Wow, what can I say I love Goodreads, and I regularly check the giveaways for interesting new reads. I’d never won anything though. Then, BAM!, this week I won three books-or I have been notified of having won three books. Nothing is real until it lands in my mailbox, or falls through the mail-slot rather.

First it was Combustible Sinners, then it was The Whipping Club, and finally Love and Fuck Poems. (How could you not love a title like that?)

What I particularly love about this small cluster of winnings is the variety. They have absolutely nothing in common. Combustible Sinners, as I mentioned a few days ago, is seven interconnected stories about the intersection of faith and culture in an evangelical Christian, Mexican-American community (right up my alley). My undergraduate was in Anthropology and Comparative religion. This is obviously a subject I would be interested in .

The Whipping Club is about an interfaith Irish couple fighting to rescue their adopted son from an abusive institution. I’ll have to save this one for a really nice day, as it promises to be a tearjerker. Serious subjects are best addressed under the balmy sun.

Love and Fuck poems is best described by its own description: “Sexually repressed, separated Greek girl on a rampage. There’s no love here, just fucks. But is she fucking him or fucking herself? Love and Fuck poems. A 52 page story told through poetry. No fluff, no birds and trees, just honest, raw, poetry.” My interest is certainly piqued.

My summer reading is lining up to be a corker.