december update

hello
i have been really tired and busy this last month with my english and german class and my swimming training so i was unable to read much **my resolution for 2012 is to take more time for reading ..
have great holidays
valerie

time of my life : cecelia ahern ; book review

i gave 5/5

lucy is lying all the time .she has a non interesting life
she lost her boyfriend .she works in a place she doesn't like .she nicknames all her collegues ..
she doesn't fit with her family rules and dislike going to the family meeting ..
it's the same with her friends she lied to them since she is alone (since blake and her brake) ..
in all occasion she is used to leave early the meetings for preventing herself to tell about her ..
one day she received a letter with a meeting with her life ..after several letters she decided to go and meet her life ..the interview went bad as life told her the true about what she is lying ..
life is entering in her life to allowed lucy to find peace and love again ..
will lucy will find peace in herself ? will she be able to tell only the truth ? will life in her life will be barable ?

cecelia ahern did a great book again ..we follow lucy life with joy and can't stop laughing with her saying lies all the time to escape her real life until life enter in hers ..
i really enjoy cecelia 's work on this book as usual ..
the story is well found and we like to see all the problems in lucy life ..

book giveway

here is a book giveway here http://lovesbooksreviews.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-giveaway-surprise.html#comment-form
don't hesitate to enter

midwife confession by diane chamberlain ;review

I gave 4/5 stars

I win it from a giveway

This story is about 3 best friends noelle who is midwife ; emerson and tara ..after the death of noelle lost of secrets went known and made an eathquake in the tara and emerson life wondering if noelle did trust them for not telling what they are discovering

Emerson is maried to ted and have a daughter named jenny and they live a happy life until some secret been discovered

Tara is a widow from some months ; she lost her husband in a tragic accident and her and her daughter grace have difficulties to communicate and to live without Sam ..

Noelle is rather secret and she explains all her life in the book ..and why she tood some decision she did ..she became a midwife because she used to love her mother’s job as a midwife .. but she did it in a proper way by doing nursing studies .that’s at the university that she met emerson and tara and also Sam ..

And there is Anna who appears in the second part of the book..she is a single mother of haley who has leukeumia ..haley ‘father who has just reappeared in their life what to be a great father and regret to have left the family when all went wrong ..they had another daughter lilly who has diseapeared in her early days but they have never stop looking for her ..Anna is working for missing child association

After noelle’s death a lot of secrets about her came to be known by the books she has written about her job and with the papers they found in her house ..it was really hard for emerson and tara to see that their other friend lied so much to them .will the 2 of them recovered from those discoveries and understand noelle choices at the time ..

Will tara and grace succeed in having a new life without sam ?

Will anna , bryan and haley will succeed in finding their lost girl and find a donnor for haley ?

As i said the book as been given to me but i really love those stories of several people where the main character speaks in separate chapter so we know all of what they are thinking their hope and wishes and vision of life and their fears

Diane chamberlain did a great book ..but it finished a little too quickly ..one or two chapters could have been added ..by the way it was a book we could hardly stop reading it

giveway

here is a giveway from rachel vincent new book
http://marjoleinbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-tourmy-soul-to-steal-by-rachel.html

urge to jump from trisha ashley ; review

i gave 5/5


the book is about women especially 3 of them who want a major change in their lives ..they want to have a child despite they are a bit at a limit of age

there is sappho (main character and narator who is 39) who is a paranormal writer , writing her book and who moves a lot to write ..she is an excentric single woman as she described herself ..her only problem is her ex boyfriend dave who is not stopping loving her after years of break ..truly breaks ..

we also have mu (39 soon)who desperatly want a child from ambler they are trying different methods to try to have a child and after she will try alone ..

and miranda a shy woman under the big influence of her husband chris who only wants her wife to help him in his carreer and to stay in his back ..but miranda discovers that she can do somthing else despite the disapproval of her husband ..

as men we have nye a potter who will be part of the history and gil as gilbert who has lost her wife in an unknowned way and who tries to discover why
and of course dave and chris

the story takes place in a small village bedd (spelled beth) where sappho miranda nye chris gil are all living (sappho has just moved back after travalling a lot ) ;a very small village ..mu lives in another place but come to visit her friend sappho a lot with special gifts ..

