Author: Kimberly

Book Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

Sometimes, reading a particular book at just the right moment in your life can make it that much more powerful of a read. At the beginning of January, as I was thinking about being the best version of me this year, I read The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay.

At its heart, The Sea of Tranquility is a story not only of survival, but of learning to be whole again and recognizing the opportunities life gives you. It’s about choosing to surround yourself with the right people even when that choice is hard to make. It’s about second chances.

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Guest Post: Why I Love Family-Based Romance Series by Bella Andre

Please enjoy this guest post by Bella Andre, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of the contemporary romance series, The Sullivans. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including special romantic swag baskets for each book, an iPad Mini, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and Kobo eReader, and Amazon and iTunes gift cards!

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Merry Christmas!

“There’s an Irish blessing my father often said on Christmas Eve. It sums up what I wish for each of you. ‘The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a childlike heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God’s peace to you.'” -from An O’Brien Family Christmas by Sherryl Woods.

From our heart to yours, we wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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Resources: Learning to Speak Spanish

Have you tried the The Pimsleur Method to learning a new language? What did you think? Was it a good program?

I know this blog is about books and reading, but publishers also provide us with many learning tools in addition to the books we love, like Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur Method. Just look around your favorite bookstore and you’ll see so many great resources!

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Lazy Day Escape: Flirting with Intent by Kelly Hunter

One of my personal reading habits is to alternate my thrillers with romance novels. It changes the tempo of my reading and helps me keep all the characters separated from each other. Plus, those are my two favorite genres, so this method ensures I get to read a lot of both of them.

In between reading Vince Flynn’s The Last Man and Michael Palmer’s Political Suicide, I read Kelly Hunter’s Flirting with Intent.

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Audio Excerpt: Political Suicide by Michael Palmer

There’s only a few hours left to enter to win a SIGNED Hardcover Edition of Michael Palmer’s new medical thriller Political Suicide. If you haven’t already, be sure you enter for your chance to win the SIGNED Hardcover Edition that we will be giving away tonight, Tuesday December 18, 2012 at 8p. Instructions are posted in our review and on our Facebook page: here and here.

In my review posted last week, I was talking about how much I loved the Prologue for this book. It really pulled me in, set me up and then left me speechless.

So, today we have a special treat for you, an audio excerpt from the beginning of the Prologue. Give it a listen and then share it with your friends.

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Review: Political Suicide by Michael Palmer + Giveaway

Today marks the release of Michael Palmer’s newest medical thriller Political Suicide and to celebrate, Palmer has graciously offered to giveaway a SIGNED Hardcover Edition here on the Lazy Day Books Blog! We’ll tell you how to enter for your chance to win at the end of our review.

I have to say the Prologue is one of the best I’ve read in quite a while and the shock value alone is enough to quickly propel you through many chapters while searching for answers to your questions. I mean, what kind of purely evil person would ever want to do such a thing to the truest, bravest, most honorable men of our armed forces? Because as soon as you read it, you know that wasn’t something these men signed up for, or were ever trained to do, or could ever believe in.

Which means somebody did this to them. And that person absolutely must be stopped.

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Book Review: The Last Man by Vince Flynn

Mitch Rapp is back!

The last two Rapp Series books went back in time to show us how Mitch Rapp became the meanest, toughest, baddest CIA Counter-terrorist Operative ever. American Assassin set the stage and showed us the whole selection and training process and gave us just the right amounts of insight into his psyche. The second prequel, Kill Shot, was a great action thriller and showed us more about Rapp’s development history.

With The Last Man, we are back to a modern-day setting in Afghanistan, where a CIA agent has gone missing.

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