Book Review Party Wednesday - LIVE!

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Welcome to Book Review Party Wednesday.

It is real simple. Link up any (old or new, any genre) book review that you have
written to the below MckLinky.

A couple of things to remember while you're linking.

1. Add a permalink to your specific post, not the main page of your blog (only one review per blog).
2. Add my Book Review Wednesday Badge or a link-back to the party at the end of your review post.
3. List the name of your blog, Title of Book or Genre. Be sure to use spaces and limit characters to 50. For example: The Lost Symbol, thriller

4. Become a follower of my blog, pretty please (not mandatory).
5. Visit the other linked up reviews and leave comments....it's a party, have fun!
6. I will announce the winner in a weekend post. The winner is chosen from the linked up reviewers using Random Number Generator. All included.

I am so excited to be reading all the reviews! This is always so much fun and gives me the opportunity to add new books to my list (& now check out book covers).

-CYM

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I Owe You Some Winners!

Did you notice the {s} on the end of that word in the title?  I have been busy with travel and did not have time to pick last weeks review link-up winner. Sorry!! 

So without further adieu last week's winner of the Personal Library Kit...

Congrats to News and Reviews from the Heart of the Dragons Den!

*all winners are selected by Random Number Generator *


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And this week's winner of the $15 Amazon eGC...

Congrats to Family Literacy and You!




Be sure to check out them both and leave a comment!


Send me your email address for the Amazon eGC & shipping address for the Personal Library Kit.

Warms-
CYM

**get ready for tonight's start of the Wednesday review link-up party**

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Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay **Book Review**

Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana De Rosnay
St. Martin’s Griffin 2007

Imagine that you are a 10 year-old girl living joyfully with your family in Paris (Sirkah, or Sarah). It is 1942. Your father is hiding from the Nazis and the Vichy French police. Fists pound on your door. Your own Frenchmen take you and your mother away, as your father leaves his hiding place to be with you. Your little brother hides in your secret place. You take his key promising to return. You escape from the detention camp. Your parents go to Aushwitz. You have the key to your brother’s secret place. What would you do?

This wonderful story is told from the perspective of an American woman living in Paris with her thoroughly French husband and a daughter about the age of Sarah. Our heroine Julia is a reporter assigned to do a story on the 60th anniversary of the Velodrome d’Hiv, where the Jews were incarcerated and then dispatched. She discovers that her in-laws moved into Sarah’s apartment. Long buried memories of her father-in-law who found the remains of the boy focus the reporter on the story, which leads her on the quest to find Sarah.

Julia has a wandering husband and a new baby surprise as she embarks on the mystery.

Ms. De Rosnay spins an emotional story of the journey to find Sarah, and, perhaps, a new life. The history of the French entombment of their own people is a shameful period of French history. Each of us can imagine how we would react on any side of such a gruesome situation. Would we be cowards or heroes, victims or survivors? Each of these stories is told in Sarah’s Key.

This wonderfully written story is an emotional thriller. It will trigger introspection in you about how lucky you are, or how you need to move forward in your own life.

Warms, Cym

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Coming up for Air

I have been traveling for 10 days. Please bear with me as I get it together.  Here is what I am working on:

1. $15 Amazon book review link-up winner announcement
2. Library Kit book review link-up winner announcement
3. Thrillerfest Re-cap
4. 2 Book Reviews
5. Book Bloggers Spotlight
6. Friday's Musings
&
7. Thrillerfest SWAG! Tons of SWAG!  I will decide how to divide up all the fun stuff and give it away to YOU!

Whew!  What are you working on?

-CYM

PS. I would love to host you as a guest blogger. Do you have a recent book review or book article? Copy & paste your html code in an email. I will make sure the post links back to your blog etc.

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Book Review Party Wednesday -LIVE - Library Kit GIVEAWAY!

{For a bibliophile, there’s no greater pleasure than sharing beloved books, but no crueler pain than losing them for good—until the Personal Library Kit! Revive old-fashioned library circulation techniques for fun and book retention with our classic kit. Specs: 6 x 7.5 x 1.25 inches; 20 self-adhesive pockets and checkout cards; date stamp and inkpad; pencil}

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Welcome to Book Review Party Wednesday.

It is real simple. Link up any (old or new, any genre) book review that you have
written to the below MckLinky.

A couple of things to remember while you're linking.

1. Add a permalink to your specific post, not the main page of your blog (only one review per blog).
2. Add my Book Review Wednesday Badge or a link-back to the party at the end of your review post.
3. List the name of your blog, Title of Book or Genre. Be sure to use spaces and limit characters to 50. For example: The Lost Symbol, thriller

4. Become a follower of my blog, pretty please (not mandatory).
5. Visit the other linked up reviews and leave comments....it's a party, have fun!
6. I will announce the winner in a weekend post. The winner is chosen from the linked up reviewers using Random Number Generator. All included.

I am so excited to be reading all the reviews! This is always so much fun and gives me the opportunity to add new books to my list.

-CYM

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Happy 4th of July!

Stay Safe-

CYM

*get ready for tomorrow's book review link-up!*

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Friday's Musings

1. I leave for Thrillerfest on Wednesday. Make sure you are following me on Twitter & FB. I will be updating from there during the week.


2. In 1971, Marguerite Hart, the children’s librarian of Troy, Michigan, wrote to dozens of politicians, writers, artists and otherwise notable individuals asking them to send in a few inspirational words for the children of Troy on the opening of its first public library. 97 letters came back. Take a look...very interesting!


3. This article is from Lifehacker. It's details how to create a summer reading list (not that any of us have a problem creating a reading list!).


4. Here's a picture I came across of a suspended library. Pretty cool.

5. Punctuation is everything.

An English professor wrote these words "A woman without her man is nothing" on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:

"A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote:

"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Have a great weekend & Happy 4th of July to all those celebrating! Be safe my friends.

-CYM

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