This month, to celebrate the holidays and my fifth year of blogging, I’m going to give away some of the books on my shelves! With the exception of one I didn’t finish, these are all books I read and enjoyed this year, and all are good slightly used copies. Here are your choices. Three books…
This year I’m participating in the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop, hosted by Leeswammes’ Blog. Please check it out and visit some of the other participants and enter to win free books! All giveaways will be literary fiction or nonfiction. I’m offering two books in the Giveaway. Rules for entering are below. First is a new…
Author Mark Lamprell and I share one unusual experience: we’ve both been run over by a car. Lamprell has written a novel about that experience, called The Full Ridiculous (my review here). It’s been compared to The Rosie Project and The Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and I also was reminded of the…
I won! I’m always super-excited to win a book in a giveaway. This time, I didn’t even know what book I was entering to win. The Little Red Reviewer, an awesome science fiction and fantasy blog, held a Blind Date with a Book Giveaway. She posted pictures of five wrapped books, each with hints about…
Congratulations to the winners of last week’s Literary Giveaway and thanks to those who entered! Amy of The House of the Seven Tails wins Skippy Dies Lucia (con tilde) wins One Last Thing Before I Go Also, the Classics Club Spin picked #20 — which means I’ll be reading The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric…
I’m participating in the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop, hosted by Leeswammes Blog. This is a fun event where 42 bloggers have signed up to give away a book with literary merit. Please check out the list of participants below and visit as many as you can. For this event, I’m giving away two “gently used”…
“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next. It’s Monday and I hope it was as nice a weekend for you as it was here! We had gorgeous weather, game night with friends, and…
“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next. It’s Monday, and in the U.S. it’s President’s Day, which means some of us have the day off and most of us don’t. I’m one of…
Leeswammes’ Blog is hosting another Literary Giveaway this weekend. It was great fun last year (even though I didn’t actually win anything) so once again, I’m giving away three books: First, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. This was a really cool book and I’m told it’s an excellent introduction to the work of Murakami, who…
Leeswammes’ Blog is hosting a summer Giveaway Blog Hop from June 25-29! About 75 bloggers have all pledged to give away books as part of this Hop. First, I want to announce the winner of last month’s Blog Birthday Giveaway: Carine, from Suivre Le Vague Carine, thanks for entering! Carine’s blog is in French, so…
Happy Saturday, and first I want to remind folks to sign up for my Birthday Blog Giveaway here. For my one-year blog-iversary I’m giving away a $20 gift certificate or any book I’ve reviewed on this blog. Just tell me about a book you’re currently reading — I just started War and Peace, and feeling…
I’m working on a pretty long review so for today I just wanted to write about a few things and announce part 1 of my Blog Birthday Giveaway. This week I finished Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety, and now I’m reading Ilona Andrew’s latest in the Kate Daniels series, Magic Slays. I’ll admit it hasn’t…
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