What did you snag in February?

Looks like the messages are going out!

I'm getting The Passage by Justin Cronin!

Yay! It's one of the ones I really wanted :)

I'm doing a happy dance -- I FINALLY got my first one. The Tale of Halcyon Crane looks like a great ghost story. :-)

I'm getting A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel.

I, too, am getting The Passage. It's my first win since June '08. Exciting!

My good luck continues! I landed The Art of Losing, an anthology of poems about grief. It won't be light reading, but I'm looking forward to it!

Okay, I always get excited when I win something, but I just snagged The Red Thread by Ann Hood and I just about jumped out of my skin when I read the news.

YES!!!

(Edited to fix touchstone.)

Everyone's ER books sound wonderful. Mine (after a few months' dry spell) sounds not so wonderful but is something I really need, having been a grinder and clencher for years. Anyway, I'm getting a copy of The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieving Persistent Jaw, Neck and Head Pain. I'm hoping it lives up to its title. Thanks, LT!

I'm getting Sixteen Brides by Stephanie Whitson. :)

This will be my 2nd ER book.. I snagged Get Lucky by Katherine Center. Can not wait for it to show up in the mailbox!

I finally got an ER I'm so excited can't wait to read this one!Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft by, Nancy Means Wright

WOOOOOOT!!! After *months* of ER-dryspell, I got a book! One Good Dog by Susan Wilson, I can't wait to read it!

5: That was another one I'd requested, do tell us how you like it!

I'm getting The Animal Review!

I'm getting The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb which is my first book from ER in almost a year :-)

Half Life by Roopa Farooki! This month I heartily approve the machinations of the algorithm!

Love the new algorithm - my first book since August 2008! I'm getting CroMagnon by Brian Fagan. I'm interested in archaeology and ancient history, so I'm quite pleased to get this from among the requests I made. I also realize that I've already some experience with this author in another media - a set of dvd lectures on ancient history from the Teaching Company available at my local library. Now I know I'll almost certainly enjoy it. Thanks!

After well over a year, I have snagged my first ER book. Once in a Blue Moon by Leanna Ellis. Honestly, this probably would not have been my first choice, but I am thrilled to finally have snagged ANY ER book.

I'm getting Mrs. Somebody Somebody -- (you've got to love that title!) -- by Tracy Winn . It sounds great and I'm very excited!

I am getting The Red Thread by Ann Hood. I am really looking forward to reading this one.

My first month doing ER and I snagged two so far. Booth's Sister and When Can I Go Home? .

Are all the notices out? This is my first month doing ER so I'm not sure if we get a notice that says we didn't get it.

ER notices go out for having been chosen to receive a book. If you get a notice that says you did not get chosen, that's for the entire batch. You don't get a not chosen notice on a per book basis.

Member Giveawy operates differently, in that you get not chosen notices per each book request... unless, of course, you get chosen, which brings you the happier notice instead. :)

So excited for Think Twice by Lise Scottoline!

Dakotamidnight- We don't get messages about books we didn't get. Congrats on getting 2 in your first month!

Lucky you jem I really wanted that one too!But I'm happy I finally got something!

I'm getting Digitally Daunted: The Consumer's Guide to Taking Control of the Technology in Your Life by Sean Westcott. Should be interesting.

I was just on the verge of dropping out of Early Reviewers, but now I'm getting Reporting at Wit's End. It looks wonderful.

I am so excited... I am getting Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin. I love her books and I am so excited to read this one.

I'm getting The Dead Travel Fast. I'm thrilled. Book sounds very interesting, and Raybourn is a ER author.

>19 dakotamidnight: I believe When Can I Go Home? must have been a Members Giveaway book, not an Early Reviewers book. ER members only get one book per ER batch, so if you've been told you're getting one book from the February batch, you'll know that you're not getting any of the others you requested.

My first win after 16 months of trying - Cromagnon.

I am getting The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien (He's the grandson of JRR Tolkien). This month there were quite a few books that looked great to me so I am glad to have snagged this one. This looks like a great match for my taste in mysteries.

I'm looking forward to receiving and reading The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard.

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Um, how did you get two books? You're not supposed to be able to, and using multiple accounts to increase your chances is explicitly prohibited. You're not confusing two completely separate things (i.e. Early Reviewers and Member Giveaways), are you? Assuming you aren't, this is probably a serious bug in the new algorithm, and Sonya needs to know about it.

