So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

As usual, be sure to check back at this post throught the week for links to more book giveaways!

Below are giveaways that I announced in previous weeks. There is still time to enter:

Julie of Booking Mama has 3 copies of The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. Deadline is April 15th. Enter here.

Vera of Luxury Reading is giving away 5 copies of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Tom Buergenthal. Deadline is April 12th. Enter here.

Drey of drey's library is giving away 5 copies of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Tom Buergenthal. Deadline is April 12th. Enter here. She is also giving away 5 copies of The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano. Deadline is April 17th. Enter here.

shelburns of Write for a Reader is giving away several different books. Deadline is April 22nd. Enter here.

Wanda of A Season to Read is giving away one copy on The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards. Deadline is April 21st (Earth Day). Enter here.

Erika Mailman author of The Witches Trinity is giving away 2 copies of her book in conjunction with Jennifer of Literate Housewife Review. Deadline is April 21st. Enter here.

Ruth of This That and the Other Thing is giving away 5 copies of A LuckyThomas Buergenthal. Deadline is April 24th. Enter here.

Dar of Peeking Between the Pages is giving away Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark by Donna Lea Simpson. Deadline is April 13th. Enter here.

PopinFresh of Popin's Lair is giving away one copy of The Lost Hours by Karen White. Deadline is April 24th. Enter here.

Melissa of Shhh I'm Reading is giving away one copy of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. Deadline is April 14th. Enter here.

Visit West of Mars to find out about even more Giveaways!

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Thanks to all of you who entered! I wish that I could send copies of these books to each of you! A special thanks to those of you who follow my blog or became followers! I hope you enjoy my blog!

The five winners of The Turnaround are:

Big Sis

Annie

Wanda

Gwendolyn(already won)

Lady Roxi

MJ

Congratulations! Please contact me within 3 days to claim your prize.

Thanks to Valerie of Hachette Books for making this giveaway possible!

The 5 winners of Girls in Trucks are:

Amanda

Rama

Serena(Already won)

Carol

Janel(Already won)

Dawn M.

Gwendolyn

Congratulations! Please contact me within 3 days to claim your prize.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 9:27 PM 5 comments    

Labels: My 2009 Giveaways

Thanks to Valerie of Hachette Books I have 5 copies of THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING by Joshilyn Jackson to giveaway.

Book Description:

Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister, Thalia, is her opposite, an impoverished actress who prides herself on exposing the lurid truths lurking behind middle class niceties.

While Laurel's life seems neatly on track-- a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, a lovely suburban home-- everything she holds dear is threatened the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is an unseemly mystery that no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Laurel enlists Thalia's help, even though she knows it comes with a high price tag.

Together, they set out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about their family's haunted past, the true state of Laurel's marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.

Here are the rules:

1. For one entry, leave a comment Please be sure to include your email address (if it isn't available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win.

2. For a two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.

3. For another 5 more entries: Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subsriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower five times! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.

The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.

The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.Only one entry per household/IP address.

This giveaway will end on Friday May 1st Midnight E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn't available in your profile! Winners must respond within three days or will be disquilified. Therefore, if your moving or going on a trip, etc. . please let me know.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 7:37 PM 36 comments    

Labels: My 2009 Giveaways

Bobbie of Book Reviews By Bobbie gave me this lovely award. Thanks so much Bobbie!

Bobbie said:

This award is pretty self explanatory. I have decided to give the Award to bloggers whose blogs are beautiful to me. I think that these blogs are Lovely!

April 17, 2009 Update: Blodeuedd of Book girl of Mur-y-Castell also gave me this award. Thanks so much Blodeuedd!

Blodeudd said:

I want to give this one to Teddy Rose because, even though I am a lurker there, her blog was actually the first I found and the one that made me create my own blog. Even if she doesn't know this :)

I'm so glad to have an infuence on you Blodeudd. Keep up that wonderful blog of yours!

Update May 5, 2009: My new friend Diane of The Book Resort gave me this award as well. Thanks so much Diane!

If I tried to give this award to all of you who have beautiful blogs, I would still be typing this post for twenty years. Please know that I love all of your lovely blogs.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:02 PM 14 comments    

Labels: Awards

Thanks to Valerie of Hachette Books I have 5 copies of Made in the U.S.A to giveaway.

Book Description:

The bestselling author of WHERE THE HEART IS returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.

Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father.

While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.

MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.

* Includes a Reading Group Guide

Here are the rules:

1. For one entry, leave a comment Please be sure to include email address (if it isn't available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win.

2. For a two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.

3. For another 5 more entries: Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subsriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower five times! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.

The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.

The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.Only one entry per household/IP address.

This giveaway will end on Friday May 1st Midnight E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn't available in your profile! Winners must respond within three days or will be disquilified. Therefore, if your moving or going on a trip, etc. . please let me know.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 9:07 PM 103 comments    

Labels: My 2009 Giveaways

I've been Splashed! Desert Rose of DeSeRt RoSe BoOkLoGuE has given me the beautiful award.

I have seen this one going around and was really hoping that some would bestow it upon me! Thanks so much Desert Rose!

This award has been going around for awhile so I would like to pass it along to all my blogger friends who have not received it yet.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 5:45 PM 8 comments    

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I haven't participated in Short Story Monday and I miss it. I have been on ARC over-load and try to catch up. I am also working more hours. I hope to get back to being a regular participant soon.

I looked up the definition of short story. In terms of length, no one can say for sure, However, there is consensus that it is a length that can be read in one sitting.

This weekend I read a very short book of less then 100 pages.

This is the memoir of Jessie, the dog. His adoptive mother, Ruth, helped him tell his story in this book.

