I wasn’t sure where to put this little shout-out, but I figured since it’s the most frequented thread, I’ll slip this in. Waterbrook-Multnomah has this program up where you sign up to review new publishes on your personal blog. There is no requirement beyond your owning a blog. They send you free books that you can keep! I thought it was a pretty sweet deal:

http://www.waterbrookmultnomah.com/bloggingforbooks/

You can read more information there.

I’ve already signed up and will be posting my reviews at:

http://freshpressbookreviews.wordpress.com/

Thought the notion of free books might appeal to some of you.

I hope so, too. I’ll probably pop in and out during the year to root people on and terrorize you all with geeky “booklarning”.

“In Retrospect” (McNamara), 414 pages
“The Last Thing I Remember” (Klavan), 346 pages
“The Plot That Thickened” (Wodehouse), 221 pages
“Though the Darkness Hide Thee” (Bauer), 364 pages
“The History” (Herodotus), 699 pages
“11 Plays of the Greek Dramatists” (various), 360 pages
“Nine Greek Dramas” (various), 466 pages
“Complete Writings” (Thucydides), 516 pages
“Complete Works” (Horace), 412 pages
“The Mending String” (Coon), 302 pages
“William Henry is a Fine Name” (Gohlke), 250
“The Book Thief” (Zusak), 552 pages
“The Body” (Colson), 447 pages
“Trilogy” (Schaeffer), 367 pages
“The Quotable Lewis” (Martindale and Root, ed.), 651 pages
“The House of Mirth” (Wharton), 360 pages
Total: 41,448 pages.

“Rooms” (Rubart), 385 pages
“The How and Why of Homeschooling” (Ballmann), 157 pages
“Wild Days” (Rackliffe), 118 pages
“The Home Ranch” (Moody), 277 pages
“Becoming a Woman of Grace” (Heald), 121 pages
“Rise and Shine” (Higgs), 262 pages
“The Universe Next Door” (Sire), 259 pages
“For the Children’s Sake” (Macaulay), 165 pages
“When People are Big and God is Small” (Welch), 239 pages
“Little Britches” (Moody), 260 pages
“Katy” (Notgrass), 191 pages
“Quo Vadis” (Sienkiewicz), 422 pages
“You Can Teach Your Child Successfully” (Beechick), 388 pages
“Your Best Life Now” (Osteen), 310 pages
“Things We Wish We’d Known” (Waring, ed.), 232 pages
“It Was Good” (Bustard, ed.), 286 pages
“War and Peace” (Tolstoy), 1,136 pages
Total: 33,108 pages.

“Feeling for Bones” (Pierce), 350 pages
“A Survivor’s Guide to Homeschooling” (Shackelford and White), 177 pages
“Home Grown Kids” (Moore), 253 pages
“Teaching Children” (Lopez), 299 pages
“The Language Wars” (Beechick), 249 pages
“Hints on Child Training” (Trumbull), 193 pages
“Better Late Than Early” (Moore), 229 pages
“Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook” (Cohen), 321 pages
“Love Me” (Keillor), 272 pages
“Charlotte Mason Study Guide” (Gardner), 167 pages
“The Bible Cure” (Cherry), 152 pages
“Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day” (Hertzberg and Francois), 242 pages
Total: 27,900 pages.

“The Joyful Christian” (Lewis), 239 pages
“Assassins” (LaHaye and Jenkins), 416 pages
“In The Grip of Grace” (Lucado), 235 pages
“Building Your Self-Image” (McDowell), 220 pages
“Knights of the Hill Country” (Tharp), 233 pages
“The Journey of Desire” (Eldredge), 213 pages
“I Am Scout” (Shields), 246 pages
“Best Friends for Life” (Phillips), 239 pages
“Take Care of Yourself” (Vickery and Fries), 510 pages
Total: 22,286 pages.

“The Book of Guys” (Keillor), 340 pages
“The Scarlet Thread” (Rivers), 462 pages
“When Children Love to Learn” (Cooper, ed.), 254 pages
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (Pollan), 345 pages
“Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman” (Ortlund), 144 pages
“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” (le Carre), 256 pages
“The Gift for all People” (Lucado), 139 pages
“Republic” (Plato), 300 pages
“The Witness” (Henderson), 552 pages
“Apollyon” (LaHaye and Jenkins), 402 pages
“Facing Your Giants” (Lucado), 233 pages
Total: 17, 303 pages.