A Review : The Great Christmas Bowl by Susan May Warren

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS BOWL By SUSAN MAY WARREN

Marianne Wallace loves Christmas, loves football, loves her family. But her children are growing up, and inevitably they are leaving home. She's always prided herself on family traditions, but perhaps the most memorable one is the year she became a fish.

The local football team is the Big Lake Trouts, like in fish. Bud Finlaysen, the team mascot wears a shiny black and silver fish costume, complete with a fish head and front fins for hands. It even includes a tail. Then Bud gets sick and Marianne's son, the star of the trouts, talks her into filling in as the mascot and wearing the fish costume.

The Great Christmas Bowl is a sweet, funny story that will leave the reader smiling. Make merry this holiday season by reading The Great Christmas Bowl by Susan May Warren. In my opinion it’s a keeper.

Lovely Blog Award

Thank you Deborah Vogts for this beautiful award. You made my day.

Cozy Day

It's an overcast day here today and I've been very lazy as I've enjoyed it.

I know it's Veteran's Day and most people are blogging, chatting, face booking, and whatever else they feel is the respectful thing to do today. I love our men and women or serve this country and am very thankful for them and the freedom they bring to our country. So I'm joining the forces and saying Thank You publicly. Thanks!!

I also know that I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of home today. Overcast days are days where I curl up in my chair, read, watch TV, and play on line. If there were a little rain mixed in, I'd be cozy, warm and content in my own little world.

God is good and I thank Him for all my comforts.

Introducing Aili Rae

Hi all,

I'd like you to meet my new grandbaby. My son Lance is the proud papa of this darling little girl. Her name is Aili Rae and she is beautiful. What can I say?

Her parents are beautiful too. :)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is fastly approaching. I was feeling down yesterday so decided to focus on things I am thankful for. So everyday from now until Thanksgiving I am going to write down one thing I am thankful for that day.

I won't put them all here but I thought I'd add todays thankful thing to this blog.

My sweet husband. He keeps me happy. :)

Free Christmas Books

Cecelia Dowdy is having a Christmas Book Giveaway!!! A Connecticut Christmas is one of ten books that she is giving away. Go to her blog, read the blog post and then enter to win. It's that easy!! Have fun all!!


http://ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com/

My Website

Just a quick note to let you all know that my website is down at the moment. Please be patient with me as I work to fix this problem. It has something to do with my domain name expiring. Very irritating.

WOW How Time Flies

I can't believe it's been over a month since I've blogged. Life has been busy here. Let me explain.

1st - I had my gall bladder removed... not as easy as they said it would be. But God took care of me and it's all good.

2nd - Hubby had to have his appendix removed, suddenly.

3rd - ACFW conference came and I was gone for a week, but A Connecticut Christmas won the Book Of The Year Award for MY novella, Stuck On You.

As you can see, it has been busy. Some of the time was not so fun (operations, etc) but others were great (BOTY winner)!

I'll try to do better from her on out. Thanks all for coming by!

Barbour Novella Collections

Hi all,

Edna brought up something in the comments that I thought I would clarify about Barbour novella collections.

3-1 Collections are full length Heartsong Presents novels that have been put into one book.Sometimes they are by one author and other times by three different authors. Each of these books are between 40,000 to 45,000 words and set in one state. So when you buy them you are getting between 120,000 to 135,000 words to read. That is why the price is a little higher then the 4-1 collections. DESERT ROSES is an example of a 3-1 book.

4-1 Collections are Barbour's Christmas novella collections. These books are generally written by four different authors and are 20,000 words each. They too are set in the same state (most of the time) and the focus is on Christmas. The 4-1's are a little cheaper but that's because of the word count. You are reading 80,000 words when you read one of these. A CONNECTICUT CHRISTMAS is an example of a 4-1 book.

I love doing both 3-1 collections and the 4-1 Christmas collections.

Thank you so much Edna for bringing this topic to Rhonda's Ramblings. I love having help in writing this blog.

If there is something you would like to see me blog about or any writing related questions went them to me at rgib2001@yahoo.com or leave a comment.

Christmas Love At Lake Tahoe

Look what I'm reading! I have been waiting months for this book to come out!!!

Lena Nelson Dooley, Jean Kincaid, and Jeri Odell are wonderful authors and each of these ladies have a story in Christmas Love At Lake Tahoe.

Have you read it? No! Then what are you waiting for? Go now and buy it!!

Recovering

I am recoving nicely. God has been so good to heal. I'm coming along very nicely and am pleased with the good work He has done. I'll post next week with more interesting things then my health... I hope I have something more interesting to say :)

Hospital time

I'm going into the hospital on Monday for gallbladder removal. I'll be back later in the week to tell you how it went. God willing, it will be a simple proceedure. Talk to you all soon.