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I thought I’d let you know some of the giveaways I ran across this week. If you have one you want added to next week’s list, let me know in the comments. As always, my current giveaways are listed on my sidebar. Your choice from a box of books, at Today's Adventure (ends June 25, US and Canada) The Way Home by George Pelecanos (audiobook), at A Bookworm's World (ends June 23, US and Canada, no PO boxes) Blood Bar by Norm Applegate, at Chic Book Chick (ends June 9, US and Canada, no PO boxes) Drey is having an interesting giveaway for her birthday, at Drey's Library (ends June 30) East of the Sun by Julia Gregsson, at Historical-Fiction.com (ends June 12, international) Ghost Huntress: The Awakening by Marley Gibson, at J. Kaye's Book Blog (ends June 27, US and Canada) The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget by Josh Dorfman, at Not So Average Mama (ends June 14, US) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, at The Social Frog (ends June...

It's National Donut Day, so if you didn't have one for breakfast, go out and get one now. National Donut Day is celebrated on the first Friday of June. It was officially established in 1938 by the Salvation Army to raise funds during the Depression and as a tribute to Army "lassies" who had served donuts to soldiers during World War I. For more information, visit the Salvation Army's website. Donut trivia:  In the U.S. alone, more than 10 billion donuts are made every year. The hole in the donut's center appeared in the first half of the 19th Century. Clark Gable taught Claudette Colbert how to dunk her donut in "It Happened One Night". Adolph Levitt invented the first donut machine in 1920. And a couple of  quote: Doughnuts will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no doughnuts. Donuts. Is there anything they can't do? -Matt Groening...

Congratulations! You won an audiobook copy of Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.  Enjoy! Jake L nomadreader I'll be sending you an e-mail. I'll just need your address to pass on to the Hachette Book Group. Thanks....

Congratulations! You won an audiobook copy of The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly. Enjoy! Ken Cenerelli Kitten22 Also, I drew two new winners for Do-Over! by Robin Hemley, as two of the previous winners already got their hands on a copy. kim v Carlene I will be e-mailing all the winners. Please send me your mailing address and I will pass it on to Hachette Book Group. Thanks! By the way, Carlene, I sent you an e-mail, but apparently it got intercepted by a spam guard, so e-mail your mailing address to me at carolsnotebook [at] yahoo [dot] com as soon as possible....

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: "Were your father and your brother-in-law involved in any business together?" So sue me; I was looking for a scapegoat. -pg. 90, A Night at the Operation by Jeffrey Cohen Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about sticking with it… How much time (or how many pages) do you give a book that you aren't really enjoying before you'll set it aside? If you're reading it for a book group discussion, or for review, will you give it more of a chance than, say, a book you're reading for your own interest? Why, or why not? (courtesy of MizB) It's rare that I don't finish a book I've started. I think it's happened twice in the last three years. In general, I will plow through, either hoping it will get better or just to finish it and move on. I tend to find something redeeming to most books, though, something that makes it worth reading for me. I know there are millions of books out there waiting to be read, but I also know I'm never going to get to them all. Who knows when a surprise twist in the last chapter will...