This will be the second used book give away that I have done. This week it will be a little different. I will be picking a winner on 7/02/2008. This way more people have a chance to win the book. For this chance to win I would like people to tell me about their favorite book and why it is their favorite book.
I will randomly pick one winner from this list and mail them a copy of this weeks free book.
This does not take a lot of writing here is an example:
One of my favorite books of all times is The Notebook...
It is a story about true love and how it always comes back
to you if it was meant to be...
By: Nicholas Sparks
I do recommend the above mentioned book. I can not possibly part with my copy it is one I will read again and again.
This weeks free book is: Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
Here is a brief description of the book....
From Publishers Weekly
Irish by birth but a trendy New Yorker for the past eight years, Rachel Walsh learns just what it means to have too much fun in this lively drama about addiction and recovery. Rachel enjoys cocaine, alcohol and meeting men in bars, especially men wearing tight leather pants. She can match anybody's hilarious anecdotes about a Catholic childhood, but recently her life's gone awry, and God has become "more like a celestial stand-up comic" than a "benign old guy with long hair." When she wakes up in a hospital emergency room and finds she's been diagnosed as a suicidal drug addict, she's enraged. She's also broke and unemployed, and her boyfriend has abandoned her. As a final indignity, her father takes her back home and books her into Dublin's Betty Ford-like clinic, the Cloisters. Famous for a clientele of rock stars, it should be a glamorous spa, but it isn't. Quarters are spartan, clients do housework and group therapy is humiliating. It could be worse, though, and there's one good-looking fellow-inmate who might, or might not, be a lifeline post-Cloisters. This novel isn't a how-to on overcoming addiction but an examination, often comic, of treatment that is expected to result in personality changes necessary for recovery. Smart-ass Rachel actually becomes a beguiling heroine after learning to wake up and cook eggs at about the same time in the morning she used to fall into somebody's bed in New York. Clever badinage ("the only way to get over one man is get under another") unfortunately sometimes gives way to phrases like "pantie-meltingly gorgeous." The narrative is overlong, and the characters rarely speakAthey yell or shriekAbut, overall, Keyes's stylish wit keeps readers attentive, and her take on addiction is insightful and compassionate. (Aug.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --
My thoughts:
This is a book about a girl who is having a blast until she realizes that shes got a serious problem. Drugs can ruin relationships, friendships, and kill you...
This was a pretty good book list price when I bought it was 13.95 .
Good luck everyone!
Again Congrats to David Smith last weeks winner! I am hoping he received the book by now and is enjoying his copy of A Million Little Pieces...
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Amy C.
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Comments: 24
It was King's best. But another great King book is "Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"
I also enjoy all of Shakespeare's comedies.
But it is something of a " spoiled bratty party girl " in rehab book...
But Rachel is a likable character.
"The Stand" was remarkable, though. I love Dean Koontz' books, especially his more recent ones.
Most memorable book? "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein. Grok?
However my favorite book is Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. It is a tale of growing up in a small town and the changes a young boy faces. Olive Ann Burns is a wonderful author. Her words truly paint a picture on the pages of the book.