Life After Genius: Giveaway: Closed!

Life after Genius

by M. Ann Jacoby

Synopsis:
Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost 150 years. But only days before graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to rural Illinois. What has caused him to flee remains a mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for success has turned into a dangerous obession.

At home, Mead finds little solace. His past ghosts haunt him; his parents don't understand the agony his genius has caused him, nor his desire to be a normal kid, and his dreams seem crushed forever. He embarks on a new life's journey -- learning the family business of selling furniture and embalming the dead--that disappoints and surprises all who knew him as "the young Fegley genius."

Equal parts academic thriller and poignant coming-of-age story, LIFE AFTER GENIUS follows the remarkable journey of a young man who must discover that the heart may know what the head hasn't yet learned.

Reading Group Guide

Thanks to Valerie with Hachette Book Group I am happy to be able to offer up t0 5 copies of Life After Genius for giveaway!

1-10 comments= 1 book

11-20 comments= 2 books

21-30 comments= 3 books

31-40 comments= 4 books

40+= all 5 books!

If you want all 5 books to be given away, get the word out on this contest!!

This giveaway is open to followers only. If you are not a follower now is a perfect time to hit that follow button on the sidebar!

Main Entry:

1. Tell me who the smartest person you know is?

*Additional Entries*

2. Blog, tweet ( no limits) or link on your sidebar about this giveaway. Link back to me where I can find your tweet, blog entry or sidebar

3) Comment on any non giveaway post and let me know here on a separate comment ( no limits).

As you can see there are many ways to get tons of entries in this giveaway. Please make sure your email address is in each comment, and please leave all entries in seperate comments ( easier for me when I random.org the winner).

Winner(s) will be announced on Wednesday the 25th.

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

Feelin' The Vibe / Tour - Reading Guide and Giveaway

Feelin' The Vibe
by Candice Dow

About the Book:

Devin and Clark find out if true love really does conquer all in Candice Dow's much-anticipated follow-up to Caught in the Mix and Tappin' on Thirty

Clark Winston nearly had a nervous breakdown after her dream man, Devin Patterson, married the other woman. The untimely death of her best friend--the mother of her niece and nephew--only added to her mental instability. Given sole custody of her ten-year-old niece, Clark knew she had to go on and did so with her therapist Dr. Kenneth Winston.

Now ten years later, Clark is the director of a Baltimore group home for girls. By stroke of luck she and Devin are brought back together through their career choices and suddenly find themselves in an affair just as intense as their early relationship. Can they make love work? Or will they decide to try again at their failing marriages?

About the Author:

Candice Dow is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Johns Hopkins University. She resides in Maryland with her son and loves to travel. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Candice is the author of six novels and is currently hard at work on her next. For more information visit http://www.candicedow.com/

Reading Group Guide

Author Bio

Author Website: CandiceDow.com

Giveaway time:

Thanks to Anna and those great people at Hachette
I have 5 copies to give away.

Rule:

Giveaway open to residents of the US and Canada only.
No PO Box Addresses please.

Main Entry: Leave a comment, must leave email address in comment.

+2 for followers

+1 Follow me on Twitter

+5 Link this giveaway ( either in blog post, twitter, sidebar) ( +5 for each you do).

Please leave all entries in different comments. Contest ends on 10/27/09 at 11:59pm Pacific time. I will use random.org to find the 5 winners. The winners will have 48 hours to respond to email, after that new winner(s) will be picked.

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True Blood: Season 1 Giveaway

Head over to Just Another Musing for your chance to win the Complete First Season of True Blood! Get your Bill Compton/Sookie Stackhouse fix!!


Few ways to enter, so don't be left behind!

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Booking Through Monday: August 31 2009

Do you have a book contest going on this week? If so, add it here to my list, a great way to see all the book contests going on for the week in one place. Add as many contests has you have going. If I happen to come across your contest I will add it here, but there is no way I will be able to get them all, so please pass the word on.

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Aloha Friday #9: Your autobiography

Aloha Friday has you ask a question to your readers, nothing that takes much thinking, we are suppose to be hanging loose

Here is my question for the day:

What author would you want to have write a novel about your life?

