Winning at Reading Begins Today!

Are you ready? Today is the day! All month, we'll be working on books that you've won or received as a gift. Maybe you only have one or two, maybe you have a dozen, but here's your chance to finally sit down and read (or listen). It's so easy to shove them aside in favor or a library book or review book and they sit collecting dust. Well, grab that book, dust it off, and READ!

Sunday Book Share #126

 

 I'm participating in The Sunday Post, hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer; Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea; Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews; and Bought Borrowed and Bagged, hosted by TalkSupe. All of these memes are about sharing the print and digital books received and/or posts and events on the blog.

The word of the week? SNOW. I have more words but I'll behave in public. We had snow 4 of the 7 days last week, including a freaking blizzard, and we have over 3 feet on the ground now. Mind you, that's 3 feet BEFORE the drifts and snow plow piles. Those suckers are anywhere from 5-7 feet. And, oh, guess what? MORE SNOW, coming tonight and going into tomorrow night. I'm done with winter, give me spring! Give me pollen that makes me sneeze my brains out! Give me a burnt left arm from driving around on a sunny day!

Red Hot Cajun Nights Blog Hop

Red Hot Authors

Present

Red Hot Cajun Nights Blog Hop

February 1 - 7

This Mardi Gras Season, Let the Sinful Good Times Roll!

Let your imagination take you all the way to New Orleans for Carnival season as eight sexy romance authors, including one of my faves Jodi Redford, bring you eight fabulous $.99 books to warm your winter. 
~ website: http://redhotauthors.com/red-hot-cajun-nights/ 
~ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/RedHotAuthors

Come check out our blog hop, with Grand Prizes of:
1) A Kindle
2) A box of paperback books
3) Swag from each author

Additionally, each author has more prizes to give away at their blog. Start here by hopping to each of their blogs and entering the Rafflecopter contest, then leave a comment on the blog for your chance to win that author’s prizes:

Desiree Holt at www.desiremeonly.com
Magen McMinimy at http://www.magenmcminimy.com/
Jodi Redford at http://jodiredford.blogspot.com
Randi Alexander at http://randialexander.com/blog-3/
Christin Lovell at www.christinlovell.com
Rene Folsom at www.renefolsom.com
Sable Hunter at http://sablehunter.com/
Shyla Colt at www.shylacoltsstraightshot.wordpress.com

Want to win even more prizes? They’re having a huge Mardi Gras Facebook Party on Tuesday, February 17. Click on the link then Join the party to hang out with them on Mardi Gras Day. There will be some sinfully awesome giveaways! https://www.facebook.com/events/1401340946828665/

Good luck, and be sure to come and read about their brand new Mardi Gras books as well as every book from each of their Red Hot holiday collections: http://redhotauthors.com/red-hot-cajun-nights/

Steph Reviews The Incredible Adventures of Fredrick Von Wigglebottom: Dreamtime in Alice Springs by Edward Moldenhauer

Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Series: Spin the Globe #1
Format Read: Ebook
Source: From the author for an honest review
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Buying Links: Amazon* | Book Depository* | OmniLit* | Barnes & Noble |
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Blurb from goodreads:

Spin the Globe: The Incredible Adventures of Frederick von Wigglebottom is a fact-based and educational book series based on bedtime stories I told my daughter and son. Each night they would ask Daddy to tell them a story. After exhausting every variation of bunny, frog, knight, and princess stories I could come up with, one evening, I took notice of the globe that sat atop their dresser. I asked them to help me with a story topic and had them spin the globe ! They would use their finger to stop the globe, and wherever their finger landed, I had to tell them an impromptu story about that particular country or area. This particular story of the series takes place in the heart of Australia, near Alice Springs and Uluru. Frederick encounters George, an Aborigine boy, and Madeline, a girl of European heritage, who teach him about this area of the Outback in the Land Down Under.

A Saint's Salvation by Beverly Ovalle - EXCERPT And GIVEAWAY

I 'met' Beverly through a blogger group I belong to and invited her to be a guest at the Nook. On Wednesday, we had an excerpt and giveaway of an erotic paranormal. Today she's be back with an excerpt and giveaway of a contemporary military romance, "A Saint's Salvation". Grab a seat and a drink, ignore the almost three feet feet of snow outside, push the cat out of your way, and enjoy! 

Beverly Ovalle lives in Wisconsin with her husband Edmond of 25 years and two Chinese Water Dragons. Having her own Dragons is expected as she is dragon crazy and anyone that walks in her house can tell. Her son Nicholas visits when he is on leave from the Marines. Her daughter Susannah visits from time to time to make sure us ‘old’ folks are alive and kicking.

The Friday 56 - The Whole Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson

This is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice. If you'd like to join in the fun go to The Friday 56.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

I've been away from this series for a few years and decided to get back to it. Currently I'm reading "The Whole Enchilada", by Diane Mott Davidson. The quote is from page 56  in the paperback.

Years ago, he'd been a legend in his own mind, never less than an hour late for any appointment, intent in impatiently interrupting patients as they related their tales of woe.

REVIEW And GIVEAWAY of The Dragon Conspiracy by Lisa Shearin

Publisher: ACE Fantasy
Series: SPI Files #2
Format Read: print ARC
Source: the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Challenge: 2015 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Buying Links: Amazon* | Book Depository* | ARe*/OmniLit | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords*
* affiliate links; the blog receives a small commission from purchases made through these links.

Blurb from goodreads:

After solving The Grendel Affair, the agents have another SPI File to investigate...

We’re Supernatural Protection & Investigations, known as SPI. We battle the real monsters of myth and legend, but this Halloween, we’re searching for diamonds…

A gala opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has attracted the upper crust of Manhattan—and thieves. A trio of vile harpies attacks the crowd and steals the stars of the exhibition: a colorful cluster of seven cursed diamonds known as the Dragon Eggs.
In the right mage’s hands, each stone can pack a magical wallop. Together they have the power to “cure” the supernaturals of the tri-state area—but for many of those vampires and werewolves, that means turning into dust.

I’m Makenna Fraser, a seer for SPI. With the help of my partner, Ian, and the other agents, I have twenty-four hours to prevent total global panic, find the diamonds, and save the supernatural community. No biggie.