Monday: Mailbox/What am I reading?/Musing

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. May Host is: 4 the Love of Books

My luck is wearing thin. No one wants to send books to me anymore!! I too have not been buying much. I need to change all that! But I did receive an e-book, thanks to the author:

The Cuckoos of Batch Magna by Peter Maughan: 

When Sir Humphrey Myles Pinkerton Strange, 8th baronet and huntin’ shootin’ and fishin’ squire of Batch Magna, departs this world for the Upper House (as he had long, vaguely, thought of it,  where God no doubt presides in ermine over a Heaven as reassuringly familiar as White’s or Boodle’s), what’s left of his estate passes to distant relative Humph, a short-order cook from the Bronx.

Sir Humphrey Franklin T Strange, 9th baronet, and squire of Batch Magna, as Humph now most remarkably finds himself to be, is persuaded by his Uncle Frank, a small time Wall Street broker with an eye on the big time, to make a killing by transforming the sleepy backwater into a theme-park image of rural England – a vocational paradise for free-spending US millionaires. 

But while the village pub and shop, with the lure of the dollar in their eyes, put out the Stars and Stripes in welcome, the tenants of the estate’s dilapidated houseboats are above any consideration of filthy lucre and stand their ground for tradition’s sake … and because they consider eviction notices not to be cricket. 

Each disgruntled faction sees the other as the unwelcome Cuckoo in the family nest.

So, led by randy pulp-crime writer Phineas Cook and Lt-Commander James Cunningham DSO, DSC and Bar, RN (ret) – a man with a glass eye for each day of the week, painted with scenes from famous British naval victories and landscapes that speak of England – the motley crew run up the Union Jack and battle ensigns and prepare to engage. 

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. We discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I am still reading two non fiction books about India. I am not going to finish those any time soon

1) Himalayan Blunder
2) India's Biggest Cover-up

I plan to read a few Crime Fiction and poetry in the coming week.

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Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!

I have been book blogging for the last 7 years. I get almost all the review copies from US/UK publishers or authors. Indian publishers/authors are not keen on sending me review copies. That kinda gets my ire. Why do they need well known reviewers or critics? Why not book bloggers? They are yet to wake up to the power of the book blogger!!

Until then, it is their BIG loss!!