Sunday, June 29, 2014

#Blog Updates AND The #NYTimes Top 15 (25) #Bestsellers for the week ending June 29, 2014


Welcome to another week of GREAT books! This is posted every Sunday by NOON and sometimes earlier!
How has your week been? I hope full of great reading! I only got to read two books and write two reviews this week as I got became ill. Bummer in the summertime! Oh, well. There is next week. Why don't we get right to what is going on at the blog and then to the books!

FIRST, WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE BLOG THIS WEEK? There could be other things going on, too, but I'm sorry to say I'm not feeling well at all, so my mind does not want to work with me! Don't you hate that! I couldn't even read the last two days, which drove me crazy! But . . . oh, well. You can't fight it so you have to roll with the punches. Make SURE to check back here frequently in case I did forget something!
OH!!! I DID forget something! There will be a NEW Kindle HDX Giveaway, too! As for the specific date, that has not yet been announced yet . . . so check back! It's the JULY Giveaway!


SIGN-UPS! For the Christmas in July Giveaway Blog Hop! 7-22 to 7-31 Come on over NOW and sign-up! Do you realize it's been 6 months since Christmas, and NOW it is 6 months until Christmas, again?! 




GOING ON NOW - The Midsummer's Eve Giveaway Hop!  ONLY until tomorrow, June 30th, at midnight! Get your hopping done! Click HERE!


GIVEAWAYS:

KINDLE FIRE HDX or Amazon GC or PayPal ($229 value!) Winner's Choice! Until 7-1 HERE!


KINDLE FIRE HDX + other prizes, too, for "A Mother's Secret" by Amy Clipston and +Litfuse Publicity Group ! Enter by clicking on an icon HERE!


REVIEWS:
One Lavender Ribbon by Heather Burch - 2.5 Star HERE! - ACK! Unless you like unbelievably syrupy sweet, push-over characters. Not me! I would encourage you to read the 3-Star ratings for this book as those ARE spot-on, giving you the the pro's and the con's. 
(You see, this cover fooled me. Don't let it fool you OR, you could try out reading the first chapter and base your decision on that! Although, sometimes you don't get the entire first chapter because you get all of the beginning pages in the front of the book, such as the cover page, again, The Table of Contents. the dedication page, and maybe a few others. You'll have to see what you get.)


Kindle Price: $4.99

That Night by Chevy Stevens - 4-Star! Click HERE! for the review! I LOVED it, but it did drag on a bit in the first 50% to be exact, as I read it on the Kindle. Other than that, go read the review! Who doesn't LOVE Chevy Stevens! Well worth the read and the wait between her books!


Kindle Price: $10.99

This Upcoming Week:

Reviews:

After I Do by by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kindle Price: $11.66


One Plus One by JoJo Moyes

Kindle Price: $14.99 (Ow, huh! We'll see how we like it. I have not yet read this author, so this is a first for me. See, I do see the Kindle prices inching up by DOLLARS! That lawsuit had kept the prices lower, but NOT NOW!)

The Freedom to Read Giveaway Hop! Starts Tuesday! (July 4th is FRIDAY!)

Television: (I know!) For those of you who LOVE Christmas movies, the Hallmark Channel has them ALL starting Friday, July 4th until Sunday or Monday? Sorry I don't know for sure which day.

Okay! On to the books!

FICTION - COMBINED PRINT AND EBOOK!

1.  Mr. Mercedes: A Novel by Stephen King
ebook: $11.99
print:   $18.53

2. A Shiver of Light (Merry Gentry) by Laurel K Hamilton
ebook: $11.99
print:   $21.13


3. The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Donna Tartt
ebook: $ 6.99
print:   $18.30


4. The Hurricane Sisters: A Novel by Dorothea Benton Frank
ebook: $12.99
print:   $16.19


5. Unlucky 13 by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
ebook: $ 7.99
print:  $16.79


6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
ebook: $8.52
print:   $8.97


7. The One and Only by Emily Giffin
ebook: $11.84
print:   $16.52


8. Skin Game by Jim Butcher
ebook: $11.99
print:   $16.43


9. Field of Prey by John Sanford
ebook: $  8.99
print:   $17.32


10. The Target by David Baldacci
ebook: $  7.99
print:   $16.80


11. Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews
ebook: $12.99
print:   $17.06


12. Devil's Game by Joanna Wylde
ebook: $  4.99
print:   $11.77


13. Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst
ebook: $11.84
print:   $16.49


14. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
ebook: $6.99
print:   $9.98


15. China Dolls by Lisa See
ebook: $  9.99
print:   $18.94


There we have the books!
So, what are YOU reading? Please leave a comment and let us all know what you are reading - it's a book recommendation!
Thanks for coming by again! Hope to see you through the week, too!

And the rest of the books are:


  • THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, by Liane Moriarty (Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
  • INFERNO, by Dan Brown (Anchor)
  • FACEOFF, edited by David Baldacci (Simon & Schuster)
  • ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
  • I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND, by Marie Force (Berkley)
  • HEATED, by J. Kenner (Bantam)
  • A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin (Bantam)
  • SHIELD OF WINTER, by Nalini Singh (Berkley)
  • GHOST SHIP, by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam)
  • SLADE, by Victoria Ashley (Victoria Ashley)
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