The New York Times Top 15 Best Sellers AND Improv Everywhere! What is that?

Welcome everyone! I hope you had a GREAT week of reading!
I want to share this video, below, with you! This is GREAT! You are going to LOVE it! It's a group out of New York City called (and this is their website FULL of pranks like these listed in their right column further down) Improv Everywhere (please check out their website that is in blue/purple - I want to contact them for a cause I strongly believe in!) and it is GREAT! You can also go to YouTube and subscribe to their videos and watch them all! That is where I got these below!
In honor of books, please see the second video below for Lord of the Rings! You may want to click on FULL SCREEN! After that you will find the Best Seller list! I hope you enjoy this as much as I have!
Have another GREAT week of reading!!
Laurie






Okay! On to the book!

FICTION: COMBINED PRINT AND EBOOK

1. Storm Front (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sanford
Print book: $16.77
ebook:      $10.99

 
2. Doing Hard Time (Stone Barrington) by Stuart Woods
Print book: $18.93
ebook:      $  9.99

 
3. Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
Print book: $18.00
ebook:      $10.99

 
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Print book: $15.83
ebook:      $  5.99

 
5. The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Print book: $15.85
ebook:      $10.99

 
6. Gone (Michael Bennett) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $11.99

 
7. Starry Night: A Christmas Novel by Debbie Macomber
Print book: $13.29
ebook:      $  7.99

 
8. Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
Print book: $4.39
ebook:      $3.98

 
9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Print book: $6.24
ebook:      $6.99

 
10. Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $10.99

 
11. The Circle by Dave Eggers
Print book: $16.77
ebook:      $10.99

 
12. Worth the Fight by Vi Keeland - Indie Author/Self Published   Congrats!
Print book: $10.90
ebook:      $  3.99

 
13. The Racketeer: A Novel by John Grisham
Print book: $6.69
ebook:      $5.99

 
14. The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
Print book: $17.37
ebook:      $10.99

 
15. Carter Reed by Tijan - Indie Author/Self Published! Congrats!
Print book: $11.99
ebook:      $  2.99

 

W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam)

SECRETS COLLIDE, by Kathleen Brooks (Kathleen Brooks)

INHERIT THE DEAD, by Lee Child (Touchstone)

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James (Vintage)

THE LOWLAND, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)

DEAR LIFE, by Alice Munro (Vintage)

DEADLINE, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland/Little, Brown)

THE QUEST, by Nelson DeMille (Center Street)

CONVICTED, by Aleatha Romig (Romig Works)

The New York Times Top 15 Best Sellers for the week ending October 20th, 2013

Welcome! To another week of GREAT books! Hope you had a wonderful week of reading pleasure! Here are the TOP 15 Best Sellers for this last week!
(This post is up by NOON every Sunday, sometimes earlier. ALL links link directly to the PRINT book. If you want an alternate version of the book, click on that when you reach the page. All versions of the books are listed at each link, such as the ebook and others.) ENJOY!

FICTION: COMBINED PRINT AND EBOOK SALES

1. Storm Front (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sanford
Print book: $16.77
ebook:      $10.99

 
2. Doing Hard Time (Stone Barrington) by Stuart Woods
Print book: $18.96
ebook:      $  9.99

 
3. Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
Print book: $18.00
ebook:      $10.99

 
4. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Print book: $15.57
ebook:      $  5.99

 
5. The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Print book: $15.85
ebook:      $10.99

 
6. Gone (Michael Bennett) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $11.99

 
7. Starry Night: A Christmas Novel by Debbie Macomber
Print book: $12.86
ebook:      $ 7.99

 
8. Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
Print book: $4.19
ebook:      $3.98

 
9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Print book: $6.80
ebook:      $4.99