I'm excited to be getting The Bread of Angels by Stephanie Saldana after a 10 month dry spell.

I only requested one book and I guess it was the right one because I was able to snag a copy of Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro. I'm so excited about this one!....just hope it is one of the books that actually shows up.

You're right - When Can I Go Home was a MG book - they requested a review the same as ER and it was from the author so I considered it the same.

You can only get one ER book? Really? I would have requested differently had I known that.

Woohoo. Doing my happy book dance. Making Rounds With Oscar by David Dosa. I didn't notice the "announcements are delayed" message, so I had already given up on February. It's like Christmas!

I am getting A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel by Melvin Starr

Eye of the Red Tsar is coming my way. Sweet.

I'm getting a copy of Pearl of China b Anchee Min which is great because, not only do I think it sounds interesting, my mom is a big Pearl S. Buck fan, and I wanted to read this to see if I am going to order her a copy for her birthday.

I am getting All God's Creatures Tho i have been trying for more than a year this is the first time i have gotten an ER book. It sounds like something i will enjoy being that i love animals. 8^)

I got Orange is the New Black for my very first ER win. Yay! I've really been wanting to read this book.

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You can only get one ER book? Really?

Yep. It's always been that way, for good reasons (to avoid having people request everything just to boost their chances). It's clearly explained in the rules.

they requested a review the same as ER and it was from the author so I considered it the same.

Understandable, but it's very confusing when they're described as the same, since technically they're totally different. It's important to try to remember which books are which when talking about them, since most of the rules and issues surrounding ER books don't apply to MG books, and there are endless threads about people complaining about "ER" books that turn out to really be "MG" books.

I got 2017 !!! Woo!!!

I got Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin :o) I so love this Early Reviewer thing :o) Since I only buy pocket books, it used to be that "everybody" has read the book before I can get it... Now at least I can have a chance to read a book before most of everybody ;o)

I am sooooo excited! No, that isn't an earthquake; that is just me jumping around with joy that I snagged my first ER. I will be receiving Eye of the Red Tsar by Sam Eastland. Now, I can hardly wait to read it. Oh, this is so fantastic. Thanks LT!

I got Going, Gone by Laura Crum from the Gail McCarthy mystery series. I love mysteries!

I am getting Wild Romance. It looks really good and I can't wait! I love getting free books.

Hurray, scored a copy of The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien. Very happy; I might well have bought a copy anyway but now (a) it saves me the $$ and (b) I don't have to wait! Had my name down for three books, all of which I really wanted to read (vs some last time I won that I was only lukewarm about), so am v. pleased. Second win in three tries, although this is def. a better match than the last book; may the algorithm continue to love me.

Got Texas Tough after a bit of a dry spell. Woohoo!

I am getting The Language of Sand by Ellen Block. Really looking forward to reading it.

I'm getting Diet for a Hot Planet and hoping it will give me some ideas for topics about which to write in my CSA newsletter. Thanks!

I snagged my first Early Reviewer book (after receiving my first MG book yesterday.) The Long Man by Steve Englehart.

I guess my collection of The Dresden Files books finally paid off.

I won The Season of Second Chances . Finally my losing streak is over ! For anyone still waiting , it took me eleven months to win again . So don't lose hope !

I got The Brontes Went To Woolworths. I've wanted to read this book for at least 3 years now, but haven't been able to find a copy. Thank you almighty algorithm!!!

edited to get the title right

I'll be getting Making Rounds With Oscar by David Dosa. Was the only book that I requested as none of the others really caught my interest. The fact that I have Dewey and Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper probably helped. *G*

Finally I "snagged" a book....looking forward to reading THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTENING.

THANKS.

I am getting Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl :) I am excited to read it!

I'm getting The Cold Room by J.T. Ellison!

I am getting Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman and I am very excited about it! I've enjoyed her other books. It feels like Christmas in March!

I got The Bread of Angels. Yay!

Yay! Dry spell over: I got Chef by Jaspreet Singh.

I was so happy to find that I am receiving Half Life by Roopa Farooki. I anxiously await its arrival.

My first ER, as well, and pleased that it's a collection of verse: The Art Of Losing.

I'm so excited! I'm getting a copy of Arcadia Falls.

After a six month dry spell, I'm very happy to be getting Mrs Somebody Somebody!!

I'm always curious about the specific books in my library that get me a particular ER book. It would be interesting to know...

Got Eye of the Red Tsar after a 6 month dry spell.

