Showing posts with label An Absence So Great. Show all posts
Showing posts with label An Absence So Great. Show all posts
Friday, April 16, 2010
I am an IDIOT!
I am not sure why, but I misposted the winner of the most recent giveaway – for An Absence So Great! The post has been corrected, but if you saw it and thought you were the winner as a result, please send me an e-mail at ramblings.more@gmail.com. (I know who I said, so don't e-mail if you aren't the person! ;-) ) I offer my humblest apologies and beg your forgiveness!
An Absence So Great Winner
Congratulations to Judy Hall! :-) Your e-mail is on the way!
THANK YOU to everyone who entered! Don't forget to enter to win the CUTE kids' book This Little Prayer of Mine and the AWESOME read Forget Me Not! Also, stay tuned, because I have a new giveaway starting on Monday!
Blessings,
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
GIVEAWAY Ends Tomorrow
Don't miss your chance to win An Absence So Great! Just enter your information on the MckLinky HERE! GOOD LUCK!
Don't forget that I have branched off the book posting to a new blog, Proud Book Nerd. If you like my book reviews and/or giveaways, please join me!
Don't forget that I have branched off the book posting to a new blog, Proud Book Nerd. If you like my book reviews and/or giveaways, please join me!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
GIVEAWAY: An Absence So Great
I hate doing this, but I have to post this without a review. I just have not had the time to finish the book yet. I am guessing I can finish it tomorrow, while we're on the way to visit family (5 hours in the car), but I won't be able to blog about it then. So, in order to be faithful to my commitment to post about it this week, I have decided to post without a review. So, my plan is simple: make this post with the description, my thoughts on it as of where I'm at in it, and the GIVEAWAY. I'll post a review when I'm finished!
Title: An Absence So Great
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Summary: Inspired by the engaging stories told through her grandmother’s photographs taken at the turn of the century, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the tension between darkness and light in the soul of a young woman pursuing her professional dreams.
Despite growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s personal life is still at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as “water under the bridge,” she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for those ill with mercury poisoning.
Jessie gains footing on her dream to one day own her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can’t keep those painful memories from seeping into her heart, and the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.
Author Bio: Jane Kirkpatrick is an award-winning author of sixteen historical novels, including A Flickering Light, the first part of Jessie Gaebale’s story, and three nonfiction titles. Known for her unique insights into the exploration of community, family and faith of actual historical women, the Wisconsin native and her husband have called their ranch in Oregon home for the past 25 years.
My Thoughts: I'm having a hard time getting into it, I think largely because I haven't read the first book in this series. I think it has the potential to be very good, but frequent references to the back story make it hard for me to get into it. I think what I'm going to do is get my hands on A Flickering Light, read that one, then come back and try again. I have a feeling that once I know what came before, I'll be VERY eager to read this one – especially since the references to the first part of the story really make me WANT to know what happened!
Source: This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
Read It: Get your own copy of An Absence So Great HERE.
I have one copy to give away to one lucky reader!
To Enter: Submit your entry using the MckLinky below (you can leave the first box, labeled "entry content," blank). Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. (Central) Thursday, April 15. A winner will be chosen randomly with the help of random.org. I will send the lucky winner an e-mail notification. (It will come from ramblings.more(at)gmail(dot)com, so make sure to add this address to your safe list or address book to ensure it doesn't get lost in junk/bulk mail.) If I do not get a response within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Unfortunately, this giveaway is only open to readers in the U.S. No P.O. boxes.
Speaking of GIVEAWAYS: Don't forget to enter my other GIVEAWAY for Here Burns My Candle!
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Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Summary: Inspired by the engaging stories told through her grandmother’s photographs taken at the turn of the century, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the tension between darkness and light in the soul of a young woman pursuing her professional dreams.
Despite growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s personal life is still at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as “water under the bridge,” she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate photographic studios for those ill with mercury poisoning.
Jessie gains footing on her dream to one day own her own studio and soon finds herself in other Midwest towns, pursuing her profession. But even a job she loves can’t keep those painful memories from seeping into her heart, and the shadows of a forbidden love threaten to darken the portrait of her life.
Author Bio: Jane Kirkpatrick is an award-winning author of sixteen historical novels, including A Flickering Light, the first part of Jessie Gaebale’s story, and three nonfiction titles. Known for her unique insights into the exploration of community, family and faith of actual historical women, the Wisconsin native and her husband have called their ranch in Oregon home for the past 25 years.
My Thoughts: I'm having a hard time getting into it, I think largely because I haven't read the first book in this series. I think it has the potential to be very good, but frequent references to the back story make it hard for me to get into it. I think what I'm going to do is get my hands on A Flickering Light, read that one, then come back and try again. I have a feeling that once I know what came before, I'll be VERY eager to read this one – especially since the references to the first part of the story really make me WANT to know what happened!
Source: This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
Read It: Get your own copy of An Absence So Great HERE.
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*****WIN IT*****
I have one copy to give away to one lucky reader!
To Enter: Submit your entry using the MckLinky below (you can leave the first box, labeled "entry content," blank). Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. (Central) Thursday, April 15. A winner will be chosen randomly with the help of random.org. I will send the lucky winner an e-mail notification. (It will come from ramblings.more(at)gmail(dot)com, so make sure to add this address to your safe list or address book to ensure it doesn't get lost in junk/bulk mail.) If I do not get a response within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Unfortunately, this giveaway is only open to readers in the U.S. No P.O. boxes.
Speaking of GIVEAWAYS: Don't forget to enter my other GIVEAWAY for Here Burns My Candle!
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