Booking Thru Thursday, Meme, Thursday Memes

Booking Through Thursday

CMash April 5, 2012 5 Comments

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Today’s question:
A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.
Bookish Sarah asks:
If someone asked you for a book recommendation, what is the FIRST book you’d think to recommend (without extra thought)?
My answer:
This is a very easy question for me. I have mentioned these books many times and it is my favorite all time read and that would be The Left Behind series. It is a fictional story based on The Revelations in the Bible.

Giveaway, Winners

And the winner is…….

CMash April 4, 2012 2 Comments

……….of WEST OF WAWA by Lisa de Nikolits

36 Carrie Baird Follow @CherylMash on Twitter

An email has been sent to the winner and she has 48 hours to respond with her mailing address or another winner will be chosen. Thank you to all that entered!!

Meme, Teaser Tuesday, Tuesday Memes

Teaser Tuesday

CMash April 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

*Grab your current read

*Open to a random page

*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The deacon said a prayer over her and the Colonel gave her life vest to one of the two sisters. The the Colonel and Mr. Hardie lifted her over the side and let her go.

Page 109

Meme, W.W.W. Wednesdays, Wednesday Memes

W.W.W. Wednesday

CMash April 4, 2012 2 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Book Review, The Hachette Book Group

Review “Ninety Days” by Bill Clegg

CMash April 4, 2012 2 Comments

Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery by Bill Clegg
Published by Little Brown and Company
Hachette Book Group
Publishing Date: April 10, 2012
ISBN-10: 0316122521
ISBN-13: 978-0316122528
At the request of The Hachette Book Group, an ARC TPB was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.

Synopsis (from publisher): The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With seventy-three days in rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including the seemingly unshakably sober Asa and Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse.

At first, the support is not enough: Clegg relapses for the first time with only three days left. Written with uncompromised immediacy, NINETY DAYS begins where PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN ends—and tells the wrenching story Clegg’s battle to reclaim his life. As any recovering addict knows, hitting rock bottom is just the beginning

My Thoughts and Opinion: A raw and emotional look into the life of one man’s journey and battle for sobriety. This book was read in one sitting as I learned how a white collared businessman lost everything to come back from rehab with nothing. He fought to stay clean for 90 days but the drugs had a stronger grasp, that he kept relapsing within the goal of ninety days to stay clean and sober. The guilt and embarrassment he felt when he did relapse and once again try to reach the goal was palpable. He introduces those in his life who befriend and support him but the need for the drug is too powerful. We read and hear of this every day and the disease does not discriminate.

I had mixed feelings on this book. It was a simple read yet poignant. This was the sequel to his first book, Portrait Of An Addict As A Young Man, which I did not read but did read the rave reviews for it. Because of that I had high expectations that there would be more from this book than a very simplistic digest of him trying to win the war of drugs and alcohol. He makes reference to another book that was an Oprah” book, which I did read. And even though it turned out that that story was embellished, it was a more detailed look into the life of an addict.

This is my opinion, and only my opinion, but I expected more from this book, both in substance and writing style. It may be due to the fact that I did not read the previous book and/or my expectations that the composition would be more complex than what I came away with, which was I thought, just a short story.

DISCLAIMER

I received a copy of this book, at no charge to me,

in exchange for my honest review.

No items that I receive

are ever sold…they are kept by me,

or given to family and/or friends.

(2012 Challenges: Off The Shelf, FreeReads, Where Are You, A-Z, 52 in 52, Outdo Yourself, 100+)

Giveaway, Winners

And the winner is…………

CMash April 3, 2012 2 Comments

….of WOODROSE MOUNTAIN by RaeAnne Thayne

29 Regina Hott Follow @CherylMash on Twitter

An email has been sent to the winner and she has 48hours to respond with her mailing address or another winner will be chosen.

Giveaway, Hachette Giveaway

GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE “ON CELESTIAL MUSIC” by Rick Moody ENDED

CMash April 3, 2012 6 Comments

APRIL 3rd to APRIL 17th, 2012

ON CELESTIAL MUSIC
by RICK MOODY

SYNOPSIS:

Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and ON CELESTIAL MUSIC provides an ample selection from that effort. His anatomy of the word “cool” reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat, “a grunt of assent.” “On Celestial Music,” which was included in Best American Essays, 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in current music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding’s masterpiece, “Try a Little Tenderness;” moves on to Moody’s infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, praise, “the music of the spheres.”
Modern groups covered include “Magnetic Fields” (their love songs), “Wilco”(the band’s and Jeff Tweedy’s evolution), “Danielson Famile” (an evangelical rock band), “The Pogues” (Shane McGowan’s problems with addiction), “The Lounge Lizards” (John Lurie’s brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody’s story “Boys.” Always both incisive and personable, these pieces give us the inspiration to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done–and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know.

THANKS TO ANNA, AND THE SPECIAL FOLKS

AT THE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

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Mailbox Monday, Meme, Monday Memes, Musing Mondays

Monday Memes

CMash April 2, 2012 7 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Today’s musing
Do you belong to any book clubs — face-to-face, or online? If so, how long have you been with the group(s)? If not, why?

My answer:
I have never participated in a book club for a couple of reasons. To be honest I have never even checked with my local library to see if there were some in my area. And I’m not surrounded with readers in my personal family/friends circles to even try to start one. I always had this preconceived notion that the books chosen would be classics and/or books that I would not enjoy. I do remember that an old friend of the family, many years ago, did belong to one and saw what types of books her group chose and knew that I wouldn’t have been interested in the type of books she used to read. There are just too many books, that I want to read that are from my genres, that I would feel it would be wasting time on a book that I wouldn’t enjoy.

April is being hosted by Cindy’s Love of Books

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of A girl and her books and is now on tour.
According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”