Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Giveaway Guidlines At So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

Because I have been hosting so many giveaway lately, I have found it necessary to post some guidelines.

Rules for each individual giveaway or listed on that giveaway so this will be brief.

1. If you are a winner you need to reply to my email with the information requested within 48 hours.  If you don't, the prize will be forfeited and I will pick a new winner.

2. From now on if you win something and you don't receive it after 6 weeks.  It is your responsibility to let me know.  I am no longer going to send out emails to track down if you received it.  If I haven't heard from you within 8 weeks, you will be deleted from my records and I wont be able to contact the publisher after that.

Sorry if this is inconvenient for anyone but I am finding it harder to keep track of all the giveaways.  I don't want to have to stop offering them, so I decided to come up with rule #2.  Then I don't have to worry about keeping track if you got the prize or not, you can do it for me.

Thanks for your understanding!

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Giveaway: DIARY OF A MAD FAT GIRL by Stephanie McAfee

Thanks to Jessica Butler of Berkley/NAL, Penguin Group USA, I am giving away one copy of Diary of a Mad Fat Girl.

Book Description:
In DIARY OF A MAD FAT GIRL McAfee delivers a fast-paced tale about Graciela “Ace” Jones, known in her small town of Bugtussle, Mississippi as a feisty high school teacher with an outsized presence and a big mouth to match. Readers quickly learn that Ace is mad—mad at her best friend Lilly who cancels their annual trip to Panama City for mysterious reasons, mad at her boss Catherine for “riding her ass like a fat lady on a Rascal,” mad at her friend Chloe’s abusive husband and especially at Mason McKenzie, the love of her life, who has shown up with a marriage proposal three years too late. The only one she isn’t mad at is her near-constant canine companion, chiweenie Buster Loo.

In an effort to tackle her anger, Ace decides to take matters into her own hands as she works to take down Chloe’s philandering husband, give Mason a second chance, and try and get to the bottom of a multitude of other scandals plaguing Bugtussle—not to mention all while trying to navigate Southern small-town politics and prejudices! With a sharp and distinctive voice, McAfee’s DIARY OF A MAD FAT GIRL is a debut not to be missed.
About Stephanie McAfee:

Five years ago Stephanie McAfee decided she wanted to seriously pursue writing. Putting her career as a schoolteacher on hold and moved away from Mississippi to Colorado Springs , CO with her husband (who was in the Army).   
McAfee wrote and then self-published her debut novel, DIARY OF A MAD FAT GIRL, as an e-book in 2010. Shortly thereafter, her novel became a New York Timesand USA Today bestseller, staying on the lists for weeks and receiving rave reviews from McAfee fans across the country. Now in a revised and expanded form, New American Library brings McAfee’s hilariously charming novel into print for the first time.

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Giveaway: The China Gambit by Allan Topol

Thanks to Erin McNichols of Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc., I am giving away one copy of The China Gambit.

Book Description:

IT’S ONLY THE OPENING MOVE…

National bestselling author Allan Topol returns with a thrilling new trilogy of international intrigue. THE CHINA GAMBIT (Vantage Point; January 2012) introduces Craig Page, a daring and resourceful former CIA agent, now fighting terrorism in Europe after being unceremoniously fired from the agency. After his daughter Francesca — a New York City reporter investigating the biggest story of her young career — dies in an “automobile accident,” Craig is instinctively convinced that she was murdered and sets out to find answers…and vengeance.

Joined by Francesca’s editor, the gutsy and equally resourceful Elizabeth Crowder, Craig soon begins to peel back the conspiracy layer by layer, eventually learning that Francesca was just collateral in a much larger ultimate target: The United States.

With a worldwide conflict that revolves around oil, money, weapons, and greed, THE CHINA GAMBIT raises the stakes by presenting frighteningly real consequences. The action races around the globe, jumping from Canada to Tehran, Beijing to Washington, and finally to Aspen, with Craig and Elizabeth narrowly escaping the deadliest of obstacles in their attempts to prevent impending catastrophe at the hands of Chinese General Zhou. Yet the rogue general is not the only twisted mastermind, and Craig soon learns that this conspiracy is a “three-headed monster”— one Chinese, one Iranian, and one American, led by a traitorous CIA director with whom Craig has a tumultuous past.

Timely, fast-paced, and relentless, THE CHINA GAMBIT is the pulse-pounding breakout thriller that Allan Topol has seemed destined to write.

About Allan Topol:


Allan Topol is the national bestselling author of six novels of international intrigue. He is a graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, who majored in chemistry, abandoned science, and obtained a law degree from Yale University. A partner in a major Washington law firm, and an avid wine collector, he has traveled extensively, researching dramatic locations for his novels. You can visit him at www.allantopol.com for information about upcoming Craig Page thrillers.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Saturday and Cowboy Hats by Ivan E. Coyote



I may be a day late posting this but better late..


I read Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote back in 2010 and kew I wanted to read more by her. She was at the Vancouver International Writers Festival that year and I baught one of her books of short stories, Loose End and she signed it for me. I just picked up for the first time over the weekend. Boy am I glad I did.


In Saturday and Cowboy Hats the narrater of the story, perhaps Ivan herself is at her neighborhood farmers market with her dog.  A 6 year boy goes to pet her dog.  It turned out that his name was Oliva, she was a girl.  Ivan wanted to reach out to her an tell her that everything will be okay.  She wanted to prepare her for her future as a lesbion.


The story was a well crafted peice on gender idenity.  It was subtle yet pwoerful.  All this in just rwo and a half pages!  If you get the chance to read this author, do it!

Short Story Monday is hosted by John at The Book Mine Set.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday has it's very own blog, Mailbox Monday. For January, it is being hosted at Metro Reader.

