Sept 2014 Free Book!!
Our free book this month is THE PURSUIT OF TAMSEN LITTLEJOHN, another wonderful novel by my friend Lori Benton. If you love historicals, you will love this novel!
From the back cover: “Frontier dangers cannot compare to the risks one woman takes by falling in love. In an act of brave defiance, Tamsen Littlejohn escapes the life her harsh stepfather has forced upon her. Forsaking security and an arranged marriage, she enlists frontiersman Jesse Bird to guide her to the Watauga settlement in western North Carolina. But shedding her old life doesn’t come without cost. As the two cross a vast mountain wilderness, Tamsen faces hardships that test the limits of her faith and endurance.”
Our give-away copy is a new trade edition (the large size) paperback.
To qualify for our Thursday, September 11 drawing, please answer this question: Have you ever spent time in what you would consider to be a wilderness area? (A yes or no answer is fine or you can tell us where!)
Blessings!
Sue
Ruth, any place that has scorpions is wilderness to me!!
Yes, in Montana.
Yes. I used to go to church camp as a kid in Irvine, Ky. It was out in the boonies and I loved it! We had campfires at night and everyone told stories and then we had devotions before we went to bed.
I live in the wilderness, or so my sister thinks. Just us and a cemetery on my road.
Yes. I lived in several areas of wilderness I feel. In the1950’s, my Dad was AF stationed in Spokane in the 1950’s, it was the last bastione of civilization before and beyond the Canadian border. I rode horses in the endless pine woods and Spokane lay below in a valley. Beautiful area in those days, and it set my mind for the northern wild. My grandmother grew up on a ranch near Cut Bank Montana, and we explored Glacier National Park. I remember a bear named Blondie that was being transported away from that area of the park as a troublemaker…they said she always returned haha. Anyway Ive felt my wilderness connection since a young child always in my memory.
I’m not a city girl by any means; I prefer small towns. However, I don’t prefer the alone-ness of a wilderness area. I have spent hours or overnights in remote locations, & that’s enough for me!
I’ve lived in the mountains for years. So, I guess yes, I have lived in a wilderness area.
This year I moved from a big city to a small town on the eastern slopes of the Cascades. While we are not in the wilderness exactly, there are wilderness areas nearby. It takes some getting used to, but I love it so far.
We live on five acres on top of sugarloaf mtn in Florida! Yes Florida! We look down a lovely valley and our view is of hills and trees! So peaceful and quiet. My husband has plenty of space for his aquaponics raising veggies and tilapia.
I live in New Zealand and grew up sailing the islands here, Great Mercury or Ahu Ahu the most – wild and tropical with hardly anyone around most of the time. Bliss!
Lori I loved Burning Sky and can’t wait to read The Pursuit of Tamsen Little John, you’re a truly talented writer.
Yes. Both in the Yukon and Alberta , Canada.
Yes, many times-the deep woods behind my home as a child, the outback area in Australia, and riding a camel through strange areas in the Canary Islands. Also, my grandfather owned 150 acres of woods where we gathered Sundays in the summer after church and my many cousins and I explored the woods looking for Lady Slippers and other wild flowers.
No. Wish I could!
You have had so many adventures, Karen! Thank you for sharing.
I would love to visit both those areas, Cleo!
Thank you on behalf of Lori, Catherine. My brother and his wife and family lived in New Zealand for a year on an exchange professorship. All the kids wanted to live there forever!
I’m learning about so many places that I didn’t even know existed, Niki. Your “kingdom” sounds like a lovely wilderness
Wonderful, Karen!
Isn’t it great, Kathy, that we all have options! Thank you for sharing.
And those memories are so precious!
If your sister thinks it’s a wilderness then it counts as a wilderness, Lucy! LOL!
Thank you for sharing those precious wilderness memories, Linda!
Sure have! And you may be one of the few people who knows where it is. A little place called Pine Stump Junction, NE of Newberry. Our family owned a cabin near there until the mid-1990s. Had to pump the water outside and … other things were outside as well. 😉 Miles and miles of just miles and miles around us. Love it. Every. Minute.
Lived in the hills of west central Pennsylvania in a 100 year old farmhouse. It started snowing on Halloween and snowed every day until Easter. Car was covered in snow and I rarely got out. I’d never want to do that again. Creepy house too.
i live in southern oregon so yes!! we have a great deal of wilderness with wild animals!
Definitely, yes! I grew up in the boonies, so it was possible to go many days without seeing other people.
This was a great book by Lori Benton. Don’t enter me for the contest, Sue, but thanks for hosting the giveaway for this novel! Blessings!
Thank you, Catherine!
One summer when I was in high school I canoed the Boundary Waters of Minnesota.
Spiritually, yes! 🙂
-Blessings
Yep! When I was 5 my mom took me, my 2 yr old brother and my 6 month old sister camping for 3 weeks. In a tent. There was an outhouse near by. 🙂
We continued camping like this for years. Then we moved. And started camping where there was no outhouse, we had to cross the river, and we had to set up a tarp to make an outhouse. It was fun!!!
I love camping!
Yes.
Yes, both literally and figuratively.
Oh Jessica, My husband and I loved our visit to Akutan. It is such a wonderful memory, and for us so unusual to fly in on Nick’s “Blue Goose” (still sad to loose Nick so soon after our visit) AND to see the new very black volcanic cone on the mountain. Everyone was so welcoming and so friendly. You all made me feel so welcome.
While the kids were growing up we did a lot of camping with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and that was always in the woods.
Yes, southeastern Ohio!
yes camping as a girl scout
Yes! But I didn’t face what she will face in this book.
I have always lived in the city, but I confess I’d have loved to catch a glimpse of the wilderness, if opportunity arose. The lush green Finnish forests have quite an appeal to me. Not to mention the famous lakes over there…”the land of the thousand lakes and the midnight sun”.
I grew up in rural Australia on dairy farms. When people came out to our town, they often said they felt like they were about to drop off the edge of the earth. 🙂