so we see all those characters evoluating in an action place and to want to change life and especially sappho who is looking for the right man to have a child with ..but dave is so jalous and make sappho life so difficult and so stressful but she seems to be less stressed than her friends with this problem

will sappho succeed to find a good man ?
will miranda succeed in changing her life and existing for herself ?
will mu succeed in becoming pregnant ?
that's the 3 questions about the book

i was really happy to read the book especially as i'm 39 too . and i found trisha ashley's book really good, as usual, with lots of new developments ; news and i like to see how sappho changes her mind about a friend ..i won't spoil ..
i was a little afraid to have a book dedicated to 'i want a child desperatly woman ' but it isn't all about that this is more about writing books for sappho ,developping new jobs for miranda and the life in the village .and lots of problems due to dave ..the reasearch of gil's wife ..so it wasn't in a stereotype of i truly want a child ..which relieved me so much

as you will see urge to jump has 2 meanings in the book but i can't tell otherwise i will spoil the story too
well done trisha

untamed review

i gave 5/5

i was happy to find again zoey redbird and her friend in this book #4 .
we can see that the relationship with aphrodite is changing ..good or bad way it's you to see by reading ..
stevie ray is becoming more herself too but still out of the house of night
aphrodite visions become more frightening and close to the cherokee legend that zoey grandma has learned ..so they come into a close even more closer relationship to solve a prophecie that aphrodite has seen and that is frightening for the future (all of this gives me goose pimples especially when i read during the night omg ) ...
neferet is more and more strange and makes zoey into difficult situation especially while talking to chakinah another priestess from another house
Erik is back to the house as a teacher to remplace professor loren ..will he be under the charm of zoey or not ? what will happen to zoey ?

this fourth book is one of my fav moving from the middle to the end and was well written as usual ..i'm so happy to see zoey in her role and her friends too ..
if you have read the previous books go and have a read into this one well done ..can't wait for #5 now as it ends on a 'i want to know more of what will happends "

monthly giveway

bookaholic book club is doing a giveway' (monthly ) here http://networkedblogs.com/owdk5 don't hesitate to enter to try your chance

all you need is love by carole matthews : review

I gave 5/5

review
carole matthews did a good book here ..sally freeman is a single mum living in a house estate ..charlie her son doesn't have any news from his dad and has a new dad as substitution sally ex boyfriend johnny whith who sally still have great relation ship
sally trully wants to improve her life and her son's one ..and would like to leave the house estate she lives in despite the great friends she has but he do want a better life for her son
while taking computer classes she falls in love with her teacher spencer a rich man who is here to discover the real life (the life normal humans have )
sally discovers how it is great to be with him and to have money and to see things she has never known in her life ..but spencer is not keen with kids ..
sally needs to be close to johnny too in everything she is doing
one day she has decided to re do the decoration of their house estate ..and a great adventure begins for her but also for all the inhabitants of kimberly house estate ..
what sally will chose to have a better life and go on with spencer or to stay in her poor estate with her friends as a single mum ?
will the project will be a huge success for all the inhabitants ? will this give her new ideas ?

i really enjoy this book explaning life in a poor part of liverpool and their desperate lives and the hopes they have to have a better day
i wasn't really surprise by the end of the book but i did really like it ..

new book giveway

there is a new book giveway here http://fictionaldistraction.blogspot.com/2011/10/international-giveaway.html there are 24 books to win good luck

banned book week

to celebrate the banned book week come to enter the competition and win a book here

banned book week and giveway here http://networkedblogs.com/nGD61 try your chance :)

bookaholicsbookclub giveway

there is another giveway here http://networkedblogs.com/nLN4a open internationally so don't hesitate to have a go and see the books which are in the competition
valerie

another giveway

another book givaway here http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/ just follow the rules very simply to enter the competition ..
good luck

new giveaway

there is a new giveway from http://bestbooks1.blogspot.com/2011/09/give-away-shifting-by-bethany-wiggins.html?showComment=1316558427155#c8609022505929793718 here ...

the book is shifting-by-bethany-wiggins

come if you want to have a chance to enter the competition

BookaholicsBookClub and giveaway

i've discovered this group on facebook .it's about letting know everyone about a book review opinion ..there is a several kinds of book ..this group is really active ..
I've now discover that they also have a twitter and a blogger which is really great ..
i always need a good review to know which new book to read ..as i'm in france and i'm reading books in english i only have amazon or waterstones to buy my books and it's online so i really needed a group like this one to have a quick review for me to have a summup on a new book to know if i'm going to buy it or not (on amazon we don't have a summup of the book which is sad )

they also do giveaway really often and it is a nice solution for those who can't afford to buy a book often .i'm not lucky but i keep playing .i just hope to win one day . it is nice to see that so many people are so nice to give books to others ..it's something i really enjoy .
so if you want to try just go on the FB page of the group ;)

hope you will like it too