Eve Contest Winners!

Eve Contest Winners!!

I would like to personally congratulate the 3 winners of a personalized copy of Eve by Ellissa Elliott.  I sincerely hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

The winners are:
1.  Scoot from www.seescootread.com
2. Ricki from Ballwin, MO
3.  Erinberry from Sharpsburg, GA

You can check out Elissa Elliott's website at www.elissaelliott.com
If you didn't win you can always order a copy of her book right here. 

Thanks.

EVE contest ends today at Midnight!

The contest for EVE ends today!

Today is the last day to enter the contest to win one of three personalized copies of Eve.  The contest ends at midnight tonight.  The contest is open to U.S. residents and Booksnob followers.  Good Luck and as always thanks for following Booksnob!

Click here to enter:  Eve contest

Please check out my book review of Eve.  I loved this story and want everyone to read it.
 
Eve Book Review

Elissa Elliott wrote an excellent guest post.  Thanks Elissa!!

Elissa Elliott Guest Post

You can check out my interview of Elissa as well.  I asked her some questions that I hoped everyone can relate to. 

Elissa Elliott Author Interview

I really enjoyed working with Elissa.  I would like to thank Elissa for being February's Minnesota Author in the Spotlight.  Please support this emerging and up and coming author by reading her book and checking out her website at www.elissaelliott.com

EVE

Eve by Elissa Elliott

Everyone knows the timeless story of Adam and Eve and the tragic story of their children Cain and Abel.

Get ready to re-imagine and gain a new perspective. 

Eve is an old story told with a creative twist where ancient history and Jewish traditions are woven into the story and the readers learn of what everyday life is like outside of the Garden of Eden.   Elliott's book is told from Eve's perspective on what happened that fateful day in Biblical history and Eve's story interweaves with the stories of her three daughters, Naava, Aya and Dara. 

The Prologue starts with a quote that is instrumental to the story.  "Belief is not always easy.  Even when you have seen and heard the thing you are supposed to believe in".(pg.1)  As a reader and a believer you should seek to understand Eve's story, not blame her for the outcome of events.  Eve is a beautiful, sensual woman who strives to be wise and wants to be loved.  Her fateful choice leads her on a journey of pain and suffering combined with joy and wisdom.  Her family's saga combined with their spiritual choices will keep you turning the pages long into the night.  I could not put it down.

I love books that make me think and add new dimensions to my way of thinking about an event in time.  Every story is multi-dimensional and yet the story in Genesis is told as a one-sided account.  Is the woman's perspective on what happened in the Garden of Eden purposely excluded?  I love that Elliott chose to give Eve and her daughters a voice in Biblical times and that she placed the story in Mesopotamia where the first cities and civilizations are known to emerge.  As a woman, I could relate to Eve on many levels.

This is an excellent book to read with a book club or a Bible study group.  I think there are many questions left unanswered and different scenarios to debate.  As a spiritual being, I found lots to reflect on and am reminded on how much Biblical stories are meant to teach. 

Eve is a timeless gem that will tempt you to read to the sweet and bitter end.  Enjoy this sweet red apple of a book if you dare!

 

Author Elissa Elliott Guest Post

Hometown Track Minnesota Author in the Spotlight, Elissa Eliott Guest Post!

Hello, sweet readers,

Grab a cup of coffee or tea, and we can gab for a while.  There.  Are you all comfy-cozy?

Let’s see…where to begin?

Have you ever wondered how Eve, who’s been both revered and scorned through the centuries, really lived her life, really lived with Adam?  Might she have been written by a scribe who saw her as inferior, as someone lower than her male counterpart?  Why has she shouldered the blame for eating the fruit when Adam was right there, gobbling it down with her?  Why do the texts indicate that she was made for Adam and not with Adam?  Even if you’ve never heard the original stories about her, trust me, you’ll catch up quickly.

I, for one, envision Eve as a woman with all the same passions we modern women experience.  It does not matter that we are separated by so many centuries.  Don’t you get a little irritated when you’re not understood?  When your significant other treats you as “less than?”  When your children’s love isn’t so enduring?  Don’t you experience some sort of sadness when your life isn’t turning out how you had originally intended?  I know I do.

Eve was the smart one.  She noticed the forbidden tree was beautiful.  She recognized that God named it The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  She began to inquire within herself.  Wasn’t knowledge a good thing?  Didn’t she want to know more?   Didn’t she want to become wise?

So she ate.  And when she and Adam were thrown out of the Garden with little explanation, she struggled, immensely, with her direction in life.  Where was God?  Why didn’t He speak to her?  And what was to be done with all her children, skittering from her skirts?  And why were she and Adam so distant from each other?

Eve is a love story of sorts—an earthy, gritty, human story of a woman who has a complex marriage, a troubled relationship with her daughters, and a son who murders the other.  Wow, can you imagine much more than that?  I can’t.  

Oh, I hope you enjoy Eve (although it’s not a requirement).  I think you’ll find much in the book that mirrors your own journey, for I’ve written it for the woman in all of us—the one longing to be free from mundane constraints.

Thanks for joining me.  I’d love to hear from you.  My new website will be launching on Monday, Feb. 21.  So, come on over to www.elissaelliott.com, and we can chat again.  In the meantime, have the loveliest of days, my dear reader.

Eve Contest

Eve Contest

Hometown Track Minnesota Author in the Spotlight, Elissa Elliott, is giving away 3 personalized copies of her book Eve to followers of Booksnob who live in the United States.  The contest is open until February 28th at midnight, MN time.

Here is the synopsis of the novel via Goodreads:

In their world they are alone…a family haunted by banishment, struggling for survival in a harsh new land. A woman who has borne and buried children, Eve sees danger shadowing those she loves, while her husband drifts further and further from the man he was in the Garden, blinded by his need to rebuild a life outside of Eden. One daughter, alluring, self-absorbed Naava, turns away from their beliefs. Another, crippled, ever-faithful Aya, harbors a fateful secret, while brothers Cain and Abel become adversaries, and Dara, the youngest, is chosen for a fate of her own.

In one hot, violent summer, by the shores of the muddy Euphrates, strangers arrive on their land. New gods challenge their own. And for Eve, a time of reckoning is at hand. The woman who once tasted the forbidden fruit of paradise sees her family unraveling as brother turns on brother, culminating in a confrontation that will have far-reaching consequences for them all.

From a woman’s first awakening to a mother’s innermost hopes and fears, from moments of exquisite tenderness to a climax of shocking violence, Eve takes us on a breathtaking journey of the imagination. A novel that has it all romantic love, lust, cruelty, heroism, envy, sacrifice, murder Eve is a work of mesmerizing literary invention.

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Hometown Track- MN Author Spotlight #7

Hometown Track- MN Author Spotlight #7

Happy February Everyone!!  I would like to announce February's Hometown Track Minnesota Author in the Spotlight.

Drum roll please......
Welcome to Elissa Elliott author of EVE.





This month you can expect great things from Elissa.  She will be writing a guest post as well as giving away some copies of her wonderful book in a contest held here at Booksnob, there will be a book review and an author interview.

You can visit Elissa's website at www.elissaelliott.com