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Book Review & Personal Blog

Yoplait and MyBlogSpark were kind enough to offer me a “Nourish Your Inner Goddess” gift pack, as well as two coupons for their new Greek yogurt all for free. I was absolutely delighted to receive the gift pack because it gave me a chance to spoil myself.

My favorite part of the pack is the velcro wrap-around towel. Ladies, you know how it is trying to do the towel tuck under your arms, which ends up falling apart if you do it wrong or too loose, so you then have to clutch madly and awkwardly at the towel with your armpits to keep it from falling and perhaps even embarrassing you. Yes. We all know how this is.

The yogurt was a bit difficult to get my hands on. My boyfriend and I went around to two different stores and came out empty handed, though finally we went to the “rich” part of town and found it in their grocery store. Relief! My long, hard search ended in success when I had been worried about certain failure. We selected our two yogurts, one blueberry and one plain. Since lately I have been very vitamin aware, I was pleasured to learn that Yoplait Greek contains a large amount of protein, as well as vitamins A and D.

The one thing I noticed right away about the yogurt was its thickness. It’s thicker than typical yogurt, a lot more creamy. Sort of the texture of… sour cream. Stirring it up to mix in the blueberries at the bottom made it fluffy, but it still retained its thick heaviness. As opposed to the sweet taste of typical yogurt, the Greek style Yoplait had a slightly sour taste. I was a bit worried about this, as the date on my yogurt was well before the sell by time, so I did a little of online looking to discover that this sourness is normal. All in all, it had a really distinct and unique flavor and texture. It was yogurt-y, but yet very different. A good yogurt, though? Yes, yes it is.

Giveaway!
One lucky winner will be chosen to receive a Yoplait Greek’s “Nourish Your Inner Goddess” gift pack that contains two coupons to try out the yogurt for yourself. But anyone can get a coupon to save $.30 off of a Yoplait Greek yogurt. All you have to do is go here and download/print.

To enter the contest, all you have to do is answer the following question:
How do you get in touch with your own inner god or goddess?

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The contest ends Sunday, June 13th, 11:59pm.

Sweepstakes

True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) (From publisher)
Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, telepaths—True Blood has it all. In a world where supernatural creatures coexist with human beings, Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton wrestle with powerful desires while facing complex issues concerning sex, romance, bigotry, violence, death, and immortality. Now, True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of some of history’s great thinkers to perform some philosophical bloodletting on this thought-provoking series. From the metaphysics of mind reading to Maryann Forrester’s cult of Dionysus, from vampire politics to the nature of personal identity, and from contemporary feminism to the rights of nonhuman species, True Blood and Philosophy mines the thinking of philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John Rawls to enlighten us on the intriguing themes that surround this supernatural world. You’ll find no shortage of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your teeth into!

Vampire Wire (June 8th)

Wendy’s Minding Spot (June 15th)

JoJos Book Corner (June 18th)

Lauren’s Crammed Bookshelf (June 21st)

Melissa’s Bookshelf (June 12th)

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

Sara Weiss thought that I seemed like a simple young woman, and she decided I was incredibly lucky to have been given such a gift, as she considered it. She believed everything Lattesta had told her about what had happened at the Pyramid, because underneath her practical approach to life there was a streak of mysticism.

- Dead and Gone (Charlaine Harris), pg. 111

I do have a list of books to review that I hope to get done… and slowly turn out. I won’t post them all in the same day because that would just be insane.

Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10) by Charlaine Harris (Purchased from Barnes and Noble)
After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But he’s under scrutiny by the new Vampire King because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the Shifters coming out are beginning to be felt, Sookie’s connection to the Shreveport pack draws her into the debate. Worst of all, though the door to Faery has been closed, there are still some Fae on the human side-and one of them is angry at Sookie. Very, very angry…

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (Purchased from Barnes & Noble)
Readers with a taste for ambiguity and oddball characters will enjoy this twisted novel of suspense from Japanese author Kirino (Out). The Apartment Serial Murders case, which involved the brutal killings of two Tokyo prostitutes, has gripped the country, leading to the arrest of a Chinese immigrant, Zhang Zhe-zhong, for the crimes. Strangely, Zhang freely admits to murdering the first victim, Yuriko Hirata, but denies the near-identical slaying 10 months later of Kazue Sato. The events leading to the killings are related from a variety of perspectives—that of Yuriko’s unnamed older sister, bitterly jealous of her sibling’s good looks; of each victim; and of the accused. Unusual connections—for example, Kazue was a classmate of the older sister—cast doubt on the veracity of individual narrators. This mesmerizing tale of betrayal reveals some sobering truths about Japan’s social hierarchy.

Wow, can you believe we are back again? After how long? I don’t even know.

Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr
Katie’s Book Blog

Blood Born by Linda Howard and Linda Jones
Readaholic

Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
A Bookworm’s World