Year: 2012

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FEBRUARY 6th to FEBRUARY 20th, 2012

THE SNOW CHILD

by EOWYN IVEY

SYNOPSIS:
   Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone–but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
THANKS TO ANNA,  AND THE KIND PEOPLE AT
THE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
I HAVE THREE ( 3 ) COPIES OF THIS
ENCHANTING NOVEL TO GIVE AWAY.
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO WIN.
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WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN BY RAFFLECOPTER AND NOTIFIED
VIA EMAIL AND WILL HAVE 48 HOURS TO RESPOND
OR ANOTHER NAME WILL BE CHOSEN

DISCLAIMER / RULES

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners via publisher,
the giveaway on behalf of the
above. 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.
I am not responsible for lost or damaged books that are shipped
from agents. I reserve the right to disqualify/delete any entries
if rules of giveaway are not followed

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Monday Memes

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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading 

This week’s question:
Did you do any reading in lieu of watching the football game, yesterday, or were you foregoing reading to watch the game? If you read a book (or books) what did you choose?
My response:
Since I participated in a read-a-thon this weekend, I did read all afternoon.  However, once the game started and my husband made is traditional chili, I watched the first half and the half time show with him.   I felt I HAD to since I am from New England.  I know very little about the sport but was rooting for the “home team”.  Second half, I did a little of both.  I was hoping to finish my current read, which is an ARC from Meryl L. Moss Media, The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy.

 

February is being hosted by Metro Reader

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.”
Empty mailbox this week.

The hosts for the wickedly wonderful weekend of reading are
Rebecca From Kindle Fire
and
April of My Shelf Confessions.
Wrap Up:  330 pages/360
Congratulations to those that participated!!!!
I know I didn’t even come close as to what others accomplished but for me, I was happy.  This is the 2nd read-a-thon this year that I actually was able to read.  In past years, something always interfered.  I was hoping to finish a book, came close, but did make a huge dent.  Almost…but the eyes just got tired.

Read-A-Thon

 

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Not good.   At 11:30 am, I had all my blogging issues done for the day, grabbed my book, coffee, and fleece thrown and settled in my reading chair.  Turned to page 106 and started reading.  WooHoo..I was going to make a dent in my book today!!!

Page 160….sound asleep.  This bronchitis is knocking me out.  So the plan today….is to try again.

Hope everyone else is doing better than me!!!

 

Wicked Winter Read-A-Thon Update

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The hosts for the wickedly wonderful weekend of reading are
Rebecca From Kindle Fire
and
April of My Shelf Confessions.

Progress:  Friday  Subtotal  (approx 6 hours)

Yesterday I did get some reading done and since I am determined to read more this year, these mini read-a-thon challanges are perfect for me.  So if you hear of any that are being held, I would greatly appreciate if you would let me know.   Last year was such an awful year for me that some months I was lucky if I even finished one book a month and I did really miss escaping into a book.

This weekend I am reading an ARC from Meryl L. Moss Media, The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy, who will be a guest on February 20th.  You may want to stop by as there will also be a giveaway.  So far this book is a good one.

Good Luck to those who are participating and thank you Rebecca and April for hosting!!!!

And the winners are…..

……..of GIRL LAND by Caitlin Flanagan

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An email has been sent to the winners and they have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.  Thank you to those that entered.

Guest Author William F. Brown

Don’t you just love it when a friend calls and asks if they can stop by and visit for a while?  You know, that type of visit where you have some coffee catch up on what’s been going on?  Well today’s visitor hasn’t been here since July and I am looking forward to hearing about this latest novel and hope you are too.  So please help me welcome back Bill Brown.

