Tuesday Tidbit: Virtual Book Swap & Giveaway
This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who visited and commented. 🙂 Amber Lin will win the book of her choice; Amber, I’ll contact you by email about claiming your prize.
So … I have no idea if this will work, but I had the idea and I thought it might be fun. (Also, this is going up a day early, because, yeah, so technically it’s a Monday Tidbit, but that doesn’t sound that good.)
This is a virtual book swap. In the comments, tell me about a book (available as an ebook, please) you’ve LOVED in the last week (there’s some slack here, but it should be recent). Tell me title, author, genre/subgenre, and a quick synopsis, and a sentence about WHY you liked it so much.
I’ll draw one random commenter who can pick among any of the books mentioned in the comments.
You must be 18+ to enter, and the winner must be located somewhere I can gift an ebook from Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Requested ebook must cost <$10, and I reserve the right to refuse to gift the chosen book on any grounds I choose (this is *highly* unlikely, but I figured I’d mention it). You may enter more than once, but each entry must be its own separate book and its own separate comment. Limit 5 entries per person. You can’t choose an entry you wrote yourself. You can’t comment on a book you’ve written or stand to realize financial gain from. If I’ve forgotten any rules whose absence will result in my misery or financial ruin, I reserve the right to add them after the fact. Contest ends Thursday April 24, 11:59 p.m.
April 21, 2014 @ 11:00 am
I’m just a few pages away from finishing Sally Eggert’s In the Dark, and I’m crazy about it. In the Dark is billed as “Loveswept Romantic Suspense,” although it’s almost more suspense-flavored contemporary, which totally works for me. What I liked most about it is that it’s got a close, intense, emotional feel–it’s incredibly character-driven and although the plot is very tight, it never got in the way of the romance.
April 22, 2014 @ 7:25 am
Wait, we’re not going to actually swap! I want to swap, LOL. Okay, the most recent book I read–well, not the one I read most recently but the one that was published most recently, is Midnight Pursuits by Elle Kennedy. It’s romantic suspense with an assassin heroine, an older woman younger man, and a “boy scout” ex-military hero. If you like romantic suspense, I recommend this whole series. She’s got an excellent blend of suspense and romance and sex.
April 24, 2014 @ 1:31 pm
I’ve been in a fiction reading slump, but a nonfiction book that blew my mind was The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer. It presents the scientific evidence supporting a diet of eating normally 5 days per week and fasting 2 nonconsecutive days per week (500 calories for women, 600 for men). I was raised in a culture* where mothers constantly tell their children to eat eat eat, no matter how old their children are. The FastDiet book helped me feel justified in that I don’t need to eat all the time and it’s fine for me not to eat when I don’t feel hungry.
*Stereotypical examples include Jewish, Italian, Chinese . . . any others?
April 25, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who visited and commented. 🙂 Amber Lin will win the book of her choice; Amber, I’ll contact you by email about claiming your prize.