Wednesday = Review Day

We’ll be posting reviews of Bittersweet on Mondays and Wednesdays through the fall…but we’re a little behind after a super-crazy week.  Mandy’s and The Mommy Revolution’s reviews are a part of the official blog tour, and the others are super-sweet friends who wrote reviews just all on their own.

Most of the reviews also have giveaways—so enter them!  Get yourself a copy, or another copy—of Bittersweet.  Most of them have signed copies to give away…if you win, the blogger will send me the name you want in the book, and I’ll get it out to you asap. 

If you’re a blogger, and you’d like to join in on the fun, send an email to Brannon.

The other benefit, beyond free signed books, is that you might find some blogs you love in this process…I’m always looking for new blogs.  Some of these bloggers are my dearest friends, and some readers I’ve never met…so we’ll discover a lot of great blogs together.  Fun stuff.

Mandy and I met at Lincoln Christian College a few years ago—during the terrible 10 minute period when I was a brunette.  She took me to a lovely restaurant in Bloomington, Illinois, called Reality Bites, where we had asparagus crostini with lemon zest.  Yum.

http://mandarin21.blogspot.com/2010/08/bittersweet.html

The Mommy Revolution: Oh, I love these two. Really.  Super-love this site and the questions they’re asking.  If you’re a mama, bookmark this one for sure.  Carla lives in Minneapolis, and Caryn lives right near me—we had a lovely playdate earlier this summer. 

http://themommyrevolution.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/guest-post-shauna-niequist-on-bittersweet/

Bex and I haven’t met, but we might this fall in Oregon, and I think we have a mutual friend named April—the world is so very small.

http://beccalenamann.blogspot.com/2010/08/bittersweet-giveaway.html

Mary Kay is one of the first people I ever met at camp, nearly one million years ago, and she’s a funny, smart woman.  

http://marythekay.typepad.com/marythekaytheblog/2010/08/what-is-it-that-keeps-night-owls-up-every-night-my-bookshelf.html

Comments

[Joanna]

Would you be interested in being interviewed by bloggers? If so, I'd love to interview you about Bittersweet.

[kcmindthegap@gmail.com]

Shauna, I haven't even finished reading Bittersweet yet but already it has changed my life. I mean, really....it has changed my life.

It started with the chapter about Alameda and your weekend with all your friends and your babies, and it made me cry because while I have friends, I have never had those kinds of friends, but it's what I've been longing for my whole life. I had to stop reading the book because I couldn't see the words through the tears in my eyes. It made my longing for those deep doing-life-together friendships so raw and so real that I could barely breathe.

And then I got to the chapter about Grace, and I realized that the reason all my friends are at arms-length is because I keep them at arms-length! I don't trust their grace enough to love me despite my messy house or my imperfect kids. And I don't give them the grace of loving them past their flaws or imperfect kids. The reason I can't find friends to do life together with, is because I don't let my friends do life with me! I don't accept their grace, and I don't give them mine.

Shauna, really....you have changed my life. Thank you for being there to write this book, and for being honest in it, and for writing the things God was telling you to write. I can't wait to read the rest of the book!!

[Sheila]

Shauna, I am almost done with Bittersweet. I love it! Every chapter, I think ok now that was my favorite and then I read the next and it's my new favorite. I can't wait to give it a review...it's going to be very had to wait until Dec. 8th!!!!!