Monday, December 27, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Great Christmas Giveaway at 5 Minutes For Mom! Also Rayovac giveaway!
Be sure to stop by to enter for a huge list of giveaways and you can also nominate a family to receive some Christmas goodies that can't afford to buy them! Be sure to visit them a this link! Also be sure to "like" them on facebook!
Rayovac is also giving away $1000 to 3 people and letting 5 Minutes for Mom giveaway more! Be sure to stop by and enter.
Brenda
Rayovac is also giving away $1000 to 3 people and letting 5 Minutes for Mom giveaway more! Be sure to stop by and enter.
- “Followers who promote the Rayovac Mom Rocks the Holidays Sweepstakes may receive gifts from Rayovac.”
Brenda
Saturday, November 6, 2010
LORI'S READING CORNER: Book Giveaway ~ Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (ARC...
LORI'S READING CORNER: Book Giveaway ~ Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (ARC...: "Sing You Home: A Novel Author ~ Jodi Picoult Publisher ~ Atria Publication date ~ March 1, 2011 Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to g..."
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Book Bookie: BlogFest 2010 September 10-12th
Book Bookie: BlogFest 2010 September 10-12th: "Today is the start of BlogFest. Please make sure you click on the link at the bottom of this post to check out another awesome contest and B..."
Ashley's Bookshelf: Blogfest Giveaways!!!!
Ashley's Bookshelf: Blogfest Giveaways!!!!: "Hi Everyone and welcome to Blogfest! Ok so Blogfest is massive group of giveaways. We link our blogs and YOU enter to win whatever is offere..."
Allison's Attic of Books: Are you ready?? Blogfest 2010 has begun!!! GIVEAWA...
Allison's Attic of Books: Are you ready?? Blogfest 2010 has begun!!! GIVEAWA...: "Welcome everyone to Blogfest 2010!!!! Join the fun of seeing all the book blogs that are out there to read and enjoy (as far as I can see ..."
Alisha's World: Blog Fest Sept. 10th - Sept. 12th!
Alisha's World: Blog Fest Sept. 10th - Sept. 12th!: "So Blog Fest is here! It's hosted by Cinnamon over at A Journey of Books. Sorry I posted this kind of late. I'm kind of busy studying for my..."
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Magdalena Ball: Our first bloggie giveaway
Magdalena Ball: Our first bloggie giveaway: "The good folks at Hachette Book Group have offered us a bumper pack of books for those who live in places where July is summer. Winners will..."
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Mom Reviews - SleepJoy Mattress Toppers: Wake Up Happy *Giveaway*
SleepJoy Mattress Toppers: Wake Up Happy *Giveaway*
http://www.themomreviews.com/2010/06/sleep-joy-mattress-toppers-wake-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+themomreviews%2FYeLU+%28The+Mom+Reviews%29
http://www.themomreviews.com/2010/06/sleep-joy-mattress-toppers-wake-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+themomreviews%2FYeLU+%28The+Mom+Reviews%29
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Book Trib - Enter Weekly for Free Books - Pick one of Five
They have been giving away a daily thriller too! Be sure to go here to win!
http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Contests.asp
http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Contests.asp
Check out Hatchette Books Monthly for Contests and Sweepstakes!
So easy to sign up for wins! Be sure to visit monthly:
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contests_index.aspx
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contests_index.aspx
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Win one of 10 ARC's of Jane Feather's "Rushed to the Altar!"
June Jubilee Celebration Prizes
Let’s party! We are helping Simon & Schuster publishers celebrate their June releases. They have four books they are asking us to help them promote. Rushed to the Altar by Jane Feather which comes out June 22nd. One Season of Sunshine by Julia London will be released June 29th. Nancy Gideon's Chased by Moonlight will hit bookshelves on June 29th and Unspeakable- Book 2 in Laura Griffin's Chaser series will come out June 29th, also. In order to enter, we need you to post about these books somewhere on the web. It can be your Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, your blog or anywhere else. Then, send me an e-mail with the link (so I can verify that you did post about it) and your mailing address. Make sure you put Simon and Schuster in the subject line of your e-mail. Your name will be entered to win one of 10 ARCs (advanced reading copies) of Jane Feather's Rushed to the Altar.
