Book Giveaway - Beach Street

Book Giveaway - the beach street knitting society and yarn club

I am giving away a copy of "the beach street..." - how can it miss, with beach, knitting, society, yarn and club all in the title!

Please become a follower even if you don't enter the contest - I'm trying to move to over 50 followers during this two weeks. Thanks!

If you would like to win this copy for your own, here are the simple rules:

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, Follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US residents only, no P.O. boxes.

5) If you blog about the giveaway on your blog, you get 5 extra entries! Include your blog address, so I can see it. Thanks!

All entries must be submitted by March 12, midnight, cst. I will contact the winner by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen. The winner will be announced on this site, when determined.

All winners are picked by Random.org List Randomizer.

Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshare

Book Review - The Ninth Daughter

Book Review - The Ninth Daughter

I just finished reading the new "An Abigail Adams Mystery" - The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton. It is tough reading at first, but grows on you (me, anyway!).

 The author goes into great detail about life in the 1770s in Boston, just prior to the Revolution breaking out. The ships of tea are in the harbor! By the end of the book (Mini Spoiler), the tea is dumped, by the way!

There is a grisly murder of a woman in the home of a good lady friend of Abigail. Were the Sons of Liberty involved? The British Provost Marshall thinks her husband, John Adams, did it... surely his "proof" is bogus! Abigail works with a British officer and his assistant to uncover the truth, as Sons of Liberty meetings are going on, and Abigail has her housewifely and community responsibilities to fulful. Neither the officer nor Abigail trust each other, early on, but grow to build the necessary trust to solve the crime and apprehend those responsible.

The story is filled with great detail of household daily activities, the filthy streets, the bad weather, life on the dock and wharfs, etc., etc. Abigail makes two excruciating trips into the back country, tracing clues and interacting (or trying to avoid interactions) with a small community dominated by a religious zealot.

If you find this kind of historical setting and mystery plot of interest, than you will like this novel. Frankly, it is unlike anything I've read before, and that is a compliment.

Note: This review will also be published on LibraryThing.com:  http://www.librarything.com/ 

Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshare

P.S. Hope you'll check out my book giveaway:
http://drbillsbookbazaar.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-giveaway-beach-street.html

It's Monday, What are You Reading? Drake's Bay

It's Monday, What are You Reading?

This is my second entry for this meme, suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books.

I am now reading "Drake's Bay" by Thomas Roberts. It is an advance readers copy that my wife got from LibraryThing. Her review was so positive, I decided I should give it a try. It has to do with a history professor in San Francisco that lives on a boat with his young wife and gets involved in discovering some logs of Sir Francis Drake's late sixteen century voyages.


Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshare

Have you read Linda Weaver Clarke?

If you like Linda Weaver Clarke books, like I do,  check out the review of  "Elena Woman of Courage" at Suko's Notebook. She is also giving away an earlier Clarke book, autographed. Check it out!

Bill  ;-)

Hope you'll check out my book giveaway:
http://drbillsbookbazaar.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-giveaway-emmys-equal.html

Book Giveaway - Emmy's Equal

I am giving away the copy of Emmy's Equal (Texas Fortunes, Book No. 3) by Marcia Gruver from my recent book review. 

 

Marcia Gruver lists herself as an Author of Factual Fiction. She "tends to weigh in occasionally on eternally significant issues, and her true passion is Christian fiction."

Emmy's Equal, the third of her "Texas Fortunes" trilogy, set in 1906 Texas, meets these criteria with a subtitle of: "A strong-willed city girl meets her match in a stubborn vaquero."


If you would like to win this copy for your own, here are the simple rules:

1) Comment here that you want to be entered.

2) Leave a valid email address in your comment (I need a way to contact you! No email address, no entry!)

3) For an extra entry, Follow my blog. If you already follow my blog, just mention that in your comment.

4) US residents only, no P.O. boxes.

5) If you blog about the giveaway on your blog, you get 5 extra entries! Include your blog address, so I can see it. Thanks!

All entries must be submitted by February 26, midnight, cst. I will contact the winner by email. If I don't get a response within 3 days, another winner will be chosen. The winner will be announced on this site, when determined.

All winners are picked by Random.org List Randomizer.

Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshare

Book Review - Emmy's Equal

 Emmy's Equal (Texas Fortunes, Book No. 3) by Marcia Gruver

Marcia Gruver lists herself as an Author of Factual Fiction. She "tends to weigh in occasionally on eternally significant issues, and her true passion is Christian fiction."

Emmy's Equal, the third of her "Texas Fortunes" trilogy, set in 1906 Texas, meets these criteria with a subtitle of: "A strong-willed city girl meets her match in a stubborn vaquero."

This book has a great story with significant interplay of the different cultures. It takes some getting used to early in the book, but overall is well laid out and satisfying.

It was easy to imagine the South Texas setting and people living there. The story about the wild horse and what happened to him was especially fascinating.

Each of the characters goes through their individual twists and turns of the plot lines, but everything comes together well in the final chapters and no one is left hanging.

If you like historical fiction, I predict you will enjoy this good read!  ;-)


See my next post for a Book Giveaway of this book.

Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshare

Winners in the Plum Pudding book giveaway

Winners in the Plum Pudding book giveaway, picked by the Random.org List Randomizer were:
1. Esme from California, and
2. Jason from Minnesota

Thanks to over 30 entries! A new book giveaway for the last half of February will begin on Wednesday. Check back then.

Happy Reading! ;-)

Dr. Bill
http://stores.lulu.com/drbillshares