What better day then today to post my new giveaway?T here will be no practical jokes here, just a great giveaway!
Hachette has sent me some great books to review and giveaway. 5 lucky readers will each win these books. Here's what's up for grabs...
On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption.
Sarah Walters, the narrator of GIRLS IN TRUCKS, is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has always felt ill-fitted to the rococo ways of Southern womanhood and family, and is anxious to shake the bonds of her youth. Still, she follows the traditional path laid out for her. This is Charleston, and in this beautiful, dark, segregated town, established rules and manners mean everything.But as Sarah grows older, she finds that her Camellia lessons fail her, particularly as she goes to college, moves North, and navigates love and life in New York. There, Sarah and her group of displaced deb sisters try to define themselves within the realities of modern life. Heartbreak, addiction, disappointing jobs and death fail to live up to the hazy, happy future promised to them by their Camellia mothers and sisters.
When some unexpected bumps in the road--an unplanned birth, a family death--lead Sarah back home, she's forced to take another long look at the fading empire of her youth. It takes a strange turn of events to finally ground Sarah enough to make some serious choices. And only then does she realize that as much as she tried to deny it, where she comes from will always affect where she ends up. The motto of her girlhood cotillion society, "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia," may turn out to have more wisdom and pull to it than she ever could have guessed.
I tried to get to 100 comments on my 100th post, and although we got close, we didn't make it. So, I'm going to try something else to get the comments up there! When we go OVER 100 comments, 1 random person will win the following books + 2 surprise books from my personal stash!
How do you enter? Just leave me a comment telling me why you like or don't like April Fool's Day. You can earn extra entries by doing any of the following:
- Follow my blog either in Blogger or a reader +1 entry
- Tweet about this contest and leave me the link to your tweet +2 entries
- Blog about this contest +3 entries
- Send someone new to my blog to enter the contest and have them tell me you sent them +3 entries
