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Thanks to Valerie ofHachette BooksI am giving away 5 beach bags full of books!
The books:
The Secret Speech By Tom Smith
Julie and Julia By Julie Powell
Swimsuit By James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Obama’s BlackBerry By Kasper Hauser
A Summer Affair By Elin Hilderbrand
When You Are Engulfed in Flames By David Sedaris
Any Minute By Joyce Meyer , Deborah Bedford
The Book of Lies By Brad Meltzer
Kill for Me By Karen Rose
Miscarriage of Justice By “Kip” Gayden
The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway.
1-10 entrants= 1
11-20 entrants= 2
21-30 entrants= 3
31-40 entrants=4
41 or more entrants=5
Here are the rules:
1. For one entry, leave a comment. Please be sure to include your email address (if it isn’t available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win. If I can’t find your email either in the comments or your profile, you will be disqualified!
2. For two more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.
3. For another 5 more entries: Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower five times! I will give you the extra entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.
The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address.
This giveaway will end on Friday August 14th 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn’t available in your profile! Winners must respond within three days or will be disqualified.
Copyright 2007-2010: All the posts within this blog were originally posted by Teddy Rose and should not be reproduced without express written permission.
The story of Drood is based on an unfinishednovel by Charles Dickens, “TheLast Dickens.”It is narrated by Wilkie Collins, author and friend of Charles Dickens.
The story opened on June 9, 1865 with a train accident at Staplehurst.Charles Dickens and his mistress were on the train.Dickens helped some of the other passengers and saw some die.It is also where he first set eyes on a creepy man, Drood.
Dickens becomes obsessed with Drood and with the help of laudanum addict, Wilkie Collins, they explore the dangerous underbelly of London to find him.
Let me begin by saying that this isn’t the normalgenre I read.It is historical fiction, yes but it is also horror/mystery.The reason I decided to listen to it was that it was historical fiction and based on two real classic novelists.I am attracted to historical books that have real life famous people in them as characters.
I really liked being able to experience 1860’s London, warts and all.Dan Simmons transported me there, where Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins lived and worked.It was worth the listen just for that!The British actor Simon Prebble was the narrator and did a fine job.He even made the female characters pop with a tone of voice change.
The horror part I could have really done without.It was quite gruesome and reminded me of an old B horror movie.Though, again, let me remind you that it is not my genre and so it is probably just me.I also found the endinganticlimactic.
If you like historical fiction with real famous people, this book is worthwhile.
3/5
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