Mama, I want to sing

What would you do or where would you go if you could traverse a wormhole through space or time just once? One safe round trip passage. Would you go back in time and talk some sense into a younger you? Go five years into the future and bring back the Wall Street Journal? See just how the heck the Great Pyramids of Giza were really built? View what the other side of the universe looks like? Kill Hitler?

Can I be cheesy? I would just like to go back to the day Avalon was born. I found him on the streets when he was about one and a half and I would love to know what he was like as a kitten :-)

Angel eyes

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night

Tradition in transition

A Cat Named Mouse - The Miracle Of Answered Prayer {book giveaway}

Today's giveaway is courtesy of author Anna Alden Tirrill who is giving away a signed copy of her book A Cat Named Mouse: The Miracle Of Answered Prayer.

About A Cat Named Mouse: The Miracle Of Answered Prayer

The story of A Cat Named Mouse is an adorable and heart-warming story that will touch kids especially. Mouse's owner is a precocious 12-year old girl named Annie whose family loves Mouse as much as she does. But as Mouse is napping on a first floor windowsill one day, something happens - she tumbles out and she is lost to her family. This would be a nightmare for any pet owner, and no less for Annie and her parents.

The writing is appropriate for a middle school age-group and the word pictures painted are those that animal lovers would appreciate, including the formulating of an organized plan (including family prayer) to find their lost pet that they consistently follow daily until Mouse shows up again in what is clearly a miraculous way. Annie prays for God to protect Mouse and bring her back.

Giveaway details

To enter to win, leave a comment below telling me why you want to win this book.

Contest is open worldwide and ends March 11. Good luck!

Purchase

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Love Saves The Day by Gwen Cooper {book giveaway}

Today's giveaway is courtesy of Gwen Cooper, who is giving away a signed hardback copy of her latest bestselling novel, Love Saves The Day.

Summary

When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah, she knows she's found the human she was meant to adopt. For years their lives are filled with love and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn't come home. Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever.

Suddenly Prudence finds herself with Laura, the daughter who hardly ever came to visit Sarah. It could take years to train her in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura tries to push away bad childhood memories. With Prudence's help the hidden love and good memories will come to the surface and Laura will learn that the bond of love between mother and daughter never dies.

Review

If you love reading pet blogs (and I suppose you do if you're here), this will be just the book for you. Love Saves The Day is written in exactly the same style as many pet blogs: told mainly from a cat's perspective, easy to understand wordings and phrasings, and with the familiar cat wit and philosophy.

But Love Saves The Day is more than just the story of a cat. It's also the story of the cat's family and friends and how the bond of love holds them together in times of difficulty.

Sounds sentimental to you? Well, it is. But aren't we all sentimental when it comes to our pets and family? I have to admit that I was a little slow to get into this story because it was so obvious, but by the end Gwen Cooper succeeded in making me cry on nearly every page of this cute book.

Giveaway details

In order to win a signed hardback copy of Loves Saves The Day, you have to do one or more of the following:

* Leave a comment below telling me why you want to win this book;
* Share this giveaway on one or more of your social media (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, forum, etc);
* Follow this blog through GFC, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and or Pinterest).

Leave a separate comment for each action you took so I can count it accordingly. No more than six entries per person.

Contest is open to US only and ends March 7. Good luck!

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Unwind

Nine in the afternoon

Klutzy Love by Sharon Kleve {book giveaway}

Today's giveaway is courtesy of author Sharon Kleve who is giving away a dog pin and an e-copy of her cute romance novel Klutzy Love to one lucky reader of this blog.

About Klutzy Love

Corny Myers possesses the unique ability of speaking with animals. She pursues her lifelong dream of becoming a pet detective while an unexpected romance blossoms with a handsome narcotics detective. Throw in a prankster ferret and you have the perfect recipe for an entertaining read.

Giveaway details

To enter to win a dog pin and a copy of Klutzy Love, leave a comment telling me why you want to win this book.

You can gain extra entries by sharing this giveaway on Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and/or a forum. Or by following this blog on Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and/or Google+. Leave a separate comment for each action you took so I can count it accordingly (with a maximum of 4 possible entries per person).

Giveaway is open worldwide and ends February 24th. Good luck!

Purchase

Amazon

Hollywood's next big thing

 

Screenshots of Avalon's appearance in the horror movie The Strangers Outside. What do you think? Is this feline movie star Hollywood's next big thing?