Category: Book Giveaways

Freebie Friday: The Beach House by Jane Green

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)49 Comments

beach houseThis weeks freebie is in honor of my absolute FAVORITE time of year… Summer!  So this weeks book is a beautiful hard cover copy of The Beach House by Jane Green.

Sixty-five-year-old Nan Powell has lived comfortably and happily in Nantucket since the suicide of her husband, Everett, so she is thrown for a loop when she learns that she is in danger of losing her beloved house. After weighing her options, Nan decides to turn her home into a bed-and-breakfast. The guests she gets for the summer are all at a crossroads in their lives in one way or another. Daniel has just separated from his wife and is facing something he has denied for years; Daff is recovering from the heartbreak of a divorce and getting a much-needed break from her anger-filled 13-year-old daughter; and Nan’s son Michael is on the run from a disastrous affair. Nan finds herself opening up to her guests and enjoying their company, but she is shocked when she discovers a person close to one of them has a startling connection to her.

To enter:  post a comment here with the type of house you would love to live in if you could choose ***You must answer the question to be in for the giveaway***

For a second entry (and please put this on a separate comment to be counted correctly, Twitter or blog about this giveaway and leave the link here.

US entries only please and no P.O. box numbers.  Be sure that your comments have a way for me to get a hold of you if you are the winner.  Winner will be posted next Friday on July 17th.

Have fun and good luck!!!

Congratulations to last weeks winner:

Click here to see what Jamie won!!!

Jamie from For The Love of All That is Written

Blogoversary Recovery and Winners!

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)9 Comments

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Wow.  If you stopped by yesterday and celebrated my two year blogoversary with me – thank you.  It was so much more than I had imagined.  I met new people, I am thankful for those who I am already getting to know.

Thank you to Michael at A few Minutes With Michael who is making me a button for my blog.  What a great gift!  Thank you to Never Not Reading who graciously posted on her blog the “balloon post” for this event as well as Loving Heart Designs.  Thank you also to Miss Remmers’ Review for posting my review of The Book Thief in order to try to draw Young Adults (YA) towards books they may enjoy.

It has been a very good day.

So as I pick up the falling down streamers and cake frosting off the wall (Laurel?  Was that you? )  I have to just breathe a big happy sigh.  That was a great party.

Our winners of the package drawings as as follows (I use Random.org to choose the winning comment numbers):

Package #1


Congratulations to Raidergirl at An Adventure in Reading




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Congratulations to:  Anna at Diary of an Eccentric!!!



Package #4

Congratulations to Kerri!!!




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Congratulations to Roseanne!!!



CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS!

Emails have gone out to each of you please.  Please email back with your mailing address as soon as possible so I may get these in the mail to you.  Emails not responded to by Monday will result in my having to draw another name.


Be sure and check out all the action going on today in the below posts.  I have new reviews to post today.  That’s right… while you all partied at my place yesterday, I was in the corner curled up with a good book.  ; )  LOL

Welcome to the Blogoversary Party!!!

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Clipart Illustration of a Bunch Of Floating Party Balloons WithI am so glad you were able to come!  Grab a party hat and join in the festivities!  This party after all is to celebrate you – the ones who come and read my rambling on about books, book events, authors and such.  Thank you!  I have so much fun just hanging out with you!

Starting now you are welcome to join in the 24 hour Giveaway!  I  have 4 giveaway sets that by leaving a comment on this blog you will be eligible for.  US and Canada only please and no PO numbers.  Please be  sure that I have a way to contact you if you are a winner!  I will announce winners on Thursday and send your package out yet this week.

So ready to see what you can win?  I am so glad you asked!

Package #1Package #1 (Grand Prize) Consists of:  In honor of  this movie release; My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult,  Dandelions in a Jelly Jar by Traci Depree, and The Necklace (read through once) by Cheryl Jarvis.  Also included is chocolates from the Chocolate Ox In Nisswa Mn, and a cool magnetic book mark from Rainy Day Books, also in Nisswa.  Colored post its to make notes in your books without making notes in your books, coffee from my time in Honduras this past February, and a copy of our recent church cook book.

package #2Package #2 consists of: In honor of  this movie release; My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, in honor of the Jane Austen Challenge going on right now; a copy of Emma by Jane Austen, chocolates from the Chocolate Ox in Nisswa Mn, the super cool magnetic book mark from Rainy Day Books in Nisswa, Crumb Cake Gourmet Coffee from Bookworld in Baxter, Mn, and the colored post its to make notes in your books without making notes in your books.  🙂  (*Note:  Emma is from The Rainy Day Book Store)

package #3Package #3 consists of: In honor of  this movie release; My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Bronte Project by Jennifer Vandever, chocolates from The Chocolate Ox in Nisswa MN, fun seasonal book plates from Rainy Day Books also in Nisswa, yummy Heavenly Carmel Gourmet Coffee from Bookworld in Baxter Minnesota, and the color post its to make notes in your books without making notes in your books.  (*Note that the book The Bronte Project is also from Bookworld in Baxter Minnesota).

Package #4Package #4:  A fun read, Doing Good by Pamela Morsi, and (not pictured) a copy of our recent church cook book (see a pic of it in package #1), the always amazing chocolates from The Chocolate Ox in Nisswa Minnesota, Almond Toffee Gourmet Coffee from Bookworld in Baxter Mn, and (say it with me now….) the colorful post its for marking in your books without marking in your books!

