In My Mailbox #34 - including The Masque of the Red Death, The Woman Who Died A Lot and Anno Dracula

Not only did this fortnight include far too many books, it also included a trip to see the lovely Ellie where we threatened to deprive her lovely little town of all its books! What's more fun than yammering about books while scouring charity shop shelves and then retiring to a cafe for tea and cake?

Speaking of, I swear I had the best Bakewell Tart I've ever had in my entire life. I'm pretty sure the whole cafe knows about it too as I wouldn't shut up about The Amazing Tart (huh. I knew some girls at school with that name too..) at any point, but look how big it was!

Anyway, naturally we managed to buy books. Huge surprise there. Hop over to Musings of a Bookshop Girl to see what Ellie bought, none of which I hold any responsibility for :) As for me - 

So, that's the Dark Tower books three to five - I bought the first two the last time I went to visit Ellie and clearly I needed to add to my collection.

Then, in a charity shop I found a biography of Colonel Blood, the man that stole the Crown Jewels in the 1670s. I love the history of the Tower of London so I just couldn't pass this one up.

It's definitely a shopping experience that needs to be repeated!

 And then, because I naturally needed more books, I went to an indie bookstore in Sheffield. Well, it's actually a comic book store, but it has an entire wall of fantasy and horror novels. I usually resist, but this week... not so much.

I've already read and reviewed Deadfall Hotel, but I have to wait to read Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron as I accidentally picked up the second book in the series without the first. Apparently it doesn't make that much difference, but I'd rather read them in order anyway. And it's not like I've already ordered it or anything... *coughs*

I know, I know - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel book has a movie cover. But hey, it was in a charity shop and I actually think it looks nicer than the original one. I liked the film when we watched it a few weeks ago (well, Lewis watched it and I napped), so I thought I might pick up the novel.

The other three books are all charity shop finds too. I'm particularly pleased with A Prayer for Owen Meany as I've been wanting to read it for a while, but never got round to actually ordering the damn thing.

The Woman Who Died A Lot is the latest installment of the Thursday Next series, one of my favourite all-time book sets. I'm ridiculously grateful to Hodder & Stoughton for sending it to me, as I've read it already and love it.

I also received Masque of the Red Death to review, and although I haven't started it yet, I've heard wonderful things! 

Finally, finally, FINALLY, we have A Mango Shaped Space, which is about a young girl with synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions so a person can see sounds, smell colors, or taste shapes.

I swapped for this on ReaditSwapit because it sounds fascinating. I think I heard somewhere that Vincent van Gogh is suspected of suffering from synesthesia, but obviously that's just a theory.

What did you get in your mailbox this week?