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Guilty Pleasure Reading …. What’s Yours? You know you have one! (W/giveaway)
You know the books… the ones you are drawn to but even you are not always exactly sure why. It may be a long-term addiction… or it could be fairly new… but either a genre, a topic, or certain type of book draws you to it time and again.
We may not even care to admit that we like to read them. In fact… we may overreact if caught reading them or if someone speaks against them…
Relax. Sheila says relax. 😉 I have them too. Mine fall under the category of books that may be defined as dorky…. but I really have found that I like reading about companies…. corporations… and the people behind them. I mean I loved the move Social Network (about Facebook). And I loved reading about Steve Jobs, The Makers of the game Doom, Straight Flush (about the college kids who brought the online poker industry to an all time high, and most recently Creativity Inc about the success of Pixar.
I think I am drawn to the creative thinking process. I am so amazed at the brilliant people who come up with things like the IPOD, creating video games, developing winning strategies. I guess what they all have in common is success. And if I am honest… I am drawn to it.
On the darker side… I also like to read the occasional true crime.
What does that say about me? I am not sure I want to know….
What is your guilty pleasure read? Craft books, how to books, vampires, dystopian, harlequin romances, books about animals….. Oh my! Share 🙂
For fun…. (I like fun!) leave a comment with your answer and I will enter you into a giveaway for a $15 Amazon gift card to purchase one of your guilty pleasure books of your choice. I will email the winner the gift card on Friday of this week.
I can not wait to hear what your guilty pleasure reads are 🙂
Spring Book Sale and A Chance To Win One Of These Books!
Good morning. Sorry about the funky size of the top pic here… I woke up this morning and apparently WordPress has made a few changes and my ability to resize pics the way I want from within WordPress is no more. Hmmmmm….
Anyhoo –
This past weekend was the spring book sale at our library and we had a BLAST not only working the sale but shopping the sale. Here is what I came home with:
I am pretty excited with my haul – there are some fun reads in here. So as always, my book sale gets to be your book sale too. In the comments put the title on one of these books that you would love to have. I will choose at the end of this week one random winner (using random.org). Then I will read that winners choice in April and then send it to them to keep.
I hope you can see the titles ok – this was a great sale and I am still drooling over these pretties 🙂
Have a super day!
Summer-Cation Event with Giveaways!
Happy Summer-Cation! As I mentioned last weekend on the blog, I just need to do something SUNNY! I decided to host a last minute “let’s talk about something shiny” (THE SUN!) event where others were and are invited to join me to post something about a summery event, a giveaway, summer plans, WHATEVER as long as no snow or cold is involved.
I repeat….
No Snow and NO Cold can be mentioned in your posts. 😀
(What I just said there doesn’t count as I really have not started my post yet….. )
Ok… so thank you to the few of you who jumped on board and said Yes! I will chat sunshine with you!
Here is one of my FAVORITE summer pics from last year. This is from the Lakes Jam and there is so much to like about this pic.
- I am with my good friend Amy
- LOOK how tan we are!
- No jackets or sweaters 😉
- Crabby photo bomber in the back
Thinking of the warm weather things to come makes me happy… bike rides and runs, reading on the deck, New York the end of May…. all good stuff. 🙂
For my post today, I wanted to do a giveaway of one of my all time favorite reads and book club discussions, The Summer House by Jude Deveroux. It also makes me happy the word “summer” is in the title.
This giveaway will stay up through the weekend and I will announce the winner when I post Tuesday’s Morning Meanderings. To enter, leave a comment telling me something that you are looking forward to this summer.
As I was not the best planner and executor of this event, I am going to set up a linky for others to add their summer posts and giveaways for this Summer-Cation event (if I already had you on my radar and you have posted already this morning I will add your link for you)
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Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list…
I am going to Detroit Lakes this afternoon for the weekend. My friend has a time share and I am looking forward to hanging out with friends, maybe watching a movie and playing some board games. It’s not summer there… but it is a start of doing something! 🙂
We Interupt This Winter for A Summer Beach Break Event With Prizes!
Everywhere I look in Minnesota there is SNOW SNOW SNOW. We are having wind chill warnings weekly, snow storms, and more school closings this year then I remember in my entire life. 😯 Then I go on-line and read other book reviewers in the same boat – unusual cold temperatures, winds, snow in states that normally do not get snow…
And then here are two things that pushed me over the proverbial edge that came to my attention in the last 24 hours:
1. Our Local Water and Light Company has advised that to prevent pipes from freezing we run a pencil width stream of water in our home faucets from now until (wait for it……) April 15th. APRIL 15th???
2. Minnesota lakes are reporting having 30 – 36 inches of thick ice on them. At this rate we will be ice fishing in June.
Due to all of that… I am calling an emergency Summer-Cation. We need to talk sunshine people!!!! This event will take place next weekend, March 7-9th. I am looking for people to write posts of a great summer experience (sun is not optional… I repeat sun is not optional! 😀 ) While not mandatory, I hope that most of the participants will offer a summery type giveaway…something beach or vacation worthy, preferably bookish as well but doesn’t have to be.
