WoW Weekly 100 Words 12.29.2010

WoW! This will be the last week of 2010 posting. 2011 is soon to arrive. Happy New Year! 

Hop along on the WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS with me! Once you've created your post on your own blog, return here to ADD your WoW 100 post URL to the Linky list for this week and I'll be reading you!

I'm happy to say that this week I have finished reading two books:

Write Ways to Win Writing Contests by John Howard Reid
Son of My Soul: The Adoption of Christopher by Debra Shiveley Welch





So, later this week I'll be posting my reviews of both books. Lord willing and the creek don't rise. (As my Grandma used to say whenever someone said they were going to do something.)
 

Today, for WoW Weekly 100 Words, using The Word Count Tool, I'll share with you 100 words from the book I've just begun reading--The Capablance Variation, a novel by Douglas Quinn. From page 3:
 

"Maybe she should have told her dad about it, but after Mark had first confronted her about her brother, she'd tracked down Theo on her own. She hadn't wanted to bring her dad into it. He'd almost been arrested once, himself, after shucking-and-jiving the U.S. State Department and, as they called it, interfering in government national security business. National Security! The catchall excuse for whatever the government wanted to get away with. Jennie laughed at her own thought. She had become as cynical as her father. But public opinion and the news-show talking heads had kept the government off..."
 
 

WoW Weekly 100 Words 12/22/2010

Again, this past week hasn't allowed for much reading time, so I've concentrated on only one book and I'm almost finished with this book of life and love.

Today, for WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS, I'll share from Son of My Soul: The Adoption of Christopher by author Debra Shiveley Welch, from Chapter 18:

     "Now," he said, "is the time to get Christopher into a pre-school for language-delayed children. I have a few places for you to look in to, but he must get in as quickly as possible. We have to keep those synapses firing and get him involved in language immediately. "They will teach him sign language, which will help with his communication skills until he begins to talk again."

     "Pre-school?" I mumbled. I wasn't ready for you to go to school. I had counted on at least four years with you alone before you had to go to school. Nevertheless, remembering..."



NOTES: I was offered this book title by the author through Reviews4Reviews.com, where I am a registered book Reviewer. Also, I have been graced with meeting this author and her son face-to-face! I'll soon finish this reading and post my official review.

And there you have it, my WoW reading share for this week! I can't wait to discover what words you have to share from the book(s) you're reading!

Hop along on the WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS with me! Once you've created your post on your own blog, return here to ADD your WoW 100 post URL to the Linky list for this week and I'll be reading you!

B-Y-G-B January Linky List

Good grief, this is a post for the new year which is soon to be here--yipes!

Welcome to B-Y-G-B!

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Authors, gain exposure for your own book giveaways! Bloggers, gain exposure to your book giveaways! Readers and book reviewers are always looking for new books. I know I am always looking for new books to read and review. And I'm delighted to say that I won SIX books this past month, TWO of them from book giveaways on December's B-Y-G-B linky list!

This list is for BOOK GIVEAWAYS ONLY! If you are hosting a book giveaway on your blog or website, feel free to submit to this list. Please submit the BOOK TITLE, BOOK GIVEAWAY POST LINK/URL, and END DATE of the book giveaway.

Please remember: This list is for book giveaways that END in JANUARY. There is a separate post for book giveaways for each month.

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Book Blogger Hop 6

The Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Crazy-for-Books.com, connects book bloggers and readers together, linking blogs with a Linky list. It's a great way to meet and greet fellow book bloggers. Each week there's a member-provided question to answer and post to your blog. Here is this week's Book Blogger Hop question, provided by Alex and my answer:



"What do you consider the most important in a story: the plot or the characters?"

For me, it is the combination of both plot and character that is important to the story I'm reading. The characters need to be believable--or unbelievable--whichever the plot requires them need be! There's nothing ruins what could be a great story than characters who seem to just plod along or well-defined characters to a poorly played-out plot. One should clearly enhance the other in order to eliminate ennui with the book in hand.

WoW Weekly 100 Words 12/15/2010

The hustle and bustle of this past week's ToDo's hasn't allowed for much reading time, so I've concentrated on only one book this week.

Today, for WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS, I'll share from Son of My Soul: The Adoption of Christopher by Debra Shiveley Welch, from Chapter 6:

     "I recalled those halcyon days on the farm and the long stretches of time when I was happy. That is how it should be. A child should be allowed to be a child and to be free to learn, to play, to dream!

