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Guest Post & Giveaway with Emily Listfield, author of Best Intentions

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After some technical difficulties, I am very pleased to welcome Emily Listfield, author of Best Intentions to Peeking Between the Pages today. I just posted my review of this book yesterday and I really enjoyed it-you can take a peek at my review here. For now, let’s sit back and relax and see what Emily has to share with us…

Best Intentions is a mystery based on a the most simple and yet most complicated question: How well do you really know the people you love?

The narrator, Lisa Barkley, is married to her college boyfriend, Sam. Now, years later, they live in Manhattan and have two daughters they are struggling to keep in private school as the economy begins to collapse around them. Men and women, I think, have a particularly hard time with the effects of financial pressure on a relationship. Sam doesn’t want to admit his insecurities, Lisa doesn’t want to admit her doubts. As they pull further away from each other, Lisa also begins to suspect Sam is having an affair.

Money envy. Resentments. Fear. Jealousy. There are not necessarily emotions we like to talk about it. (Frankly, most people would rather talk about sex and weight than their financial situation – and those aren’t exactly easy topics either!) But they exist.

In these trying times, so many of our expectations have had to change. We can torment ourselves with where we think ‘we should be’ or we can adjust. Sometimes, of course, we veer back and forth. We all have doubts, fears, suspicions – they may be romantic, they may be financial, they may concern our children or our lovers. But the real danger lies in not being honest about them.

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Thanks so much Emily. How true those words are. Things are so much different now than they used to be and yes, the best is to try and adjust and communicate honestly. Thanks for such a thought provoking post!

GIVEAWAY:

I’ve got 2 copies of Best Intentions to share with two of my lucky readers. One copy is open to US and Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) as it will be coming directly from the publisher and the second copy (my very gently read copy) will be open to all my international friends as well! What do you need to do…

  • For 1 entry, leave me a comment with an email address please. If this is an international entry, please tell me.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog. If you already do, let me know-you for sure get the extra entry as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet the giveaway.

I will draw for the winners on Sunday, June 21, 2009. Best of luck to all!

Be sure to check out all my giveaways on both sidebars!

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  3. Dar,
    Please don’t enter me in the giveaway. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading Best Intentions — it was a fantastic read. Good luck to everybody in the giveaway.

  4. Dar, you know I want this book 🙂 Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

    Mary

    * meah56 at gmail dot com

    * I’m a follower

    * I blogged on my sidebar

  6. Yes I wanna be entered for the international one 🙂
    Would love to read this book, it sounds great after your review

    blodeuedd1 at gmail dot com

  7. This book hasn’t gotten a bad review yet. Please include me in this drawing, Thanks! Indigo

    I also follow you via Google Reader.

    ravensquietscreams(at)gmail(dot)com

  8. I’d love to read this – please count me in

    I’m also a follower

    msboatgal at aol.com

  12. Please enter me! 🙂

    I follow and will post in my sidebar.

    Happy Reading!

    k9kutter64(at)yahoo(dot)com

  13. Wow. Powerful stuff, indeed!

    No need to enter me, Dar. I’m just dropping in to say thanks for the e-mail. I’ve got this posted at Win a Book for you.

  19. How well do I know the ones I love? that is a very good question. My DH was a Navy Seal and there is so much he won’t talk about. I am never sure.
    I follow your blog
    I tweeted at ccqdesigns
    rebecca.cox@charter.net

  20. I always hope I know the ones I love very well but I guess you never know…I keep reading books that make you doubt at times…

    melacan at hotmail dto com

  21. Forgot to tell you that I’m a new follower too – from Canada.

    melacan at hotmail dto com

  25. I believe this would be a truly awesome book, please enter me!

    Luvdaylilies at bellsouth dot net

  26. I'd love to read this book. I've seen many great reviews all over the blogs.

    Please count me in – Thanks!
    megalon22[at]yahoo[dot]com

  28. Oh, this book sounds like a perfect mix of the things I love as well – a good mystery and life drama.

    booklogged AT gmail DOT com

  29. Been a follower of your blog for quite awhile now.

    booklogged AT gmail DOT com

  30. Please enter me in your giveaway, I live in Canada

    bluebelle0367(at)hotmail(dot)com

    "Canadian Contests, Freebies, Coupons, Deals, Games and Fun:
    CoolCanucks.ca"

  31. I follow your blog

    bluebelle0367(at)hotmail(dot)com

    "Canadian Contests, Freebies, Coupons, Deals, Games and Fun:
    CoolCanucks.ca"

  33. I have seen this book a few places now and it keeps looking better and better. Please enter me in the drawing.

    I also follow your blog.

    kherbrand at comcast dot net

  34. Your review convinced me this would be a fantastic read so I would love to be entered in your giveaway!

    +1 – shiloki[at]gmail[dot]com
    +2 – I'm a follower

    (not international, I'm a fellow canuck)

  35. No need to enter me…Just wanted to stop by and thank you for the guest post.

  46. Emily, thanks so much for stopping by and for the guest post. It really is great! Best of luck to you!

  52. Please do enter me, loved your review of this book (international entry by the way). I also follow you through google reader.

    elizascott2005 at yahoo do co dot in

    Thanks for the giveaway.

  59. This sounds like a very topical book! Thank you for this contest. I am from Canada eh?
    teagirl1 at telus dot net.

  62. I would like to be entered

    I follow your blog and I posted about your giveaway on Friday

  63. Book giveaways for the international. Hooray! I;m from Taiwan. Please count me in.
    linna.hsu(at)gmail(dot)com

  64. Oh, this sounds so good! And the cover is fabulous. Definitely drew my eyes right to it. Please enter me in the contest.

    I'm a follower

    Posted a link to the contest on my sidebar

    florida982002[at]yahoo[dot]com

  80. I'm from the UK and would love a chance to win please!

    Sassy[dot]Brit@gmail[dot]com

    Thanks

    Sassy
    🙂

  82. I've read a number of reviews; some conflicting, so I would like to read the book, and make my own decision. Based on your review, I think I would really like it! Count me in. Thanks!

    cyeates AT nycap DOT rr DOT com

  84. I'd love to win this book! I've heard so much about it!

    My email address is jessicaleigh4 (@) gmail (dot) com.

  86. I am entering your second giveaway for International Readers.

    Please enter me.

    Thanks

    Carol

  89. I'd love to be entered into this one.

    yvone473[at]optonline[dot]net

    I'm also a follower!

  91. i am a follower!!
    oh and forgot to say i'm in canada!

    nicolemarielum @gmail.com

  95. I'd love to be entered in this giveaway. This book sounds fantastic.
    I follow by RSS

    Dutchlvr1(at)aol(dot)come

  96. This sounds as if it would be a
    good book to read. Plese enter me
    and thank you for having this contest.

    jeanereads(at)sbcglobal{dot}net

  98. Hi Dar! What a wonderful guest post! I have heard great things about this book – please enter me!

    *I am a follower!
    *I just Tweeted your giveaway! My ID Chickwithbooks

    Thanks for the great giveaway!
    Suzanne

    quzy (at) mac (dot) com