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Book Lover’s Giveaway Tuesday: The Dog Who Knew Too Much

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There are few things I like to do to unwind more than read a good book. When I was growing up, that was my family’s weekend pasttime of choice, my father with his Louis L’Amour, my mother with a biography, and me, sprawled sideways on the overstuffed chair with an Isaac Asimov. I told you I was a nerd. That’s a good thing, though- it kept me out of trouble (mostly) for a long time.

Reading is inherently relaxing and stimulating all at once, lacking the passivity of TV or the computer. I wish I had more time to do it now.

Which is why I am happy to have a Giveaway Tuesday offering that appeals to the bibliophilie in me: Not one, but FIVE copies up for grabs of The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn of chetthedogcom.

Here is the official publisher synopsis:

The fourth entry in the irresistible New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie—”the coolest human/pooch duo this side of Wallace and Gromit” (Kirkus Reviews).

Combining suspense and intrigue with a wonderfully humorous take on the link between man and beast, Spencer Quinn’s exceptional mystery series has captured widespread praise since its New York Times bestselling debut, Dog on It. The Dog Who Knew Too Much marks the duo’s triumphant return in a tale that’s full of surprises.

Bernie is invited to give the keynote speech at the Great Western Private Eye Convention, but it’s Chet that the bigshot P.I. in charge has secret plans for. Meanwhile Chet and Bernie are hired to find a kid who has gone missing from a wilderness camp in the high country. The boy’s mother thinks the boy’s father—her ex—has snatched the boy, but Chet makes a find that sends the case in a new and dangerous direction. As if that weren’t enough, matters get complicated at home when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up. Affairs of the heart collide with a job that’s never been tougher, requiring our two intrepid sleuths to depend on each other as never before. The Dog Who Knew Too Much is classic Spencer Quinn, offering page-turning entertainment that’s not just for dog-lovers.

I’m the first to tell you, I haven’t read the book yet, but we can enjoy it together and you can let me know what you think. Who wouldn’t love a little fun reading material to curl up with as the weather starts to chase us inside? If you’d like to enter, here’s how:

1. Leave a comment below with your very most favorite book ever.

2. US only for this giveaway

3. Contest closes October 6 11:59 PST. You get a long time since I’ll be out of the country, but to make it more fun I’ll let you enter up to once a day if you want. That means I get to hear more of your favorite books, and that is a good thing.

4. 5 winners will be chosen at random using random.org.

 

Good luck!

 

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  1. Favorite book ever? “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis. If you haven’t read it, I think you’d like it: time travel, history, mystery, love, dogs, and cats.

  2. Favorite book ever has to be “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Favorite dog book ever is “A Big Little Life” by Dean Koontz (although one of the books I read in England, “Unsaid: A Novel,” is way, way up there)…

  3. Favorite book ever? “Lucifer’s Hammer” because it’s humanity at it’s best and it’s worst with some survival tips thrown in. 🙂

  5. I just read “Life of Pi” for the second time a few weeks ago. It is wonderful. The fact that there are animals throughout is an added bonus.

  6. favorite book ever is a kids book. Mr. Flop ears. I still have it memorized. All the way to Mr Big Bill Beaver and his birch bark trumpet. Happy to say I still have the same copy as when I was a child and did read it to my daughter till she knew it work for word.

  7. very most favorite book ever is just a silly question.. kinda like asking me what my favorite color is.. well.. they are all my favorite. I did read a really great book recently. It was These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf. But if there was a book that i think everyone should read it would be Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

  8. My favorite book is Twilight… which i know is lame but I love the way it makes me feel when I read it 🙂

  9. I read A Lantern In Her Hand when I was a kid, off and on over the years I’ve re-read it…I really do think it’s my favorite, but books in general are my favorite. I love to read.

  10. My favorite book is Lad: A Dog 🙂 I had a copy that belonged to my mother when I was a child. It was missing its cover, the threads that held the folios together were loose and many broken. Still, I read it again and again from the time I was 8 until I was about 18.

