Dear John ~ Giveaway!!

Is anyone else SUPER excited for this movie to come out? Well when I saw that SUPER HOT Channing Tatum was going to be in it I HAD To see it....

Go watch the trailer.. So good!


Well I went out and bought the book for 2 reasons.

1. I love to read

2. Channing Tatum was on the cover...lol

It was a good book. I really like most of Nicholas Sparks books, albeit they are all a bit cheesy they really make you believe in love and the goodness in people.

And after reading through it in 2 days, the hubby read it because and I quote "I suppose you are going to drag me to this STUPID cheesy movie right?"

So ladies and gentlemen? (I wonder if any boys read my blog?) Now that we are done reading it WHO WANTS IT??


I am going to give away the book to 1 lucky winner!!

And to sweeten the pot a little, and make this a bad ass giveaway.... I will also INCLUDE PASSES TO SEE THE MOVIE FOR FREE!!! As long as you live near an AMC theater?

Who wants to win??

Ok so to enter here are the guidelines, with the deadline being by Tuesday January 26th, 2010 at 9pm CT. That way I will have time to ship you the book to read before the movie comes out on February 5th!!

How to win!!

1. Leave a comment (1 entry)

2. Leave another comment (makes it easier to count) that you are a follower (1 entry)

3. Blog about it and leave me the link in the comments (1 entry)

4. BONUS if you do all 3 you get entered into a SPECIAL surprise drawing that I am keeping secret till the end!!

Now go! Comment. Blog about it!! Win it!

Drum Roll please!!! The WINNERS!!

YAY!!! 7 books in 7 days!!! Alright ladies here is the deal. Please email me at crazy random musings @ yahoo dot ca (remove spaces) and go here and pick your book from the displayed items and I will get them right in the mail!! So email me which book you want AND your address!! Its going to be first come first served so please include at least 2 books titles you would like!!! Also you only have 6 days to get your address and book request to me.. Well because I will out of the country!!!Weehoo






There will also be a special surprise in each package! ; )

Day one : #1 Mrs R

Day two : #6 Crazy Shinanigans

Day three : #7 Emily

Day four : #2 The sweet life

Day five: #5 Sandy Its funny cause she won on the day the blog post was about her : )

Day six: #7 Secret Agent Women

Day seven : #3 Employee 3699

Congrats ladies!!! How exciting!!

Funny

A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. 'Human beings are the only animals that stutter,' she says. A little girl raises her hand. 'I had a kitty-cat who stuttered.' The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident. 'Well', she began, 'I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!' 'That must've been scary,' said the teacher. 'It sure was,' said the little girl. 'My kitty raised her back, went “Ffffff!, Ffffff!, Ffffff,” but before she could say 'Fuck!,' the Rottweiler ate her! The teacher had to leave the room.

7 books in 7 days!! Book Giveaway Bonanza!! Day 3
So you can read all about the giveaway here

The rules: 1. Leave a comment to enter, answering a question I will leave a the end of the post. ITS THAT EASY!!! And if you win for the day YOU PICK which book you would like to get in the mail!!

Todays Question:

What size shoe do I wear?

7 Books in 7 days!! BOOK GIVEAWAY BONANZA!!

WANT TO SEE WHO ONE THE LAST BOOK GIVEAWAY CLICK HERE!

So if you have not already figured I am a HUGE reader!! I love reading and I read just about anything.. Well with exception to romance books. I have tried but I just can not get into them. Romance or Harry Potter. No offense to anyone who reads them its just not for me.

Anyway, moving on

7 books in 7 days!! How do you win?? And what book to you win? Well here is the BEST part, YOU PICK WHICH BOOK YOU WANT!! From these titles from my summer reading list (which also in turn picks which book I have to read next....

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So how do you enter??

I am going to blog EVERYDAY for the 7 days starting Monday July 27th either about a book I LOVE. Or about one that I have read more than once. Or just about life.... I will try to make sure to post as early in the day as I can so you can enter ANYTIME in that 24 hours by just leaving a comment!

Its that easy. Comment everyday for the next 7 days!! And then I will notify the winners in order of the days to pick the book they want!

But so that its NOT TO EASY!! I am also going to post a question about "yours truly" and you must correctly answer this question to have your comment entered. Its all easy stuff and stuff that can easily be found that I have blogged about here on my blog : )

Tell everyone you know, blog about it and each person that comments tell them to say where they are coming from and YOU BOTH get an extra entry for that day! So if they enter EVERYDAY and so do you thats 14 entries!

How fun. Free stuff and get to know Random Musings!

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Who wants to win???

And the winner is.....

Of book giveaway #3 is



L Harris over at Just Our Thoughts who is a fellow Canadian (however had no weight on her winning : )

AND Because I wanted to give away 2 books because it was SO fabulous!

The Upper West Side Writer over at Falling Into Words

CONGRATS LADIES!!! Please email me at crazyrandommusings at yahoo dot ca and I will get your books right in the mail!! I can not WAIT to see what y'all think of this book!

Also I will be posting a HUGE giveway tonight for BOOKS!! So check back soon! I will be releasing all the great details!

Book Giveaway!! #3

I just can not help myself. This book was AMAZING! The hubby bought it when he was traveling, he though just by looking at it that it would be a scary or sci fi book. That it is not!