 
10. Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $10.99

 
11. The Circle by Dave Eggers
Print book: $16.77
ebook:      $11.76

 
12. Worth the Fight by Vi Keekland - Indie Author! Congrats!
Print book: $11.13
ebook:      $  3.99

 
13. The Racketeer: A Novel by John Grisham
Print book: $6.69
ebook:      $5.99

 
14. The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
Print book: $17.37
ebook:      $10.99

 
15. Carter Reed by Tijan - Indie Author! Congrats!
Print book: $11.99
ebook:      $  2.99

 
And the rest - 16-25:

W IS FOR WASTED, by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam)

SECRETS COLLIDE, by Kathleen Brooks (Kathleen Brooks)

INHERIT THE DEAD, by Lee Child (Touchstone)

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James (Vintage)

THE LOWLAND, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)

DEAR LIFE, by Alice Munro (Vintage)

DEADLINE, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland/Little, Brown)

THE QUEST, by Nelson DeMille (Center Street)

CONVICTED, by Aleatha Romig (Romig Works)

Have a GREAT rest of the day!  Laurie

"This Girl" by Colleen Hoover - REVIEW

Description:
There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will’s.

Colleen Hoover’s New York Times bestselling Slammed series has brought countless readers to their knees with a whirlwind of love, passion, and heartache. 

Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from hispoint of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

MY TAKE:
5 starts!

I am writing this review backwards! Yes, backwards. It is going to be about the author first, Colleen Hoover. In my opinion, and in the opinions of many other people who have read her books, she does not write anything less than a 5-star rating book. You can be guaranteed when you pick up one of her books you are going to LOVE it! Her writing appeals to ALL ages, young and old alike. If you are older, don’t allow the younger characters to fool you into thinking this cannot be a fitting book for you. Why is this? Her characters. Her characters are like your best friends! You relate to them instantly. You can feel everything they go through as they do, what they feel, how they feel, and it is strong. This is what is so appealing about her writing. She is such a fun person in real life, too, it rolls right over into her writing. Knowing her from Facebook, she is a riot at times! So if there is one author you can depend on reading an excellent book from, and after reading ALL of her books, that author is Colleen Hoover.

I’ve read Slammed and Point of Retreat, and this is the third and final book in the Slammed Series which happens to be a trilogy, and we all know I’m not one who really gets into trilogies, but with Colleen Hoover’s writing, I’ll read ANY AND ALL trilogies she writes!

This book was from Will’s point-of-view, which was really neat because there were things in the other books we did not understand and sometimes thought of him as a jerk about the way he acted, but all of those things were explained in this book from his point-of-view, which made a lot more sense now.

The way this book was written was really neat to get inside of a guy’s head and his thinking! The way this all got started is while on their honeymoon, Lake asks Will to tell their love story. He had some misgivings about it, but we visit their entire love story again, but from Will while in between the scenes of the sheets, uh, I mean their honeymoon! It was really great!

While reading this, I’ve often wondered if Colleen and her husband stay up late at night talking about things like these! Go ahead, laugh at me! I think I have a very valid point, though. How else would you know what a ‘guy’s’ point-of-view would be if you are a woman? I don’t think it’s something you can guess at? However she does it, I LOVE IT!

I received this book in two ways. I bought the Kindle version, then I received a FREE paperback copy from the publisher, Atria, in exchange to read and write a review about it. It is NOT required for this review to be either positive or negative, but of my own honest opinion. "Free" means I was provided with ZERO MONIES to read this book nor to write this review, but to enjoy the pure pleasure of reading it. I am disclosing this information in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255, http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html

Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

This Girl: A Novel (Slammed) by Colleen Hoover
Print book: $11.48
ebook: $ 7.59

Now, Colleen has a GIFT for us! It's a Novella! Another 105 sweet pages of her writing!

Finding Cinderella: A Novella by Colleen Hoover

FREE! FREE! FREE! Releases on Monday, October 13th, 2013, but not until 3:00am EST! UGH! I know! Amazon runs on PST, so we have to wait those 3 hours! It will be WELL worth it! Enjoy!!