ABOUT WILLIAM F. BROWN

I live in Ohio.  As a Vice President of the real estate subsidiary of a Fortune 500 corporation, I traveled widely in the US and abroad.   A native of Chicago, I earned a BA in History and Russian Area Studies and a Master of Urban Planning degree from the  University of Illinois.  (Go Illini!)  I’ve been active in politics (I had the stupidity to run and the misfortune to win a -year seat on a County Board of Supervisors) (more hard time than you’d get for armed robbery, car theft, or embezzlement in most states!) and active in numerous civic organizations.  I served in the US Army and was a company commander and drug counselor. (The only two places in the country that teach leadership and organizational management are the Boy Scouts and the Army)   When I’m not writing, I like to play golf (usually poorly) paint landscapes in oil or acrylics and running 5Ks.  (slower every year) .

My wife and I have traveled widely in Russia,Germany, the Caribbean, England, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Holland, Egypt, and Israel.

You can visit Bill at is website here.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Synopsis (from author’s website):

Amongst My Enemies is a fast-paced story of action and international suspense  that plumbs the depths of brotherhood, honor, a debt that can never be repaid, and one man’s revenge.   Beginning in the closing days of WW II, it deals with horde of stolen Nazi gold and art, a missing German U-boat, Russian spies, Nazi hit men, and a secret that could shatter NATO. In February 1945, two young Americans, Mike Randall and Eddie Hodge, door gunners on an American B-24, are shot down on an ill-fated bombing mission over Berlin.  Instead of a Nazi POW camp, however, they find themselves in a forced labor battalion in the frozen hell of Konigsberg in East Prussia.  With the SS inside and the rampaging Red Army outside, the old port city and everyone in it are doomed.  When Hodge dies in his arms, Randall swears he will have his revenge.  Assigned to a work detail loading mysterious crates into a German U-boat, Randall manages to hide in the hold as the SS. massacre the other laborers.  In the end, he owes his life to Eric Bruckner, the U-boat Kapitan, and perhaps the last honorable man left inGermany.  When Bruckner to set Randall free on the coast of Sweden, he pays the ultimate price when a British bomber catches him on the surface.  He and his U-boat are destroyed, leaving Randall an emotional cripple overcome by exhaustion and guilt. For the next six years, Randall remains inSweden, working as an anonymous deck hand on fishing boats, trying to forget and to heal; but it is no use.  He knows he must return to US and confess his role in Hodge’s death to his father and sister.  While there, he learns the impossible . . .  Eric Bruckner is alive!   Somehow, he survived the air attack and is now a West German Admiral in charge of NATO plans and operations, visiting east coast ports on a good will mission.  Randall hurries toNew Yorkto see him and to thank him; but when they come face to face in a Manhattan hotel lobby, he immediately sees that the Admiral is not Eric Bruckner.  He is a phony, but whose phony is he? Randall knows the truth, and he knows what he saw inside the wooden crates in that U-boat . . . a fortune in gold, stolen art and jewels, Nazi records, and a dead hero.  No one wants to believe Randall, so he returns to Sweden, to the Baltic coast, with a ragtag group consisting of Hodge’s little sister, a retired NY cop, and an old Swedish fishing captain, and two Israeli salvage experts to find that U-Boat and prove them all wrong.   Equally determined to stop him are the Soviet KGB, the Russian Navy, and the underground Nazi network of Martin Bormann and his ‘strong right arm’, Heinz Kruger. The truth lies three-hundred feet down on the bottom of the Baltic.  Some want the gold.  Some want to know the truth.  Some want to destroy it and kill everyone involved.

THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF BILL BROWN,
HE IS OFFERING , TO GIVE ONE OF MY FOLLOWERS,
THE CHANCE TO WIN AN EBOOK EDITION OF BOTH HIS BOOKS,
AMONGST MY ENEMIES AND THE UNDERTAKER.

CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE.

