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Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to shoot off a quick post to tell you that this blog will be moved to blogger. To visit – go to The Book Czar. Hope to see you there!
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416532528
ISBN-13: 978-1416532521
Book Synopsis:
In a time of discovery and decadence, when the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself, young Juan Tenorio was abandoned and raised by nuns. He grew up loving and worshipping all women, but a clandestine affair with one of the sisters forces him to leave the Church-and his plans for the priesthood-forever. Juan becomes a spy, as well as the world’s greatest libertine. But far from the heartless seducer that legend recounts, he seeks liberation and redemption as much as personal pleasure and gratification. He begins to keep a diary of his greatest adventures and the Arts of Passion he has mastered. The most perilous adventure of all-the irresistible fall into the madness of love with the only woman who could ever make him forget all others-finally compels him to confess everything.
Douglas Carlton Abrams’s magical debut novel captures the heart of the Spanish Golden Age and the secret life of the world’s greatest lover-Don Juan-who came to embody the spirit that would inflame the modern age.
This year has really been a great one for me, and let me tell you why. In the past, if someone would have suggested a historical fiction book to me I would have told them that it wasn’t my kind of book. All of these years I have steered clear of books of this nature because while in school history was the subject that I liked the least. It is amazing what books like this can do, as now I jump at the chance to read books about history, fiction or not.
I admit going in that I didn’t know a whole lot about the legendary Don Juan. Just the same information that most of the general public knows…a true ladies man but not one to stay with one woman for any period of time. This book certainly gives the readers a new look into this man – he truly loved women and his goal was to bring them pleasure by getting them to feel confident about themselves and their bodies. I loved the way this book was written, it sheds a new light on this story and really makes me want to dig into the history of Don Juan and find out more about him.
Although this book is about Don Juan, Douglas does an excellent job of depicting 16th century Spain. One of my favorite part in the book is when Fray Ignacio comes to the convent to speak to the nuns about there being a heretic among them. After he questions the nuns, he decides to take one of them-Hermana Jeronima back to the headquarters of the Holy Office in Sevilla where she would be questioned further. She was being taken to the Inquisition…how horrifying!
This book was an excellent read, and with its fast pace made for a delightful weekend read. I would highly recommend it.
About the author:
Douglas Carlton Abrams is a former editor at the University of California Press and HarperSanFrancisco. He is the co-author of a number of books on love, sexuality, and spirituality, including books written with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar, and Taoist Master Mantak Chia. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and three children. In his life and work, he is interested in cultivating all aspects of our humanity —body, emotions, mind, and spirit. His goal in writing fiction is to create stories that not only entertain, but also attempt to question, enchant, and transform.
Doug’s desire in writing the book was not only to resurrect this greatest of historical lovers and to give voice to his true motives; he was also moved to write a book that would explore the tension between lust and love and that would confront the human question of how any man or woman can find lifelong satisfaction in one committed relationship. To find out more about the origins of The Lost Diary and the myth of Don Juan, and to learn about forthcoming novels, please visit www.LostDiaryofDonJuan.com or www.DouglasCarltonAbrams.com.
THE LOST DIARY OF DON JUAN VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘08 will officially begin on September 2, ‘08 and end on September 26, ‘08. You can visit the Douglas’ tour stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in September to find out more about him and his new book!
As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author with a recent release or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors’ blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available. The winner will be announced on our main blog at www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.wordpress.com on September 26!
This virtual book tour is being brought to you by Pump Up Your Book Promotion and choreographed by Dorothy Thompson.
Book Synopsis:
A sixteen-year old girl holds a gun to her head at the scene of a grisly triple homicide. She claims “The Stranger” killed her adoptive family, that hes’s been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her. But Special Agent Smoky Barrett does. Her team has been hand-picked from amont the nation’s elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they’ll have to be to deal with this case.
