One Book A Week, Week Three
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lagilmanLast week's winner: 
cgbookcat1
The Fine Print, in normal-sized print:
Summer, everyone knows, is for reading. Well, so are Winter, Autumn and Spring, but especially Summer.
So every week, from here through the end of August, I'm going to be giving away a book*. Some of them may be mine, some of them may be by other people. They may be just-out, or entry-points to an on-going series. It will be a totally random and whimsical choice, to keep things interesting.
How do you get in on this? Simple: you comment here on why you need something new to read. Vacation? Stuck in bed with a bad cold? Totally out of book-buying funds? Captured by aliens who insist on a new story every night or they'll eat you?
Tell me.
(you can enter every week, but only once every week. And you MUST identify yourself in your post, either via log-in or a name and contact point. I'm not going to choose anyone who doesn't identify**.)
Ready? Go.
Third Book: NIGHTSHIFTED by Cassie Alexander
Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond...
Edie’s just trying to get through her latest shift unscathed. But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this
I'm currently reading this, and enjoying it. A solid debut, and great summer reading.
*yes, a real, actual, PAPER book.
**the post will 'open' on Monday, and 'close' on Friday. Winners will be chosen over the weekend, and informed the following Monday
cgbookcat1The Fine Print, in normal-sized print:
Summer, everyone knows, is for reading. Well, so are Winter, Autumn and Spring, but especially Summer.
So every week, from here through the end of August, I'm going to be giving away a book*. Some of them may be mine, some of them may be by other people. They may be just-out, or entry-points to an on-going series. It will be a totally random and whimsical choice, to keep things interesting.
How do you get in on this? Simple: you comment here on why you need something new to read. Vacation? Stuck in bed with a bad cold? Totally out of book-buying funds? Captured by aliens who insist on a new story every night or they'll eat you?
Tell me.
(you can enter every week, but only once every week. And you MUST identify yourself in your post, either via log-in or a name and contact point. I'm not going to choose anyone who doesn't identify**.)
Ready? Go.
Third Book: NIGHTSHIFTED by Cassie Alexander
Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond...
Edie’s just trying to get through her latest shift unscathed. But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this
I'm currently reading this, and enjoying it. A solid debut, and great summer reading.
*yes, a real, actual, PAPER book.
**the post will 'open' on Monday, and 'close' on Friday. Winners will be chosen over the weekend, and informed the following Monday
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Date: 2012-07-16 12:47 pm (UTC)Why do I need it?
I just finished moving from a two-bedroom apartment to my new one-bedroom apartment. (For various definitions of 'moving' that include 'surrounded by boxes' and 'what was I thinking?') I could just a little summer reading to get me through the angst of arranging & rearranging my belongings. (I've never seen kitchen cupboards with so little clearance. My olive oil bottles don't fit!)
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Date: 2012-07-16 01:06 pm (UTC)As to why I need it, my personal and professional life are on a serious downward spiral, and I could really use a pick-me-up. Zombie say "pick-me-up" don't they?
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Date: 2012-07-16 01:58 pm (UTC)I need it since I am in a reading slump. I feel meh about everything I read. :(.
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Date: 2012-07-16 03:47 pm (UTC)I need books because I am a broke grad student who is going crazy looking at the same things over and over while trying to finish her thesis, find a new apartment, and hopefully get hired to do something.
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Date: 2012-07-18 02:47 am (UTC)I need this book because it's been decades since I read a new nurse mystery, and my Mom the nurse and science fiction fan can borrow it when I'm done.
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Date: 2012-07-18 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 04:35 pm (UTC)Twitter ID: @MontananSky
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Date: 2012-07-20 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-30 04:10 pm (UTC)I can't claim a serious need to win here; our local library is tiny, but it's part of a decent library system. I'm taking the books Laura Anne is offering as to-read titles.