This is what I received:
I received this ebook from my public library.
I received this ebook from the author, R.L. Prendergast.  Watch for my giveaway February 28th.  There will be a tour starting on March 1st with even more chances to win this book!






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Friday, February 3, 2012

February Reviews for 2012 Books Won Reading Challenge

The standings so far:

Honorable Mentions: Read 1-3 books won:
Darlene 1

Reminder: I will no longer doing a total of books that each individual has done. Instead, I ask you to do the total yourself and leave it in the comments at the end of each month. That way I can still keep the standings up dated but don't have to do all the work myself. So, if you read 6 books total in January 2012, comment that your total is 6. Then in February, if you read 4, comment that your total is 10, in the February post.

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February Reviews for 2012 ARC Reading Challenge

Were off to a great start!  In January, we collectively read and reviewed 55 ARC's!

Here are the standings so far:

Level Bronze (up to 12 Arcs):
Amodini  3

Working on Silver:
Andrea 10
Nicola  17

If you don't see yourself in the standings above, it is because you didn't leave a comment telling me how many books you read in January.  You need to do this at the end of each month.

Please post the books you read in February for the challenge in Mr. Linky, below:

Please enter your name and the name of the book in this format: Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author's Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader).








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Giveaway: SECRETS OF AN ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS by Jennifer Haymore

Thanks to Jillian Sanders of Grand Central Publishing, I am giving away 3 copies of Secrets of an Accidental Duchess to my U.S. readers.

Book Description:

With her pale hair and slim figure, Olivia Donovan looks as fragile as fine china, and has been treated as such by her sisters ever since a childhood bout with malaria. But beneath her delicate facade, Olivia guards a bold, independent spirit and the kind of passionate desires proper young ladies must never confess...

It was a reckless wager, and one Max couldn't resist: seduce the alluring Olivia or forfeit part of his fortune. Yet the wild, soon-to-be Duke never imagined he'd fall in love with this innocent beauty. Nor could he have guessed that a dangerously unpredictable rival would set out to destroy them both. Now, Max must beat a Madman at his own twisted game-or forever lose the only woman to have ever won his heart.

About Jennifer Haymore:

Jennifer Haymore grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii, where she surfed, learned how to fly airplanes, raced bicycles, and developed a love for sailing. She was an avid reader and completely destroyed her eyesight by sneaking a flashlight under her covers and reading far into the nights — making her mother wonder why on earth she couldn’t get up for school in the mornings…

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in Education from UCLA. Before she became a full-time writer she held various jobs from bookselling to teaching inner-city children to playing bit roles in soap operas.

You can find Jennifer in Southern California trying to talk her husband into yet another trip to England, helping her three children with homework while brainstorming a new five-minute dinner menu, or crouched in a corner of the local bookstore writing her next novel.
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Giveaway: Lovesick by Spencer Seidel

Thanks to Erin McNichols of  Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc. I am giving away one copy of Lovesick.

Book Description:
A murder rocks Portland, Maine when police discover an incoherent teen sitting in a pool of blood late one night. Paul Ducharme is found with a murder weapon in hand, clutching the dead body of his best friend with no clue how he got to the Eastern Promenade Trail. 

A teenage love triangle gone wrong brings Spencer Seidel back with a vengeance in LOVESICK (PublishingWorks; $14.95; June 2012), the follow up to his breakout novel Dead of Wynter. Seidel deftly illustrates the toxic relationship involving a friend and love interest — Wendy, the girl of Paul’s dreams, and Lee, Paul’s best friend —each with their own desires, issues and shocking agendas. 

Wendy has been missing for weeks. Her boyfriend Lee has been murdered–apparently by Paul. It’s an open and shut case–or so most of Portland thinks.

Dr. Lisa Boyers, forensic psychologist, receives a call from an old friend, a connection to her troubled past. Attorney Rudy Swaner wants her to interview the young killer, who claims to have forgotten the events leading up to the murder.

Media attention mounts. Reporters stream into Portland. All eyes turn to Lisa as she is dragged unwillingly into the spotlight. She seems intent on exonerating the brutal teen killer but quickly finds herself the focus of an over-zealous reporter threatening to expose dirty secrets she’d rather not share.  

About Spencer Seidel:
Spencer Seidel’s love of reading and writing began as a child after he discovered Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His first novel, Dead of Wynter, was published in 2011 and was well-received by critics and readers alike. When he’s not writing novels, Spencer enjoys playing loud rock guitar, something he’s been doing for over twenty-five years.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Giveaway: The Golden Hour by Margaret Wurtele

Thanks to Kayleigh of Penguin Group U.S.A, I am giving away one copy of The Golden Hour to one of my U.S. readers.

Book Description:
In THE GOLDEN HOUR, seventeen-year-old Giovanna Bellini sees firsthand the devastating effects of the war. Following the Italian government’s peace agreement with the Allies, Giovanna watches as the German military invades her town, forming a hostile occupying army. At first, Giovanna is fascinated by the Nazi officers, but as the war strips away Giovanna’s naïveté and harsh realities are exposed, her brother Giorgio recruits her to aid in the Italian Resistance. When she is asked to hide wounded Jewish freedom fighter Mario Rava, Giovanna finds herself falling for the brave young man. The world around her is in constant turmoil and when terrible truths are revealed, threatening the lives of everyone Giovanna cares about, she is forced to make unimaginable sacrifices and decisions.

About Margaret Wurtele:
Margaret Wurtele is the author of two memoirs. She and her husband split their time between Minnesota and Napa Valley , where they are owners of Terra Valentine Winery. Visit her online at www.margaretwurtele.com.
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