Posts Tagged ‘Beat the Reaper’
Winners!
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: October 27, 2009
- In: blogging| books| giveaway
- 6 Comments
I had three giveaways end recently, and I thought I’d combine the winners into one post. Everyone listed here has been notified via e-mail.
Thank you to everyone that entered, and a big thank you to Hachette books for allowing me to host the two book giveaways!
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Sarah Z
Becca
Framed
Niveau
Ruth Ann
The Lovely [...]
Review: Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: October 16, 2009
- In: books| reviews
- 6 Comments
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Woo hoo!
Beat the Reaper was funny, exciting, entertaining, funny, thought provoking, and did I mention funny?
There were two parallel storylines. In the “now”, Peter is an intern at a highly understaffed hospital, dealing with emergencies, every day craziness, and someone who wants him dead. In the “past”, we get [...]
Friday 56: Beat the Reaper
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: October 9, 2009
- In: meme
- 4 Comments
I haven’t posted a Friday 56 for a few weeks, but I wanted to join back in today.
From Storytime With Tonya and Friends:
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your [...]
Giveaway: Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Posted by: Laura at Im Booking It on: October 1, 2009
- In: books| giveaway
- 51 Comments
Code Blue!
Edit: I’ve posted my review of Beat the Reaper!
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell looks like an exciting and funny medical thriller.
From the Hachette Books web site:
Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan’s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he’d prefer to keep hidden. Whether [...]
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- Crystal: Great review. I read this last month I think and really enjoyed it also. Her books just seem to work for me.
- Jen Forbus: This sounds cute. I might have to check it out. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is probably my most re-read book.
- Linda K.: I don't think I could take the "Aliens coming to Earth because there are women here and falling in lust with one across the field of battle" part eith
My Reviews
Reviews on this blog
November 2009
- Tales for Delicious Girls by Barbora Knobova
- Silence by Thomas Perry
- Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-same by Mattox Roesch
- Fallen by Lauren Kate
- Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
- Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
- Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
- The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell
- To Desire A Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt
- Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
October 2009
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
- The Deception of the Emerald Ring
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
- Magyk by Angie Sage
- The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale
- The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
- Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Breaking the Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough
- Betsy-Tacy 9 and 10 by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy and the Great World
- Betsy's Wedding
- Betsy and Joe (Betsy-Tacy 8) by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy-Tacy 6 and 7 by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Betsy in Spite of Herself
- Betsy Was a Junior
- Heaven To Betsy (Betsy-Tacy 5) by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy Tacy 1-4 by Maude Hart Lovelace
- Betsy-Tacy
- Betsy-Tacy and Tib
- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
- Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
September 2009
- A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
- The Smart One and The Pretty One by Claire LaZebnik
- Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Myracle
- Second Honeymoon by Joanne Trollope
- A Note From An Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- 31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- The Way Home by George P. Pelecanos
- Babydoll by Allyson Roy
- Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
- Sail by James Patterson
- The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
- Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
- How to Tame a Modern Rogue by Diana Holquist
August 2009
- Only Milo by Barry Smith
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Laced With Magic by Barbara Bretton
- Mercy Street by Mariah Stewart
- The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
- Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens
- Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- An Assembly Such as This by Pamela Aidan
- Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Slam by Nick Hornby
- Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
July 2009
- Welcome to Biotech Nation by Moira Gunn
- Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Miss L’eau by T. Katz
- Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
- Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
- Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
- A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand
- Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
- One Scream Away by Kate Brady
- Pushing Up Bluebonnets by Leann Sweeney
- The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
- Sweet Talk by Susan Mallery
- The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
June 2009
- Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
- Shoot From the Lip by Leann Sweeney
- Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
- Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan
- The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
- Beach Trip by Cathy Holton
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
- True Colors by Kristin Hannah
- Old World Daughter, New World Mother
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
May 2009
- Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
- Tribute by Nora Roberts
- Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
- Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
- The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
April 2009
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
- Dead Ex by Harly Jane Kozak
- Malice Domestic 3
- Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