I'm very excited. I FINALLY got a book from Early Reviewers. I'm getting The Age of the Orphans.

I really, really wanted to get The Red Thread to see if the author did her research and got it right. Should only have requested it.

I am getting Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft. I am so excited! It has been months and months for me!!

I just found out I'm getting In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy. I've never read anything by this author and I'm really looking forward to receiving the book.

Did they tinker with the algorithm or something? It seems like a lot of people are getting books "after a dry spell".

I'm getting The Tale of Halcyon Crane. I look forward to reading it!

I haven't been in a dry spell -- I've had a run of several months now, getting books. Can't explain it, but I'll take it!

I'm getting Frost Moon which will be my first ER Book since I joined it almost a year ago. Exited and nervous!

I am getting How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie Mae Fowler.

Hooray! My dry spell is over - I'm getting The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien

I forgot that I even requested a book this month- I still have a review outstanding and when that happens I try not to ask for another book. Anyway, I'm getting No More Christian Nice Girl. I've long been a mentor for teen girls, so this should be very helpful!

A year without a win and I'm getting a copy of Pearl of China! Oddly my last ER was Shanghai Girls. Guess I'm seeing a trend. ;)

Well I finally snagged my 4th book since being in the ER program. I won Genoa Bay by Bette Nordberg. I looked at the list once and I don't even remember the books that I had chosen. I am just so happy to finally win a book again.

I got This is How, snagging a book for the third month in a row - I feel very lucky.

I'm getting The Brontes Went to Woolworths! That would have been my first choice of all the books I requested, if I'd had to rate them. So I'm really excited! Especially since it ends my year-long dry spell!

After a very long hiatus I've actually got an ER book! I snagged The Animal Review. It sounds like a good one to look at with my son.

I'm gettign Diet for a Hot Planet too- will be a bit different for me- looking forward to a change.

I am getting: Explotación de los recursos forestales desde el neolítico. I am looking forward to reading it. This is my first ER win! :-)

It's been a long time since I won anything, but this month I'm getting Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl. Yay!

Super excited to be getting Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael!

I've been a New Yorker subscriber for over 25 years so very happy to get Reporting at Wit's End by St. Clair McKelway.

This is my second ER book. Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael. This made my day!

I am getting Diet for a Hot Planet. I will be very interested to read it because Diet for a Small Planet had a major impact on me in college and has continued to affect my eating choices since -- never mind that the recipes were goddawfull and involved a lot of soy grits which turned everything a greeny gray. Moosewood came out very quickly thereafter and rescued me.

After an 11-month dry spell I finally got another. I will be reading The Passage by Justin Cronin.

I'm getting One Good Dog by Susan Wilson. It looks fluffy. :)

Yippee.. I am gettings Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro I am excited. I can't wait. Appears a little different than what I normally read but sounds very interesting. :)

I am getting She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell! Very exciting!

I finally broke my ER dryspell! The last book I received was back in October of 2008 and I was beginning to lose hope. But this month, I snagged a copy of Arcadia Falls.

It looks like an amazing book. I love gothic and supernatural works, so this seems like a great fit. Looking forward to reading and reviewing it!

I also won Making Rounds with Oskar, can`t wait to get it!

YES! Months of getting nothing resulted in my recieving The Cougar Club!

Yay! An 11-month dry spell ended with A Dog With no Tail. I'm so looking forward to this. I really wanted this one.

I snagged "Diet for a Hot Planet." Considering I have about 20% of by books that I have entered into LT are cookbooks or somehow related to food, I thought I had a pretty good chance. I have two of the author's mother's books as well, just haven't entered them into LT yet.

Dating the algorithm worked! bumpachickabowbow...

I'm getting:

Anywhere, Anytime, Any Body Yoga and so far, I'm the only one admitting it. I'm excited because I'm old and and apparently to have happy, healthy, active Jurassic years, the key is flexibility.

>97 DanaJean: DanaJean: Yup, that's precisely what doomed the dinosaurs- poor range of motion. Meteorite theories be damned!

I am also getting She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell! (And I know I'll be wishlisting a bunch of others from this batch!)

>97 DanaJean: I'm getting Anywhere, Anytime, Any Body Yoga too. I was originally excited because I was trying to find more little yoga bits I could fit into my day. And then last night I sprained my ankle! I hope it arrives soon - I'm ready to read the section on seated yoga now.