For another vicious double homicide reveals a killer embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an “artist” who’s molding Sarah into the perfect victim – and the ultimate weapon. To catch him, Smoky is going to have to put her own fragile, once-shattered life on the line. For The Stranger is all too real, all too close, and all too determined. And when he finally shows his face, Smoky had better be ready to face her worst fear.
Let me first preface this by saying – this book may not be for everyone. I am a huge fan of shows like The First 48, and growing up in Wisconsin, we have had our fair share of nasty killers, most notably Jeffrey Dahmer. Mr. McFadyen does something few authors have been able to do for me – he has actually made me cry during a portion of this book. I will not go into details, but it involves the events of Sarah’s 6th birthday – heart wrenching, to say the very least.
As strange as this may sound, this review is hard for me to write. Not because I don’t have a lot to say but because I don’t want to spoil this book for anyone. This book is being placed in my top 10 books of 2008 for sure, and without going back to check my list I would say it was in the top 2 or 3. Even though it is almost 600 pages long, once I started reading I had a VERY hard time putting it down. His prose, in my mind, is comparable to one of the greatest writers of our time – Stephen King. Like King, the description of not only the events, but of the characters, leaves no room for doubt – you feel as if you are standing there witnessing things firsthand, and like these characters are people that you really know. This is something that is a rare find in an author, and should be truly commended, whether you like the subject matter of the book or not.
I think the hardest part for me was that initially no one believes Sarah. This poor 6 year old witnesses something beyond my wildest imagination, and when trying to tell the police about it she is dismissed as confused. My heart was literally breaking for this poor innocent child. Once you read this, you will realize not only why she isn’t believed (the killer does a good job of covering his tracks and making things look other than what they are), and then you will realize how deep corruption can go. He also demonstrates how far the human mind can go without actually breaking – Sarah’s journey is fraught with such evil, and yet she somehow keeps at least a shred of sanity.
Don’t get me wrong, this book isn’t ALL about murder (although to be honest the vast majority is fairly gruesome). The relationship between Smoky and her team is fabulous – even James who is “the odd man out”. As Smoky herself says “He can peer into the mind of a killer and not blink. He can gaze at evil full in the face and then pick up a magnifying glass to get a closer look.” This is the same ability Smoky has, which makes her the best in the business. And, she needs someone with that same ability to bounce ideas off of – no matter how difficult he is to work with. Bonnie, Elaina, Alan, and Callie are all very developed and you grow to really get a feel for the relationship between all of them. And despite all of the horror they have all been through…literally…this has helped them to form a bond of friendship and love that is beautiful.
On that note, I would like to talk about something in the book that I feel was my favorite part. No, no, it really has nothing to do with the murders at all. It has to do with Matt (Smoky’s dead husband) and Smoky’s legacy to their daughter Alexa (I must read Cody’s first book to find out what happened here…I must, I must, I must!!!). They weren’t wealthy, but wanted to make sure they could leave her something if anything ever happened to them, something that maybe wasn’t worth a lot of money, but truly spoke of who they were as people. And what might that be, you ask? They create a library for her, and add to it whenever they can. I have been doing the same thing for my daughters – granted, it started before they were born because I am such a bibliophile, but I think it is such a great idea. What better gift to give anyone, than a library full of books?! Love it, love it, love it!
Truly a must read for anyone – queasy stomachs beware!
About the author:
Cody Mcfadyen was born in Texas in 1968. He designed websites before selling his first novel, Shadow Man, in 2005. He has since had a second book – The Face of Death – published. Both were international best sellers. He lives in Southern California with his two black labs, often referred to as ‘The Black Forces of Destruction.’ He drinks coffee (copiously), plays guitar (badly), and reads (voraciously). He abhors adverbs in writing, except when used in short bios like this one.
For more information, visit www.codymcfadyen.com
I also want to thank Pump Up Your Book Promotion – you ladies ROCK!
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Book Synopsis:
On a summer day in 1945, Louisa Gordon receives a telegram from the International Red Cross Tracing Service. Her young cousin, Elisabeth, has just been released from Dachau, a concentration camp, and Louisa is her only remaining relative.
