Playing House Review and Giveaway

Playing House by Fredrica Wagman From the FSB Publisher: When Playing House appeared in 1973, Publishers Weekly hailed it, "A probing descent into madness that will fascinate the same audience that appreciated I Never Promised You a Rose Garden." This nationally bestselling story of one woman’s struggle with the lasting effects of a childhood sexual relationship with her brother shocked American readers; it remains a literary work of enduring quality and value. In his foreword Philip Roth writes, "The traumatized child; the institutionalized wife; the haunting desire; the ghastly business of getting through the day -- what is striking about Wagman's treatment of these contemporary motifs is the voice of longing in which the heroine shamelessly confesses to the incestuous need that is at once her undoing and her only hope." This story struck me fast and hard. It left my heart aching for these young children who were left on their own to play house. It saddened me to see how the parents over looked what was happening with their children. I had full empathy for the child narrator. I carried that all the way to the end of the book. She had to deal with adult issues and situations when she should have been living her childhood. That is enough to make anyone have mental issues. I can see where someone would think she was crazy because of the repetition of her thoughts and events. This really drove home that she was a victim of childhood incest and abuse and that her wanting to play house was not something normal. She never knew any different. I admire her strength and desire to keep going. A story on such a topic with these strong descriptions has to come from someone who has deep ties to this subject with first hand knowledge. The author did her work and made the characters very real. There is so much more I want to tell you about this book but I really want you to read it for yourself. After you read it feel free to come back here and post your thoughts. I would love to discuss it with you. The book includes A Reader's Guide! I love books with a reader guide! The author, Fredrica Wagman, is the author of five novels, including His Secret Little Wife and The Lie!. She has four grown children and lives with her husband in New York City. Check out my review of The Lie! Thanks to Julie at FSB for allowing me to review and offer 2 copies of this book for a giveaway. I really hope that you will enter to win this book. If you don't win please buy it. It is a heart wrenching, passionate story that you won't want to miss. *************************************** 2 winner will get a copy of Playing House To enter visit FSB Media and tell me another book that you would like to read from there. Make sure you leave your email addy. Extra entries if you subscribe to my blog, tell me your favorite author, tweet the giveaway at least once a day, tell me what you are reading now and/or follow me on twitter as @susieqtpies. One entry given for each comment you make! Do all or none! Thanks! Giveaway for U.S. readers only. Ends October 10th.

The Castaways Audio Book Giveaway

Giveaway~ The Castaways Audio Book

Look what Reading at The Beach is hosting!

Click her button to go right to her blog for all the details to enter!

I've got 3 copies to give away, many thanks to Anna at Hatchette

THE CASTAWAYS
By Elin Hilderbrand
Read by Katie Hale

Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns their loss, nothing can prepare the MacAvoy's closest friends for what will be revealed.

Pope Joan by Donna Woolfork Cross Giveaway

One Persons Journey through a world of Books Blog

Bookjourney just posted this on her blog. It is a direct post so please go to her blog to find out about the entire post and giveaway.

Below is a post from
Posted on July 26, 2009 by Bookjourney

"I recently started an amazing book called Pope Joan by Donna Woolfork Cross. I am still reading it and hope to finish it today and have my review posted, but this I felt couldn’t wait!

The author, Donna Woolfolk Cross and I have been emailing back and forth and we have been discussing the movie coming out this fall based on this book. What? You didn’t know? Yes, this fall the movie is going to be out in theaters. See trailer here

Pope Joan movie trailers, official trailer, worldwide trailer, teasers, clips, videos

Want to win a trip to the Movie Premiere for two with paid airfair and hotel? Follow this particular link : Walk the Red Carpet with Pope Joan!

Chatting with Donna, who is just a delightful person, she has offered my readers a signed copy of Pope Joan autographed and inscribed just to you! I am very excited about this giveaway and want to get started on it right away!

Book sales on this book over the next 3 weeks will determine in part how widely the movie will open in the U.S. So from our little corners of the world I would love to see if we could help out."

Thanks BookJourney for hosting this giveaway! Please check out all the great book reviews on her blog as well as the giveaways!

Book Giveaway: My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield

Book Giveaway: My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield

This giveaway is going on at Alison's Book Marks. Click her blog link to see the full giveaway. This entire post is straight from her blog. Happy Birthday Alison!

From Alison's Book Marks

" My birthday is coming up in a few days, and I love, love, love getting presents!! So, this year, I'm passing on some love. Valerie, at Hachette Book Group, has hooked me up with 5 copies of My Name is Will by Jess Winfield. I will be posting a review of this amazing book soon, but before I do, I need to make sure that at least five of my friends are going to feel the love with me, and join me in chatting about this great book!

First, a little bit about the book:

My Name Is Will
A Novel of
Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
by Jess Winfield

A Tale of two Shakespeares....

Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student, Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about
the Bard. Kind of....

Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs.

Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard's life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome...This, at a time when adherents of the "Old Faith" are being hanged, drawn and quartered as traitors.

Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the 'Shakespeare' each is destined to come...but the very course of history itself."

SO TO get the full details and visit Alison's Book Marks click her blog name! Thanks.

Win The Host and Bonus Twilight!

Win The Host giveaway with Bonus Twilight at Bookin' with "Bingo"!!!!!

THE HOST GIVEAWAY & TWILIGHT BONUS!

This post came straight from Bookin' with "Bingo" blog. Please click the blog name to go to the contest to enter!!!!

THE HOST

by STEPHANIE MEYER

GIVEAWAY AND
A TWILIGHT BONUS
ENDS JULY 15

ABOUT THE BOOK:
The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love. Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English literature. After the publication of her debut novel, Twilight, booksellers chose her as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly). She lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona

THANKS TO MIRIAM AND
THE HATCHETTE BOOK GROUP
FOR SPONSORING THIS GIVEAWAY

I HAVE 5 COPIES TO GIVE AWAY AND
ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL ALSO RECEIVE
A BRAND NEW COPY OF
TWILIGHT FROM ME!

GO ENTER at BOOKIN' WITH "BINGO"! Thanks for hosting and thanks for letting me post it on my blog!!!!