I received All God's Creatures. My first one in awhile! Super exciting! How long do you normally have to wait for the ebooks to be sent? Is it a shorter wait than for paper books in the mail?

A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel by Mel Starr for me. Yay!

I snagged a copy of How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them by Daniel Wolff, a book from Bloomsbury.

Positive Options for Living with COPD for me.

Will be receiving Wild Romance by Chloe Schama.

I'm getting Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft by Nancy Means Wright.

I am getting Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann.

A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel by Mel Starr for me!

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie Mae Fowler. Looking forward to reading it.

I snagged my first ER book...Orange is the New Black. Looking forward to reading and reviewing this one! It looks very interesting!

I'm also receiving "The Inheritance"* by Simon Tolkien. I'm very curious now, I requested it because it sounds like my cup of tea. British mystery, library, espionage, all topics which I have lots of in my book collection, but just for fun I did the "will you like it" button and it said I would hate it. Hmmm.

*When I tried the touchstones, what came up is "Eragon." Weird.

Number two for me...The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard.
She used to be a favorite of mine but I haven' read one in quite a while. It will be fun to read her again.
Yippee!

I am getting No Moon by Irene Watts and am really excited (it was one of the two I wanted the most from this batch, the other being Heartless by Anne Stengl)

I'm so excited to be chosen for Murder in Paradise by Alanna Knight. I can't wait to read it!

#111: I think that happens when there aren't any reviews/ratings for a book. I also did the "will you like it" button for the book I'm getting for ER and it said the same thing. However, it also doesn't have any reviews/ratings yet, either, so perhaps they just don't have anything to base the "will you like it" on, if that makes sense.

Hope we both end up liking the books we're going to receive! :)

Yea!! It's been a year since my last ER book. I got Look At Me Now by Thomas J. Hubschman. It sounds really interesting:)

Hah... I think I figured out how I managed to get the book I won... its an eBook! I'm guessing that it wasn't as widely requested as the real books.

No biggie to me... I'll just pop it onto my Nook and read away!

I'm getting Making Rounds with Oscar- an extremely appropriate choice since I collect both cats and cat books! :)

I'm getting Wild Romance by Chloe Schama! This is pretty exciting, I rarely get ER books these days. I'm assuming so many did after a dry spell because February was a huge batch.

none this time, but after two in a row I shouldn't complain.

I won my first official ER book ever since joining the program in Dec. '08. I got The Passage by Justin Cronin, and I look forward to reading and reviewing it!

This is the first book I have received since Oct. 2008
Woo Hoo! The dry streak has ended. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing this book.
Once in a Blue Moon by Leanna Ellis

I'm eagerly awaiting The Undervalued Self by Elaine Aron, though I hope the subtitle is just some publisher's gimmick. Aron has written a series of excellent books about "Highly Sensitive Persons". From the pre-publication publicity (PPP?) I thought this would be part of that series, but maybe not. I guess I'll find out more when I get/review it. My first ER book.

I'm getting Romancing Miss Bronte by Juliet Gael. This could possibly be my best ER book yet. I am a great fan of Jane Austen and thought anything about that era would be good. Looking forward to reading and posting my review.

I received Frost Moon as my requested ER pick. I only opted for requesting one because I preferred it over any of the other selections and figured I had the best chance of getting it as an eBook with multiple copies up for review. And I did receive it.

The publisher also opted to give eBook copies of their other release Twice Dead by Kalayna Price with it; they decided to give anyone that was selected for one of their books, both books. So while we got selected for either Frost Moon or Twice Dead, we all received both. It works for me since the only reason I hadn't requested "Twice Dead" is because I haven't read the first book in that series yet. Time to find it. :-D

The Inheritance Cycle is the title Christopher Paolini gave to his series which begins with Eragon... so no mystery as to why there is a bit of confusion there. I'm sure that, given time, the touchstones will bring up Simon Tolkien's Inheritance as a choice, if not the default one.

I got Mathilda Savitch. I'm very excited! Whatever they changed about The Algorithm worked in my favor! I always knew I'd be excellent for ER since I read a lot and quickly and write reviews for everything I read, but I was never able to convince LT of that for ER. Until now!

I will be getting The Passage by Justin Cronin, which is fabulous because I have been stalking this book for two years now ever since my writing professor told us that his friend (Justin Cronin) would be writing a post-apocolyptic vampire fiction book that promised to be smart and thrilling. I had already ordered it on B&N but canceled my order promptly when I got word that it was coming to me from Library Thing. Thanks guys!