Determined to go to war-torn Germany to retrieve her cousin, Louisa is also on a mission to discover the whereabouts of Friedrich Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer who fled Copper Springs, Arizona. What Louisa never expected was to meet the man she had once loved. And now hated.
Copper Fire is the second book in the Copper Star series. I was thrilled as you don’t have to read the first one to be able to enjoy this story, although I for one have added it to my ever growing TBR list. Louisa Gordon has tried to start a new life in Copper Springs. She has left Germany, and although there are things that she misses, she knows that going back is not an option. And, she is happy. She is married to Robert, the pastor of the small community of Copper Springs. But more importantly, she is raising his son William as her own. The only obstacle she incurs on a daily basis is Robert’s Aunt Martha, who lives with him. But, if this is the worst she has to deal with, she is more than capable.
All this changes when one day she receives word that her cousin Elisabeth has been located in a Red Cross camp for displaced persons in Germany, and they are looking for someone to claim her before she is left to fend for herself. After some fancy work, she is able to make the long trip abroad, which she has mixed feeling about. She is so excited to be able to go an see Germany and claim her relative, but she is afraid of what effect seeing her country in its devestation will take on her.
I don’t believe in giving away too much of the plot but here is some food for thought:
Elisabeth does come to live with Robert and Louisa, but is she more than they bargained for?
Louisa resumes contact with her former fiance, someone who hurt her so bad in the past but is trying to make up for it. Are his intentions noble?
Will Friedrich Mueller be found in Copper Springs, and if so what has brought him back?
Suzanne has done an excellent job of spinning a tale to engage all readers, and by pulling in Nazis, concentration camps, theft, spies, and unconditional love, it would be hard to find someone who wouldn’t enjoy this book.
About the author:
Suzanne Woods Fisher’s bestselling debut novel, Copper Star, was the recipient of three literary awards by Reader Views. A former contributing editor for Christian Parenting Today magazine, Fisher lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children. When she’s not writing books, she raises puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind.
For more information, visit www.suzannewoodsfisher.com
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How cool is this? September 15-19 is going to be Book Blogger Appreciation Week. Want in on the action? All you have to do is visit My Friend Amy for more details!
I meant to post this the other day, but have gotten busy doing a bunch of other things. My friend Breeni of Breeni Books has chosen my name to win Willow in the Storm by James Peter Taylor and Kathleen Murphy-Taylor. Haven’t heard of this book? Check Breeni’s blog for an awesome review and an out and out awesome blog. Thanks again Breeni, you made my day…you know how much I love winning books:)
This is Julie’s first ever book giveaway, so be sure to jump over to Julie’s Jewels for your chance to win!
Ok. It’s a sad day. No, no one has died, but in our apartment I just don’t have enough room to display all of my books. So, for the time being I have agreed (rather reluctantly) to pack up the books that I have already read. These will be stored somewhere in the house for now until I get shelves and things up for them.
It might be a good thing. Now when I go into my book closet (yes, I have a closet with shelves that I am using to hold my books) I can grab a book randomly and know I haven’t read it before. And, as long as it isn’t part of a series I will read it.
But, anyway. This also has made me able to see that I do have duplicates of some books. I have found two already (and will post about the other tomorrow) and am sure I will find more. So, here goes:
The book I am raffling of is Dead Time by Stephen White. It is an Advance Uncopyedited Manuscript and is a large paperback.
What do you need to do to enter you ask? There are a few ways to enter, and to gain extra entries as well.
1. Leave me a comment. Please include a way to contact you. This will gain you 1 entry
2. Blog about it and leave a link to this post. Again, make sure to tell me where to find this so I can see it – this will gain you 2 entries.
3. Subscribe to my blog. Once again, let me know that you have done so. this will gain you 3 entries.
GOOD LUCK! I will draw a winner on Monday, August 18th. Thanks for visiting!
