{"id":971,"date":"2008-01-11T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/book-clubs.html"},"modified":"2008-01-11T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T02:33:00","slug":"book-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/book-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/R4bVpTLI3pI\/AAAAAAAAAvU\/wmv66gr6aqU\/s1600-h\/bookstack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/R4bVpTLI3pI\/AAAAAAAAAvU\/wmv66gr6aqU\/s400\/bookstack.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154041729070456466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about a group of women getting together and discussing a book. I&#8217;m talking about getting a shipment of books from a publisher in the mail every so often since you&#8217;ve agreed to purchase the novels. <\/p>\n<p>A weird thing happened to me over the past week. I received a free book from Love Inspired, with paperwork to entice me to rejoin the book club. I used to be a member around the time my novel was to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a couple of days later, I received an snail mail advertisement from Barbour, wanting me to join the Heartsong Presents book club.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the next day, I received another snail mail advertisement from Barbour, wanting me to join the new Mystery book club that just started recently. I blogged about this book club a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Well, to top it all off, the day before I received the advertisement from Barbour for their Heartsong Presents book club, I joined both the Heartsong and Mystery book clubs online. <\/p>\n<p>The timing of it all was just weird! I joined both HP and Mystery book clubs on Sunday night, receive snail mailed advertisement to join HP on Monday, and then I received snail mail advertisement to join the mystery book club on Tuesday!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s just so many good books out there, and I wish I had time to read them all. Right now, I&#8217;m reading a Brandilyn Collins book, and I&#8217;m also reading The Whitney Chronicles.<\/p>\n<p>Later!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">Cecelia Dowdy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about a group of women getting together and discussing a book. I&#8217;m talking about getting a shipment of books from a publisher in the mail every so often since you&#8217;ve agreed to purchase the novels. A weird thing happened to me over the past week. 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