela, a young widow who fled Poland for Russia at the outset of the war, and Chaim, a resourceful teenage boy whose smuggling skills have brought him to the Western zones. The trio soon form a makeshift family, searching for surviving relatives, railing against their circumscribed existence, and dreaming of visas to America.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey.

Virtually nothing!

What was the last book you…
• borrowed from the library?
None
• bought?
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
• cried over?
Room by Emma Donoghue
• disliked and couldn’t finish?
Too many!
• read & loved?
Too many!
• got for review? (or: got in the mail?)
Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
• gave to someone else?
I am always giving books!
• stayed up too late reading?
Room by Emma Donghue