Book Synopsis:
One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can’t yet see the beauty in his work – but soon, very soon, they will…
In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer’s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come…
When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she’s trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor, pries her free. Though she’s grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And, if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she’d be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting…watching…poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim…
I reviewed Lost Souls a few months back and that was the first Lisa Jackson book that I had read. I knew after reading it that it wasn’t going to be my last as I just loved her style and content. I also was shocked when I walked into Wal-Mart and saw the hardcover right in front of me. It was then I told my hubby, see, that’s one of the books I just reviewed for Pump Up Your Book Promotion - it was really pretty cool! So, needless to say, when I was asked whether I would be willing to review Left to Die I jumped at the chance. I wasn’t sure if it was going to be as good as Lost Souls but let me tell you, it was even better.
Let me first start by saying I was thrilled to see that the two lead characters are female detectives. Selena Alverez and Regan Pescoli couldn’t be more different in both their personal lives and the way they approach the cases they are handed are also very different. But they fit together like two puzzle pieces and their drive and work ethic is what is sorely needed in their department to catch the sadistic serial killer that is on the loose. They were hoping to make a name for themselves but this case is quickly turning into a nightmare, with a killer that is calculating and flawless in all of his actions.
About the author:
Lisa Jackson can’t keep away from murderers, especially serial killers. She’s been killing people everywhere from Savannah and New Orleans to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest—and it’s been worth it. Her readers come back again and again, and her novels are fixtures on national bestseller lists. In fact, her book Fatal Burn was a number one New York Times paperback bestseller, and the first two of her novels to be published in hardcover, Shiver and Absolute Fear, were in the top five on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Next, readers will be looking for LOST SOULS, being published in hardcover by Kensington Books to go on sale March 25th.
Having made serial killing her business—sort of—she has put her characters through the wringer. They have been up to their necks in danger and stared death, usually a pretty gory one, right in the face. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional and downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims, and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Lisa began writing at the urging of her sister, novelist Nancy Bush. Inspired by the success of authors she admired and the burgeoning market for romance fiction at the time, Nancy was convinced they could work together and succeed. They sat down, determined to write and to be published.
They did and they were.
Initially they wrote together. Later, they moved in different directions. Lisa brought more and more suspense to her work and began writing much darker stories. Nancy’s writing expanded to include not just her own novels, including her highly praised Jane Kelly Mysteries, such as the recently published Ultraviolet. She also spent several years writing for one of television’s leading soap operas, even transplanting herself for a time from the sister’s Pacific Northwest roots to Manhattan. This year, they plan to work together again on a thriller set for publication in 2009.
Meanwhile, for Lisa the killing continues as this mother, daughter, workaholic and amazing writer continues her habit of making the hair stand up on the back of readers’ necks, and landing her books on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
Lisa Jackson’s novels include the upcoming LOST SOULS and the best sellers Absolute Fear, which will be published in paperback for the first time in March, Hot Blooded, Cold Blooded, The Night Before, The Morning After, Deep Freeze, Fatal Burn, and Almost Dead. Last year, Most Likely to Die was written by Lisa, Beverly Barton and Wendy Corsi Staub was published and became a number three New York Times paperback bestseller. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers and the Romance Writers of America.
For more information, please visit www.lisajackson.com
Here we go, another chance to win those fantastic books from Hachette Book Group. To enter, please visit Bookroomreviews Weblog - you can earn a lot of extra entries so don’t miss out on this, it is an excellent contest!
What a great way to start the day! My friend at My Journey Through Reading has nominated me for this awesome award, I am truly honored:)
Here are the guidelines given to me: Once an award is received, the rules are as follows:
One of the most anticipated books is being GIVEN away, that’s right, for free. Please visit Peeking Between the Pages for your chance to win. Be sure to check out the blog as well, it’s excellent!
