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A Mile in My Flip-Flops by Melody Carlson

it is july opening, time for the first blog tour! (join our alliance! click the button!) the first place epoch of every month we will drawn in an author and her latest book’s first chapter!the headline architect is: melody carlson

and her book:

A Mile in My Flip-FlopsWaterBrook Press (June 17, 2008)

about the author: in sixth grade, melody carlson helped start a school newspaper called the buccanews (her school’s mascot was a buccaneer…arrr!). as editor of this periodical, she wrote most of the material herself, creating goofy phony bylines to hide the fact that the school newspaper was mostly a “one man” show.sojourn melody’s website to see all of her wonderful and various book titles.don’t miss her latest teen fiction, stealing bradford (carter house girls, book 2).product details:list price: $13.99paperback: 336 pagespublisher: waterbrook press (june 17, 2008)jargon: englishisbn-10: 1400073146isbn-13: 978-1400073146and now…the word go chapter: i’m not the kind of girl who wants anyone to feel sorry for her.so after my fiancé jilted me less than four weeks previously our wedding obsolete, and since the invitations had already been sent, my exclusively recourse was to in hiding low and wait for everyone to simply forget.consequently, i became a recluse. if i wasn’t at work, teaching a delightful class of five-year-olds, who couldn’t care less about my shattered warmth life, i could be found holed up in my apartment, escaping all unwanted interaction with “sympathetic” friends.and that is how i became addicted to hgtv and ice cream. okay, that probably calls for some explanation. hgtv stands for home and garden tv, a network that runs 24/7 and is what i reckon the highest form of comfort tv. it is habit forming, albeit slenderize mind numbing. and ice cream obviously needs no exposition.other than the points that my dad, bless his heart, had seven quart-sized cartons of ben & jerry’s delivered to my apartment the day after collin dumped me. properly sufficiency, dear broken-down dad (who knows me better than anyone on the planet) selected a flavor called chocolate therapy, a fallout worthy of its name and justifiable as addictive as hgtv.but now, eighteen months and twenty-two pounds later, i earmarks of to be in a rut. and clearly i’m not the at worst joined who thinks so.”come on, gretchen,” urges my overpower benefactor, holly, from her end of the phone line. “just come with usplease!”"right,” i mutter as i lick my spoon and dip it back into a freshly opened carton of chunky monkeyalso suitably named, but let’s not go there. anyway, not at most had i moved on to new ice cream flavors, but i also had inclined up using bowls. “like i want to tag along with the newlyweds. thanks, but no thanks.”"like i inhibit telling you, we’re not newlyweds anymore,” she insists. “we’ve been married three months just now.”"yeahwell”"and it’s cinco de mayo,” she persists, using that little girl voice that i first heard when we became best friends back in third evaluate. “we always go together.
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