Book Giveaway update
I tried to give away a book. I even extended the deadline a bit. But no one is interested, I guess. Maybe it was the book itself? Too heavy? Next time, I’ll try something lighter.
If you’re having second thoughts, leave me a comment and I’ll get in touch.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:34 am
It sounds like a good book but something you have to be “ready” to read. I just don’t think I am up for the emotional investment right now. I would love to continue to hear about books you have read and enjoyed!
Elizabeth
September 17th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Just discovered your site, following a link from Mamalogues. Your 911 column reverberated with me. As I’m new to your blog, I just read about this book. I found it the excerpts on the website to be excruciating yet I was ready for more. As a social worker, it is easy to forget the story behind the broken souls and battered lives sometimes. I’d like to read more.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Hi — I just discovered your blog and saw your note about the book. I too am an avid reader and being a mom to two daughters, I tend to gravitate to books about mother/daughter relationships. These type of books always seem to touch me. Although, this one does seem a little heavy (and even depressing) due to the subject matter, I think it could be rather interesting and I’d like to read more. The reviews that it has received sound awesome and I’m definitely intrigued.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Maybe it’s just me, but I like heavy subject matter. Let me know if you run the contest again. I’d definitely enter. Also, this is my first stop at your blog. I’ll be back! I like to hang out with other avid reader moms!
September 18th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Hi Marijean, it’s Dana. Your work email last week led me here, and I’ve been catching up as I can. Right now, my major surfing times are either 3 a.m. when I can’t sleep, or at work, where I pass off the time as “market research.” Market is right, as plenty of retailers have benefitted from my efforts.
Working full time and caring for my three kids under five while my husband works evenings and Saturdays pretty much consumes me these days. My daughter is already so perceptive and amazing at 4, and has already had to form an opinion on war. We don’t watch the news, but my husband keeps reading these Bush administration whistle blower accounts, and his current one is Fiasco, about Iraq. She saw the book, and asked about the picture on the cover. I had to explain that they were soldiers, what soldiers did, that they were carrying a flag-draped stretcher because one of them had been killed. I also had to explain war. She paused, and said with real conviction and a little bit of distancing denial, “That’s bad.” She didn’t want to talkabout it anymore. I think kids have to do that to protect themselves sometimes.
Anyway, I’d love to read Comeback. Last summer, when I was pregnant with twins, all I could manage to read was the Harry Potter series, over and over again. It was a kind of escapist denial, and a way to cope with the fact that I couldn’t walk, grocery shop, cook, or care for my daughter very well. Now, though, my reading is beginning to branch out again. I have always been the kind of person who likes to confront the worst, to know how bad it really could get. Maybe it’s perverse. Maybe I’m simply trying to remind myself, every day, how lucky I am. And I think I’m also gathering information for the days to come of parenting, after the diapers and bottles and preschool and the really quite easy questions.
Let me know, and I’ll email my address. Did I also mention I’m on a budget? And that it’s quite difficult to get out to shop at all (thank you, all you dot coms).
Also I can understand not wanting to read that book again. It was hard to see Ordinary People and Schindler’s List and that one movie about the slave crossing and others in that genre, maybe call it real life horror? I can say these were good movies, wonderful films, and that I never, ever want to see them again.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us, and please allow me to provide you with the opportunity to clear some shelf space!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
The books sounds interesting, if you ever do it again please let me know. I just saw this post, found you through google. BTW- in the future if you want to let a LOT of people know about your giveaways you may want to try emailing some of the blogs that post giveaways. I’m one of them and those in my sidebar do them as well. Just a thought.
I am sorry I missed your giveaway.