Winners

And the winner is…….

CMash May 6, 2011 1 Comment

………for SONG OF THE SILK ROAD by Mingmei Yip

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25

Timestamp: 2011-05-06 22:07:14 UTC

Amy said… 25 I follow you on Facebook

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

Friday Memes

CMash May 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

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!

MY QUESTION:

I wish I was________

MY ANSWER:

Back in Aruba

Hosted by Jennifer from CRAZY FOR BOOKS

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list below!!
Your blog should have content related to books, including, but not limited to book reviews.

This week’s question:
“Which book blogger would you most like to meet in real life?”

My answer:
This is a hard one….it’s like asking what child do you like better? I have met so many wonderful people over this past year that I truly consider them friends that I would love to meet and spend a “girl’s weekend get away”. Too many to name, and I don’t want to hurt any person’s feelings, but you know who you are!!!!!

Friday Memes

CMash May 6, 2011 17 Comments

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!

MY QUESTION:

I wish I was________

MY ANSWER:

Back in Aruba

Hosted by Jennifer from CRAZY FOR BOOKS

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list below!!
Your blog should have content related to books, including, but not limited to book reviews.

This week’s question:
“Which book blogger would you most like to meet in real life?”

My answer:
This is a hard one….it’s like asking what child do you like better? I have met so many wonderful people over this past year that I truly consider them friends that I would love to meet and spend a “girl’s weekend get away”. Too many to name, and I don’t want to hurt any person’s feelings, but you know who you are!!!!!

Thursday Memes

CMash May 5, 2011 Leave a Comment

Hi everyone!!!! I’m back from vacation and missed each and everyone of you. We had a WONDERFUL time and both hubby and I wished we had planned a longer stay because the week flew by. I have so much to tell you. We took some beautiful pictures of the island and will share them in a couple of days. We got in very early this morning so today’s plans are to get settled, unpack, laundry, catch up on both email and snail mail and another huge task, especially for me.

As you all know, I am computer challenged, and I mentioned that my very special hubby was dropping my laptop off the day before leaving for vacation to the Geek Squad to do an overhaul……..well……they ran a diagnostic test when he was there and the news was not good. I had fried it!!!! So…..he purchased a new one for me and supposedly the Geek Squad was going to transfer all my files to the new laptop and Steve will be picking it up today……so I will be spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out the new one.

As for Aruba…paradise. The weather gorgeous..between 88-92 every day. I am multi colored between burnt, burn on burn, tanned. Loved those frozen pina coladas and frozen banana daiquiris!!! Met 2 fun couples on the beach and hung out with them every day, matter of fact, we are all going to try and plan to go back the same week next year. One night we took a sunset 2 hour sunset cruise, which Steve was able to take some absolutely beautiful pictures and video of the sun setting. And for the big question……….NO…I was unable to convert Steve into a reader. He never even took the Kindle out of the luggage. I did get some reading in…read 1 and 3/4 books, but we were having so much fun, my plans for beach, reading and frozen drinks changed after the 2nd day there. By Saturday it was beach, frozen banana daiquiris, a little bit of reading lol.

Will share more in the coming days, including pictures but for now, am going to start catching up.

Have one favor to ask, would love to hear what you have been doing this past week. What you have read? What you have been doing? Any news with you that I may have missed? Anything that you would like to share with me to bring me up to speed? Would love to hear…being away for a week I feel like I missed so much.

This is a palapa, which everyday at 4pm, guests at the Radisson, where we stayed, would reserve one for the next day. It is a necessity being so close to the equator and the sun so strong that after 15 minutes or so in the sun, you have to put your lounge chair under it for shade,

Thursday Memes

CMash May 5, 2011 7 Comments

Hi everyone!!!! I’m back from vacation and missed each and everyone of you. We had a WONDERFUL time and both hubby and I wished we had planned a longer stay because the week flew by. I have so much to tell you. We took some beautiful pictures of the island and will share them in a couple of days. We got in very early this morning so today’s plans are to get settled, unpack, laundry, catch up on both email and snail mail and another huge task, especially for me.

As you all know, I am computer challenged, and I mentioned that my very special hubby was dropping my laptop off the day before leaving for vacation to the Geek Squad to do an overhaul……..well……they ran a diagnostic test when he was there and the news was not good. I had fried it!!!! So…..he purchased a new one for me and supposedly the Geek Squad was going to transfer all my files to the new laptop and Steve will be picking it up today……so I will be spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out the new one.

As for Aruba…paradise. The weather gorgeous..between 88-92 every day. I am multi colored between burnt, burn on burn, tanned. Loved those frozen pina coladas and frozen banana daiquiris!!! Met 2 fun couples on the beach and hung out with them every day, matter of fact, we are all going to try and plan to go back the same week next year. One night we took a sunset 2 hour sunset cruise, which Steve was able to take some absolutely beautiful pictures and video of the sun setting. And for the big question……….NO…I was unable to convert Steve into a reader. He never even took the Kindle out of the luggage. I did get some reading in…read 1 and 3/4 books, but we were having so much fun, my plans for beach, reading and frozen drinks changed after the 2nd day there. By Saturday it was beach, frozen banana daiquiris, a little bit of reading lol.

Will share more in the coming days, including pictures but for now, am going to start catching up.

Have one favor to ask, would love to hear what you have been doing this past week. What you have read? What you have been doing? Any news with you that I may have missed? Anything that you would like to share with me to bring me up to speed? Would love to hear…being away for a week I feel like I missed so much.

This is a palapa, which everyday at 4pm, guests at the Radisson, where we stayed, would reserve one for the next day. It is a necessity being so close to the equator and the sun so strong that after 15 minutes or so in the sun, you have to put your lounge chair under it for shade,

W.W.W. Wednesdays

CMash May 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

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?

W.W.W. Wednesdays

CMash May 4, 2011 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?

Teaser Tuesday

CMash May 3, 2011 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!

“In your own words, I’d like you to tell me why you think the Campsite Killer is your biological father and the details of the phone calls you received recently.” Her serious tone made me even more nervous and my heart sped up.