The New York Times Top 15 Best Sellers for the week ending October 13th, 2013

Welcome to another week of GREAT BOOKS! Posted by NOON (sometimes earlier) every Sunday! This is a record! I'm LATE this week! SO sorry!! Hope you've been reading some wonderful books out there! I have been!
Before we get to the books for this week . . .
I just want to apologize again for being 'out of it' as of late with posting reviews! Those 2 deaths/funerals from August got me down . . . really . . . bad. I was VERY depressed over them, and about mid-September I thought I was ready to jump back in and write books reviews again. Well, the mid-to end of September happens to be the anniversary of my mother's death. Only three years ago now and I miss her DEARLY. At the time, it felt like one thing after another. and that depression I sunk into did NOT go away, but kept it's grip on me.
You never know how these things will affect you until you go through them, I guess. I had forgotten about my Mother's anniversary, which hit as soon as I started to write reviews again and got into some Hops,, etc. I guess the best way to describe it is I felt 'frozen'. I didn't feel I could do a thing. This has not been good for my neuro muscle disease, either. That has gotten worse, too, and I'm trying. One day at a time.
The good thing - I'm starting to write reviews again! I feel like I'm coming out of that depression I sunk into! Yeah!!! Thanks for hanging in there with me!

So, watch for a review I am posting SUNDAY evening, tonight! It will go live tonight at 9:00pm for "This Girl" by Colleen Hoover!!! Finally, huh! LOL! This is in celebration for the following:

Are you going through Colleen Hoover withdrawal? I have GREAT NEWS for you, then! She has a FREE NOVELLA coming out on the 14th, which is tonight at 3:00am EST!!!!! It is called:

Finding Cinderella: A Novella by Colleen Hoover
FREE!!! FREE!!  Can be Pre-Ordered for FREE, too! It's FREE any way you look at it! It releases this Monday, October 14th, 2013 for 105 glorious pages to devour! It feels like it's been SO LONG since her last book, but it has not been! We just can't get enough of her books! So ENJOY this freebie! It's meant for us diehard fans! Thank YOU, +Colleen Hoover !



Okay, on to the books! All links go directly to the book. From the book, you can choose whatever type of book you want. The Hardcover, paperback, or ebook. Your choice. Amazon makes it simple.

FICTION: COMBINED PRINT AND EBOOK

1. Gone (Michael Bennett) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $11.99

 
2. Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
Print book: $18.00
ebook:      $10.99

 
3. The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Print book: $16.20
ebook:      $10.99

 
4. Silencing Eve (Eve Duncan) by Iris Johansen
Print book: $18.78
ebook:      $12.79

 
5. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Print book: $15.57
ebook:      $  5.99

 
6. Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Print book: $16.80
ebook:      $10.99

 
7. The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
Print book: $17.37
ebook:      $10.99

 
8. The Racketeer: A Novel by John Grisham
Print book: $5.99
ebook:      $5.69

 
9. W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone Mystery) by Sue Grafton
Print book: $17.54
ebook:      $10.99

 
10. The October List by Jeffery Deaver
Print book: $18.39
ebook:      $  0.00 - ONLY for the first 4 chapters, after that you pay full price, whatever that may be

 
11. The Training: The Submissive Trilogy by Tara Sue Me
Print book: $17.07
ebook:      $  7.99

 
12. Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
Print book: $4.19
ebook:      $3.98

 
13. Possession: A Novel of the Fallen Angels by J R Ward
Print book: $17.78
ebook:      $10.99

 
14. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Print book: $16.77
ebook:      $10.99

 
15. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E L James
Print book: $9.57
ebook:      $7.78

 
Thanks EVERYONE! Have a great week!
Laurie . . . and the rest are here:

THE QUEST, by Nelson DeMille (Center Street)

DEADLINE, by Sandra Brown (Grand Central)

THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland/Little, Brown)

THANKLESS IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb (Putnam)

THE FINAL CUT, by Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison (Putnam)

INFERNO, by Dan Brown (Doubleday)

TORN, by Kim Karr (InterMix)

GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

CARVED IN BONE, by Jefferson Bass (HarperCollins)

THE WAGER, by Rachel Van Dyken (Forever)