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Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge Hour 16: Rereading

April 21, 2012

**UPDATE: The winner (randomly selected by random.org) of a book from The Book Depository is Melissa from The Avid Reader’s Musings. Though the prize has been awarded, please feel free to keep commenting and posting about your rereads. Happy read-a-thon-ing! Congratulations on making it to hour 16 of the read-a-thon! Here’s a mini-challenge to give [...]

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Random Book Giveaway Winners

April 15, 2012

Drum roll please. The winners of the random book giveaway are as follows: Jenny from Alternate Readality wins Witches of East End. Laura Kay from A Novel Review wins The House of Velvet and Glass. Congratulations to them, and thank you to everyone that entered.

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Random Book Giveaway

April 11, 2012

Welcome to the Random Book Giveaway. I recently received the following two unsolicited books from publishers. Unfortunately, I just won’t be able to read them any time soon, so I thought I’d pass them along. From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a [...]

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Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge Winner

April 2, 2012

The winner of my Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge is Jacinda from The Reading Housewives of Indiana. To enter, she spiffed up this review of Starters, by Lissa Price. Congratulations, Jacinda! And thank you to everyone who commented and participated in the mini-challenge. Ole!

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Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Five Ways to Spiff Up Your Book Reviews

March 29, 2012

Welcome Bloggiesta-ers! I hope you are having a productive Bloggiesta. I know I have a lot to do. Thanks to Suey and Danielle for hosting this lovely event. And now to the mini-challenge. As book bloggers, we tend to post a lot of reviews. And, I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for [...]

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Meeting Rebecca Stead (and a Giveaway)

February 7, 2012

There is nothing quite like meeting an author. While human, of course, they take on this extra-human quality as a being that wrote a book. That you read. And liked. And then they come to your town. Squee! This evening, Rebecca Stead visited one of my local libraries. My friend and book-hero, Suey at It’s [...]

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Mini-Challenge Winner

October 22, 2011

Okay, dozens of readers entered my mini-challenge on rereading! Thank you so much to everyone who entered. I’ll be working on reading and responding to all of your posts and comments in the coming days. For now, though, I’d like to announce the winner. Random.org selected Kimberly of The Bookie as the winner, so she [...]

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Read-A-Thon Hour 16 Mini-Challenge: Rereading

October 22, 2011

*UPDATE* MINI-CHALLENGE CLOSED Congratulations on making it to hour 16 of the read-a-thon! Here’s a mini-challenge to give your mind a little break. “Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book’s artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, [...]

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