CONGRATULATIONS! My Give Away Winner Announced

THANKS

to all of you who played along in the

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Give Away and

CONGRATULATIONS

to the winner Ron Oliver.

Ron wins a copy of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre

along with a notepad cube.

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GIVE AWAY, Around the Networks, and more

Don't forget to enter my Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy GIVEAWAY!!!


I'm so honored that Alex Tucker asked me to write a column for his entertainment website, AroundtheNetworks.com! The article is up today, I hope you'll take a minute to check it and the website out. Read my very short piece about Mark Harmon and Certain Prey,  A HUNGER FOR HARMON and visit Around the Networks. 
THANKS!






I hope you'll participate this Friday when I 'host'  Post a Picture of an Independent Bookstore.  To show our support for independent bookstores, I'm looking for fellow bloggers to post a picture on your site of a bookstore with the store's contact info. I'll be using Mr. Linky for the very first time ever and I hope you'll post your URL so we can all sample various bookstores. The bookstore can be your own bookstore, your favorite place to buy books, or maybe it's a bookstore in a far away city that you've always wanted to visit. It can be in Toledo, Toronto or Timbuktu. It's totally up to you. I just hope you'll come back and play on Friday!

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy GIVEAWAY

Gosh, I almost forgot!

Two amazing films both out on DVD  and Blu Ray today. I saw them in the theatre last year so I will link to the reviews I posted back then. Remember it's usually only the BluRay editions that are carrying the extra features we've come to know and love.
GIVEAWAY!
I have one copy of the movie tie-in edition of the book, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre, plus a Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy notepad cube to give away.
see entry details below

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch,Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Toby Jones

Directed by Tomas Alfredson

"And so it began. And right off the bat, it was different from LeCarre's gentle start with Jim Prideaux arriving at the school in its bucolic setting. Instead we are taken to the Circus right away. If I thought for a moment that the film might be leaving LeCarre's quiet suspense behind in favor of a more modern taste for fast action I was wrong. The film moves slowly but steadily along, with frequent flashbacks from this spy or that to explain what they knew, when they knew it, and who they told, thereby explaining the intricasies of the plot."

READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW

THE GIRL W/ THE DRAGON TATTOO   Stars: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Starsgaard, Robin Wright.     Directed by: David Fincher  First, the credits including the score by Trent Rosner who, along with Atticus Rose, did the entire film score, were a work of art in their own right. In fact the transition from credits to opening frame was a little jarring but there he was, Daniel Craig, a sexy, grizzled, intelligent looking Mikael Blomquist.
Superficial stuff - loved his look. His black overcoat, dark jeans turned up at the bottom, messenger bag, the glasses he dangles off one ear (I have worn glasses for 50 years and never dangled them like that. BUT I'm going to start practicing ha ha!) he just exuded the vibe of a tres hip, intellectual journalist working for one of those uber cool oversized European magazines. Don't talk to me about his lack of Swedish accent; I didn't miss it. I could care less.
READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW

TO ENTER THE GIVE AWAY ... it's easy schmeazy

Please leave a comment below by midnight, Monday, March 27, telling me your favorite Daniel Craig movie and why.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

If your entry is selected, I'll announce the winner Tuesday, March 28, so check back.

I'll also contact you as well, so winner need not be present, ha ha, to win.

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