Hello my dear friends,
I am asking a favor of all of you. I have had to create a new blog as I am “branching” out in the book world and am going to be coming on as a Tour Coordinator for Pump Up Your Book Promotion. No worries, this blog will continue to stay up and running with reviews and the like. This new blog will be more dedicated to author interviews and spotlights on books, but will also include reviews I imagine. I have transferred some content over to it and would appreciate it if you would be so kind as to pop over and maybe even leave a comment or two. Thanks again to all of you for continuing to visit, I can’t thank you enough.
To see the new blog, just click here.
So, I admit it. I have been in a reading slump lately. I think part of it is the fact that my husband was laid off two months ago and we have had the extra time to spend together. Instead of reading we got to really spend some quality time as a family.
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t that I haven’t been reading at all. I just am not reading at a pace that I am accustomed to. Instead of staying up late to read we have been able to stay up and catch up on movies that we have been waiting to see. But, that will all come to an end starting tomorrow. He has gotten a new job in Kaukauna, a town about an hours drive from here. We will be moving there by the end of August, so that is something else to keep me busy. We are going to keep our house and rent it out and just rent an apartment there for now. With gas prices the way they are there is no way we can continue to afford to commute, and to be honest it is time for a change. I love Manitowoc, it is right on Lake Michigan which is beautiful. But I have lived here my whole life. And there is so much to do in the Valley (Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay all within 20 minutes of each other) that it will be nice to start over and still be close enough to visit.
So, please make sure to check back often as raffles and reviews will start up again soon. Thanks to all of you for sticking by me and continuing to visit my blog, I really do appreciate it more than you know. Take care all!
Well, I had some free time today, something I don’t normally have. And I mistyped and typed in bmail instead of gmail. It brought me to a site where you can have an email address and get paid for searching the web through their site. What the heck – another email is always good. If interested, just click on the link below and become one of my friend:)
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There is the chance to win 14 books, how great is this?!
I stole this from a friend of mine over at Musings of a Bookish Kitty. Thom Geier of EW states up front that he expects disagreement with some of their choices. He explains that each of the selections were made with the idea that they have “endured in the public consciousness despite shrugs from academics.” They stand out in memory; some pushing the boundaries of what has come before. Regardless of whether we agree or not, it is an interesting list, isn’t it? A little bit of everything just about.
Since the EW Top 100 New Classics list (books published between 1983-2008) seems to be making the rounds, I thought I would join in on the fun as well. The titles in bold are ones I have read while those in italics are sitting in my TBR collection waiting to be read.
Since the EW Top 100 New Classics list (books published between 1983-2008) seems to be making the rounds, I thought I would join in on the fun as well. The titles in bold are ones- the rest will go to the TBR list, looks like the list just jumped up by quite a bit.
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators’ Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
This is a great offer! I know that I am always looking for good deals on printing pictures online, and have never had a problem with any of the services that I have used. And here is another great promotion. ArtsCow is aggressively campaigning for new customers, and to draw you in they are offering 400 free prints! Wow, that is an awesome deal. And, with every person you refer you get an additional 200 prints free:) Now, who couldn’t use that! Normally I try to only post book related things on here, but because this is my highest traffic blog and this offer will end soon I wanted to get this to you all before it runs out. Please follow this link (that way I can earn my free prints):
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Thanks to all of you, and Happy Wednesday!
Here is another great contest – please visit Desperately Seeking Sanity for your chance to win a great blog enhancement package. Good luck all!
Check out this great giveaway contest at Simply His Blogger- all sorts of goodies to get your WordPress site up and running with some customized things as well. Check it out, it ends soon:)
Ok, this one is really cool. It is still book related, but is really more about blogging about different book related things than necessarily reading (although that may be thrown in at some point). Here are the rules:
The basics:
1. Every week there’ll be a different theme. One week might be “catch up on your library books” week and the next might be “redecorate your blog week” or “organize your challenges” week or “catch up on your reviews” week. It’ll be fairly bookblogcentric, but not exclusively.
2. Everyone who joins agrees that they will try to check each week to see what the theme is, although they DO NOT have to participate each week, only when they feel like it.