A few ideas to get you thinking of your giveaway would be:
A great summer read
A Beach bag to bring your books along with you
sunglasses, tanning lotion, beach towel….
You get the idea. 😀
If you want to participate please fill out the form below.
Morning Meanderings…. A Couple Of Winners :)
Good morning… late morning but morning all the same. Honestly… I just want to read today but have a pretty full afternoon and possibly a dinner and movie thing with the hubby tonight.
Which reminds me…
♥Happy Valentines Day!♥
I have a winner to draw for the Literary Blog Hop that I participated in this past weekend. Using random.org the winner is:
Helen from My Novel Opinion
Woo hoo! Give it up for Helen!!!! YAY! She already mentioned in her comment she would love a copy or Orphan Train so that is what will be sent to her 🙂
I also had a bonus give away for my birthday, a $10 Amazon gift card. This one was for the awesome people who searched out my Easter Egg on the blogs and found it at Always With A Book (thank you Kristin for keeping the egg for me 😀 )
Earl Dizon!!!!
Way to go Earl – I will email that card out to you hopefully some time today.
There it is… I have a review coming up later… hope you will stop by and see what I have to say.
Literary Blog Hop and Birthday Weekend Giveaway!
Note: This is a sticky post – all new posts are below this one 🙂
I am super excited to be a part of this blog hop! When Judith announced the dates I was thrilled as for once I did not have anything going on that would take me away from putting up my post PLUS it is my birthday this coming Sunday and I do like to celebrate (well… I like to celebrate just about anything really) with giveaways!
As this is a literary giveaway… I wanted to pick some delicious looking Literary reads… plus, a personal favorite of mine, The Book Club Cook Book – which is filled with delicious recipes and menus that go well with the literary books we love. ♥
The winner at Book Journey will have their choice of one of the above books mailed directly to them from Amazon.
How to enter?
In the comment area below tell me the title of the book you are reading currently, and what sort of food would go well with your book. (IE. if you are reading about Italy maybe you would be serving up steaming bowls of pasta and a nice wine, If you are reading Labor Day you most definitely must be having the peach pie 😉 )
One bonus entry if you follow Book Journey by email (see link to do that in the upper right side bar) – and of course let me know in a comment.
And there is a Birthday bonus. Being a HUGE fan of Ready Player One and the hidden Easter egg within that books story…. I have hidden an Easter Egg in one of the other participating blogs posts. Yes, just like that pretty gold one you see above. If you find the blog that has the egg, simply email me at journeythroughbooks@gmail.com with the correct blogs name and I will enter you into a bonus drawing for a $10 Amazon gift card. Oh and Shhhhhh! Don’t mention where you found it, and dont bring attention to it on the blog in which it sits. Just email me. Quietly… tiptoe away, of course after you enter that blogs amazing giveaway 😉
I will email both winners on February 13th. I do like to celebrate 😀
You can find the other blogs participating in this fun blog hop at our host site Leeswamme’s Blog or you can see them right here:
Happy Hopping to you!
- Leeswammes
- Seaside Book Nook
- Booklover Book Reviews
- Biblionomad
- Laurie Here
- The Well-Read Redhead (US/CA)
- River City Reading
- GirlVsBookshelf
- Ciska’s Book Chest
- The Book Stop
- Ragdoll Books Blog
- Nishita’s Rants and Raves
- Lucybird’s Book Blog
- Reading World (N-America)
- Journey Through Books
- Readerbuzz
- Always With a Book (US)
- 52 Books or Bust (N.Am./UK)
- Guiltless Reading (US/CA)
- Book-alicious Mama (US)
- Wensend
- Books Speak Volumes
- Words for Worms
- The Relentless Reader
- A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall (US)
- Fourth Street Review
- Vailia’s Page Turner
- Lost Generation Reader
- Heavenali
- Roof Beam Reader
- Mythical Books
- Word by Word
- The Misfortune of Knowing
- Aymaran Shadow > Behind The Scenes
- The Things You Can Read (US)
- Bay State Reader’s Advisory
- Curiosity Killed the Bookworm
- Lizzy’s Literary Life
- Books Can Save a Life (N. America)
- Words And Peace (US)
- The Book Club Blog
Morning Meanderings… It Is A Small World
Friday! There is a happy dance going on here! Almost like a starting line really as I have not even put our tree up yet. I know right? Life gets busy and I well.. yeah. Today’s the day. I am also not done Christmas shopping… but between today and tomorrow… I plan to be. 🙂
Recently (yesterday) I won a copy of the upcoming gorgeous looking book, Evertrue from Amber at Me, My Shelf, and I. When Amber emailed me for my address and I responded back, she emailed me this:
Shut up. I could drive this to you!
