Giveaway of Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I read CHASING WINDMILLS by Catherine Ryan Hyde back in September and I really loved the story! (Read my review here). Several weeks ago, J. Kaye had a promotion on her MySpace page for people to nominate a book to be read and reviewed in November. I nominated this book. Well, it was chosen and reviewed and was also featured on her blog as part of the Noontime Book Chat. The rules were that the person who nominated the chosen book was to receive a copy, but since I already have a copy, I'm offering mine that I won from J. Kaye to be raffled off to a lucky reader! To be entered, go to J. Kaye's Book Blog and leave a comment on that post! The deadline is December 13th, so there's plenty of time to get entered!

This is a fantastic book and I'm sure you'd enjoy it. If you are unaware, Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of PAY IT FORWARD, the amazing book that was made into a movie starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment. According to Ms. Hyde's MySpace blog, CHASING WINDMILLS is also going to film! How exciting for her!

Good luck to all of you who enter!

Tuesday Teasers: My First

Teaser Tuesdays asks you to:

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a reandom page.
Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

My two “teaser” sentences for today are from page 132 of CHASING WINDMILLS by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of PAY IT FORWARD.

I started to ask Delilah to tell me how it was done, but then i realized I didn't want to know.

I wanted to believe it was love.

I just started reading this book, so I can't offer too much as to what it means, but I think it speaks for itself.

Christmas In July

I’ve always hated that phrase when I see stores using it to advertise a mid-summer sale, but right now I’m experiencing my very own ‘Christmas In July’. After the lightening strike that took out all of my televisions, phones and computer, I’m finally being rewarded for paying all of my insurance premiums all these years! Every day this week, the UPS woman has come to see me! My trash men are going to think I’ve ripped of an electronic store. Either that or they’re going to come back and try to steal all the new stuff they know I just got (from all the boxes I’ve thrown out). Note to self: invest in security system.

My evenings have been spent moving old tv cabinets, re-arranging my home office, hooking up tv’s, computers and telephones and learning how to operate them. It’s exciting but tiring as well! Especially for a sight-impaired person like myself. It took me 2 and a half hours to hook up my computer last night. I’m sure most people would’ve had it done in under an hour. That task was made even more daunting because HP forgot to pack the mouse and one of the power cords! So I spent 30 minutes going through the boxes again making sure I didn’t overlook them with my bad eyes and then accusing Jax (my cat) of running off with them! After searching high and low, I’m positive hey are simply not there!

My reading has taken a back seat to all of this electronic installation, but I’m hoping that by the weekend I’ll be back on my regular, tedious schedule. I did have a surprise on my MySpace page the other day. Naida, from The Bookworm, posted a blog about the author of PAY IT FORWARD (the movie version starred Helen Hunt, Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment) and how she received a signed copy of the book from the author, Catherine Ryan Hyde. I did a search to look at other books by this author and noticed a MySpace page, so I checked it out. I left a comment praising PIF and soon after I received an email from Ms. Hyde asking if I’d like to receive a copy of CHASING WINDMILLS, her latest book released in March 2008. It’s the story about two people who meet on a New York City subway and form a relationship that changes both their lives forever. I’m really looking forward to reading it. Look for that review in the future. It really is nice that authors are so approachable and easy to communicate with. I’ve had some very pleasant experiences with authors and it makes me even happier that books are my passion. What have your experiences with authors been like? Any favorite moments or conversations? I’d love to hear about them.