DISCLAIMER
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No items that I receive
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FEBRUARY 3rd to FEBRUARY 17th, 2012

AMONGST MY ENEMIES

and THE UNDERTAKER

by WILLIAM F. BROWN

SYNOPSIS: AMONGST MY ENEMIES
Amongst My Enemies is a fast-paced story of action and international suspense  that plumbs the depths of brotherhood, honor, a debt that can never be repaid, and one man’s revenge.   Beginning in the closing days of WW II, it deals with horde of stolen Nazi gold and art, a missing German U-boat, Russian spies, Nazi hit men, and a secret that could shatter NATO. In February 1945, two young Americans, Mike Randall and Eddie Hodge, door gunners on an American B-24, are shot down on an ill-fated bombing mission over Berlin.  Instead of a Nazi POW camp, however, they find themselves in a forced labor battalion in the frozen hell of Konigsberg in East Prussia.  With the SS inside and the rampaging Red Army outside, the old port city and everyone in it are doomed.  When Hodge dies in his arms, Randall swears he will have his revenge.  Assigned to a work detail loading mysterious crates into a German U-boat, Randall manages to hide in the hold as the SS. massacre the other laborers.  In the end, he owes his life to Eric Bruckner, the U-boat Kapitan, and perhaps the last honorable man left inGermany.  When Bruckner to set Randall free on the coast of Sweden, he pays the ultimate price when a British bomber catches him on the surface.  He and his U-boat are destroyed, leaving Randall an emotional cripple overcome by exhaustion and guilt. For the next six years, Randall remains inSweden, working as an anonymous deck hand on fishing boats, trying to forget and to heal; but it is no use.  He knows he must return to US and confess his role in Hodge’s death to his father and sister.  While there, he learns the impossible . . .  Eric Bruckner is alive!   Somehow, he survived the air attack and is now a West German Admiral in charge of NATO plans and operations, visiting east coast ports on a good will mission.  Randall hurries toNew Yorkto see him and to thank him; but when they come face to face in a Manhattan hotel lobby, he immediately sees that the Admiral is not Eric Bruckner.  He is a phony, but whose phony is he? Randall knows the truth, and he knows what he saw inside the wooden crates in that U-boat . . . a fortune in gold, stolen art and jewels, Nazi records, and a dead hero.  No one wants to believe Randall, so he returns to Sweden, to the Baltic coast, with a ragtag group consisting of Hodge’s little sister, a retired NY cop, and an old Swedish fishing captain, and two Israeli salvage experts to find that U-Boat and prove them all wrong.   Equally determined to stop him are the Soviet KGB, the Russian Navy, and the underground Nazi network of Martin Bormann and his ‘strong right arm’, Heinz Kruger. The truth lies three-hundred feet down on the bottom of the Baltic.  Some want the gold.  Some want to know the truth.  Some want to destroy it and kill everyone involved.
THANKS TO AUTHOR, BILL BROWN,

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*GIVEAWAY ENDS FEBRUARY 17th AT 6PM EST*

WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN BY RAFFLECOPTER AND NOTIFIED
VIA EMAIL AND WILL HAVE 48 HOURS TO RESPOND
OR ANOTHER NAME WILL BE CHOSEN

DISCLAIMER / RULES

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners via publisher,
the giveaway on behalf of the
above. 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.
I am not responsible for lost or damaged books that are shipped
from agents. I reserve the right to disqualify/delete any entries
if rules of giveaway are not followed

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Aloha Friday

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Hosted by An Island Life

From An Island Life:
In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.
 If you’d like to participate, visit An Island Life answer the question and then post your own question on your blog and leave your link below. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

QUESTION:
What book are you reading?
Answer:
Killer Bytes:  A Novella of Intrigue by Alan Williams then on to The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davey.  I signed up for a weekend Read-A-Thon so hopefully will get a lot of reading done these next couple of days.

The hosts for the wickedly wonderful weekend of reading are
Rebecca From Kindle Fire
and
April of My Shelf Confessions.

I have signed up for another Read-A-Thon starting today.  And it’s perfect timing.  I am a bit under the weather with bronchitis, so I plan to get nice and comfy with my fleece blanket, my hot coffee and read.  There is still time to join up, just click above. Good Luck to those that are participating.  I will be  checking in to see what’s going on in the neighborhood but if I don’t respond right away, I’ve gone to where my book has taken me.