I’m so excited to announce that I received a nomination for BBAW in the Best History / Historical Fiction Blog category. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the comment Deborah left on Wednesday, letting me know.
I want to thank the lovely people who nominated me, I don’t think I deserve the honour but I’m thrilled anyway! ;-)
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Ruby Jordan is a successful married woman who owns a lingerie business, with two grown sons and a marriage of twenty years, she sees her life fall apart the day her husband says he’s leaving her. They still love each other, there’s no other woman, but their relationship just isn’t working, she spends more time dealing with her career than she does with him and enough is enough. After seeing Jack walk out from her life, Ruby feels overwhelmed and sitting down at his desk, she closes her eyes and starts listening to one of his self motivational tapes, the ones she always made fun of. (…)
England, 1985. Thursday Next, our heroine, lives in a world similar to ours, it’s more or less a parallel reality where history seems to have shifted a bit, though some things do remain the same. The Crimean War has been going on for more than a hundred and thirty years, peace doesn’t seem possible and England is intent on eradicating the Russians with a new plasma gun; cloning has become a normal procedure and through it, scientists have been able to bring back the dodo, which has become the pet of choice, meaning that extinction is a word of the past (…)
J. Kaye at J. Kaye’s Book Blog is hosting the Lynn Viehl’s Darkyn Series Reading Challenge, which runs from August 3rd, 2009 to December 31st, 2010, and the goal is to get caught up with the Lynn Viehl’s Darkyn series. I haven’t read any of the books but they’re all in my TBR pile, with raving reviews from friends, so I decided to join one more challenge. J. Kaye will be my undoing! :-P
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J. Kaye at J. Kaye’s Book Blog is hosting the Stephanie Plum Reading Challenge, which runs from July 23rd, 2009 to December 31st, 2010, and the goal is to get caught up with the Stephanie Plum series. I’ve only read the first in the series, that was more than four years ago, and since then I’ve been meaning to read the rest, so I’ll just start again from the beginning. I’ve noticed that the reading challenges I’m participating in are helping me to read more and get a lot more organized, so I couldn’t pass up this opportunity. (…)
Michelle at Galley Smith is hosting the Harry Potter Reading Challenge, which runs from August 1st, 2009 to July 31st, 2010 and the goal, as you’ve probably guessed already, is to read all the books in the Harry Potter series. Since I’ve been meaning to finish the series anyway, this is the perfect excuse to finally do it and in good company.
If you want to know more about this challenge, visit Michelle’s post.
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