Thanks to Tracee Gleichner at Pump Up Your Book Promotion for the opportunity to read and review this book! A Jolly Good Fellow Stephen V. Masse Good Harbor Press, 2007 (paperback) (ISBN 097996380X / 9780979963803) Fiction, 220 pages First sentence: He’s out there hitchhiking. Book description: Two weeks before Christmas, Duncan Wagner gets into his car for another attempt at kidnapping the son of his most despised enemy, State Representative Win Booker. When he drives […]
For this weekend’s Assignment, Karen said: It’s been a mindboggling year in many ways, and not all of it has been good news. Let’s focus on the personal and the positive, shall we?Weekend Assignment #246: A strange and sometimes difficult year is drawing to a close. Tell us about something that happened this year that was a pleasant surprise for you personally.Extra Credit: Are you looking forward to the new year? This year will be […]
Thanks to everyone who entered one (or more) of my giveaways! I selected the winner of each giveaway separately, using a sequence generated by Random.org. Here are the details: Giveaway #1: New Parents Pack (estimated value $25) This package consists of: 2 packages of disposable nursing bra pads (8 total) from Medela A Crash Course for New Dads book from DadsAdventure.com A sample of Baby Silk sunscreen towelettes, developed by MD Moms Random.org selected #4. […]
Bulletin Board ***** Did you know that there’s a biweekly Book Review Blog Carnival that’s been going on since September? Apparently, I have been under a rock, but in case any of y’all have been there too, now we all know. The carnival runs every other Sunday, and the deadline for submissions to the host is the day before. The next edition will go up on Sunday, December 21, hosted by Maw Books Blog – […]
Tuesday Thingers – questions for LibraryThing users from The Boston Bibliophile Most of us book bloggers like to write book reviews- if we don’t love to write book reviews- but here’s today’s question. When it comes to LT (and your blog), do you review every book you read? Do you just review Early Reviewers or ARCs? Do you review only if you like a book, or only if you feel like you have to? How […]
Please welcome Karen Harrington to The 3 R’s today, with a special message for Moms Who Write! Karen is a Texas native who has been writing fiction for more than twenty years. Her writing has received honors from the Hemingway Short Story Festival, the Texas Film Institute Screenplay Contest and the Writers’ Digest National Script Contest. A graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, she has worked as a speechwriter and editor for major […]
Weekend Assignment #245: Some holiday traditions continue from generation to generation, some fall by the wayside, and some new ones arise as we strike out on our own, form new families and adapt to changes in culture and technology. How traditional are your holiday traditions, compared to decades past? Extra Credit: What is your most unusual holiday tradition? This year, a 24-year-old tradition is ending; I will not be spending Christmas with my son. Chris […]
I recently put my blog through some analysis, having gotten a couple of referrals from Madame Meow of A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm! If this MBTI result from TypeAlyzer is to be believed, you would be quite right if, upon meeting me in person, I wasn’t quite what you expected. My blog seems to be expressing some facets of my personality that don’t get out much: ESFP – The Performers The entertaining and friendly […]
My husband and I got into a little debate over this week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Favorite Holiday Songs.“ HIM: “You know they mean Christmas songs. Who even knows ten songs for Hanukkah?” ME: “Well, there are the popular, secular songs that some people don’t really consider to be about Christmas – they’re about Santa Claus, or winter…and then there are the traditional church songs and carols about Jesus’ birth. They’re two very different […]
Thanks to Lisa Munley of TLC Book Tours for offering me the chance to read and review this book! Keeping Kids Out of the Middle: Child-Centered Parenting in the Midst of Confiict, Separation, and Divorce Benjamin Garber, Ph.D HCI Publications, 2008 (ISBN 0757307116 / 978-0757307119) Nonfiction: Health/Relationships, 292 pages Book description (via TLC Book Tours website – summarized): When co-parents conflict, their kids get caught in the middle. They become “adultified,” infantilized, and alienated. They’re […]
Earlier this week, Becky suggested: I was thinking that it might be nice for those bloggers who are Weekly Geeks to pay tribute to Dewey in the next week or so. To take the time to post to their blogs a “Weekly Geek” post about Dewey–maybe share their favorite posts from her site, maybe share a memory or two about participating in weekly geeks, the bookworms carnival, the 24 Hour Readathon, or one of Dewey’s […]
Bulletin Board **** Have you entered any of my FOUR giveaways yet? Find out more here! They’re open until next Friday (December 12), and you may enter any or all. **** Give the gift of comments during Delurking December! (Thanks to Kylee for the heads-up!) **** Speaking of December, I’m sad that apparently there won’t be a Cavalcade of Bad Nativities this year, but if you missed out on last year’s, you really need to […]
