I am a certified bookaholic and am embracing my addiction. Here you will find my short book reviews and other wonderful information all about books. I will also share my love for animals and show you some of my knitting projects.
I didn't do very well this week. I wasn't feeling well and then a colleague at work died after a mercifully short battle with cancer. She was only in her 40's. It really got me down. Anyway, at least I did a bit, here it is:
Thanks To Anna Balasi of Hachette Books, I have up to 3 of these audiobooks up for grabs.
Book Description:
Available for the first time Unabridged on CD in an all-new recording by Scott Brick, the first of the blockbuster thrillers by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. The book that will change the way you think about Washington - and power - forever. In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States.
Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Alan Richmond is the charming U.S. president with the power to commit any crime. And Jack Graham is the young attorney caught in a vortex between absolute truth and... ABSOLUTE POWER.
The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway:
1-10 entrants= 1
11-20 entrants= 2
21-30 entrants= 3
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 ifyou win. If I can't find your email either in the comments or yourprofile, you will be disqualified!
2. For two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog andleave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get anentry 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 orsubscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscriptionservice. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower fivetimes! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete anyextra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go topick the winners.
Sorry, the giveaway is only open US and Canadian residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address.
This giveaway will end on Friday, February 12th at 11:59 P.M. 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 disqualified.
Thanks To Anna Balasi of Hachette Books, I have up to 3 of these audiobooks up for grabs.
Book Description:
Joshua Ferris' debut novel Then We Came to the End was both heralded by critics and a New York Times bestseller, and marked the arrival of a startlingly talented young writer. With THE UNNAMED, Ferris imagines the collision between one man's free will and the forces of nature that are bigger than any of us.
Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts around the globe--and come perilously close to ruining what should be a happy life. Tim has a loving family, a successful law career and a beautiful suburban home, all of which he maintains spectacularly well until his feet start moving again.
What drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? THE UNNAMED is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.
The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway:
1-10 entrants= 1
11-20 entrants= 2
21-30 entrants= 3
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 ifyou win. If I can't find your email either in the comments or yourprofile, you will be disqualified!
2. For two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog andleave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get anentry 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 orsubscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscriptionservice. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower fivetimes! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete anyextra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go topick the winners.
Sorry, the giveaway is only open US and Canadian residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address.
This giveaway will end on Friday, February 5th at 11:59 P.M. 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 disqualified.
Thanks To Anna Balasi of Hachette Books, I have up to 3 of these audiobooks up for grabs.
Book Description:
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. In response, Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.
Ranging from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love, THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway:
1-10 entrants= 1
11-20 entrants= 2
21-30 entrants= 3
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 ifyou win. If I can't find your email either in the comments or yourprofile, you will be disqualified!
2. For two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog andleave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get anentry 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 orsubscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscriptionservice. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower fivetimes! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete anyextra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go topick the winners.
Sorry, the giveaway is only open US and Canadian residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address.
This giveaway will end on Friday, February 5th at 11:59 P.M. 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 disqualified.
This is a charming epistolary ,historical short that takes place in 1840. There are three main characters, Mr.Ambrose Rogers, a man in his 30's who lives in the West Indies, looking for a wife. Miss Adelaide Fairfax, a woman he met in Bath and writes to asking is she knows of a possible wife for him, and Lady Steyne, a woman in her 30's who had lost hope of every becoming someones wife.
When Ambrose writes to Miss Fairfax looking for a wife, she knows just the woman, Lady Steyne and writes to her right away. Mr. Rogers and Lady Steyne start writing each other and a spark is there.
I wont tell you anymore because I don't want to give anything away. I really enjoyed this story. It was well formed with delightful characters. I love reading epistolary stories because writing letters was the way people communicated back then. Today, we have lost this form of expressing ourselves, for the most part. You can read this story on Nicola Slades website. It is a quick read and quite worthwhile.
If you would like to participate in Short Story Mondays or just find out about some great short stories, 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 reviews. Come join in the fun!
The “rules” have changed just a bit from last year. Here they are:
Readers may join at ANY TIME between now and August 14th.
Books should be chosen from the reader’s TBR pile (this may be an actual physical pile or a virtual pile).
The goal is to read AT LEAST 5 books linked by theme.
Overlaps with other challenges are allowed.
Readers may change their list of books OR their theme(s) at any time.
I'm going with level 3, the same theme I used last year. The three themes I choose are books of historical fiction, that are all written by female authors, and are new to me.
This is really week 2 but this was my first week. Here's how I did:
Friday -1 Bike Trainer
Saturday - 2 Bike trainer
Sunday - 0
Monday - 2 Bike Trainer
Tuesday - 1 walking
Wednesday - 0
Thursday - 2
Total -8 Because I started a week late I need to average 9 miles per week. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep quite that pace but I am very proud of my 8 miles this week!
It took me awhile to decide what book I was going to submiss for the Historical Fiction Alphabet challenge. Then it dawned on me that I was reading a book taking place (a lot of the time) in Cape Cod.
In 1940, while war is going on throughout most of Europe, President Roosevelt has promised that the United States would not enter the war.
In a small town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Iris James serves as postmistress.She knows the town and their business very well.She falls in love with the town's mechanic, Harry Vale.Harry spends a lot of time in the watch tower over the Atlantic Ocean, watching for German U-boats.He has a hard time convincing the towns people that the U-boats will show up in their sleepy little town.
Emma Trask is married to the town's working doctor.They are both young and just starting out.However, an event happens while he is delivering his first baby in the town that makes him want to escape.He goes to England, where war is raging to volunteer his services as a doctor, leaving poor Emma as home in a town she hardly knows.Iris tries to look out for her.
Meanwhile, Frankie Bard is in England as a reporter.She works with none other than Edward R. Murrow.However, major event shake her to the core and just ends up near the end of the book in the same small town as Iris and Emma.Their 3 fates sealed and intertwined through a letter.
This was a delightful book.Sarah Blake weaves all of the sub-stories together seamlessly.Frankie is my favourite character.We get to meet the people she comes across and hear her war stories.On her last assignment she rides the trains in Germany and France, recording interviews with the Jews desperate to get to safety.
Though there were a few things in the book that were predictable then didn't detract me from enjoying the story.The end seemed a bit rushed to me but not overly sentimental.It seems that Sarah Blake really did her research and I recommend this to Historical fiction lover, especially those who enjoy WWII fiction.
4.5/5
Thanks to Amy Einhorn Books and B. Kienapple of Penguin Group (Canada) for this book.
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