Here is the a summary (again totally stolen from somewhere on the internet)

Mack is the main character in this novel. His full name is Mackenzie Philips. He is a father of five children. One day Mack takes his three children on a camping trip to Multnomah Falls and Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon. There, while playing on a canoe, it flips and two of the children fall into the lake. While one manages to escape the other son of Mack almost drowns. Mack wastes no time and immediately jumps into the lake to save his son, leaving behind his youngest daughter Missy alone at their campsite. He manages to save his son. But after he returns to the campsite with his two sons he finds his daughter missing. Later, he discovers that his daughter has been abducted and murdered by a serial killer known as the "Ladybug Killer". When the police are called they find an empty Shack in the woods where Missy was taken but her body is not found........

This is a christian book this book will touch true to so many readers. Although I rarely talk about religion or my belief in god this book if you do not believe I think you may just walk away a believer.

The hubby read it in 2 days. I would have read it in 1 day if life had not gotten in the way! And here is the BEST PART!!

I love this book SO MUCH!! That I am going to give away 2 books!! I would recommend however not to get online to do ANY research on this book. Read it blind as I did because it was SO MUCH better. If you research it makes the book sound all hookie.

How do you win??

1) Leave a comment (1 entry) before Tuesday July 21st at 12pm!

2) Become a follower or leave that you are already in the comments (1 entry)

3) Tell a friend! Have them leave a comment of how they got here! (1 entry per friend)

Good Luck!

Book Giveaway!! #2

This was SUCH a great book!! I may have cried a little its an easy read but it may not be for everyone. Here is a brief "summary" that I totally stole from somewhere on the internet.

Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

Lifetime actually made it into a movie too... Its a great summer read! Who wants it??

1) Leave a comment ~ 1 entry

2) Become a follower ~ 1 entry.. or if you already are let me know in your comment ~ 1 entry

3) Enter by 12pm Tuesday July 14th!

YAY!! I love book giveaways!!

Oh and make sure to check back on Monday for 7 books in 7 days!! How fun!!

Book Giveaway!! #1

I really love Jen Lancaster, I have read all of her books. She is such a brilliant writer and shes SO funny! Her books are all memoirs about her life. How she went from a 6 figure income to poor and living in the ghetto. I mean look at her book covers? Does that not make you want to dive in!!

So this is my first of my 33 summer reading books I will be giving away!!

All you need to do is:



1. Leave a comment (1 entry) that you would LOVE to get this gem of a book in your mail box, it may be with a little bit of a surprise to go with it because I LOVE surprises!!!

2. Become a follower ( 1 entry) so I can check out your blog too!

3. Enter by Tuesday July 7th at 12pm. : )

Pretty easy huh? I am SO excited to give away all my books... I am going to have to start reading a little faster so I can start adding to my stack!!!

YAY!! Free books!!

Summer reading

So umm yeah. I better get to reading. 33 books that have been purchased from thrift stores and garage sales. All 33 books you see cost me less than $5. I have found this great new thrift store that has a 5 for $1 books.

And I AM GIVING ALL THESE BOOKS AWAY!!

See when we moved I promised to leave my monster book shelf of books packed. And they are still packed, so as I read through these I will start giving them away to my blog readers! How cook is that?

I am going to do a little review on the book, then POOF its yours. I am still trying to figure out how to do it? First comment about who wants it?

Any ideas?

I treated myself...

So I took all your advice and went book shopping.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Here are the 2 I bought FULL PRICE, and I put that in caps because lets face it I have not paid FULL PRICE for a book in A LONG TIME.

In my defense I did get them at Target and they were 25% off.

First is The Tao of Pooh from My Brand Of Crazy's List. To be honest when I went to look at books I had no idea what I was looking for. I think a little bit of fate put this book in my hands. I had never heard of it, then I saw it and the title and I think it was meant to be.

Also I got Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster. I bought one of her books called Bitter Is The New Black and its a memoir as well as this one and I was laughing so hard at some parts I was crying so I am looking forward to this one.

AND THEN I am going to give them away. Yep. Pass it on!! I will have to think of a way to do it, maybe just a random draw for who ever is interested.

I do love me some books!!!

I need something to read!!

Any suggestions?

I just started one and its in my desk at work, I read on my breaks to just "get away" also because I do not really know anyone close enough in my office to break with yet.

Although I did go walking with a couple of this last week which was nice... But as the weather starts to get warmer out I am not sure how much walking I will be doing.

Also we have this GORGEOUS courtyard that has shade and the sun in the middle of our building so its the perfect place to sit out and read for a bit.. to lose yourself.

Anyways I suspect I will be finished my book in a couple of days and I have not treated myself to a new book in awhile....

So recommend away!!!! The only thing I will NOT read is romance... Nope I have tried, I have tried MANY authors and nothing... NEVER again...

Contests and free stuff!!!

Ok remember this??

I was going to send a book to whoever wanted? Well I only had 2 takers and the books are going out tomorrow!!!

Weehoo.

So Whim and Princess are going to get their books this week.

Anyone else want one??

I am so SPOILED!!!

SO y'all know I was whoring myself out with my Amazon Gift list...





I GOT MY FIRST SURPRISE IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!
This pretty little box with a smiling face at me!!! From one of my very Dear Friends in California with whom I used to work for. Well my dear friend T went through it all with me and she loves me... she really LOVES me....


I am SO excited!!! And my surprise came at the BEST time, I am feeling under the weather and I am spending the weekend in bed recovering WITH MY NEW BOOKS!! I am so excited. You guys have NO idea how much I love to read. Serious. Almost (well sort of close, lets be honest) almost as much as I love SHOES!! I love me some books! I love to read and every since T-Girl was talking about the Secret I have been touching and feeling this book everytime I see it (I know sounds sick) Its this thing I do I also squeal when a new book comes out from one of my favorite authors and I could spend $1000 easy in one trip to Barnes and Noble.



Have you read either of these??? I am so excited