     I decided then, that night, that I would never give birth! I did not want the blood of my tormentors flowing through the veins of my child! My father was more of a mystery than a true father. He had visited only a few times, and had usually shown up drunk. Obviously, drink was more important to..."


NOTES: I was offered this book title by the author through Reviews4Reviews.com, where I am a registered book Reviewer. I'll soon finish this reading and post my official review.

And there you have it, my WoW reading share for this week! I can't wait to discover what words you have to share from the book(s) you're reading!



Hop along on the WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS with me! Once you've created your post on your own blog, return here to ADD your WoW 100 post URL to the Linky list for this week and I'll be reading you!

WoW Winner of Forever Becoming Book Giveaway...

WoW! We have a Winner!

I'm delighted to announce the winner of my first WoW Words of Writers Book Giveaway! WoW winner of a signed copy of Forever Becoming by literary author Kasey Klein is...

Congratulations Renda!

I'll be notifying you via personal email, also. Please be sure to contact the author, Kasey Klein, with your mailing address to receive your signed copy of Forever Becoming. I've no doubt you will enJOY this beauty of a book...

Renda, I thank you for your participation in this WoW Words of Writers book giveaway!

And Kasey, I thank you for your generousity and participation, too! And I certainly hope we pair up again with another WoW book giveaway soon!

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Book Blogger Hop 5

The Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Crazy-for-Books.com, connects book bloggers and readers together, linking blogs with a Linky list. It's a great way to meet and greet fellow book bloggers. The Hop runs each week from Friday to Monday, although it isn't mandatory to participate each week. To encourage participation, there's a weekly member-provided question to answer and post to your blog. Here is this week's Book Blogger Hop question, provided by Angela and my answer:


"What is the thing you like most about reading book blogs? Is it the reviews, author guest posts, articles, giveaways, or something else entirely?"


Being one with an eclectic mindset, I like everything on the book blogs! Especially the Book Blogger Hop!

The book reviews and author interviews would be my favorites. But, of course, I do enJOY the book giveaways, too; love new reading material on my bookshelf. I enJOY the articles also, especially those that pertain to publishing issues, especially self-publishing.

I find it interesting to mingle with others who share their thoughts on what they're reading and why. It's like mingling at a party held at a library ...smiles...

***Now, for a bit of shameless self-promotion hopping your way***

I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my own newly-created wednesday hop and hope all of you book bloggers and readers will join the fun and help spread the word: WoW Weekly 100 Words

WoW Wednesday! Weekly 100 Words 12/08/2010

It's time for my WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS! On Wednesdays, I hope you'll be hopping along with me!

Today, I'll be sharing with you exactly 100 words from books I'm currently reading!

Book 1: Son of My Soul: The Adoption of Christopher by Debra Shiveley Welch, from Chapter 3:

     "I could hardly breathe. The ache within me was so profound, so all consuming, that there was no room for air, no room for hope, no room fo anything but this increible pain. I wanted my mother! I wanted her so badly that the weight of it almost crushed me. I sat there, cradled in the crotch of the tree, and cried. I wept until I could weep no more, until there was nothing left inside of me to release.
     Why would I long for someone who neglected me so horribly? What was it within me that made me crave.."

Book 2: ChristmaSin' by Ed Williams, 100 words from page 34:

     "We both laugh, and I take the opportunity to lean over and give Jenny a little smooch. She has to be the greatest kisser of all time, so anytime I can slip one away from her it's a true blessing. I even tell her after the smooch how thankful I am to get it, and Jenny laughs and says that I am in the perfect place to be giving thanks. I have to agree with her on that one, which starts me to thinking and then talking to her about a Christmas Eve experience we had at our house a..."

Book 3: Write Ways to WIN WRITING CONTESTS by John Howard Reid, 100 words from page 73:

     "Frankly, I'm a firm believer that mystery or detective stories should be written in the first person, in order to play fair with the reader. But otherwise your choice of a narrative point of view depends on what you think is the best way to tell the story with maximum impact.
     I'm often asked at writers' conferences and so-called "manuscript clinicx", how many characters are ideal for a short story? The conventional wisdom holds that you need only as many characters as the story demands. This doesn't tell us much. But obviously one hundred characters is far too many for..."


Notes: I won ChristmasSin' in a gather.com author chat and will soon be writing a review for this delightful book.

