I really enjoyed Alan Gratz’s Something Wicked, which I read as part of a book blog tour. I love projects that connect me with other great book bloggers, so I hope you will check out all the other participating blogs! the 160acrewoods, A Christian Worldview of Fiction, All About Children’s Books, Becky’s Book Reviews, Book Review Maniac, Cafe of Dreams, Dolce Bellezza, Hyperbole, KidzBookBuzz.com, Looking Glass Reviews, Maggie Reads, Never Jam Today
If you were intrigued by yesterday’s review of Something Wicked by Alan Gratz, you can read his previous book,
I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek of The Bible Illuminated, an ambitious new edition of the Good News Bible translation of the New Testament. It’s filled with powerful images drawn from contemporary life, and it seems that the goal is to draw awareness of social justice issues, as the presence of portraits of Bono and Angelina Jolie would imply. The book of the Revelation is illustrated with images of toxic waste and environmental destruction that certainly make one long for the new…
I posted the contest winner a few days ago but Tanya, whose number came up, has not yet contacted me. So I played Random Integer Generator again and came up with #6 (Yan). Since neither Tanya nor Yan gave email addresses, I have no way of getting in touch with them, so I spun again and got Tara in post #3. The first one of these three people who contacts me gets the book.
Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 12 Timestamp: 2008-10-18 12:58:04 UTC Tanya in post #12, please email me your address (superfastreader -at- gmail -dot- com) and I will send out your copy!
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Read my rave review of The Shape of Mercy, and leave a comment below to enter a drawing for a free copy. I can only afford to send within the US right now, so sorry to my beloved international reader friends. Contest closes on Friday, 10/17 at 11:59EST. Thanks so much to the good folks at WaterBrook!
A sweet young man with a big smile who looked up to his roommate like an older brother. I remember celebrating his birthday at Serafina and dressing up for Halloween for a rooftop party on the pther side of Bleecker Street. He had trouble getting to work on time, but that day he decided to turn over a new leaf, and that meant he got to Cantor Fitgerald at just the wrong time. I stopped and looked at the tiles on the corner of 7th…
I missed the boat on reviewing this book in advance like I hoped, but please check out Water Keep, a new YA fantasy series set in Farworld. And if you live in in Austin, TX, check this out: I also wanted to mention that I will be having a release party at the Spanish Fork, UT library on Saturday, September 13th from 12-3. We’ll be having free food, free posters, drawings, and all that good stuff. And 20% of the proceeds will go to the…
If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) No … it’s because you want to know what happens next? Oh yeah, this is totally me. Story trumps all. I wouldn’t give two figs for diamond sharp prose and stellar ideas without a…