Carol's Notebook

I thought I’d let you know some of the giveaways I ran across this week. As always, my current giveaway is 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. Cleopatra's Daughter and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran, at Books 'n Border Collies  (ends September 9, International) The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran and a beautiful pair of earrings, at Books 'n Border Collies  (ends September 9, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran, at Walking on Sunshine (ends September 9, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran with a pair of earrings and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran, at Peeking Between the Pages (ends September 11, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran, at Deb's Desk (ends September 12, US and Canada, no PO boxes) Killer Mousse by Melinda Wells, at Stacy's Books (ends September 15) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and a limited edition t-shirt,...

Join in at Booking through Thursday. What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.) I don't know. I don't actually keep track of page counts, unless they are long enough to qualify for the Chunkster challenge, but the last one I read that fit that category was all the way back in May, Turning Angel by Greg Iles. Last year, I read The Count of Monte Cristo, which was just huge, but recently I haven't really read anything long. As far as popular books go, I'd have to say it was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It just seemed like everywhere I went, whether on-line or in real life, people were talking about it. What about you? Any big books recently?...

Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is D. I hosted a guest post by David Liss back in July. I've had this book sitting on my shelf since then, but I want to get caught up on the series first.   The Devil's Company by David Liss From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London.This is the third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, one of fiction’s most enthralling characters.   The year is 1722. Thief-taker, ex-boxer, “ruffian for hire,” and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaver’s strength and guile for his own dark purposes. Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from England’s most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate...

Congratulations to the winners of Dark Hunger by Rita Herron! elaing Jake Lsewhere Aaron Freda Mans Lisa Richardson I'll be e-mailing you all tomorrow. I just need your addresses to pass on to Hachette books....

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: I didn't mean to scream, but when you turn around and see your boyfriend's ex-wife floating toward you in a giant transparent bubble, screaming seems like a pretty reasonable option. "Don't panic!" I ordered her even though I was doing a pretty good job of panicking myself. -pg. 140, Laced with Magic by Barbara Bretton Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....