Win the book Kiss

J. Kaye's Book Blog is offering another good book to a reader this week. It's an ARC of Ted Dekker and Erin Healy's Kiss. I've heard Dekker compared to Dean Koontz so this should be a very good book.

Book info - The prologue opens with Shauna McAllister and brother, Rudy, in Dr. Ayers’s office. She is planning to confront her father who is a Senator running for the presidency. After the confrontation, both are in an auto accident. When she awakes from a coma, she has no memory of the past six months. Drugs were found in her car and in her apartment, plus brother has suffered brain damage.The ground work has been laid out for her to start over, but she can’t let the past go. There are too many unanswered questions and she wants to make things right again. What she doesn’t understand is that if she remembers, she’s dead.

If this thriller sounds like something you'd like to read, enter here. Additional entry information on the blog. Winner will not be emailed but will be posted on the blog on May 30. Good luck!

Books I've read this week - Ready-Made Family

Since the weather has warmed up I haven't had as much time for reading. ( Had to get the garden planted and hit the flea market, ya know!) I did read Ready-Made Family by Cheryl Wyatt. This is a Christian romance and not my usual choice . I won the book from Cheryl's blog, http://www.scrollsquirrel.blogspot.com/ It's about a single mother, Amelia North, who gets stranded in the town of Refuge after a car accident. (I thought the name of the town was just a little bit too much) Amelia feels worthless having been disowned by her church after becoming an unwed mother and put down contantly by her father. She has been struggling to raise her daughter for the past 5 years and is on the way to a new job in another state when she wrecks her car. Ben Dillinger, a pararescue jumper, comes to her assistance. Ben helps her get her self-confidence back by treating her as a good Christian should. He falls for her precocious daugher, Reece, and is drawn to Amelia. Guess how it ends. LOL It was an easy read but very predictable.

Thoughts on Recycling

Everywhere you look these days, recycling is thrown in your face. I think basically it's a good idea but if we replace everything we own with 'green' products, where do the older items go? They fill up our landfills and/or ditches. I don't think people should be so quick to get rid of their older items. I think we should use them until they wear out unless they're absolutely the worst energy consumers. Do you really need the latest electronics, bamboo bedding, flooring, or clothing, ? What are you doing with your old things? Some things like reuseable shopping bags and water bottles are great. I see plastic bags all the time caught in trees and weeds and they never degrade. Even the ones that are supposed to be biodegradable only do so when exposed to sunlight and that's not going to happen if they're buried in landfills. So stop and think before getting rid of useable items just to replace them with something 'green'.

Here's something else to think about. If a label says 'recycled paper', people assume that it's been used by consumers, sent to a recycling center, then made into new paper. The only time this is absolutely true is if it's also labeled 'post-consumer'. Otherwise, it may be made from paper cuttings on the mill floor which are added back to the paper pulp and then labeled 'recycled'. This is something paper mills do all the time and it doesn't save any resources. When they label it 'recycled', people think they're helping to save trees. It sounds good and it's perfectly legal.

Win an Audio Book of "Dewey"

J. Kaye's Book Blog has another nice giveway, this time it's the audio book of Dewey by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter. Dewey is the story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa. The author, Vicki Myron, is also the librarian who found him on a cold January morning when he was abandoned as a kitten in the book drop slot. Through Dewey's antics, you come to know and love many of the colorful and inspiring people of Spencer. I had heard of Dewey before the book was written and I would love to read it. Anything about cats touches my heart. To enter go here and leave a comment. Entra entry information on the site. The winner will NOT be notified by email. The winner will be posted on the blog on May 30, 2009. Don't want to miss notification? Subscribe to the blog.

Win James Patterson Audio Books

You could win the first six audio books of James Patterson's Women's Murder Club Series! J. Kaye's Book Blog is giving readers the chance to win audio books that include 1ST TO DIE, 2ND CHANCE, 3RD DEGREE, THE 4TH OF JULY, THE 5TH HORSEMAN, and THE 6TH TARGET. Enter here. Extra entry information on the site. Winners will NOT be notified by email. The winner will be posted on the blog on May 30, 2009.