Happiness is a free book

I hate waking up as early as I do to get ready for work.  You may sympathize.  I'm sure you too were up at midnight reading some book, even though you had a wake-up call at 4:45 a.m. So it was with little sleep and a bad attitude that I faced my early morning alarm.  And this was a Monday 4:45 a.m. wake-up call.  And I was facing a surly child and even surlier teenagers in the coming hours.  In short, it was an unkind alarm, and I was unhappy.

All this Monday morning unhappiness was mitigated, thank goodness, by the happier email from Goodreads I found during 5 a.m. email check:    finally I have won a FirstReads book give-away contest.  The only stipulation to my new fortune is that I have to write a review of my free book.  Well, technically, I don't have to write a review, but the email stressed how I may never, ever, receive another free book if I don't.   So, dear friends, expect a review over the new novel So Much for That in the coming months.  Thanks to GoodReads for their continued support of my obsessive reading habits.