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It recently occurred to A Reader's Respite that we rarely - if ever - share any of the backstory behind our reading adventures. Yes, we post book reviews and book giveaways, but those are just the end-results of our reading adventures, not the path we...
Thanks to the fabulous generosity of publisher Simon & Schuster we have FOUR winners to announce today......
Veens over at Giving Reading a Chance!
Beth of Beth Fish Reads!
Crystal of My Reading Room!
Spirit Phoenix who blogs at The Fire Deep...
What is the Booker Curse, you ask? It is the evil curse that someone placed on A Reader's Respite that has prevented us from ever being able to actually finish (let alone enjoy) any book written by an author who has been the recipient of the The Man...
Congratulations Marjorie!
You've won a copy of Charles Todd's A Duty to the Dead. Send us your mailing address and A Reader's Respite will happily throw this one in the mail for you!
One of the few mass-market authors that A Reader's Respite truly enjoys is Michael Crichton and we truly mourned his passing last year.
When we learned that an entire finished manuscript was found after his death, we were overjoyed when we learned...
