Good Sunday Afternoon! I'm slowly coming back from my break. Last Sunday my husband and I rode in the Chicagoland Ride for Kids on our motorcycle. This ride benefits The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and has become one of our favorite rides. We rode 140 miles roundtrip which is nothing when you think about what these kids and their families are going through.
This week I managed to finish The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wells for bookclub and was less than thrilled with it. I felt there was no emotion in the story. I am amazed that she came through her childhood so well. I will have a review up this week.
I have about 50 pages left of The Questory of Root Karbunkulus which was sent to me by Pump Up Your Book Promotion. I have to finish it today and get my review posted. I am so behind.
On top of having a mounting tbr pile I threw my back out today and this is the first time I have gotten up. I have been doing way too much! The worst part is when I am in so much pain I cannot concentrate on reading. I am not traveling this week so I will be able to get some reading and reviewing done! Yeah, it's about time!
I hope everyone has a great reading week!
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Ouch! I hope your back pain goes away soon. I imagine finding a position to be comfortable in is rather difficult.
I think it's great that you participate in the Chicagoland Ride for Kids. It sounds like a great way to spend a day and a worthwhile cause.
I hope you have a good week.
Thats awesome that you and hubby ride for such a great cause.
I'm interested in reading your review for The Glass Castle.
hope your back feels better!
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Thanks ladies. I had surgery on a herniated disc a year and a half ago and I do feel much better but I did way too much this past week and it just gave out. Not fun but I hope to be back on my feet tomorrow to go to work!
Don't remind me about TBR piles!
What a fun way to contribute to a great cause. Sorry about your back - those kind of injuries are never fun :(
I read The Questory of Root Karbunkulus not very long ago. I had mixed feelings - I'll be interested to read your review.
sorry to hear about your back! I hope that you are pain free in no time!
For the Wii...I highly recommend Mario Galaxy. I've been playing it almost constantly since getting it on Wed. Love it! Today I bought a Zelda game and Mario Kart...but haven't cracked them open yet. But I've heard good things about each...and with Mario and Zelda...how can you go wrong?
Yikes, hope your back feels better soon :)
I'll definitely be checking back for your Glass Castle review- that's up next on my TBR pile.
Sorry to hear about you hurting your back. Sounds like you had a nice time on your bike trip. I have never been on a motorcycle.
Ugh! I hope your back feels better soon!
Welcome back and Happy New Year!
I thought you might be interested in reading my two latest books:
REGINA'S CLOSET: FINDING MY GRANDMOTHER'S SECRET JOURNAL
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re: book review request by award-winning author
Dear My Journey Through Reading...
I'm an award-winning author with a new book of fiction out this fall. Ugly To Start With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about childhood published by West Virginia University Press.
Can I interest you in reviewing it?
If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book. If you require a bound copy, please ask, and I will forward your reply to my publisher. Or you can write directly to Abby Freeland at:
Abby.Freeland@mail.wvu.edu
My publisher, I should add, can also offer your readers a free excerpt of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher's website:
http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084
Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of
Dyads and The Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: "In Ugly to Start With, set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut, crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human affection and suffering--emotional truths that the members of his audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and adolescence.”
My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.
I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group, 2009), winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades 7-12) and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.
For more information about me, please visit:
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Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Kindly,
John Michael Cummings
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