Welcome to Christmas in Northern Minnesota! Well, maybe not actual Christmas in actual Minnesota unless you live there...but you'll sure get the look and feel of the holiday season when you read Susan May Warren's latest novella, The Great Christmas Bowl.About The Great Christmas Bowl:
Marianne Wallace is focused on two things this holiday season: planning the greatest family Christmas ever and cheering on her youngest son’s football team in their bid for the state championship.
Disaster strikes when the team loses their mascot-the Trout. Is it going too far to ask her to don the costume? So what if her husband has also volunteered her to organize the church Christmas tea.
When football playoffs start ramping up, the Christmas tea starts falling apart. Then, one by one her children tell her they can’t come home for Christmas. As life starts to unravel, will Marianne remember the true meaning of the holidays?
About Susan:
Susan May Warren is the RITA award-winning author of twenty-four novels with Tyndale, Barbour and Steeple Hill. A four-time Christy award finalist, a two-time RITA Finalist, she’s also a multi-winner of the Inspirational Readers Choice award, and the ACFW Book of the Year. Her larger than life characters and layered plots have won her acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. A seasoned women’s events and retreats speaker, she’s a popular writing teacher at conferences around the nation and the author of the beginning writer’s workbook: From the Inside-Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you!. She is also the founder of www.MyBookTherapy.com, a story-crafting service that helps authors discover their voice. Susan makes her home in northern Minnesota, where she is busy cheering on her two sons in football, and her daughter in local theater productions (and desperately missing her college-age son!) A full listing of her titles, reviews and awards can be found at: www.susanmaywarren.com .
Pattie's Review:
I grinned throughout most of this book, and chuckled during the rest, when I wasn't teary-eyed at the sweet moments. This is a laugh-out-loud fun book to read! It's not so much that Susan captures the Midwestern Small Town Life perfectly (which she does; I've lived there, in a different state, but it's the same in all the ways that matter), or that she captures the "We've Always Done It This Way Before" attitude in the small-town church (again, I've been there). Or even the Swedish influence (even though I live in an area of the country populated by the hardy Norwegians...lefse, anyone?). It's that she captures this slice of humanity in such a way as to focus on the positive and fun side of the story, uplifting the reader--while also encouraging the reader to practice true hospitality.
This book is the perfect read during the holidays. Be sure to pick up a few copies to give as gifts!
Be a part of the Great Christmas Bowl recipe exchange!
Will you share your story and recipe with Susan and the readers of the Great Christmas Bowl? She will post your story and recipe on the FRONT PAGE of the Great Christmas Bowl website, and send you a link when it goes up so you can tell all your friends. Then, at the Great Christmas Bowl party (December 5th, 10am, online! Details TBA) she’ll make the entire cookbook available for download!
For every recipe/story you submit (up to 3), you will be entered in a drawing to receive one of SMW’s collections (Noble Legacy, Team Hope, Heirs of Anton, Deep Haven Series, Josey series, or THE ADVANCED COPY of Sons of Thunder – Susie’s brand new epic World War 2 novel, due out in January 2010!)
Go – run, get your recipe, then come back here and click on the link below to share your Christmas memories!
(I received a review copy of this book from the publisher and participate in this tour through a marketing agency. Thank you!)
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Great review. SMW is a fabulous author and so fun. Can't wait to check out this book!
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