Turns out, Amber lives about two hours from me in Minnesota. 🙂 I love that!
I also recently had a win of a bookish ornament from Ashley at Papyrusaurus that arrived in the mail yesterday. How cute is this:
This morning I am having brunch here at the house with three great friends. We will do our little Christmas exchange and hang out over great coffee and conversation. Then this afternoon I have coffee with another friend, and then tonight we attend an annual Christmas party of friends. In between all of that, I will be trying out a couple of caramel variations off my recipe and maybe… maybe a little shopping.
Hope this start to your weekend is wonderful!
Oh – and I have two giveaways going on – dont miss out:
Morning Meanderings… An Old Post Keeps Picking Up Traffic (ooh – and a giveaway!)
Good Morning! How ya all doing this morning? I am just back from the gym and that makes me happy. I feel as though I have accomplished something positive when I start my day out that way. 🙂
For those of us who have been blogging books for a while, do you ever see a post you wrote a long time continue to get hits? Not only hits, but discussion? That’s the may my Lightning Thief Movie Spoiler Page has been.
At first when I seen in my email that post was receiving traffic I figures it was spam. After all, I wrote this post in early 2010. However, upon closer look – no, they are still commenting – still fired up by the differences of the book to the movie. Isn’t is funny how us book lovers get all worked up about movies changing our books? 🙂
Lightning Thief as a book was really good. Way to go Rick Riordan! *knuckle bump* And Lightning Thief the movie was really good. If you read the book AND seen the movie..well, thus the spoiler post.
I have been curious for some time now if they were going to do another movie. There are after all, there are after all 5 books in this series (my College son loved them!). So super funny and coincidental that I was contemplating this post, when yesterday I was offered by Think Jam Digital to have a giveaway here for a Blue Ray bundle of The Sea Of Monsters DVD (2nd book in the series). This DVD has just been released to the public for sale – but here, you can sign up to win the movie as a well as a companion comic book. Kind of a sweet deal, and I admit – I am curious about this movie.
Enter for a chance to win the Percy Jackson Sea Of Monsters Blu-ray Combo Pack and exclusive Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters comic book!
Synopsis
The magical, mythical adventures of teenager Percy Jackson — son of the Greek god Poseidon — continue in this heroic, action-packed thrill ride! Out to prove he’s not just a “one-quest wonder,” Percy and his demigod friends embark on an epic, cross-country journey into the treacherous Sea of Monsters, where they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate evil. With time running out, Percy must find and bring home the fabled Golden Fleece, which has the power to save his world…and save us all!
Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters 3D Blu-ray Deluxe Edition,
available on Blu-ray and DVD December 17
For a chance to win your copy of the Blu-ray, just answer the question below:
Percy Jackson is the son of which of the Greek Gods?
Poseidon
Zeus
Hades
I will post a winner on Sunday morning – December 22nd.
Be sure to follow Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on Twitter @FoxHomeEnt for the latest Blu-ray & DVD releases
I am curious, have you read any of the Rick Riordan books? I admit, I have only read the first one as of this time.
Blogiversary! Year 4 – and Gifts Galore!!!
Hi everyone! Welcome to my 4 years of blogging blogiversary – this is the actual day, June 9th, when I officially became a blogger.
I never dreamed when I started writing reviews on line in 2009 that 4 years later I would still be doing it. Blogging has really changed my life in positive ways that I would never have expected :
- Writing reviews for a local magazine
- being on a Twin Cities Panel
- Going to the Book Expo for the past 4 years
- Becoming President of The Friends Of The Library
- Being on the city board for the library
Now you might think that some of these things I would have done without the blog but I dot think that is true. Through this community of bloggers I have learned the value of reading and sharing what we read. I have also read post after post of libraries and book stores closing, so I have become an even stronger advocate for the written word. All that I owe to this little space on the internet that I call Book Journey.
For those of you who have come to my party the last few years, the basics are pretty much the same… to be entered for the great giveaways (pictured below), simply leave me a comment here telling me how you traveled to the party, and what virtual gift or food item you brought with you: For example, you may have rollerbladed to the party and brought with you foot long licorice vines … (really be as crazy as you want… I love the fun imaginative comments!) For a little bonus if you would like to share how long we have known each other (blog or otherwise) and if you are brand new to the house of Book Journey – feel free to share that too! I love new friends!
My party will go for 24 hours so this post will go up at 12:01 am on June 9 (central time) and stay up until midnight. Every comment will be entered into the random drawings and winners (using random.org)will be announced here on Monday morning on Its Monday What Are You Reading Post.
Your comment will go into a drawing (using random.org) for one of the following packages:
♥Thank you readers, you make this blog a whole lot of fun! I am so excited to celebrate with you. I have cleaned the house and set out the “red solo cups” and have the punch on ice…. just waiting to see who will be knocking on my door…
wait! There’s a knock! Who could it be?
*opens door and looking surprised!*
Book Journey 