More Good Karma, Good Books

Before reading today's post, please make sure you click on the following and then read my post from October 1, entitled "Good Karma, Good Books". The response has been great! I, for one, have already gotten some great ideas for books to read from the people who have commented and entered my contest! Get a free book from me...who could resist?

I am such a huge believer in karma, random acts of kindness, optimism, positive thinking and all that stuff. "Shock"-ing after reading my last post, right? But my therapist actually said that I am the most optimistic depressed person she has ever worked with. So, in other words, I think that the car I let pull out in front of me taking my son to school in the morning (despite the angry honking from behind me...welcome to Boca!) will result in the surprisingly easy return of a product later in the day. The big smile I give the grouchy bank teller might mean someone later lets me ahead of them in line when I have two items and they have eight. My glass is always half full. Being nice is the best revenge...it makes the mean people have to work harder to be mean!

All of which is a really long prelude to my big, exciting, karmic news:

I won a book on someone else's blog who was running a contest!!!! I got an e-mail from "Booklogged" of A Reader's Journal that I could choose a book for her to buy for me "just because". So, thanks to many of you who posted in my contest that The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy was one of your top three, that's the book I chose! I tried to read it several years and it didn't grab me, but I'm trusting all of you and figuring I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when I read it.

So, if you haven't already, enter my contest. I'm very flexible...either post a comment or e-mail your list (in which case I post the comment for you....some people aren't so adept at blogs yet to feel comfortable posting a comment). The drawing will be tomorrow. Probably during the afternoon football games. I was going to do it using a random number generator formula in Excel, but my daughter seems to really want to cut up little pieces of paper and draw them from the proverbial hat. In any case, it will be totally random. Can't wait to see who wins and what book he/she picks!

I'm thinking that whoever wins should guest-blog with a review, right?

Di

Comments

[booklogged]

I totally believe in karma. Good for you for being polite to people. You deserve the karma that came your way.