Hands down for me it would be Nicholas Sparks, and I am sure there will be a few of you out there who will think the same.

For more Aloha Friday fun, head over to An Island Life

Until next time...
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Aloha Friday #11: Book into a movie

Aloha Friday's asks you to ask your readers a simple question, nothing that makes them think to much, after all it's Friday, time to hang loose!

Today's question is:

What book would you like seen turned into a movie?

I hope you all have an awesome Friday and weekend!
Aloha!!!
Don't forget to head over to AN ISLAND LIFE for more Aloha Friday Fun!

P.S. Don't forget to enter my awesome giveaway for a pair of See Kai Run shoes for your little ones... enter here!

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The Lady Elizabeth: Review

The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir

" The tale chronicles the life of Elizabeth I from her early childhood to her coronation, through the final years of her father, Henry VIII, and the brief reigns of her siblings, Edward VI and Queen Mary. Renowned for her "mercurial temperament" and "formidable intelligence," in Weir's account Elizabeth spends her childhood shuttling between royal estates and preparing for life as a "great lady" after she is stripped of her position as successor to the British throne following the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. As Elizabeth grows, her progressive views on women's roles, religion, and politics take shape-including her legendary vow never to marry, forged through observation of others' relationships as well as a painful first-hand brush with romance at age fourteen".

I loved this book, had me from the very beginning! I love reading historical books, they almost always have me hooked! If you are a history lover, you do not want to miss out on reading this book.

I am giving this book a solid 4 stars out of 5

This book falls into these two reading challenges, check them out to see my progress.
* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
* The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge

And don't forget there is a contest going on over at Punky Monkey's to win a custom blog design by Sara of Subjective Beauty... click here...

Until next time...
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Forever in Blue: Review

Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares

" In their latest episode, Bridget goes to Turkey on an archaeological excavation and Lena takes a painting class in Providence. Tibby stays in New York to take classes, and Carmen attends a theater festival in Vermont to work as backstage crew. There are new love interests, loss of virginity, and breakups and makeups. The themes are familiar, but fans who already identify with the characters will want to read more about their latest exploits. The pants pay a more prominent role than they did in the third book and a significant event takes place as each teen receives them. The possibilities and impossibilities of love are explored as Bridget is attracted to the married leader of the excavation team and Tibby fears she is pregnant. When Carmen auditions and lands a major role in the theater production, she worries that she cannot handle the part. Although squeamish at first, Lena becomes attracted to a fellow art student when they agree to pose in the nude for each other on weekends. Although the ending is a bit unrealistic, fans will surely suspend judgment as they delight in the story."

I am so so happy I finally got my butt in gear and read this series.

I am giving this book 4 stars out of 5

This book falls into these two reading challenges, check them out to see my progress.

* The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
* 2009 Young Adult Book Challenge

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Hey you.... you need a blog design makeover??

Doing a little cross promotion over here at Crazy Book Slut today. If you head over to Punky Monkey's, you have a chance to enter ( many extra chances for more entries) to win a custom blog design made by Sara over at Subjective Beauty.

What are you waiting for.... get your booties over there.

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Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner

First and foremost I would like to thank everyone who enter and helped me celebrate my 100th post here as your resident Crazy Book Slut! I think the turn out was amazing for me only being around for a few short months.

Remember I will be playing part in a Book Carnival in the next few weeks, and I hope you all will come back for more chances to win books!

Without further a-do, the winner of my first giveaway here on this blog was....

Here are your random numbers:

47
Timestamp: 2009-02-24 18:51:54 UTC

Number 47 was....

bridget3420 said...
I'd like "Like A Charm" by Candace Havens. Awesome contest!!

Congratulations Bridget! I will send out an email, you have 48 hours to respond, after that I will have to pick a new number!

