Daily Archives: May 1, 2010

May Giveaway – Help me choose!

Posted on May 1, 2010
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Sheila from One Person’s Journey through a World of Books inspired this idea – she is trying to get to reading the beautiful bounty of books she picked up at a library sale.. me, I’d like to get through my massive TBR list!

So here’s my giveaway idea:  this is my TBR list on GoodReads.  It’s huge, it’s scary and frankly.. I’m intimidated by it.  However, I want to read some of these books!  I do an okay job knocking a few out a month but I thought this time I’d give you folks the opportunity to help me knock them out.

So what do you get out of this? Look through it, see it there is a book that interests you (hey, I told you this would be a little bit of work for you!).  Suggest it to me via the form on this page.  If your book gets chosen by the random.org generator then I will not only read the book but I will provide you a copy to read along with me!

This giveaway will end on May 15, 2010 so get your suggestions in!

(Bonus! If you are a follower you may suggest TWO titles and I will read both books and you can choose between the two which one you would like.)

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Winners!

Posted on May 1, 2010
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Winner #1 for A.S. Peterson’s The Fiddler’s Gun is #6 – Hannah Faith!

The winning entry is:

Pirate all the way! As a lover of all things literary how can I not appreciate the joy of pirate linguistics.

(and I’ll admit – I’m addicted to the online game Puzzle Pirates, so I’m a bit biased… Haha)

Please send me an email Hannah (I did not get yours on the comment) and I’ll get your shipping information from you!

1st place winner for the Blogmania Wishlist prize is #57 – Desiree!

The winning entry is:

I really enjoyed Buried Alive by Roy Hallums

Watch for your email this weekend, Desiree!

2nd place winner for the Blogmania 2010 Reads Prize is #171 – Teresa Young!

The winning entry is:

Hi! The best book I’ve read this year (so far) is A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow.

tmyoung at rochester dot rr dot com

Watch for your email this weekend, Teresa!

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The Good Son by Russel D. McLean

Posted on May 1, 2010
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The Good Son The Good Son by Russel D. McLean

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J. McNee, P.I. is a man with demons of his own, and when the opportunity arises to investigate an apparent suicide at the request of the deceased’s brother, he takes it and finds himself in for a world of hurt.

This book was certainly a quick read. It was barely 200 pages long and packed with action and dialogue. It was very “noir”, I could almost year the raspy voice narrating the story and picture everything in black and white. The language was pretty foul, especially towards the end and the mystery itself was pretty straight-forward – with a nice twist at the end.

What I did not like much about the book was that, try as I might, I just couldn’t feel anything for any of the characters – and when you have characters getting hurt in a book, one would hope that your audience would feel some kind of connection to them. I felt as if I was held at arms length through the story and, when trying to figure out just what was McNee’s story, I felt as if I was banging my head against a brick wall. (I still don’t quite understand what happened, anyone care to enlighten me?)

If you are into mysteries and suspense, this certainly is a worthy read and I don’t regret having spent a few hours of my time reading it.

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