3. Everyone who joins is welcome (encouraged, begged!) to send me ideas for weekly themes via email, comments, whatever. The more ideas, the better.
4. I will post the weekly theme each Saturday, but you can check in any time it’s convenient to find out what the theme is.
5. If you post about your progress with that week’s theme in your blog (whether you were wildly successful or didn’t get around to any of it) then you can come back and leave a link to that post in the comments for that theme.
6. The next week, when I announce the new theme, I will also post a mini-carnival-like blurb, with links to everyone’s progress posts. Either way, you’ll have a link to your blog every week you participate, which will hopefully help other participants find their way to your posts.
7. In order to motivate participants to spread the word, anyone who posts promoting this challenge is guaranteed to be able to choose the theme for one of the weeks this year (their choice of week, first come first served). No need to pick a week now; just let me know when you have a theme idea and you can pick your week then. In addition, I’ll enter the name of each participant who writes a promotional post by the end of April will have their name entered in a drawing for this chocolate monkey. If any of your readers sign up and leave a comment saying they heard about it from you, you get two entries for the chocolate monkey. You may never again have the chance to say to your friends and family, “Yeah, the internet gave me this chocolate monkey.”
To join, please visit The Hidden Side of a Leaf and make sure to tell ‘em I sent you:)
I transferred $105 to my checking account yesterday and it hit today…that’s even faster than Paypal. To get your free $25 all you need to do is click on the link on the left and fill out the info – it is just that easy. I have researched this and it isn’t a scam so go for it, who can’t use an extra $25?
There are so many sites out there about books, and so little time to get to them, between reading, cross stitching, and taking care of my family and house. But, one of my all time favorites is BookBitch. I can’t remember when I stumbled across this site, or how I found it, but I am sure glad that I did.
Every week there are multiple book reviews, something that I love. I am ALWAYS on the lookout for for new books (like I really need more) and this is an excellent resource to find them. There is also a link for virgin authors, someone that is showcased as a new face in literature to watch for. Throw in a links tab for everything from Shopping to Reading Groups to Book Recycling, and a very easy way to win multiple books every month and you have a winner (at least in my book).
If you get a chance, check it out. I don’t think you will be disappointed. And, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Happy Wednesday!
So, we went to the library today. It has been almost a month since we have been there – this is unusual as it is usually 2 times a week. But we have all been struggling with sickness and just didn’t have the get up and go to get there. But, I took the girls grocery shopping yesterday, so that freed up today somewhat and we decided to head there.
If I haven’t said it before I will say it now. This is truly my favorite place in all the world. I love seeing all the book, the smell, everything about it. I normally don’t even look at the books they have for sale, not because I don’t want to, but because I am too busy chasing after the rugrats. But, today I had the chance to look a little. And, what I found was Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan. I have personally never read anything by him, but he is one of my mom’s favorites. And for 50 cents I got a first edition hardcover, so really, even if it is not my cup of tea it was still worth it. I hope to make time to read it soon – we’ll have to see.
Hope you all are having a great Saturday – stop back tomorrow for the Sunday Salon:)
I think that I have made it perfectly clear that I love books. I mean, come on, what more do I have to say? They really are one of the few releases and vices that I have and I don’t feel guilty about it one bit. Ok, I take that back, I do feel guilty when I see all the books sitting on shelves that need to be read but hey, maybe I will eventually get to all of them (although I am not sure if this is even possible). That said, I know that I will never have enough time to read all the books that I want but I think most of us feel this way. Anyway, the point of this post is to alert you to something that sounds like a lot of fun. If any of you are intersted in receiving and ARC of a book titled Farworld-Water just click on this link for details:
http://jscottsavage.blogspot.com/2008/04/marketing-part-ivthe-blog-tour.html
Who knows, we both might be fortunate enough to get to read this and be able to ask the author some questions – how fun does that sound?
Thanks as always for visiting, and hope to see more of you all soon!
