Alphabet Soup Giveaway is back!
Here are the rules:
RULES FOR ENTERING:
a. Post a comment to the posts of the books you'd like to win. You can enter for as many of the books as you would like. Every 2-3 days the next letter's giveaway will be posted.
b. Answer the day's silly question for fun.
Today's question: J is for jokes. Please share a nice, clean, appropriate joke with us today!
Here's one of my favorites:
A man was talking to God one day and he said, "God is it true that for you a second is like a hundred years and a hundred years is like a second?"
God says, "Yes, that's true. A hundred years is like a second for me."
So the guy says, "Then God, would it also be true that a penny is like a million dollars and a million dollars is like a penny to you?"
God answers, "Yes, that's true. A penny is like a million dollars to me."
The man says, "Well then, can I have a 'penny'?"
God says, "Sure. I'll be back in a 'second.'"
Get it?
c. Enter on or before July 6. Winners will be drawn on July 7. Claim your prize, if you win, within 10 days of being notified or I will redraw. (In other words, let me know you want the book and where it should be sent, should you find out your name was drawn.)
d. Check back for the next giveaway! Today is letter J! And the book is Riven by Jerry Jenkins. A pretty amazing book, if you ask me. When a condemned man with nothing to lose meets one with nothing to gain, everyone washed by the endless ripples of that encounter will forever recall the day a little bit of heaven invaded a whole lot of hell. Brady Wayne Darby and Thomas Carey could hardly have been more disparate individuals. Yet when Darby, a no-account loser raised in a dingy suburban trailer park, encounters Carey, a weary man of God, an entire--state indeed, a nation--is affected. Embark on a wondrous journey where death, guilt, and despair are unfathomably trumped by rebirth, forgiveness, and hope. Author Jerry Jenkins says: "This is the novel I have always wanted to write. I determine whether a fiction idea has merit by how long it stays with me. Does it rattle in my brain, and do I find myself telling it to my wife and other confidants? Is it the type of a tale that will draw me back to the keyboard every day? Two-thirds of my published books have been novels, and only three have had that effect on me. I give my all to every one, but special joy and anticipation attend those that genuinely feel like the best ideas. Riven is my fourth such labor of love. The two main characters have remained in my memory since high school 40 years ago. The story idea is perhaps 20 years old. And those mystical, interweaving elements I hope make it all work have been tugging at me for more than a decade. If a novelist has a life’s work, this is mine. I hope in the end you agree and that Riven stays with you long after the final page." My original review is here.
