Spoiler Alert Tuesday/Giveaway

Alright ladies, you'll have to forgive me for being late on this.

As you can see, if you've been watching this blog, when left to my own devices I

tend to get "off task."

So, after getting my stuff together, without further ado, here is your Giveaway and Spoiler Alert!

Giveaway!!

Cute, funky note cards with matching ribbon and 2 matching sticky notepads.

You can tuck it all into the little blue tote that you'll also get!

Spoilers Below!!

At the height of Harriet's rebellion, her brother suffers "fall out" from her behavior. Have you ever been held accountable for something that your friend or relative may have done?

Have you been stereotyped or do you stereotype people?

Would you have immediately discounted Maddox as a "bad boy" because of his appearance?

Check back tomorrow to see what book you all chose for next month!!

Giveaway at the playground!

Maggie at Sitting on the moodswing at the playground recently received 2 new copies of While I'm Falling by Laura Moriarty. Guess where she got em? The actual publisher!

Click the book and it will take you over to Maggie's blog, where you can read about her meeting with the actual author and what the book is about.

We will be featuring this book in the coming months and if you leave a comment here or at Sitting on the moodswing at the playground you will have a chance to win one of the 2 hardcover editions that Maggie has!

And...the coolest thing! The publisher told Maggie that if this book is a selection by the book club that she would either have the author call in or answer questions submitted by us!

We think that's pretty dang neat.

Spoiler Alert Tuesday and a Giveaway

Hey Girlfriends, I'm back!

I know you all missed me, wipe your tears, you don't need to be sad anymore.
I'm just flattering myself, I know. If I don't, who will?
I don't want to bore you to death with the same format I used a couple Tuesdays ago for this post, so I'm gonna make it short and sweet, like Jessica.

Okey doke?

Spoilers Below!!

Chapters 13 - 22 and the Epilogue.
Don't freak! They're short chapters.

• Do you think that they moved too fast? What was it, 3 days or so and they fell in love? Is there such a thing as "love at first sight?" Is this the same thing as what happened to them?

• Were you surprised that Travis went and punched the doctor who put the moves on Gabby? Has your man ever done something like that for you?



• Did you start to see that maybe they weren't getting a divorce after all? Were you surprised that the "choice" was about life and death and not the marriage?



• If you were in Travis's situation, would you have made the same choice? Do you think he would have ended up resenting her like the other gentleman who resented his wife after many years of her coma?



• Do you think it was a fairytale ending, or true to life? Is it believable that someone could recover as well as she did from her coma?

What did you all think of the book? Overall, did you think it was good, bad, or are you indifferent?

Take our poll over to the right if you haven't already!

Now onto the best part!

We're going to start doing giveaways every Tuesday! (barring any unforseen circumstance that may cause us to miss a week)

***CLOSED***

All you have to do to win is leave us a comment with your thoughts on the book so far. We will draw and announce before next week's Spoiler Alert Tuesday, so check back!

Isn't that easy? Just another reason why your "Read with Girlfriends" blog pals, ie; Jessica and MiMi rock!!

Here is this week's giveaway!

Spoil your feet! I don't know if your feet need some pampering, but ours sure do!
Happy commenting!

Extra Extra!!

Hey Girlfriends!

We have two announcements today!
First we drew the number for our Necklace Giveaway!

We went to RandomKid.org. Okay, so really, we had Jessica's super cutie patootie son pick a number between 1 and 25.
And the winner is.....drumroll please....

Number 10!

Maggie from Sitting on the mood swing at the playground, come on down!

Now for everyone else, don't be disappointed that you didn't win the necklace. We are going to have fabulous monthly giveaways, so you still can win! Maybe August will be your month?

And now some great news for everybody, the announcement you've all been waiting for...haven't you?

The Read With Girlfriends choice for August is:

Here's a tidbit about the book copied from Amazon.

From Publishers Weekly, Shopaholic powerhouse Kinsella delights again with her latest, a winning if unoriginal tale of amnesia striking an ambitious shrew and changing her life for the better. After taking a nasty bump on the head, Lexi Smart awakens in a hospital convinced that it's 2004 and that she's just missed her father's funeral. It's actually three years later, and she no longer has crooked teeth, frizzy hair and a loser boyfriend. Initially wowed by what she's become—a gorgeous, cut-throat businesswoman—Lexi soon finds herself attempting to figure out how it happened. As her personality change and lost memory threaten her job, Lexi tries to dredge up some chemistry with her handsome albeit priggish husband, Eric, though the effort is unnecessary with Eric's colleague Jon, who tells Lexi that she was about to leave Eric for him. Amnesia tales may be old hat, but Kinsella keeps things fresh and frothy with workplace politicking, romantic intrigue and a vibrant (though sometimes caricatured) cast. Though the happy ending won't come as a surprise, readers will be rooting for Lexi all along. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

If this sounds like a book you would enjoy, then join in with The Girlfriends and get the book for August!

Giveaway!!

As promised, today we are doing our very first giveaway!

Wanna see what you could win?

This lovely Scrabble Pendant Necklace, hand crafted by Jessica! It's gorgeous ladies, this picture doesn't do it justice. I'm not so good with the staging and modeling of inanimate objects.

Now, if you wanna win, here are the rules:

1. You gotta be a follower cuz that's how we roll 'round here. Now, ladies, if you don't have a blog, you can still follow!

2. You gotta leave us some comment love on this post.

That's it!

Although you may want to put our handy dandy button on your blog, just cuz you love us and all that. You don't have to, but really, why wouldn't you?? Aren't we cool enough to be on your wall? No? Fine then, we'll be fine. Don't worry 'bout us.

Since I'm starting to talk to myself here, I think I'll step away from the computer soon.

We wanted to do this giveaway to kick this blog opening off right! We want you to know that we love our followers and plan on giving tons of cool stuff away. Let me tell you, I'm so excited about the goodies we came up with yesterday that some of you will be winning!

Don't forget: if you follow during the month of July you'll get your very own Read With Girlfriends bookmark. I can hear you all "oooohing and aaaahing" right now!

Make sure to check back often to see what's new! We'll be putting up some links for our favorite places to buy books and all kinds of little surprises.

***Remember, you can pick and choose which books you want to read. To win this prize, you don't have to be reading this book. We will let you know in the future if winning certain prizes depend upon your reading that month's book selection.***