Send me an e-mail
Let’s party! We are helping Simon & Schuster publishers celebrate their June releases. They have four books they are asking us to help them promote. Rushed to the Altar by Jane Feather which comes out June 22nd. One Season of Sunshine by Julia London will be released June 29th. Nancy Gideon's Chased by Moonlight will hit bookshelves on June 29th and Unspeakable- Book 2 in Laura Griffin's Chaser series will come out June 29th, also. In order to enter, we need you to post about these books somewhere on the web. It can be your Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, your blog or anywhere else. Then, send me an e-mail with the link (so I can verify that you did post about it) and your mailing address. Make sure you put Simon and Schuster in the subject line of your e-mail. Your name will be entered to win one of 10 ARCs (advanced reading copies) of Jane Feather's Rushed to the Altar.
Send me an e-mail
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Mother Day Giveaway Party at The Mom Reviews!
Mother
One of the gifts is from Lingerie.com but visit their site and find other things involved in the giveaway party!
One of the gifts is from Lingerie.com but visit their site and find other things involved in the giveaway party!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Good Reads - Win Books!
I have had problems with life interfering with my blogging, I'm sorry!
I wanted to remind all that you can go to Good Reads.com and register. Once you've registered, you can search books, find the giveaway link, and you can look at book descriptions, and enter to win those that you think you would like to read. Some are by new authors and they are advance reader copies, others are by established authors. Good luck!
I wanted to remind all that you can go to Good Reads.com and register. Once you've registered, you can search books, find the giveaway link, and you can look at book descriptions, and enter to win those that you think you would like to read. Some are by new authors and they are advance reader copies, others are by established authors. Good luck!
Faithful Reader Newsletter and Blog - Contests for Books!
Visit their site, sign up for their newsletter which will come to you when they have new information for you, you can follow links directly from the newsletter to enter to win books!
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Current Giveaway for April at Alaine's Reading
Follow the link in the title and enter to win one of three fantastic books!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
New Novel by Fiona Robyn - Thaw!
Ruth's diary is the new novel by Fiona Robyn, called Thaw. She has decided to blog the novel in its entirety over the next few months, so you can read it for free.
Ruth's first entry is below, and you can continue reading tomorrow by following this link.
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These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. She was so frail that her grand-daughter had to carry her onto the set to take this photo. It's a close-up. Her emaciated arms emerge from the top corners of the photo and the background is black, maybe velvet, as if we're being protected from seeing the strings. One wrist rests on the other, and her fingers hang loose, close together, a pair of folded wings. And you can see her insides.
The bones of her knuckles bulge out of the skin, which sags like plastic that has melted in the sun and is dripping off her, wrinkling and folding. Her veins look as though they're stuck to the outside of her hands. They're a colour that's difficult to describe: blue, but also silver, green; her blood runs through them, close to the surface. The book says she died shortly after they took this picture. Did she even get to see it? Maybe it was the last beautiful thing she left in the world.
I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to carry on living. I'm giving myself three months of this journal to decide. You might think that sounds melodramatic, but I don't think I'm alone in wondering whether it's all worth it. I've seen the look in people's eyes. Stiff suits travelling to work, morning after morning, on the cramped and humid tube. Tarted-up girls and gangs of boys reeking of aftershave, reeling on the pavements on a Friday night, trying to mop up the dreariness of their week with one desperate, fake-happy night. I've heard the weary grief in my dad's voice.
So where do I start with all this? What do you want to know about me? I'm Ruth White, thirty-two years old, going on a hundred. I live alone with no boyfriend and no cat in a tiny flat in central London. In fact, I had a non-relationship with a man at work, Dan, for seven years. I'm sitting in my bedroom-cum-living room right now, looking up every so often at the thin rain slanting across a flat grey sky. I work in a city hospital lab as a microbiologist. My dad is an accountant and lives with his sensible second wife Julie, in a sensible second home. Mother finished dying when I was fourteen, three years after her first diagnosis. What else? What else is there?
Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. I looked at her hands for twelve minutes. It was odd describing what I was seeing in words. Usually the picture just sits inside my head and I swish it around like tasting wine. I have huge books all over my flat - books you have to take in both hands to lift. I've had the photo habit for years. Mother bought me my first book, black and white landscapes by Ansel Adams. When she got really ill, I used to take it to bed with me and look at it for hours, concentrating on the huge trees, the still water, the never-ending skies. I suppose it helped me think about something other than what was happening. I learned to focus on one photo at a time rather than flicking from scene to scene in search of something to hold me. If I concentrate, then everything stands still. Although I use them to escape the world, I also think they bring me closer to it. I've still got that book. When I take it out, I handle the pages as though they might flake into dust.
