Archive for January 29th, 2011

Save as Draft by Cavanaugh Lee is due out this week! February 1st to be exact. It’s her debut novel and I couldn’t have been more thrilled when I was given the opportunity to review it. Look for a review very soon, but in the meantime I thought this would be the perfect time to offer a giveaway of this fantastic new novel! I’m afraid the competition is open to US/Canada residents only and will end next Saturday at 12pm (mid-day) GMT. Take a look at the synopsis, add it to your Goodreads account if you think it sounds as good as I know it is, and then enter the giveaway!

SAVE AS DRAFT @Readers A love triangle evolving over e-mails, texts, and Facebook messages that makes you wonder if the things we leave unsaid—or rather unsent—could change the story of our lives.
6:59 PM Feb. 14th via twitterfeed

Sent: Monday, February 14, 2026
From: Izabell
To: Reader
Subject: Save as Draft

Are we Facebook friends yet? I’m the wactress (waitress/actress) turned lawyer who lives her life online. (Don’t we all these days?)
Anyway, I’ve got this problem. . . . There’s this guy. His name’s Peter. He’s my best friend and co-worker, and we just started dating, which is potentially a huge mistake. But, that’s not all. There’s this other guy, Marty. I met him on eHarm, and he ran with the bulls in Spain. I can’t get him off my mind. What a mess. I’d love your advice if you can take a second out of your crazy, high-tech life. Shoot me an e-mail. Or text me. Or BB messenger me.
And friend me if you haven’t already! You can find me on Facebook under Save as Draft.
Izabell

Thank you so much to the publisher, Simon & Schuster, for providing a copy for giveaway!

This giveaway has now closed, thanks to all who participated!

As I mentioned in my Top Ten Most Anticipated Books of 2011, I’m dying to read The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen. I’m not sure whether it was the cover (which is divine), the synopsis, or the book trailer with it’s pictures that reminded me of my youth that got me hooked but no matter, this is one I’ll be reading. The Bird Sisters will be out on April 12, 2026 and I’m hoping it will be in my hot little hands very very soon! Take a look at the synopsis and book trailer below to learn a little more about this fantastic new novel about two sisters…

When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds’ heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can’t, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who’ve brought them. The two sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health.

But back in the summer of 1947, Milly was known as a great beauty with emerald eyes and Twiss was a brazen wild child who never wore a dress or did what she was told. That was the summer their golf pro father got into an accident that cost him both his swing and his charm, and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their hardscrabble lives wouldn’t change. It was the summer their priest, Father Rice, announced that God didn’t exist and ran off to Mexico, and a boy named Asa finally caught Milly’s eye. And most unforgettably, it was the summer their cousin Bett came down from a town called Deadwater and changed the course of their lives forever.

Out February 8th 2011 here in the US, Allison Pearson’s newest novel I Think I Love You has a new cover and a new synopsis. I’m actually quite partial to the US cover actually (which, to be honest, doesn’t happen often), but Chloe was initially quite taken with the UK cover (on the left). For me, it has a lot to do with growing up with a mother who was in love with the Beatles as much as these girls seem to have been with David Cassidy and the cover reminds me of all of those old records we had around the house. I’m eager to read and review I Think I Love You in the very near future. Take a look and tell me what you think…

Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is their Bible, and some days his letters are the only things that keep them going as they struggle through the humiliating daily rituals of adolescence—confronting their bewildering new bodies, fighting with mothers who don’t understand them at all. Together they tackle the Ultimate David Cassidy Quiz, a contest whose winners will be flown to America to meet Cassidy in person.

London, 1998. Petra is pushing forty, on the brink of divorce, and fighting with her own thirteen-year-old daughter when she discovers a dusty letter in her mother’s closet declaring her the winner of the contest she and Sharon had labored over with such hope and determination. More than twenty years later, twenty pounds heavier, bruised by grief and the disappointments of middle age, Petra reunites with Sharon for an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to meet their teen idol at last, and finds her life utterly transformed.

Funny, moving, full of beautiful observations about the awakenings of both youth and middle age, Allison Pearson’s long-awaited new novel will speak across generations to mothers and daughters and women of all ages.

So, what do you think? US cover or the original UK cover?
Make sure to keep your eyes open for my upcoming review, interview and possible giveaway of this newest Allison Pearson novel!