David Porter, at A Boomer in the Pew, is holding a free giveaway of a calfskin ESV-Study Bible. To enter the giveaway, you need to go to the competition page. The ESV-Study Bible is arguably the most complete study Bible on the market right now. So, hurry and get over there!...

A couple of weeks ago I attended the 2009 Desiring God Pastors Conference. The theme this year was Commending Christ: The Pastor, the Church, and the Perishing. The keynote speaker was Mark Dever. Dever's messages were very encouraging, especially the final two, in which he shared so many stories ab...

To beat the January blues I thought I would run another book giveaway. I've done a bit of sorting of my collection here and so I'm happy to offer up a copy of Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage to one lucky entrant. It's the hard cover edition and has been read by me, so it&...

Don't we all just love Christmas!? At least I do, for the real reasons. And, don't we all just love books!? Again, I do. Now, if you had a chance of getting $260 worth of books for free, wouldn't you grab the opportunity? Well, here's your chance! Trevin Wax will be drawing a name from the proverbia...

About a year ago a certain blogpal posted this lovely news at her place, and I've been waiting impatiently ever since to write this post. Today is the release day for Felicity Stripped Bare by Vanessa Jaye, a writer I've known since I started up this place. Over the years that we've been cyber-acqua...

It's publication day for Gail Gauthier's fantastic A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers. In honor of this big event, we just have to have a giveaway. Giveaway: Putnam and Gail Gauthier are running A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers contest. The first person to e-mail Gail Gauthier with their mailing addre...

It’s no secret that I adore both Lynn Viehl’s blog and her books.  I’m celebrating, because Twilight Fall releases today!  I’ve been a Darkyn fan since the beginning with If Angels Burn.  While I can’t afford to give away the whole series like I did for Evermore, ...

I’ve mentioned before that I’m an absolute book nut. But not every book that comes into my house stays. If it’s not good enough to make the cut, it gets traded at the bookstore; a book has to have a “special something” to secure a permanent home on my bookshelves. But H...

[Don’t forget this week’s Giveaway .] So yesterday several people indicated they really hadn’t read much romance.  I admit to reading heavily between both romance and fantasy to varying degrees over the years.  I glommed through Amanda Quick, Julie Garwood, Christina Dodd…w...

In honor of my giveaway, I’m also rerunning my review of Sin in the Second City.  My interview with author Karen Abbott is in the next post.  Don’t forget to enter and mention my giveaway on your blog! I discovered a love of history later in my life. In high school, history was a dry, ...