  11. I love so many but my favorite is The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It’s hard to beat a book written from the point of view of the dog!

  12. So many to choose from! Probably have to say Gone With The Wind – fave movie, too! (Tho I have a bunch of THOSE, as well!) 🙂

  13. Favorite one??? Seriously??? Sorry, I honestly can’t do that, but I can give you a few that would tie if I have to choose. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Merle’s Door, and Diet for a New America. I could go on….

  14. WOW tough choice. I read the Source by Michener many many years ago & love it enough to reread it several times. I like most of his books both because they are great reads and they are nice & long. Dont you hate it when a book is finished?? Recently read a biography of Paul Newman that I enjoyed. Now reading a historical fiction called Conquistadors, and while I am enjoying it I wouldnt put it on my top 10 list.

  15. These sound WONDERFUL! I can’t wait to read it, whether I win or not, it’s on my list! And my favorite? Well, lets start with To Kill A Mockingbird.

  16. Too many favorites … just enjoyed Dog Tips from Dogtown and Dogtown: Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation and Redemption. The Chet and Bernie series is great!

  18. Oh geez I have too many favorites. I suppose right now my favorite book is The Constant Princess by Phillippa Gregory. But my favorite series is definitely Blood Jack or the James Harriot series.

  19. A Dog’s Purpose! It is about a dog that keeps coming back as another dog to figure out his purpose! When he figures out what his job is, it is really touching! I laughed, I cried, best book for a dog lover!!

  20. I loved A Dog’s Purpose, I’m calling it the best book of the year. Just thinking about it I get all teary eyed. I love reading so it would be really hard to choose a favorite.

  21. Picking a very most favorite book ever is oh, so hard to do!!! I have so many “favorites”…I thoroughly loved the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. Reading The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch changed how I view dreams and aspirations…there are just so many!!!

  26. ooh- very most favorite book ever is hard…
    let’s go with the classic Where the Red Fern Grows. first book that ever made me cry

  27. Hard to choose but I really like The Lovely Bones and Like Dandelion Dust.

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  28. I’ll start with Black Beauty, which started me on a life long trip with animals, and horses in particular.

  29. The Bible, it has everything.
    And I think every dog is God’s way of helping us see the world in a kinder way.

  30. i luv, the chet and bernie books! but my favorite book with a dog in it is ‘watchers’ by dean koontz. who wouldn’t love and intelligent dog that can communicate using a scrabble board? and he’s a golden, too. i reread it every year or so. i several copies, but always read the original, beat up one.

  31. I have way too many favorite books to choose just one! So today I’ll choose Wuthering Heights–a classic romantic ghost story!! Love the setting and the way the characters are portrayed.

  32. another book i could read over and over is Clan of the Cave Bears. i love me some ancient history (even if it is fictional)

  36. one of my favorite series is the ‘in death’ series by j.d. robb. mystery, mayhem, sex and two of my favorite characters – all set in the future. what more could you ask for? ok, so they don’t have a dog, but they do have a cat…

  41. I’m going to start off with my favourite book ever and tomorrow onwards I’ll tell you my favourite animal centric books.
    Jack the Bodiless by Julian May, worth the read if you love Isaac Asimov Dr V.

  42. rita mae and sneaky pie (her cat) brown have a pretty good mystery series going. i’m not usually into animals that talk, but they only talk to each other and i can so picture my dogs and cats saying those things to each other. so if you like animals and mysteries, give them a try. i like the early ones, when they still worked at the post office the best. oh, and there’s some fox hunting involved, too.

  43. Have fun on your trip!! I can’t pick just one book, but the ones that I keep going back to again and again are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sex Lives of Cannibals (by J Maarten Troost) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (or anything by David Sedaris).

  44. Can’t wait to try this author out, and right now I’m reading (audio on my way to work) all the Amelia Peabody mystery series. They are wonderful!!