Carol's Notebook

Congratulations to the winners of the audiobook, Any Minute by Joyce Meyer. chey Esme Sara M I'll be e-mailing all the winners shortly. I just need your mailing addresses to pass on to Hachette. I hope you all enjoy the book....

I thought I’d let you know some of the giveaways I ran across this week. As always, my current giveaways are listed on my sidebar and make sure you check out West of Mars- Win a Book!, where there's always a ton of links to great contests, interviews and guest posts. Blue Like Play Dough by Tricia Goyer, at EnRoute to Life (ends August 8, US and Canada) Song of Renewal by Emily Sue Harvey, at Peeking Between the Pages (ends August 8, international) The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst, at Diary of an Eccentric (ends August 9, international) American Lion by Jon Meacham, at Bermudaonion's Weblog (ends August 9, international) Dying for Mercy by Mary Jane Clark, at Lori's Reading Corner (ends August 10, US) The Imposter's Daughter by Laurie Sandell, at Bookfoolery and Babble (ends August 12, US and Canada, no PO boxes) In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant, at historical-fiction.com (ends August 12, international) Nurture Shock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, at Wendy's...

I ran across Newsweek's top 100 books list yesterday. I know no list is perfect, there are always books that should be added or deleted, but I was curious how many of them I've read. Ones I've read are in bold. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1984 byGeorge Orwell Ulysses by James Joyce Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov * The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (I think I did read portions of this in school) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Middlemarch by George Eliot Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Beloved by Toni Morrison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Brave New World by Aldous...

Congratulations to the winners of My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield. Mia J. MMW rhapsodyinbooks cenyasmom Heather E I'll e-mail all the winners shortly. I just need your mailing addresses to pass on to the Hachette Book Group....

Join in at Booking through Thursday. What’s the funniest book you’ve read recently? This is actually a harder question than it sounds. I just don't read that many truly funny books. Of course, I'm one of those people that always laughs at inappropriate moments in movies, and in conversations I'm the only one who finds me funny, so maybe my sense of humor's just screwed up. I think the last funny book I read was A Night at the Operation by Jeffrey Cohen. One of my favorite books of all time is Pipsqueak by Brian M. Wiprud, which I thought was hilarious. I guess I just really enjoy comedic mysteries. What about you? What funny books have you read?...

I stated a few days ago that my daughter, Amber, loves dragons. I told her I had mentioned her on my blog, and she wanted me to show you one of her drawings, so here's a dragon she drew a couple months ago. ...