Are you in need of a good read? Well then, you've come to the right place!
Every month, Foursons and I will host a party that gives you the chance to (1) review one of your favorite reads, (2) pass it on to one of your blog readers, and if luck is on your side, (3) get a new book to read in return! Here's how it works:
If you'd like to receive the books listed on the "InLinkz" today, leave a comment. The winner will be selected using Random.org, just like a standard giveaway. If you have a book you'd like to give away on your own blog, please write up a short review, grab our button, and add your name to the InLinkz. All we ask is...
1) If you receive a book from another blogger during this book hop, please promise that you'll ultimately pass it on using this blog hop as well. It can be the next month, or two months, or three months down the road-- not everyone has a whole bunch of time to read, so the timeline is yours to decide!
2) Once you receive a book, make sure to add your blog name and URL to the inside cover. That way, the people who receive that book in the future will know where it's been.
3) You can add a book to the blog hop at any time. So if you don't have a book you'd like to give away this month, don't worry! You can add something next month, or the month after, or the month after!
I'm not giving a book away today, but I did want to share my thoughts on a book I read (checked out from the library) this month. 
It's "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult. She is one of my favorite authors; a "go-to" in the adult lit section at the library whenever I'm short on time (usually thanks to a little girl who, try as she might, canNOT be quiet in the stacks!) and need to grab a book I know I'll love quickly.
In the past, I've read just about all of Picoult's books (Handle With Care, 19 Minutes, The Tenth Circle, Vanishing Acts, The Pact, etc etc etc!) but hadn't even SEEN this one on the shelf until a few weeks ago. It's about the Amish culture-- a culture I got a chance to know a little bit when I was a child. Every summer for four years, I spent one week on a working Amish (Mennonite) farm in the Ohio Amish country. I milked goats (including a male goat on one occasion, thanks to a prankster Amish teenager), I painted fences, I collected eggs... It was pretty cool!
But the tone of "Plain Truth" is decidedly not as joyful. It's about an Amish teenager who is accused of killing her own child. There are parts of the story that I saw coming a mile away-- and parts that shocked me too. Overall, I love the style of Picoult's writing. She grabs you from the very first page (literally in this case!) and you can't stop turning the pages the entire way through. I would whole-heartedly recommend "Plain Truth" or ANY of Picoult's books!
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This is a great idea! I don't have a book to giveaway yet but I will certainly link up so I will hopefully remember next time :) Lifetime actually made In Plain Truth a movie with Mariska Hargitay as the police detective. I'm not sure I've read the book (I'm a big Picoult fan too, but I've read like a million of them!)
Looks like a good read. I have run the course on my "go to" authors at our library and need to research and bring a list of more writers--since usually I have like 4 minutes to find and checkout a book between kid shuttling.
I first discovered Jodi last summer and really like her books. I haven't read this one yet, but I did watch the made for tv movie they based the book on. (I know that doesn't count, haha)
And I love that you worked on an Amish farm as a kid! That's so cool!
This is such a great idea....I would love to participate but things right at this second are chaotic for me...we may be moving sooner than later...so for right now I would feel terrible if something got lost in the mail.