Mother used to write a journal. When I was small, I sat by her bed in the early mornings on a hard chair and looked at her face as her pen spat out sentences in short bursts. I imagined what she might have been writing about - princesses dressed in star-patterned silk, talking horses, adventures with pirates. More likely she was writing about what she was going to cook for dinner and how irritating Dad's snoring was.
I've always wanted to write my own journal, and this is my chance. Maybe my last chance. The idea is that every night for three months, I'll take one of these heavy sheets of pure white paper, rough under my fingertips, and fill it up on both sides. If my suicide note is nearly a hundred pages long, then no-one can accuse me of not thinking it through. No-one can say, 'It makes no sense; she was a polite, cheerful girl, had everything to live for,' before adding that I did keep myself to myself. It'll all be here. I'm using a silver fountain pen with purple ink. A bit flamboyant for me, I know. I need these idiosyncratic rituals; they hold things in place. Like the way I make tea, squeezing the tea-bag three times, the exact amount of milk, seven stirs. My writing is small and neat; I'm striping the paper. I'm near the bottom of the page now. Only ninety-one more days to go before I'm allowed to make my decision. That's it for today. It's begun.
Continue reading at .
Fiona Robyn
Ruth's first entry is below, and you can continue reading tomorrow by following this link.
*
These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. She was so frail that her grand-daughter had to carry her onto the set to take this photo. It's a close-up. Her emaciated arms emerge from the top corners of the photo and the background is black, maybe velvet, as if we're being protected from seeing the strings. One wrist rests on the other, and her fingers hang loose, close together, a pair of folded wings. And you can see her insides.
The bones of her knuckles bulge out of the skin, which sags like plastic that has melted in the sun and is dripping off her, wrinkling and folding. Her veins look as though they're stuck to the outside of her hands. They're a colour that's difficult to describe: blue, but also silver, green; her blood runs through them, close to the surface. The book says she died shortly after they took this picture. Did she even get to see it? Maybe it was the last beautiful thing she left in the world.
I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to carry on living. I'm giving myself three months of this journal to decide. You might think that sounds melodramatic, but I don't think I'm alone in wondering whether it's all worth it. I've seen the look in people's eyes. Stiff suits travelling to work, morning after morning, on the cramped and humid tube. Tarted-up girls and gangs of boys reeking of aftershave, reeling on the pavements on a Friday night, trying to mop up the dreariness of their week with one desperate, fake-happy night. I've heard the weary grief in my dad's voice.
So where do I start with all this? What do you want to know about me? I'm Ruth White, thirty-two years old, going on a hundred. I live alone with no boyfriend and no cat in a tiny flat in central London. In fact, I had a non-relationship with a man at work, Dan, for seven years. I'm sitting in my bedroom-cum-living room right now, looking up every so often at the thin rain slanting across a flat grey sky. I work in a city hospital lab as a microbiologist. My dad is an accountant and lives with his sensible second wife Julie, in a sensible second home. Mother finished dying when I was fourteen, three years after her first diagnosis. What else? What else is there?
Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. I looked at her hands for twelve minutes. It was odd describing what I was seeing in words. Usually the picture just sits inside my head and I swish it around like tasting wine. I have huge books all over my flat - books you have to take in both hands to lift. I've had the photo habit for years. Mother bought me my first book, black and white landscapes by Ansel Adams. When she got really ill, I used to take it to bed with me and look at it for hours, concentrating on the huge trees, the still water, the never-ending skies. I suppose it helped me think about something other than what was happening. I learned to focus on one photo at a time rather than flicking from scene to scene in search of something to hold me. If I concentrate, then everything stands still. Although I use them to escape the world, I also think they bring me closer to it. I've still got that book. When I take it out, I handle the pages as though they might flake into dust.
Mother used to write a journal. When I was small, I sat by her bed in the early mornings on a hard chair and looked at her face as her pen spat out sentences in short bursts. I imagined what she might have been writing about - princesses dressed in star-patterned silk, talking horses, adventures with pirates. More likely she was writing about what she was going to cook for dinner and how irritating Dad's snoring was.
I've always wanted to write my own journal, and this is my chance. Maybe my last chance. The idea is that every night for three months, I'll take one of these heavy sheets of pure white paper, rough under my fingertips, and fill it up on both sides. If my suicide note is nearly a hundred pages long, then no-one can accuse me of not thinking it through. No-one can say, 'It makes no sense; she was a polite, cheerful girl, had everything to live for,' before adding that I did keep myself to myself. It'll all be here. I'm using a silver fountain pen with purple ink. A bit flamboyant for me, I know. I need these idiosyncratic rituals; they hold things in place. Like the way I make tea, squeezing the tea-bag three times, the exact amount of milk, seven stirs. My writing is small and neat; I'm striping the paper. I'm near the bottom of the page now. Only ninety-one more days to go before I'm allowed to make my decision. That's it for today. It's begun.