You may notice by the Blogoversary widget that I am no where near my Blogoversary date…. but this is not my original blog… see here for the story and a link to my very first post! Click here

Have fun everyone!

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Clipart Illustration of a Bunch Of Floating Party Balloons WithSpecial thanks to the great Chocolate Ox in Nisswa as well as the super friendly staff at Rainy Day Books.  Thank you also to the great assistance of the ladies working at Bookworld this past Tuesday afternoon as we chatted about local authors and book reviewing.

Morning Meanderings…

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bean-cup_animThis morning the coffee cup and I checked out a few book blogs and actually found our way into a new blog site that was kind of exciting.  I think the energy from the blog took the sleep out of my eyes and so this morning, I do not have a book to bring to your attention, but a welcome to You 2.0 Blog!

Grab your morning beverage, green tea with honey, is blog owner and author Kay Cassidy’s choice and stop over and welcome Kay and her great looking blog!  Looks like there are lots of contests going on and a lot of fun planned at You 2.0.

♥♥  Don’t forget you are invited to my Blogoversary Party here tomorrow – all day Wednesday, only on Wednesday.  Big giveaway in honor of you, those who come and visit me.  See party invite  here:  Blogoversary Party

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You are Invited to my Blogoversary Party!

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First things first…. if you look at my Blogoversary countdown you may be confused….  we are no where near by blogoversary date!  HOWEVER – this Wednesday is my Blogoversary, as it is the date I started blogging on my original blog, Straight On Through.  What is fun about this is that the book blog was actually an after thought almost a year later, and it was more for me… to keep track of what I have read.  Interestingly enough, my very first real post (other than the “Here we Go” post)  on Straight on Through… was about books:  see the first post here

(OH….. FYI:  I f I would have known when I started this blog where it would go, I would have never made the title so long….  LOL)

What is exciting about all this is that this blog is now where I spend most of my time and I can not believe it took me so long to get going on it.  I am actually fairly new to the reviewing for authors and publishers but loving every minute of it so it only makes sense that the celebration will take place here on One Persons’s Journey Through a World of Books.

At this party – you are the special guests.  After all, you are who make my blog what it is.  I love the friendships I have built with other bloggers, and with people all over the country who stop in to see the reviews, the giveaways or just the insanity of my day to day life.  I want to honor you.

So here is what you need to know – I am hosting a HUGE Giveaway package on Wednesday the Blogoversary date.  Important to know – this giveaway will only take place during the 24 hours on my actual Blogoversary.  I will put the giveaway up at midnight (or 12:01 a.m.) central time on Wednesday, you have from then, 24 hours to stop on it and sign up for the giveaway.  That’s it.  Easy enough.  I hope you can come.  Please feel free to invite your friends, the more the merrier.

Thank you for all your past comments and future ones.  I love reading every one of them and love visiting other blogs to see what they are reading and doing as well.

Happy 4th of July and Giveaway Promotion

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Happy 4th of July everyone!!!

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The sun is shining here in Brainerd Minnesota and looks as though it will turn out to be a beautiful day!  I am planning to take a bike ride and maybe go hang out in one of the near by small towns and browse shops with my husband.  I may take my camera and shoot a couple picks as well.

This morning I wanted to remind everyone that Bookin With Bingo has a great Summer Beach Bag giveaway.  Be sure to stop by and sign up to win that great package, contest ends July 17.

For more giveaways be sure to click on my giveaway tab at the top of the page.  This will list all the giveaways here as well as great giveways going on at other book sites.  Click on the links to take you to the page of each giveaway.

I will be announcing my Blogeversary Giveaway Party details Sunday evening so be sure to stop back and get the details on a huge giveaway for you.

Have a super incredible 4th of July all over the world!


Freebie Friday: Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

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Congratulations to:

Jamie from For The Love of All That is Written

Please email me your shipping info and this little treasure will be on its way to you!

In honor of Jodi Picoult’s book My Sisters Keeper being released this week as a movie, I thought I would offer a Picoult book.  I have a new oversized paperback copy of Keeping Faith for this weeks giveaway.

When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression—and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle—trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.

To enter,

1.  Place a comment here with your favorite Picoult book that you have read (if you have read her)

2.  Earn an additional chance to win by blogging about this contest on your blog or Twitter

Winner will be announced next Friday July 10.  You must be in the US and no p.o. box numbers.

Have fun and have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Giveaway! Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

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Now this one looks like fun!  Thank you to Anna Balasi and Hachette Book Group for the opportunity to review this Julia ad Juliebook as well as offer 5 copies for giveaway!

Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that’s “irresistible….A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef” (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves’ livers and aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film version is written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia.

1. Post here with a comment of what the worst job you ever had was.

2. For a second chance to win, please post this contest to your blog and post a link to it for me to see.

3. For a third chance to win post this contest on twitter or to your blog with a comment back here to the link

Contest will run through July 15th. The winners are chosen by using random.com. I will post the 5 winners here as well as email you for your mailing information. The books will come from the publisher. Please US entries only and no po boxes.

Thanks as always for stopping by! :)