My life as a wanna be novelist pitted against the challenges of work, family and personal reflection. I can truly be my own worst enemy. Argh!
Thought of the moment....
No matter how hard you try, you will NEVER control anyone else's attitudes, actions, or outcomes. The only person that you have the ability to directly impact is you, and it is your responsibility to learn how to do just that...to utilize the knowledge, skills, and abilities you have been given to impact the world in the most positive way that you can EVERY chance you get!
Friday, May 20, 2011
100th Post is a Contest!
Since I have made it this far in my blogging career and March was my one year bloggiversary, I think that I need to have another contest! So enough is enough. This is going to be short and sweet.
So I have a bunch of books to read because I have got some new ones and noticed that I have two copies of one. So one of you lucky participants are going to have the opportunity to win this delightful little gem. I just think that the cover is beautiful.
Goodreads blurb:
"Achingly beautiful and filled with heart-wrenchingly real characters: one of Hoffman's best." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity."Hoffman's shimmering, multigenerational melodrama bewitches with supernatural imagery while imaginatively dramatizing all-too-common heartaches." -Booklist"Alice Hoffman has written her most spellbinding, accomplished novel yet. . . . Although this is Hoffman's nineteenth book, it feels utterly fresh.Her voice-touched by the cadences of fairy tales-buoys us through the novel's saddest currents."
So all you have to do is fill out THIS FORM and I will be closing the contest on June 1st at midnight and picking a winner! Best wishes to all of you!
If you are following me and I am not following you back yet, drop me a comment and I will remedy that quickly!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
16 comments:
Congrats! It's really challenging to post around all our other obligations plus write our own novels.
Well done on 100 posts.
Thanks for the competition too. I find Alice Hoffman's books quite mixed, but haven't read this one. The blurb sounds good so I've entered!
Congrats on 100 Regina! Wishing you a few hundred more!
I'm going to leave the contest for others, because I have way too my to-reads at the moment! Really enjoy your thoughts/blog btw.
EJ
Congratulations on 100! :)
Congratulations on one hundred posts!
Congrads on 100. SWEET! Love the blurb, so I'm in. :-)
Congratulations on 100 post! The book looks very interesting! :)
Congratulations on the 100th post! The book sounds wonderful.
Not sure if I said it before, but congrats on the blogoversary - and on your 100th post now, too! :)
Wow 100 posts. Congrats!!! The books sounds great, love the part about it being her 19th book, yet it feels utterly fresh! I am entering, so thanks for the great chance to win a great book! yay you!!
ha! I've done that a time or two, especially with books that have pretty covers! Congrats on the 100th post Regina!
Congrats Regina. I have made a button for my blog sidebar for your contest. Great prize. Great blogsite :O)
Congrats on 100! And it was so nice to see your comment on my blog yesterday. I haven't seen ya around lately (my fault). But it's great to stop by and see what's going on.
I love that book cover too! Have a wonderful holiday weekend! :)
Sounds like a wonderful book! The cover is beautiful.
Sounds like a good book. Congrats on the 100th post :)
........dhole
Good job on the 1 Year Mark, but I'm more impressed with the 66 books you've read in a year! By "Impressed," I mean envious.
Post a Comment