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Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. I got two in the mail this week, and both made me hop around the house chanting "Look what I got."     The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or...

Robyn DeHart was kind enough to take some time out of her schedule to answer a few questions for me. I loved her book, Seduce Me, and posted my comments about it earlier today. Keep reading for a chance to win your own copy. Robyn, thanks so much for taking the time to answer a few questions. I really appreciate it. Well, thank you, Carol, for having me. What draws you to writing romance? Why historical romance in particular? Well, the simple answer is because that’s what I love to read – historical romance, in particular. Aside from that I think it has to do with just how I see the world. I’m an optimist at heart and a romantic and I believe whole-heartedly in the redemptive power of love. And there’s something so compelling about boy meets girl and they lived happily ever after, especially when you’re talking about that once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. I think romance is powerful storytelling, it goes back...

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....