Continue reading at .
Fiona Robyn
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Giveaway of Roses by Leila Meacham!
Giveaway of Roses by Leila Meacham!http://lauragerold.blogspot.com/2010/01/giveaway-roses-by-leila-meacham.html
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Giveaway For Perricone Cold Plasma
http://gobsofgiveaways.blogspot.com/2009/12/perricone-cold-plasma-giveaway.html
Friday, January 8, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Beat The Winter Blahs Giveaway!
Beat the Winter Blahs Giveaway
To help you beat the winter blahs this January I've got an amazing giveaway list. The books that you could win:
January 2nd - 101 Gourmet Cupcakes by Wendy Paul
January 4th - Where the Wind Blows by Caroline Fyffe
January 6th - Guided By Him…to a Thinner, Not So Stressed-Out You by Julie Morris
January 8th - Chickens in the Headlights by Matthew Buckley
January 9th - Loyalty's Web by Joyce DiPastena
January 11th - Altered Plans by Rebecca Talley
January 13th - My Son, John by Kathi Macias
January 15th - Discipline Me Right by Mary Simmons
January 16th - The Sister Pact by Cami Checketts
January 18th - Counting the Cost by Liz Adair
January 20th - Methods of Madness by Stephanie Black
January 22nd - Altered State by Gregg Luke
January 23rd - A Tapestry of Spells by Lynn Kurland
January 25th - Women of Virtue by Jodi Robinson
January 27th - Torn Apart by Diony George
January 29th - All the Stars in Heaven by Michele Holmes
January 30th - Love Your Body by Brooke Parker
Rules:
Must be a follower of my blog to enter.
1 entry for sharing how you beat the winter blahs
2 entries for sharing the current giveaway on Twitter or Facebook
4 entries for posting about the current giveaway or the month-long contest on your personal blog or putting it on your sidebar. If you post about the overall contest, please let me know which book you'd like your extra entries put towards.
Please post your entries on the day the book you're interested in is featured. I will leave each giveaway open for two weeks.
Contest open to residents of U.S. and Canada.
Thanks to all the authors who so generously donated their books. We'll start it all off on Saturday, January 2nd with Wendy Paul's delightful cupcake cookbook. She's sharing a recipe with us. It's got loads of chocolate, so don't miss it.
http://www.camichecketts.com/
To help you beat the winter blahs this January I've got an amazing giveaway list. The books that you could win:
January 2nd - 101 Gourmet Cupcakes by Wendy Paul
January 4th - Where the Wind Blows by Caroline Fyffe
January 6th - Guided By Him…to a Thinner, Not So Stressed-Out You by Julie Morris
January 8th - Chickens in the Headlights by Matthew Buckley
January 9th - Loyalty's Web by Joyce DiPastena
January 11th - Altered Plans by Rebecca Talley
January 13th - My Son, John by Kathi Macias
January 15th - Discipline Me Right by Mary Simmons
January 16th - The Sister Pact by Cami Checketts
January 18th - Counting the Cost by Liz Adair
January 20th - Methods of Madness by Stephanie Black
January 22nd - Altered State by Gregg Luke
January 23rd - A Tapestry of Spells by Lynn Kurland
January 25th - Women of Virtue by Jodi Robinson
January 27th - Torn Apart by Diony George
January 29th - All the Stars in Heaven by Michele Holmes
January 30th - Love Your Body by Brooke Parker
Rules:
Must be a follower of my blog to enter.
1 entry for sharing how you beat the winter blahs
2 entries for sharing the current giveaway on Twitter or Facebook
4 entries for posting about the current giveaway or the month-long contest on your personal blog or putting it on your sidebar. If you post about the overall contest, please let me know which book you'd like your extra entries put towards.
Please post your entries on the day the book you're interested in is featured. I will leave each giveaway open for two weeks.
Contest open to residents of U.S. and Canada.
Thanks to all the authors who so generously donated their books. We'll start it all off on Saturday, January 2nd with Wendy Paul's delightful cupcake cookbook. She's sharing a recipe with us. It's got loads of chocolate, so don't miss it.
http://www.camichecketts.com/
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