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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JANUARY linky list at

Ruthi Reads!

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.