Maibox Monday
I received two books last week:
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Monday, February 7, 2011
I received two books last week:
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
February Reviews for 2011 ARC Reading Challenge
Working Towards Bronze Level:
Amused-3Andrea-6
Beth-5
Debbie-5
Donna-2
Freda-2
Nicola-16
*Note: if you missed posting your links last month, please always post "late" links in the current month's Mr. Linky. For example, if you forgot to post a link in February, please post it on this Mr. Linky in this post.
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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February Reviews for 2011 Books Won Reading Challenge
Honorable Mentions: Read 1-3 books won:
LuAnn-2
Tea-1
Please post the books you read in February for the challenge in Mr. Linky, below:
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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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Friday, February 4, 2011
Sourcebooks Giveaway, until Sunday Only
Hurry, the following three eBooks will be free from today until Sunday:
1. Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe is free this weekend in anticipation of her new release Mr. Darcy’s Secret that just came out on February 1st.
Love at First Flight by Marie Force is free this weekend in anticipation of her new release Everyone Loves a Hero just came out on February 1st.
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick is free this weekend, in anticipation of her new book, To Defy a King will be released March 1st.
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Giveaway: TO TEMPT A RAKE by Cara Elliott
Thanks to Anna Balasi of Hachette Book Group, I am giving away up to 3 copies of this book as part of Cara Elliott's Blog Tour.
Book Description:
A devil-may-care rogue, Marco finds the alluring and mysterious Kate a tempting target for his flirtations. But when murder strikes at the duke's country house party he begins to suspect that she's hiding a dark secret. He has his own clandestine reasons for offering to help her prove her innocence . . . And so begins a journey of dangerous deception that leads from England to the glittering ballrooms of Vienna, where Marco and Kate must duel with a deadly villain . . . and their own explosive attraction.
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 or more entrants = 3
To Enter:
Leave a comment with your email address, so I can contact you if you win.
Extra Entries: (please leave a separate comment for each, for instance you you are a follower, leave 3 comments that you are a follower).
+3 Old or new follower of this blog.
+3 Old or new follower on Twitter (@teddyrose1).
+3 Be my friend on Facebook (Teddy Rose).
+3 "Like" the post about this giveaway on Facebook
+3 Be my friend on Goodreads (Teddy).
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+1 for each comment on a book review I have done. (Be sure to tell me which ones).
+1 for clicking to give free food at The Animal Rescue Site (tell me you did it).( Up to 1 time per day)
+1 for clicking to give free books at The Literacy Site (tell me you did it). ( Up to 1 time per day)
That's 21 or more possible entries!
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
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O.Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Sunday, February 19th, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Caribou Island by David Vann
With the backdrop of the rugged Alaska wilderness, Caribou Island starts off as a precursor of what is to come. Irene tells her daughter ,Rhoda about her mother's suicide and how she was the one to discover her hanging.
"It was long ago, Irene said. And it was something I couldn't see even at the time, so I can't see it now. I don't know what she looked like hanging there. I don't remember any of it, only that it was."
Irene and Gary have been married for well over 25 years and are not getting along. The each want different things. Gary wants to move out to the desolate Caribous Island and build a cabin from scratch, with no plans or blue prints and no input from anyone else. Irene doesn't appear to know what it is she wants, but it isn't living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. She never really wanted to live in Alaska, to begin with.
"The trees all around seemed almost an audience, standing there waiting, watching her. Sentinels in the shadows, hidden away on a moonless night. She had never grown accustomed to this place, never felt it was home."
Irene knows that if she doesn't go along with Gary's plan that their marriage will be over. She does go along with it but grudgingly and Gary knows it and resents her for it. Rhoda tries to be the peace keeper between her parents while trying to figure out her own life. She plans to marry her boyfriend who is a dentist. She also tries to enlist her brother, Mark's help with their parents but he is a stoner who doesn't want to get involved. He tries to stay as far away from his parents as he can.
Nobody in this book has experience genuine love and are not in love with their parents. There is a lot of arguing, back jabbing and even some adultery. In the last chapters of the book everything comes to a head and a heartbreaking conclusion.
Caribou Island is a very bleak novel and David Vann sets the tone from the first page. He uses the Alaskan wilderness as a symbol for the isolation and sadness of his characters. His writing is sparse yet meaningful. However, there was a character, Monique that felt out of place , that was just thrown in to have an affair with one of the main characters. She was so superficial that I felt she distracted from the real story.
I did think the novel was worthwhile and I did enjoy David Vann's writing style.
3/5
Thanks to Harper Collins Publishers and Net Galley for the ebook galley of this book.
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Giveaway: Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt
Book Description:
Their lives were perfect . . .
Lady Hero Batten,the beautiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, has everything a womancould want, including the perfect fiancé. True, the Marquis of Mandeville is a trifle dull and has no sense of humor, but that doesn'tbother Hero. Until she meets his notorious brother . . .
Until they met each other.
