This Book For Free

Happy new year every one! I hope everyone have a wonderful time. I had so much fun, I didn’t get back here til now. But I’ve got winners for you.

Congratulations to each and every one. Please e-mail me your addresses so I can get your books to you. Make sure to mention the book you won.

For Flirting with Forty by Jane Porter:

92. jennifer f
27. TRacy
111. Donna K
75. Rita Sheppard
17. Ann Marie Walker

For It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips:

28. Dawn Fiske

For Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips:

17. Tori
15. Lydia

1. Thanks to Miriam Parker and the Hachette Book Group for this giveaway.

2. Contest limited to USA and Canada, no PO Box addresses please. For my international readers, I have something here for you.

3. Contest opens from today until December 26, day after Christmas.

4. There will be five winners.

5. This book was also a Lifetime movie. You can check it out here.

6. Check out this book’s reviews here.

7. Read book description here:

He got the second home and the Porsche. She got the kids and a broken heart. Now Jackie, post-divorce and heading toward the big four-oh, is on vacation in sunny Hawaii and staring down her upcoming birthday-alone. But not for long. She’s soon falling for Kai, her gorgeous, much younger surf instructor, and the wild passionate fling they have becomes the biggest surprise of Jackie’s life.

Back home in Seattle, Jackie has to struggle with single parenthood…and memories of Kai. He hasn’t forgotten her. Yet thousands of miles of ocean-not to mention an age difference that feels even wider-separate them. And, of course, her friends disapprove. When a choice must be made, can she, will she risk everything for her chance at happiness?

8. Check out Jane Porter’s site here.

9. Come back and tell me what interesting thing you’ve found there.

10. You can tell me about similar books where the heroine is 40-ish.

11. Or, you can just leave a comment below about why you think you’d like to read this book.

12. For extra entry, follow Hachette group on twitter.

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13. For more extra entry, blog about this contest and leave your link below.

I missed this site. I was in a cooking frenzy days before Thanksgiving, and then I had to recover from all that eating. How was your Thanksgiving? After finally having recovered from gluttony, I fell into a reading funk where I didn’t want to do anything until I find a book that I want to read. I was petrified that I was coming to the end of my reading days. It’s like going blind. I’ve never been, but I’m afraid of not being able to do something. So, I was just here listlessly going around my books like a ghost. Then, God’s Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips came and I was back to my normal programming. Did your copy arrive? Have you started reading? I haven’t finished the book. I’m savoring it. I’m reading it aloud to my husband. While it’s true that he drops off to sleep while I’m reading it to him, it’s nothing personal. He fell asleep in Quantum Solace, Body of Lies and all other movies we’ve seen recently. Hmm. I wonder if I should have this guy checked out with his rampant sleepiness in movies.

Anyways, I’m back, and I’ve got a book for you! This is the first book that launches a most fantastic series of Chicago Stars by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. This is a book about Phoebe and Dan Calebow. It’s a book about love, about challenges and about relationship. I can’t get enough of this series. Have you read any of her books? This particular book?

Well, it doesn’t matter. This one is the newest re-release of this title and it is signed by SEP herself. To win this copy, leave a comment for this post. If you have nothing to say, tell me about your favorite romantic comedy book. If you’re not a romantic comedy fan, then tell me about the book that made you gave up sleep. That one book that you keep just so you can read the good parts any time you want to.

Then, I will add  two additional winners who will get a copy of Glitter Baby. You can listen to her radio interview here, and check out more info about this book. I actually paid 80 dollars for a copy of this book because I wanted to read it so bad. Well, now, you can read it too.

This book is coming out on December 30, 2008.

Here’s how to win this about to be release book.

Send people to leave a comment to this post. They have to mention your name so I’ll know which one sends the most. The person who sends the most people win a copy straight from amazon.com.

Then another person will win another copy from the pool of visitors that came along.

In summary, One person will win a signed copy of It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips on December 15. Then on December 24, two people will win a copy of Glitter Baby by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.

So, go comment, and send unsuspecting people here.

Contest open worldwide. To international winners, I will mail the book. However, I have three packages returned to me for not being claimed. No re-mails because postage is expensive.

My Thursday Thirteen today is about this novel.

Atonement
by Ian Mcewan, more of his other books here.
Paperback

1. This was a major motion picture starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

2. It was very good.

3. I’m wondering if you have seen this one. If not, you can borrow the movie or

4. You can win this book. It’s used, but still in good condition.

5. Just mention in your comments if you’d like a chance to win this copy.

6. I’ll mail worldwide, but I have a few packages returned to me from the Philippines. I will not re-mailed when a package is returned because it cost about 9 dollars to ship a book.

8. This might be a bit of a spoiler, but here’s a list of videos you can check: one, two 

Now, for a few random sentences from the book:

9. Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze of smoke, chin propped on her hand, pins and needles spreading up through her arm as she read her way through Richardson’s Clarrisa.

10. Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid.

11. At last her rose, half dressed and went into his study and sat at his typewriter, wondering what kind of letter he should write to her.

12. It was eerie that the man had not shouted for help, or pleaded, or protested his innocense.

13. The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achive atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is God?

Congratulations to our winners of previous Thursday Thirteen peeks:

1. Lorraine Heath’s Just Wicked Enough: Cheryl C.
2. Lorraine Heath’s In Bed With a Devil: Carrie J
3. Joanna Hershon’s Swimming: Carmen T.

Please contact me with your mailing address so I can send your book.

Make sure to enter your specific Thursday Thirteen link below, instead of just the mail blog address. Thank you.