Well, my giveaway of Eric Van Lustbader’s First Daughter and Last Snow has ended, and there is definitely a clear winner.
The winner of the Eric Van Lustbader bundle is the wonderful Heather! Heather, please e-mail me your mailing address as soon as possible so you can receive your prize. Thank you for being a part of my very first giveaway!
Surprise! (As if you hadn’t guessed already…)
I’m very pleased to announce my very first giveaway, made possible by the lovely people over at Tor/Forge. I’m giving away both of Eric Van Lustbader’s Jack McClure novels, First Daughter and Last Snow, to one winner! After the jump are descriptions of the books, as well as my thoughts, and, of course, the details on how to enter!
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Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader
I think I’ve figured out Eric Van Lustbader’s motus operandi for the Jack McClure novels. The first chapters of both First Daughter and Last Snow are legitimately good–interesting, intriguing, and with interesting twists. The rest of them? Not so much.
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First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
Thrillers and I don’t have much of a history. I think I’ve only read The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, which I found entertaining and fast-paced, if not the greatest books ever. So when I got the chance to read and review First Daughter and Last Snow, I thought, why not?
I have to admit, I’m fairly new at blogging regularly. It’s still a weird thing for me to realize I have to put up two posts every Tuesday. But it’s extremely rewarding. But I’m not going to talk about the more esoteric virtues of book blogging this morning; I’m going to talk about the technical aspects of blogging.
Do you take breaks while reading a book? Or read it straight through? (And, by breaks, I don’t mean sleeping, eating and going to work; I mean putting it aside for a time while you read something else.)
I initially thought this was such an utterly foreign concept to me, but I realize I’ve been doing it during The Lord of the Rings readalong. I’m trying to tear my way through Last Snow so that I can finish The Two Towers in peace.
I also tend to do this with reading for school, especially plays–I read Waiting for Godot yesterday in the warm sunshine. (It’s better than I remembered, but there’s still this mean and cynical undercurrent that makes me want to reread Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead just to wash the taste out.) However, if I’m not taking a month to read a book, this is usually the only kind of break I take–for school.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
He was here on presidential business, he had a charter flight waiting to take him to Ukraine at Carson’s request. It seemed the height of madness to be striding across Red Square in the dead of night toward an ambush between two Russian mafia hit men and an FSB agent.
pg. 42 of Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!
This past week, I started two proofreading gigs–one at my school newspaper and one at Distributed Proofreaders. Distributed Proofreaders is a website where registered volunteers help convert books in the public domain into e-books by proofreading the digitized text. There’s several rounds of proofreading and formatting, and at the end of it all, the book is added to Project Gutenberg.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Where had he been when she had been pushed out from between her mother’s legs? Making sure a shipment of XM 8 lightweight assault rifles, stolen from Fort McNair, didn’t fall into the hands of the Colombian drug-runners who very badly needed them.
pg. 28 of First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!
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