Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Daily Vintage - Mechanical Valentine by Charles Twelvetrees
Guest Post, Book Spotlight, and Giveaway - Hope in Every Raindrop
Hope In Every Raindrop
by Wesley Banks
NA Contemporary
ebook, 202 pagesMay 26th 2015
Taking a chance on the words of a local grocer, Katie stumbles upon a rare breed of dogs raised by the town doctor and his nephew Kyle. The only problem? Kyle isn’t interested in telling stories—especially not to a big-city girl who can’t seem to sit still. In an attempt to win him over as the clock winds down, Katie finds herself immersed in Kyle’s world, doing everything but writing.
When inspiration finally strikes, Katie is faced with an unforeseen catastrophe and a truth she can no longer ignore. While she has come to love the dogs, the real story may be about Kyle Walker.
Guest Post by Wesley Banks
Recently I posted my current to-be-read (TBR) list on Instagram. There were 15 books on that list, and since then
I've read 3. Of course, none of those 3 were on my TBR list, but that's a
different story.
Today I wanted to talk about the 5 books I'm most excited about on this
list.
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
I'm a huge fan of Japanese culture, and especially samurai. This book
recounts the life of Japan's greatest
swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi. It's been on my TBR list for a while, but
it's at the very top.
Mistborn by Brandon
Sanderson
I actually read this series when it first came out,
but recently lost the books and ended up buying the entire series...again. Most
people probably know Brandon Sanderson for finishing Robert Jordan's famous
series Wheel of Time, but I'm super
excited to read this series again.
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
The first book I read by Michael Lewis was The Big Short which was an amazing insight to the housing market
crash in 2007-2008. I don't expect Liar's Poker to be as great as The Big Short, only because it's based
on the 1987 stock market crash (something I don't know that much
about), but I still think it's going to be a good read.
Riddle-Master by Patricia
McKillip
This is actually a trilogy, but I'm only counting it as one book. I
probably would have read this book based on the title alone, but everyone I
have talked to has raved about it.
The Art of Racing
in the Rain by Garth Stein
I'm shocked I haven't read this book. I've had it for quite a while, but
at the time I was reading Marley and Me,
then Merle's Door, and The Philosopher and the Wolf (which is
probably on my top 3 all-time list!). This eventually got lost in my small
library. But after the move I recently found it and it's back on my TBR.
If you didn't notice, I read pretty much everything. Though, typically I
try to alternate between fiction and non-fiction, unless I'm in the middle of
an awesome series.
What about you, what's on your TBR list?
Wesley Banks was born in 1983 and grew up on the west coast of Florida. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering. After spending over 7 years building movable bridges from Florida to Washington he decided to focus on his true passion: writing.Wesley recently moved from Florida to Oregon to get back to the great outdoors that he’s love so much. He lives with my wife Lindsey, and his two dogs Linkin and Story. Most of his time these days is spent writing, with as much rock climbing, hiking, or skiing as they can fit in.
Wesley’s debut novel, “Hope In Every Raindrop,” is set to be released May of 2015.
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May 21st - Launch
May 22nd - Getting Your Read On & The Written Adventure
May 24th - Writing Pearls
May 25th - Words for the Journey & Story Broads
May 26th - View from the Birdhouse
May 27th - Mommabears Book Blog
May 28th - Underneath the Covers & Min Reads and Reviews
May 29th - Katie's Clean Book Collection
May 31st - Zerina Blossom's Books
June 1st - My Love for Reading Keeps Growing
June 2nd - A Novel Kind of Bliss
June 3rd - Grand Finale
Tour Giveaway
$25 Amazon Gift Card
3 ebook copies of Hope In Every Raindrop
Open internationally
Book Spotlight - Off Balance, Book 1 of Ballet Theatre Chronicles By Terez Mertes Rose
Off Balance, Book 1 of Ballet Theatre Chronicles
By Terez Mertes Rose
Genre: Women’s fiction (with YA crossover), performing arts related
Book Description:
Alice thinks she’s accepted the loss of her ballet career,
injury having forced her to trade in pointe shoes onstage for spreadsheets
upstairs. That is, until the day Alice's boss asks her to befriend Lana, a pretty new
company member he’s got his eye on. Lana represents all Alice has lost, not just as a ballet dancer, but as a
motherless daughter. It’s pain she’s kept hidden, even from herself, as every
good ballet dancer knows to do.
Lana, lonely and unmoored,
desperately needs some help, and her mother, back home, vows eternal support.
But when Lana begins to profit from Alice’s advice and help, her mother’s constant attention
curdles into something more sinister.
Together, both women must
embark on a journey of painful rediscoveries, not just about career
opportunities won and lost, but the mothers they thought they knew.
OFF BALANCE takes the reader
beyond the glitter of the stage to expose the sweat and struggle, amid the
mandate to sustain the illusion at all cost.
Author Bio:
Terez Mertes Rose is a writer
and former ballet dancer whose work has appeared in the Crab Orchard Review,
Women Who Eat (Seal Press), A Woman’s Europe (Travelers’ Tales), the
Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Jose Mercury News. She reviews dance
performances for Bachtrack.com and blogs about ballet and classical music at
The Classical Girl. She makes her home in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband, son and too many cats. She loves good food, good
wine, and a good (but not too hard) adult ballet class. She also publishes
under the name Terez Rose.
Author website: www.terezrose.com
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