Jan. ’11 Free Books!
Happy New Year! I pray for each of you a blessed and joyous year ahead. To start it off right, let’s give away books!
Because winter seems a great time to ‘hunker down’ with a classic, our January 2011 free books are both classics – one from long ago and one more recent. Your name will go into our book drawing on January 31 if you post a reply to the question below, but first a little more about our books.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO was written by Alexandre Dumas and first published in 1844. CRISTO further enhanced Dumas’s celebrity status, which was established during the serial publication of The Three Musketeers in 1843-44. A tale of betrayal and redemption, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is the epitome of swashbuckling romances. From the cover flap, “Dashing Young Edmond Dantes has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well like by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is falsely accused of treason by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for fourteen years. Filled with vivid detail of post-Napoleonic France, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO continues to dazzle readers with its thrilling and memorable scenes, including Dantes’s miraculous escape from the dreadful Chateau d’If. ”
Our give-away book (translated from the French into English) is a new hardcover Barnes and Noble classics edition.
Jose Saramago, 1998 winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote and published BLINDNESS in the 1990s. BLINDNESS is now considered a modern classic and is an international bestseller. From the back cover, “A city is hit by an epidemic of’ ‘white blindness’ which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. BLINDNESS is a powerful portrayal of man’s worst weaknesses – and man’s ultimately exhilarating spirit.
Our give-away book (translated from Portuguese into English) is a new trade paperback edition.
To quality for our drawing, let us know your new year’s resolution – or if you didn’t make a resolution this year. My resolution is twofold, increase my exercise levels and continue to learn more about social networking and the Internet. My everyday resolution, which has been a part of my life for many years, is to show more kindness to others.
Q4U: So…Any resolutions?
Blessings, Sue
Moments of silence….ahhh!
Hi Sue,
I am trying to take more media breaks – less tv, newspapers, excess and unnecessary noise, and I’m trying to learn to breath and relax more.
I’m notorious for trying to pack too much into my days and acting like a mule skinner’s persuing me with a whip.
Haven’t got a handle on meditation, but am working on moments of silence.
Genean
That’s a great idea, Deb, drinking more water! I also need to cut back on the sugar. I hear that’s a good way to cut back on craving for food, too, that sometimes when we feel hungry, we’re actually on the verge of dehydration.
Hi Sue,
I really haven’t made a new years resolution. I’m working on staying
away from sugar, moving more, and drinking more water. I’m not a real big water drinker.
By the way I really loved reading A Prairie Christmas Collection!
I didn’t want to put the book down!
Deb
That sounds like great exercise! I’m sure we do have people water walking here in the US, but where I live the water is covered with about a foot of ice December through March, so we try to avoid water walking during those months!
SUE WATER WALKING IS DONE IN A POOL I HAVE ARTHRITIS IN BOTH HIPS AND IT DOES HELP.SO I SWIM ALL YEAR ROUND.ALL THE SPORTING PEOPLE DO THIS ESPECIALLY FOOTBALLERS AFTER BIG MATCHES AND IT HELPS WITH INJURY’S.DO YOU HAVE THAT IN YOUR COUNTRY?
What a great way to beat bad news!! (Like a high gas bill – I was just complaining about mine!) Thank you, Jackie!
My new year’s resolution may sound a bit odd but I discovered a new inner peace because of it, I have decided
to be positive towards anyone I meet and anything I do and say out loud my new motto: “I have no complaints, thank you”, to clarify: I often meet people who are negative before they are positive and tell all sorts of stories that are in essence not really important in the greater scheme of things. To say the words: “I have no complaints” makes people think and you can see a change of thought in there heads.
When I receive a bill I used to say: “pff, that gas bill is high this month”, now I say: thank you gas provider for giving me gas to cook with and heat my house with, it is worth paying for this.”
I hope you get the picture.
Also: a smile a day keeps the doctor away. 🙂
@Trish – Water walking sounds interesting, Trish. Do you walk in a pool?
@ Lynn – perfect way to say it. Move more, eat less – I need that to be my motto!!
…move more, eat less…….sounds so simple :/
My prayers are with you, Lucy, as you face this very difficult battle! Both of my grandfathers were smokers and also several other members of my family. I know they all fought hard to quit and I greatly admire anyone who wages that war. Best of luck to you, my friend! Sue
Hi Sue!
Resolution’s are often hard to keep up the whole year.We all have good intentions.Mine for this year is to do more water walking & swimming plus finish my family tree.So I need to keep myself focus and not get side tracked!!!
My new year’s resolution is to quit smoking, yes Sue I am a smoker, I really hate to admit it because it’s such a horrible habit. That’s my new year’s resolution and am set to quit this year, wish me luck!
It sounds like a great idea to me, Lynn!
Hi Sue,
I try to not really make new year’s resolutions because I mostly let myself down by not sticking with it the whole year, then I feel like a failure. But this year I made a mental note to myself to ‘do better, be better’ — and that includes improvement in everything in my life and home. HUGE tall order, but if I take it a slice at a time a day at a time, I can chip away at all that needs to be done and also keep reminding myself of my personal goals in attitude and self-improvement. (For me that means staying focused on the Lord’s character, too.) Maybe by the end of 2011 I will have accomplished enough to feel that I have succeeded. 🙂 It’s worth a try.
Blessings,
Lynn