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SAHM I Am: Review

SAHM I Am by Meredith Efken

From Publishers Weekly

"Can a novel consisting entirely of e-mails be enjoyable faith fiction? Efken's charming, light debut offers a resounding and surprising "yes." Several stay-at-home moms (the "SAHM" of the title) from across the country become friends and confidantes through an e-mail chat group. Rosalyn Ebberly is the self-righteous moderator (her prov31woman@ home.com e-mail address is a tip-off) who, although exaggerated, will be recognizable to anyone who has ever regularly attended church. Some mothers rebel against her judgmental and self-glorifying e-mails by starting a subversive alternative e-mail loop, humorously dubbed "Green Eggs and Ham." The problems they chat about are familiar: the unfortunately named Dulcie Huckleberry is frustrated by her husband's long absences on business; Zelia Muzuwa is an artist whose creative home-schooling isn't going over well with her more structured husband; Phyllis Lorimer is a pastor's wife dealing with a demanding congregation. The flow between e-mails is surprisingly smooth, and the characters well developed through their correspondence. Efken keeps the mood light, although she's not afraid to tackle serious topics such as infertility, marital difficulties and chronic illness. Christian readers will savor this fresh entrée and likely want to start e-mail loops of their own".

From the back cover:

For the members of a stay-at-home-moms' e-mail loop, lunch with friends is a sandwich in front of the computer. But where else could they discuss things like...

Success: Her workaholic husband is driving Dulcie Huckleberry around the bend. It's hard to love someone in sickness and in health when he's never home!

Art: Let the children express themselves, opines artistic Zelia Muzuwa, and then her son's head gets stuck inside a kitty scratching post . . .

Health: Surely aches and pains are normal in an active little boy, yet those of soccer-mom Jocelyn Millard's son don't seem to be going away.

Motherhood: Teen-mom-turned-farmer's-wife Brenna Lindberg can deal with the mud and the chickens, but what about her husband's desire for a child of his own?

Indiscretions: However youthful, they can come back to haunt you, learns pastor's wife Phyllis Lorimer.

Amends: These could stand to be made between officious list moderator Rosalyn Ebberly and her pampered sister, Veronica. Perhaps the other SAHM I AMers can teach these two something about sisterhood.

This book was lend to me by a friend, a friend that I happen to be in an email loop with... are you seeing a trend here? How could I not read this book, it seems like it was a semi mirror imagine of my life! It does raise the question, is the person we are online, the same person we are in our day to day lives? Are friendships any less real if they are formed via email loops?

This book as it all, humor, heartache, real challenges that real people face in the everyday world! Witty and fun!

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

This book falls into these challenges, take a peak and see how I am doing on the challenges.

The 2009 - 100+ Reading Challenge
2009 Chick Lit Challenge

Make sure to check out the crazy book sluts giveaway in honor of her 100th post! A copy of this book could be yours, or any book that has been listed, and or reviewed on this blog!

Until next time...
Happy Reading!

My 100th Post Giveaway!! ** CLOSED **

This post marks my 100th post as your resident Crazy Book Slut. This blog made it's first apperance on the web late November and here we are in February and marking the 100th post. Not bad, if I do say so myself!

So here is what we are going to do to honor me... the Crazy Book Slut!!! I am going to host a giveaway. Aww go ahead tell me how wonderful I am, I'll wait...........................................

I bet right about now you are wishing I would tell you what I was giving away, huh? Well that is the fantastic part of this giveaway. It's your call what I giveaway... do I have you attention now?

Your job, should you choose to take it, is to look back at all the books I have read, reviewed, or done a Wild Card on, and tell me which one you would like, and I will buy you your own very copy of the book. Only one book though, you have to pick!!

You can find the lists of the books on the right hand side of my blog under reviews.

* One entry ( and this one is a must) is to tell me what book you want

* One entry for following me on twitter

* One entry per tweet you give out while the contest is going on ( limit 2 a day, let's not get carried away)

*One entry if you follow Crazy Book Slut

* One entry if you follow me over at my main blog Punky Monkey's

* One entry if you post Crazy Book Slut's button on your blog

*Five entries if you post about this contest on your own blog ( leave 5 seperate comments for this)

Please make sure to leave each of these are an individual comment! Giveaway is opened only to the U.S. and this time!

Contest ends one week from today... February 24th at Noon, California time.

Big thanks to everyone who has helped me get the Crazy Book Slut up and running, here's too many more fun times with books!!

*** if the first entry is not followed, all other entries will be deleted**

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