Jessie was in need of new parents and Ruth was in need of a dog. Ruth has done many volunteer jobs working with children and wanted to combine that with getting the message out about dog rescue. She was looking for a medium size dog with a big heart who would pull children in a wagon. She had put the word out and got a call from a rescue organization that was helping Jessie find a home.

100% of the proceeds for the Charity Edition of this book is going to Open Doors, an Amazing Grace Foundation's Kid's'n'Kritters Project. 10 % of all proceeds from the regular edition of this book will also go to charity.

This book/ short memoir is simply written and would be good for children to read with their parents. It is a bit repetitious but is a sweet little story.

3/5

Also reviewed by

Peeking Between the Pages

If you would like to participate in Short Story Mondays, go to John of The Book Mine Set. He has a short story review every Monday and a place for you to link your short story review. Come join in the fun!

Posted by Teddy Rose at 4:55 PM 6 comments    

Labels: Books Read in 2009, Short Story Read in 2009

Posted by Teddy Rose at 4:34 PM 15 comments    

Labels: Mail Box Mondays

I have up to 5 copies each of DO-OVER by Robin Hemley and JANTSEN'S GIFT by Pam Cope and Amy Molloy. Deadline is April 24th. Enter here.

I have up to 3 copies each of the audiobooks Drood by Dan Simmons and Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman. Deadline is April 17th. Enter here.

I have 5 copies of The Turnaround By George Pelecanos to giveaway. Deadline is April 10th. Enter here.

I have 5 copies of Girls in Trucks By Katie Crouch to giveaway. Deadline is April 10th. Enter here.

New offerings (if you do enter any of these lovely giveaways, please let them know that Teddy sent you):

Michele of A Reader's Respite is giving away onecopy of The King's Fool by Margaret Campbell Barnes (reviewed by me here). Deadline is April 5th. Enter here.

Erika Mailman author of The Witches Trinity is giving away 2 copies of her book in conjunction with Jennifer of Literate Housewife Review. Deadline is April 21st. Enter here.

Historical-Fiction is giving away one copy of Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper. Deadline is April 11th. Enter here.

Ruth of This That and the Other Thing is giving away 5 copies of A LuckyThomas Buergenthal. Deadline is April 24th. Enter here.

Jackie of Farm Lane Books Blog is giving away a well-loved copy of Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller. Deadline is April 8th. Enter here.

Dar of Peeking Between the Pages is giving away Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark by Donna Lea Simpson. Deadline is April 13th. Enter here.

PopinFresh of Popin's Lair is giving away one copy of The Lost Hours by Karen White. Deadline is April 24th. Enter here.

Melissa of Shhh I'm Reading is giving away one copy of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. Deadline is April 14th. Enter here.

Drey of drey's library is giving away 5 copies of The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano. Deadline is April 17th. Enter here.

Below are giveaways that I announced in previous weeks. There is still time to enter:

Dar of Peeking Between the Pages is participating in a blog tour and giving away of Willing Spirits by Phyllis Schieber. Free books will be awarded during the tour.Each comment on any of the blogs in the tour will offer a chance to win a free copy of Willing Spirits or Sinner’s Guide to Confession. A couple of people who make a real impression on Phyllis during the tour will be chosen to win a free book. We’ll see you on the virtual blog tour trail. Details are here.

Julie of Booking Mama has 3 copies of The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. Deadline is April 15th. Enter here.

Unmainstream Mom Reads is giving away 5 copies of The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. Deadline is April 11th. Enter here.

Vera of Luxury Reading is giving away 5 copies of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Tom Buergenthal. Deadline is April 12th. Enter here.

Drey of drey's library is giving away 5 copies of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Tom Buergenthal. Deadline is April 12th. Enter here.

shelburns of Write for a Reader is giving away several different books. Deadline is April 22nd. Enter here.

Wanda of A Season to Read is giving away one copy on The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams Richards. Deadline is April 21st (Earth Day). Enter here.

Visit West of Mars to find out about even more Giveaways!

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:24 PM 7 comments    

Labels: Giveaways Galore

He's No Fool

Will Somers starts out with a dull life in the country on the family farm. Even his family admits that he doesn't make a good farmer. That doesn't leave him with any real options, until an option lands in his lap.

Will is one of the few lucky country children that had an education. He is given to a merchant, Richard Fermer , to work for. He has a good head for numbers and he must do the books and take inventory. He is good at what he does, but it bores him. The one shining light in his new life is Joanna, Master Fermer's daughter. He knows that it would not be possible to marry her, yet he dreams of a life with her.

One day Master Fermer told Will that he would be going to Court with him to conduct business. He meets King Henry and while the king and other royalty bowl, Will cracks a joke. With that, Henry scoops up Will to be his royal fool.

Will witnesses everything at court. The six wives, Henry's mood swings, everything. He become King Henry's companion and confidante and stand by him through it all. However, he still pines for Joanna through the years.

I could go on and on about this wonderful book but I wouldn't want to give you any spoilers. This book was first published in 1959. It is now being re-published by Source Books and is coming out this month. Though it was out in 1959, I didn't find it dated by today's standards.

My only small complaint is that I would have liked it a bit longer. Some of King Henry's six wives are barely touched upon.

Margaret Campbell Barnes envelopes the reader into the pages of her book. It is a compelling read and captures the period and Will Somers well. This book is hard to put down! Highly recommended!

4.5/5

Thanks to Danielle L. Jackson for a ARC of this wonderful book.

Also reviewed by:

Passages to the Past
The Tome Traveller's Weblog
Devourer of Books
A Hoyden's Look at Literature

Posted by Teddy Rose at 6:47 PM 12 comments    

Labels: Books Read in 2009, Historical Fiction, Margaret Campbell Barnes, Tudors