GriffinRemmington, Lord Reading, is far from perfect - and he likes it thatway. How he spends his days is a mystery, but all of London knows heengages in the worst sorts of drunken revelry at night. Hero takes aninstant dislike to him, and Griffin thinks that Hero, with hercharities and faultless manners, is much too impeccable for society,let alone his brother. Yet their near-constant battle of wits soonsparks desire - desire that causes their carefully constructed worldsto come tumbling down. As Hero's wedding nears, and Griffin's enemieslay plans to end their dreams forever, can two imperfect people findperfect true love?
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 or more entrants= 3
To Enter:
Leave a comment with your email address, so I can contact you if you win.
Extra Entries: (please leave a separate comment for each, for instance you you are a follower, leave 3 comments that you are a follower).
+3 Old or new follower of this blog.
+3 Old or new follower on Twitter (@teddyrose1).
+3 Be my friend on Facebook (Teddy Rose).
+3 "Like" the post about this giveaway on Facebook
+3 Be my friend on Goodreads (Teddy).
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+1 for each comment on a book review I have done. (Be sure to tell me which ones).
+1 for clicking to give free food at The Animal Rescue Site (tell me you did it).( Up to 1 time per day)
+1 for clicking to give free books at The Literacy Site (tell me you did it). ( Up to 1 time per day)
That's 21 or more possible entries!
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
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O.Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Friday, February 18th,11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Giveaway: Deadly Heat & Deadly Lies by Cynthia Eden Blog Tour
Book Descriptions:
Deadly Heat
Six months after her lover died in an arsonist's blaze, firefighter Lora Spade calls in the FBI's elite Serial Services Division to track the elusive killer. When Special Agent Kenton Lake is lured into a violent inferno, Lora pulls him to safety and is stunned - not by the fire, but by her own searing attraction to Kent. For the first time in months, she longs for something other than vengeance.
Kenton's interest in Lora should be purely professional. But one fleeting kiss and he can't get her out of his mind. Her combination of strength and vulnerability makes him want to protect her, and that means solving this case - and fast. For even the passion igniting between them can't hide a terrifying truth: Lora is the next target in a murderer's sadistic, fiery game.
Deadly Lies
FBI Special Agent Samantha Kennedy is haunted by memories of the serial killer who abducted her. To keep the darkness at bay, she pretends to be a different, more confident woman. This Samantha doesn't fear every unknown face. So she throws caution to the wind and shares a night of unbridled passion with a handsome stranger.
One night isn't enough for successful entrepreneur Max Ridgeway. He wants more of the sexy, smart, mysterious woman who slipped away before dawn. When they meet again, their attraction is undeniable-until his stepbrother goes missing, and Max realizes that Samantha isn't who she seems. But they must trust each other to trap a ring of bloodthirsty kidnappers before the nightmares that terrorize Sam become irrevocably real.
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 or more entrants= 3
To Enter:
Leave a comment with your email address, so I can contact you if you win.
Extra Entries: (please leave a separate comment for each, for instance you you are a follower, leave 3 comments that you are a follower).
+3 Old or new follower of this blog.
+3 Old or new follower on Twitter (@teddyrose1).
+3 Be my friend on Facebook (Teddy Rose).
+3 "Like" the post about this giveaway on Facebook
+3 Be my friend on Goodreads (Teddy).
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+3 for Joining my Books Won Reading Challenge (be sure to follow the rules and then let me know you joined here.)
+1 for each comment on a book review I have done. (Be sure to tell me which ones).
+1 for clicking to give free food at The Animal Rescue Site (tell me you did it).( Up to 1 time per day)
+1 for clicking to give free books at The Literacy Site (tell me you did it). ( Up to 1 time per day)
That's 21 or more possible entries!
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
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O.Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Friday, February 18th,11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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Winners:Sins of a Highland Devil By Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Thanks again to Anna Balasi of Hachette Book Group for making this giveaway possible.
Judy H.(already won)
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The Winners are:
Elaing8
Mindie
Meredith(already won)
Bethie
Congratulations! I emailed all three of you. Please respond with your shipping information within two days to claim your prize.
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Sweet Tooth: Out of the Deep Woods by Jeff Lemire
Gus lives with his father in the woods. His mother died of the affliction years ago and his father will die soon. All adults are dying off rapidly. It is only the hybrids who are immune. Gus has to stay very near their cabin and hide from the hunters. Hybrids are very valuable, for research purposes, as scientists race to find a cure for the adult population.
When his father dies, Gus tries to keep his promise to his promise to stay in the cabin but he still has to go outside for firewood, food, and water. One day a mysterious man, Jepperd finds Gus. He tells him that he will take him to a hybrid sanctuary where he could live with other children like himself, in peace. With food getting hard to find near the cabin, Guys goes with him.
Is Jepperd as honest, as he seems to Gus?
I finished this book in one short sitting. It has Jeff Lemire's amazing drawing with the added bonus of color by
Jose Villarrubia. Though the premise sounds crazy, Lemire makes it work with his spare words, relying heavily on the graphics. There is quite a bit of violence in this book, which I don't care for but it was needed for this book. I found myself caring deeply for the fate of young Gus and am awaiting Sweet Tooth 2, on hold at my library.
4/5
A Season to Read
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