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I’ve never joined any book giveaways, mostly because most of them are limited to US or Canadian entries. Interestingly, Bibliofreak’s blogiversary giveaway was open to international participants.
So I joined. And I won!
From the list of 21 books, here are the 3 titles I gave for the ONE book I’ll be winning:
Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind [...]
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I was quite hesitant to read this book when I was pregnant because it’s about a child who has Down’s Syndrome.
The Chinese are highly superstitious about stuff like this i.e. if you look or think about anything ugly, abnormal etc when you’re pregnant, you may likely get a child like that.
Then, I remembered a cartoon [...]
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After reading “P.S. I Love You“, I wanted to try something lighter by Cecilia Ahern and totally enjoyed this book!
“Where Rainbows End” is about two childhood friends, Rosie and Alex, who grow up in Ireland. The book starts out with these two naughty children who grow up into cheeky teens and then young adults [...]
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P.S. I Love You was a best-seller in 2007 but I never thought of reading the book because it was about a young woman who lost her husband to cancer.
A young married woman myself (with a living husband), I certainly didn’t want to read about such a horrifying situation.
When my father died suddenly, PS, I [...]
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If you’re shopping for a nice, thoughtful present for a pre-teen or teenage girl, check out “Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty” because it’s a *great* book for teenage girls.
“Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy and Awesome” is a handy reference of about 200 pages with:
glossy pictures of teenage girls [...]
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“What to Expect: Eating Well When You’re Expecting” is the fourth book I have of the “What to Expect” series – you’d think I collect them the way people do for the Harry Potter or Twilight series
I bought the book on transit in Dubai because it’s such a good quality print, (unlike the [...]
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Anyone who has read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” must definitely read this memoir of a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl, Elli Friedmann, who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz with her mother.
While “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” records the events of the Holocaust from a young [...]
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I received this book for review last week and couldn’t wait to dig into what sounded like “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” and “Calendar Girls”.
A small town girl myself, I was interested to read about “the town that raised them” as Amy Dickinson goes through a divorce and raised her daughter on [...]
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