As for Son of My Soul and Write Ways, I was offered these book titles by the authors through Reviews4Reviews.com, where I am a registered book Reviewer.

Well, there you have it, my WoW reading share for this week! I can't wait to discover what words you have to share from the book(s) you're reading!

So, hop along on the WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS with me. Once you've created your post on your own blog, return here to ADD your post URL to the Linky list for this week and I'll be reading you!

Book Blogger Hop 4

Hoppin' right along for another week of the Book Blogger Hop challenge, hosted by Crazy-for-Books.com. I hope you hop on over there for all the Hop details and if you're a book blogger, hop along with us!

The Book Blogger Hop connects book bloggers and readers together, linking blogs with a Linky list. It's a great way to meet and greet fellow book bloggers. The Hop runs each week from Friday to Monday, although it isn't mandatory to participate each week. To encourage participation, there's a weekly member-provided question to answer and post to your blog. Here is this week's Book Blogger Hop question, provided by Marce and my answer:

"What very popular and hyped book in the blogosphere did you NOT enjoy and how did you feel about posting your review?"

I rarely succumb to hype or popularity in any category and especially not with books; my choice of reading material is my own and I don't mind at all sharing what I think of a book within my book review; I write honest, though sensitive reviews. Only occasionally have I mentioned something negative in a book review and even then it was done in a creative manner or because it was something I wanted the author to know, as well as the reader.

My book reviews tend to be creative writing of my own, written as to the mood or feeling the author created in me while reading the book. I rarely give a personal commentary with my book reviews, other than in my telling of the book's story. I guess this means that most of my book reviews make the books sound wonderfully written--a fact which I believe to be true of most books.


***Now, for a bit of shameless self-promotion hopping your way***

I'd like to take this opportunity to plug my own newly-created hop and hope all you book bloggers and readers will join the fun and help spread the word: WoW Weekly 100 Words

WoW Weekly 100 Words 12/02/2010

Here I am with my first post to launch my book hop:

WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS

Today, I'll be sharing with you exactly 100 words from books I'm currently reading!

Book 1: ChristmaSin' by Ed Williams, 100 words from page 34:

     "Christmas can be special wherever you are, whether you're at home or at some other place, even if that place is somewhere far, far away from Juliette. Like a foreign country. And that's what I'm gonna tell ya'all about, a Christmas that I spent over in a foreign land..."
     I already figure from that alone that this would have something to do with Korea. You see, Ed Jr. served in the Korean War for about fifteen months in 1951-1952, and it's the only time he's ever departed from the United States. Hell, from what I can tell, it's one of...

Book 2: Write Ways to WIN WRITING CONTESTS by John Howard Reid, 100 words from page 61:

     The theme must appeal to the judge. It must be on his/her wavelength. If the judge is a lady, don't bother sending in your great story about professional wrestling or the annual re-union of Vietnam Vets.
     If there is even a slight suggestion that winning entries will be considered for publication, steer clear of Adults Only themes. Remember, all publishers like their books to be displayed and sold by book retailers far and wide. They don't like them to be hidden under the counter or lost from sight in the darkest corner of the store. They prefer them to...

Book 3: Mexican Autumn by John Howard Reid, page 47:

     Esmerelda Quinones had but one burning ambition in life--to leave Bahia de los Angeles as fast as possible. Her popular elder brother, Daniel, had already made the break and was now living frugally in San Felipe. But he intended to come back. Carefully saving up the pesos he earned from a multitude of odd jobs, Daniel's every desire revolved around returning to los Angeles and marrying his childhood sweetheart, Luisa Sanchez.
     For Esmerelda, however, that sort of life most definitely held no appeal. Once she made the break, she would never return--she'd make sure of that. She'd have money to...

Notes: I won ChristmasSin' in a gather.com author chat! I will soon be writing a review for this delightful book. You can learn a bit more about this book on my post: Summer Reading

As for Books 2 and 3, both by John Howard Reid, I was offered these book titles by the author through Reviews4Reviews.com, where I am a registered book Reviewer.

Well, there you have it, my first WoW reading share! I can't wait to discover what words you have to share from the book(s) you're reading!

So, hop along on the WoW WEEKLY 100 WORDS with me. Once you've created your post on your own blog, return here to comment and add your post URL to the Linky list for this week and I'll be reading you!

Submitted 12/05/2010
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