I am getting Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin. I was ecstatic because I haven't requested a book in a few months so I wasn't expecting to get one so quickly. I have enjoyed Emily Giffin's other works so I am definitely looking forward to this one!

I'm so excited to be getting The Brontes Went to Woolworths...though I requested quite a few on the list, this was the one I REALLY REALLY wanted, and it broke my dry spell so I'm HAPPY!!!!

I got A Dog with No Tail. I love books set in the Middle East, so I am really excited about reading it!

I also got Making Rounds With Oscar. My "helper" books must be the All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot and The Cat Who Went to Paris series by Peter Gethers.This will be my fifth ER book, although I still haven't received the 4th in the mail yet.

I chalk up my success to doing what they suggest - writing reviews!

Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman. I'm really excited since I love everything I have ever read by her.

I am also getting arcadia falls! I am really excited. I love getting ER books!

I definitely think that having a larger library and writing reviews is a big help to winning ER books!

I'm very much looking forward to The Passage; I think a great match for me.

>41 lorax:

They just things, you can sometimes get 2 now....

After a dry spell lasting about a year, I'm getting The Brontes Went to Woolworths. I'm really looking forward to it. I've wondered how much reviewing books helps. I had promptly reviewed every ER book I had received prior to the dry spell. I wonder if the demand is just so great that even if you do it all correctly, there are still going to be long gaps in getting anything.

I got Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft by Nancy Means Wright and I'm thrilled. This books sounds like it will be a good one! Of course, I had just ordered four new books, but I'm not complaining!

I have been on the list for a long time, and never got a book. But now I have won my third book in a row!Booth's Sister by Jane Singer.

What I don't understand is how there can already be two (Early reviewers) reviews for this book, while I have not even received the book yet.

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marank

Read through the admin posts (the ones that have the LT icon) here to understand how it happens:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/86318

My initial explanation is not a super clear answer to your question which is why I recommend reading all the admin posts. Thanks.

-Mike

Looks like I'm getting "Romancing Miss Bronte". Can't wait for it to arrive. :)

I just received The Language of Sand! Can't wait to start it. I am half way through Beautiful Creatures and will start this next! :)

Receuved Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn. This was my first month as a LT member and an ER reviewer. The book is a perfect fit for me, so I think the mysterious algorithm must work. I'm already two chapters in on my first day and I love it. I have a question about how and where to review it for the veterans. I added the book to my catalog of books under my username. Do I just review it there as I do any other book or is there a place or listing that I am specifically supposed to go to that indicates that I am an early reviewer? Thanks for the help. I think this is fabulous.

For those of you that have Kindles or are willing to download the software to read the Kindle books on your computer,... note that Mrs. Booth's Sister is available for free on Amazon. I got it for my Kindle. (many of the free books are junk - but this looked good) and couldn't very far in it before giving up. Glad I didn't get it ER and have to finish it. I'm sure it is someone's cup of tea though.

Does anyone know if the ebooks ever come in Kindle format? The pdf doesn't work so well.

Just review it there as you do with any other book. I believe it's possible to convert a pdf so it will show on your Kindle, but you'd need to check on how.

#143 I won the same book but haven't received it yet. How did yours come? USPS etc.? I am looking forward to reading it too.

A long time coming, but I have finally snagged Arcadia Falls

I got Frost Moon by Anthony Francis. I am waiting for it to show up in my mail.

The Art of Losing came, I am so glad I won this even if I am already tear-y. It is a wonderful collection of poems.

I got Arcadia Falls in the mail yesterday! I love the ER program!

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My book came last Thursday via FEDEX.. I am in Maine.. if that helps at all. I just started it.. Like what I have read so far :)
anne

I just received The Brontes Went to Woolworths. Couldn't believe how fast it came!

Anywhere, Anytime, Any Body Yoga.

I just recieved my February ER Book, Romancing Miss Bronte. It looks really interesting. Starting to read today.........

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That is so funny that you say that! I added a boxed set of the first 3 DF books and got The Long Man as my first ER book too!

I got my first ER book yesterday: Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman. I'm excited! In fact, I'm so anxious to read it that I was going to go out and buy it because who knows how long it would take the publisher to send it to me! But when I got home from work yesterday, there it was on the porch. Yippie! I can spend that $25 on some other book! :-D

I am waiting for the arrival of Chef by Jaspreet Singh.

I am anxiously waiting for the arrival of Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin