February Pay It Forward Book Exchange

Hosted by Overwhelmed with Joy

First the rules. To enter, leave me a comment. It’s that simple. If you win, it would be great if you will in turn host a Pay It Forward Book exchange and pass the book on eventually. If you’re a non-blogger who has won the book, please consider donating the book to your local library or shelter after you’re done with it.

OK, now the book. I was given several duplicate copy books as gifts. So I will participate for the next several months to find them good homes. While I haven't read this one yet, I can't see a reason for 2 copies to sit here waiting on me. So I will be giving away a brand new copy of 'Nights in Rodanthe' by Nicholas Sparks. You can read more about it at Amazon.

From Publishers Weekly
Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate.

This giveaway will close 11:59PM PST February 29th, 2008. A random drawing will be pulled, winner notified and the book will be mailed to the lucky winner shortly after that.

So if you want to win, leave me a comment. This contest is hosted over at Overwhelmed With Joy, so head over there for more books up for grabs.

Next month will be 'Purity in Death' by J.D. Robb aka Nora Roberts and April will be Lakeside Cottage by Susan Wiggs.