Book Giveaway: A Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark

Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America’s legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author’s skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive.
Mary Higgins Clark’s interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s, called “Portrait of a Patriot,” vignettes of American presidents.
Always a lover of history, she wrote this biographical novel — her first book — and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, which was the family motto of George Washington’s mother. With all events, dates, scenes and characters based on historical research, the book was published in 1969.
Its recent discovery by a Washington family descendent led to its reissue under its new title, Mount Vernon Love Story.
In researching George Washington’s life, Mary Higgins Clark was surprised to find the engaging man behind the pious legend. He was a giant of a man in every way, starting with his physical height. In an era when men averaged five foot seven inches, he towered over everyone at six foot three. He was the best dancer in the colony of Virginia. He was also a master horseman, which was why the Indians gave him their highest compliment: “He rides his horse like an Indian.”
She dispels the widespread belief that although George Washington married an older woman, a widow, his true love was Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend’s wife. Martha Dandridge Custis was older, but only by three months — she was twenty-seven to his twenty-six when they met. Mary Higgins Clark describes their relationship from their first meeting, their closeness and his tenderness toward her two children. Martha shared his life in every way, crossing the British lines to join him in Boston and enduring with him the bitter hardship of the winter in Valley Forge. As Lady Bird Johnson was never called Claudia, Martha Washington was never known as Martha. Her family and friends called her Patsy. George always called her “my dearest Patsy” and wore a locket with her picture around his neck.
In Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark tells the story of a rare marriage and brings to life the human side of the man who became the “father of our country.”
So this will be my SECOND book giveaway. I will be running this until March 18th. So get your entries in. Winner will be selected useing Random.org. Theres a few ways to get an Entry in..
Link to me on your site (2 entrys)
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Cant wait to see some sign ups. Good luck!

My goofy goal..

So my friend told me I should set a goal for myself, that seems so out there its not likely to happen. And than see if I can make it happen.

So I decided, to go with the Vampires..lol

And my Goofy Goal will be to try to get a small interview with Jackson Rathbone via email or phone… I am not lofty enough to presume face to face, HA HA.

My Irish Read Suggestions

With St Pat’s day coming up just around the corner, and myself being shamelessly Irish, I wanted to give you a few recommendations of books that are Irish related. Amazon helped out with some of these, LOL But I have read most of them as well.


The Irish Americans by J.P Dolan



The Complete works of Oscar Wilde






The Gathering by Anne Enright

Wow..

I have to say it. Wow.. I am so happy with the response so far to my first book give away. Thank you all so very much. I am pleased as punch. I will be putting up a second book in a couple of days to give away, as I think its time to clean out the shelves a little bit. I may even pop some books over onto my other blog, you never know. So keep an eye out for some more posts. If I post on Birth of a Notion I will make sure to put up a link here as well.

Teaser Tuesday #2

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!
It was obviously the era of isanely early morning calls because about 10 minutes later the phone rang again. Oh EWW ,I thought, I can not deal with this Todd drama any longer.
The Bergdorf blondes by Plum Skies page 198

My First Official Giveaway: A Dangerous Dress by Julia Holden

If there’s one dress that can make Jane Stuart think that anything was possible, it’s her late grandmother’s vintage 1920s Parisian dress. And when the dress becomes her ticket out of Kirland, Indiana, Jane takes her first tentative steps on her own reckless, passionate, and oh-so-dangerous adventure-to the fashion world of Paris, the celebrity scene in Manhattan, and beyond. But, as the dress takes her to dazzling new heights, one man will bring her back,

Please make sure you check out other giveaways, and see our listing over at http://www.bookroomreviews.com/ theres a TON! Listed!

So this will be my first book giveaway and I think it will be alot of fun! I will be running this until March 15th. So get your entries in. Winner will be selected useing Random.org. Theres a few ways to get an Entry in..

Post a comment here ( 1 entry)
Follow this blog (1 entry)
Join the feeder service (1 entry)
Cant wait to see some sign ups. Good luck!

Musing Mondays: #2

When reading do you read every word? Do you ever skip chapters or skim over parts?



I read every single word.It would seem odd to me to skip words, or whole chapters! If it is a book that I don’t really want to read I tend not to focus on the words and usually following that end up giving up. I read to enjoy a book, I feel if I skip a word I am missing out on enjoyment, but not only that its cheating.

Book Review: We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

In this gripping novel of motherhood gone awry, Lionel Shriver approaches the tragedy of a high-school massacre from the point of view of the killer’s mother.In letters written to the boy’s father, mother Eva probes the upbringing of this more-than-difficult child and reveals herself to have been the reluctant mother of an unsavory son. As the schisms in her family unfold, we draw closer to an unexpected climax that holds breathtaking surprises and its own hard-won redemption. In Eva, Shriver has created a narrator who is touching, sad, funny, and reflective. A spellbinding read, We Need to Talk About Kevin is as original as it is timely.


This book is shocking, it is so grippingly raw that you will get emotional over it.Not very many books can take the very sensitive material of a high school killing, that was so forward in the headlines and turn it into a peace of art.. The book is told in a format of letters from the mothers point of view. You can deal with things from her perspective, and all of her raw emotions. If you can handle a high charged read this is a can not miss for you. I enjoyed it though it made me cry, I am glad it took me this long to find Kevin, I honestly don’t think I could have handled it before now.

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