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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Giveaway: The Second Date Love Italian-American Style


Are you in the mood for a light hearted, fun book to read? Then you have come to the right spot. I have one copy of the book, The Second Date Love Italian-American Style, to giveaway to one lucky reader, courtesy of the author herself, Mary Lydon Simonsen.

Synopsis:

Sonia Amundsen looks like a Nordic goddess on the outside, but her heart, soul, and stomach are all Italian. She is also a successful professional who is about to celebrate her 30th birthday. Although friends have been setting her up on blind dates for two years, she never goes out on a second date with any of them because she is still looking for that perfect guy. The problem is that she has very specific criteria as to who Mr. Right is. Sonia is beginning to think that such a man is not out there until....

Set in the late 1980s, Sonia is surrounded by an extended Italian family, a caring, but over-bearing mother, warring aunts who use family funerals to stage full-blow tragedies, and a close friend, whose main goals in life are to get pregnant and to help Sonia find true love. The Second Date explores friendship and love in the heart of the Italian-American community where food is second importance only to love.


You can find my review here.

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The rules are as follows:

* This is an international giveaway. Hooray!
* Please leave your email address so I can contact you.
* +1 entry for posting on your blog or sidebar. Leave me a link please.
* Deadline for entries is midnight, EST, January 31, 2010.


Good luck everyone :)

22 comments:

  1. Sign me up! This sounds great. I'm Italian, myself, and interested if I can spot any of my own relatives in these characters. :)

    runaway84(at)gmail.com

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  2. I'd love to enter Jen. I forgot to say in my comment on your review that I love the cover as well. I'm going to post on my sidebar for you as well. Thanks!

    bj19662001 (at) yahoo (dot) ca

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  3. International, yay! Yes I am in :D

    blodeuedd1 at gmail dot com

    Gotta go post a comment on the review now, I have it on the other tab

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  4. Oh, my! This book seems so interesting. Thanks for the possibility.

    bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  5. Hi Jenny, I'd love to win this book! Thanks for making it international.

    alaineb at bigpond dot net dot au

    PS I sent you an email yesterday about Royal Reviews, did you get it?

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  6. I love Italian food and I love my Italian husband.
    msgb245 at gmail dot com

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  7. Anything Italian I am interested in! Please sign me up.
    stacybooks at yahoo

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  8. Thanks for opening it to overseas readers. Please count me in.

    The cover looks gorgeous!


    mystica123athotmaildotcom

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  9. Sounds fun. Count me in! :)

    +1 linked this on my sidebar:
    http://fictiondoesitbetter.blogspot.com/

    austenfanblogs[at]gmail[dot]com

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  10. Warring aunts at family funerals?!? Sounds great. Thanks for the giveaway
    lcbrower40(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. justpeachy36@yahoo.com

    Please enter me in the giveaway.

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  12. Thanks for the giveaway.

    s.mickelson at gmail dot com

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  13. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway. Being Italian and after reading this review I am captivated with this book. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  14. Sounds like a great fun book. I am very interested in reading it. Please enter me. Thanks!

    ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net

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  15. I would like to be entered! Thank you! madeincanarias at yahoo dot es

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  16. please count me in! this book sounds fun!

    bookmakeupreview AT gmail DOT com

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  17. Please enter me. walkerd@primus.ca

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  18. This sounds great - thanks for entering me!

    Colleen (Books in the City)
    leenbeen2001 (at) yahoo (dot) com

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  19. I am already chuckling and I haven't cracked the book. Sounds like a fun read.

    maynekitty at live dot com

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  20. This sounds like a great book! Thanks for the chance!

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

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  21. This sounds like a great book! Thanks for the chance!

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

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  22. Tweet! Tweet!

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    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net


    **I do not have a blog, so I Tweeted about this giveaway. I hope this is okay, if not, please disregard.

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