Monday, April 9, 2012

Guest Post & Giveaway: Linda Poitevin

UFI welcomes Linda Poitevin Author of The Grigori Legacy Series. Thanks for Joining us!!

In My Library

I’ve always known that I have somewhat eclectic reading tastes, but until I started writing this post
and checking out what’s actually sitting on my bookshelves, I didn’t realize how eclectic. Where my husband’s interests are clear from the bookcase designated as his (military history all the way!), one would be hard-pressed to pigeon-hole me that easily.

Starting at the top, I have a sizeable collection of gardening and herb books, including titles such as Rodale’s Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Healing Herbs, The Magic and Medicine of Plants, and The All-New Square Foot Gardening.

On the next two shelves below, there’s a good number of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series (I’m still working on that collection), a handful of books inherited from my grandfather (The Yearling, The Three Musketeers, and Bob Son of Battle), several YA novels that my daughters and I particularly enjoyed (including Nancy Farmer’s A Girl Named Disaster, several Tamora Pierce books, Ashfall by Mike Mullin, and a full set of C.S. Lewis books).

Dropping down another shelf, we have a number of books dealing with Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia, and parenting, including The Gift of Dyslexia and The Gift of Learning, both by Ron Davis, and several books by Barbara Colorosso. These are followed by a number of books that remain from my days of home-schooling my youngest: Usborne’s Natural World; The World of Science; 1000 Questions and Answers; The Story of Canada; Snowball Launchers, Giant Pumpkin Growers and Other Cool Contraptions; The Periodic Table; Big Numbers; The Mystery of the Periodic Table; Universe in Your Pocket; The Pinball Effect; Kingfisher History Encyclopedia; and many more.

Then we’re into the odds and ends: The Everything Fix-it Book; Feng Shui in a Weekend; OM Yoga Today; Pride & Prejudice; Little Women; How to Write Better Essays; The Book of Tarot; Dunwich’s Guide to Gemstone Sorcery; A Dictionary of Angels; Angels—An Endangered Species; 20,001 Names for Baby; Bible Baby Names; The Hidden Face of God; The Lightness of Being; and a whole host of writing craft books. Also nestled in here are childhood keepsakes: Goodnight Moon; The Giving Tree; Love You Forever; The Velveteen Rabbit; A Child’s Garden of Verses.

Bill Bryson gets a place of honor on my shelves: The Mother Tongue, A Short History of Nearly Everything, and A Walk in the Woods are particular favorites.

As far as fiction goes, I rarely buy my own fiction because I live amongst avid readers who bring a wide variety of books into the house and I read pretty much whatever happens to by laying around: my daughter’s collection of Charlaine Harris books; my husband’s preferred spy/thriller books (Grisham, Ludlum, Crichton, Cussler); another daughter’s collection of the Bronte Sisters and Jane Austen novels; and my youngest daughter’s varied collection of YA urban fantasy and dystopian books.

See? Told you my tastes were eclectic, lol! So tell me, what’s on your library shelf?
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Linda Poitevin is the author of a new urban fantasy series, The Grigori Legacy, from Ace Books. Book one, SINS OF THE ANGELS, will be out September 27/11. Book two, SINS OF THE SON, follows in May 2012. In her other life, Linda is wife, mother, friend, gardener, coffee snob, freelance writer, and zookeeper of too many pets.

Linda is a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Quebec Writers' Federation, Romance Writers of America, RWA Futuristic Fantasy Paranormal Chapter, and Ottawa Romance Writers' Association.
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Find Linda and her books
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Sins of the Son
Grigori Legacy #2
March 27, 2012
When homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis sees a photo of Seth Benjamin on a police bulletin, she knows that Heaven's plan to halt Armageddon has gone terribly wrong. As the only mortal who knows of Seth's true nature, only she can save him. Aramael was a hunter of Fallen Angels until a traitor forced him into earthly exile. Now, with no powers and only a faint memory of Alex, his mortal soulmate, he will stop at nothing to redeem himself-even if it means destroying Seth in the name of the Creator...
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21 comments:

  1. Ah, i'm so disapointed to have lost the contest for the print books open to international, i hope there will have other stops for us...

    My selves are very eclectics and not in order because of my brother-_-. I've decided to try to put my books on the shelves depending on the language and after the authors because some like Patricia briggs wrote urban fantasy as well as fanatsy. My top favorite are in plastic box on the selves so nothing happen to them. But my brother when he want to clean his room has the tendency to just put what he wants somewhere else aka MY room. So i've got a lot of science fiction books ( not the star wars ones because those he kept them carefully)and fantasy, french and english apparing and i have to redo everything so that i still have room for my books. At the mment i would say the most of them are paranormal romance and urban fantsy. I've good one box of contemporary romance and one for historical romance


    all the best and Happy Easter

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    1. Wow, Miki, it sounds like you have a LOT of books...and a lot of patience with your brother! I hope you had a lovely Easter! :)

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  2. I love books like this! I would love to read this book and I haven't read anything by this author, so it is always nice to try something new.Thanks for the chance to win :D
    GFC:aprildan01

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  3. These days, my book shelves tend to be for reference books. Everything else tends to find its way into boxes (like under the bed) or stacks. I just hate to throw out books that I know I would want to re-read.

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    1. I know the feeling, Carol...it is sooooo hard to part with them! With five of us living in the house, I had to become a little ruthless for a while. Now that the kids are moving out and I have more room, however... :)

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  4. I am a book collector because I re-read them and this is scary because I have such diverse tastes in books. Other than horror, I enjoy all genres and have them on my selves. I have tried to be orderly, but now it is more a matter of stuffing a book in where I can get it to fit.

    Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!

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    1. Mine are only semi organized because I've reached the stage where I either re-organize to make room or start some stuffing of my own. So far, stuffing is winning. ;)

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  5. I actually have a relatively narrow reading interest, which stinks because all my good friends that are authors write outside of my area of interest. I'm reading a really awesome MS, right now. The writing and story are incredible. But it's hard to get into because it isn't "my Genre". how bad is that???

    I think an eclectic taste in anything is an awesome thing; variety leads to creativity leads to knowledge, right?

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    1. On the other hand, Fiona, it's good to know what you like, and as long as you can find books you enjoy, I don't see an issue, lol! Happy reading! :)

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  6. I have quite a few shelves that are groaning from the weight of all the books I can't wait to read. I love lots of genres, including paranormal romance, urban fantasy, steampunk, historical romance, science fiction and scifi romance, mystery and contemporary romance.

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    1. Now if they could just invent a longer day...with the extra hours allotted to reading time! :)

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  7. How do you have time for so many hobbies???

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    1. Don't be too impressed, Bethany, because I don't find time for most of them anymore. *sigh* I do still garden, however...and one day I'm SURE I'll have more time for the other stuff, too. Right? ;)

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  8. I really want to read this book. It sounds very good. Tore923@aol.com

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  9. Do you have an idea of what your next urban fantasy will be about?

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  10. The book sounds very good. Looking forward to reading it.

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  11. This series is definitely on my TBR list! I can't wait to dig in!

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  12. If you like Bill Bryson but haven't read it, I highly recommend "In a Sunburned Country". I also recommend not reading it on public transportation; I admit to snorting a few times while reading it.

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  13. I have read and loved the first in the series and now I can't wait to read Sins of the Sons!!!

    Thanks for the giveaway!!!

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