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07-21-2009, 04:10 AM
I was going to add this to the Feel Good thread, but I had to give it it's own topic!! :dance: :clap: :banana: :woohoo: :bouncers
For those of you who aren't familiar with Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, it's a HUGE independent bookstore that literally takes up a whole city block. Definitely my favorite place in Portland and I drag my husband there and spend hours browsing every time we go "down south".
Anyway, I subscribe to this thing called "The Daily Dose". It's a daily newsletter and every day it features a different book title, along with a review of a book from a reader. If they pick your review, you win $20 credit to use in their online store! I've been posting a ton of book reviews (so far, I must have done at least ten) and by some twist of fate, I happened to be Googling the name of a song to use in the Music Association thread. I noticed that I had a new Daily Dose and I couldn't believe it when I saw MY name!!! I recognized the review, because I just wrote it last night!
The book is great, by the way. I just finished reading it two days ago, and considered buying it. Now I'm definitely going to, since it won a prize for me!
Here's a "copy" of the e-mail they sent. I can't find the actual link to the review yet, and it's under a screen name anyway. I just had to share this with everyone!
Powells.com Daily Dose
Today's Dose by Andrea from Bothell, Washington
Today's prize is $20 credit.
Andrea, follow this link by 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, July 21, to claim your gift certificate.
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Your Price $14.00
(New, Trade Paper)
*Please note that copies are limited to on-hand quantity; used copies, in particular, may be available in extremely limited supply.
Comment & Win
Comment on a product and you could win. The reader whose pick we use has until day's end to claim the gift certificate. Otherwise, we add an extra $20 credit to the next day's prize!
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Andrea's Comments:
"As soon as I finished this book, I wanted to run to my local Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar! Susan Gregg Gilmore has a winner on her hands with this portrait of a small town girl following her big city dreams...."Salvation" had me longing for the East Texas town where I spent a lot of my childhood!"
Publisher Comments
The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. Quickwitted and more than a little stubborn, Catherine Grace is dying to escape her small-town life.
When her dream to go to Atlanta becomes a reality, she immediately makes the move, leaving behind the boy she loves. But all too soon, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective, Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
Publisher Comments
Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.
It's the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.
Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to the big city of Atlanta. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, Catherine Grace immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she's always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings her back home. As a series of extraordinary events alters her perspective — and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself-Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
Review
"Even more appealing than a diet of Dilly Bars, and Gilmore's novel is a meal worth the consumption." BookPage
Review
"Susan Gregg Gilmore's debut novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way." Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon
Review
"A stellar literary debut...[Gilmore] beautifully reproduces rural speech, especially Southern female speech at its cattiest and most hilarious." Wilmington Star News
Review
"Every female will find herself identifying with Catherine Grace's search for her place in the world." Chattanooga Times Free Press
About the Author
Susan Gregg Gilmore has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Read more about this book
Copyright 2009 Powells.com, 2720 NW 29th Avenue, Portland, OR 97210
For those of you who aren't familiar with Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, it's a HUGE independent bookstore that literally takes up a whole city block. Definitely my favorite place in Portland and I drag my husband there and spend hours browsing every time we go "down south".
Anyway, I subscribe to this thing called "The Daily Dose". It's a daily newsletter and every day it features a different book title, along with a review of a book from a reader. If they pick your review, you win $20 credit to use in their online store! I've been posting a ton of book reviews (so far, I must have done at least ten) and by some twist of fate, I happened to be Googling the name of a song to use in the Music Association thread. I noticed that I had a new Daily Dose and I couldn't believe it when I saw MY name!!! I recognized the review, because I just wrote it last night!
The book is great, by the way. I just finished reading it two days ago, and considered buying it. Now I'm definitely going to, since it won a prize for me!
Here's a "copy" of the e-mail they sent. I can't find the actual link to the review yet, and it's under a screen name anyway. I just had to share this with everyone!
Powells.com Daily Dose
Today's Dose by Andrea from Bothell, Washington
Today's prize is $20 credit.
Andrea, follow this link by 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, July 21, to claim your gift certificate.
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Your Price $14.00
(New, Trade Paper)
*Please note that copies are limited to on-hand quantity; used copies, in particular, may be available in extremely limited supply.
Comment & Win
Comment on a product and you could win. The reader whose pick we use has until day's end to claim the gift certificate. Otherwise, we add an extra $20 credit to the next day's prize!
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Andrea's Comments:
"As soon as I finished this book, I wanted to run to my local Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar! Susan Gregg Gilmore has a winner on her hands with this portrait of a small town girl following her big city dreams...."Salvation" had me longing for the East Texas town where I spent a lot of my childhood!"
Publisher Comments
The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. Quickwitted and more than a little stubborn, Catherine Grace is dying to escape her small-town life.
When her dream to go to Atlanta becomes a reality, she immediately makes the move, leaving behind the boy she loves. But all too soon, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective, Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
Publisher Comments
Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.
It's the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold's third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.
Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to the big city of Atlanta. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, Catherine Grace immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she's always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings her back home. As a series of extraordinary events alters her perspective — and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself-Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
Review
"Even more appealing than a diet of Dilly Bars, and Gilmore's novel is a meal worth the consumption." BookPage
Review
"Susan Gregg Gilmore's debut novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, is storytelling at its best, entertaining and lively and full of surprises. Catherine Grace Cline, the endearing witty heroine, gives her domestic journey titles of Biblical proportion as she finds more than salvation along the way." Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon
Review
"A stellar literary debut...[Gilmore] beautifully reproduces rural speech, especially Southern female speech at its cattiest and most hilarious." Wilmington Star News
Review
"Every female will find herself identifying with Catherine Grace's search for her place in the world." Chattanooga Times Free Press
About the Author
Susan Gregg Gilmore has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Read more about this book
Copyright 2009 Powells.com, 2720 NW 29th Avenue, Portland, OR 97210