Genre Specific Review Groups discussion

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THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS ARE:

1 Melinda Brasher - Cruising Alaska on a Budget: A Cruise and Port Guide

2 J.P. Willson - Through the Mind's Eye: A Journey of Self-Discovery

3 Ronit Tal Shaltiel - Coloring book - The adventures of the numbers: (volume 4) addition and subsctcation

4 Stanley Arthur - How to Quit Drugs: How I Survived 1000 Days Without Drugs and Learned to Enjoy Life

5 Maya Green - Resolution Evolution for Moms: Take Charge of Your Life at Any Time of the Year (Mom Not

6 Annikaa Agarwal - Excuse me...You're in your way

7 Molly McHugh - Bipolar 1 Disorder: How to Survive and Thrive

8 Kaye Newton - Incision Decisions: A Guide to Getting Through Surgery, Recovery, and Your Hospital Stay


THE ORDER OF REVIEW IS AS FOLLOWS:

May 19 to June 19

Melinda Brasher reviews Maya Green
J.P. Willson reviews Stanley Arthur
Ronit Tal Shaltiel reviews Molly McHugh
Stanley Arthur reviews Kaye Newton
Maya Green reviews J.P. Willson
Annikaa Agarwal reviews Ronit Tal Shaltiel
Molly McHugh reviews Annikaa Agarwal
Kaye Newton reviews Melinda Brasher

June 19 to July 19

Melinda Brasher reviews J.P. Willson
J.P. Willson reviews Kaye Newton
Ronit Tal Shaltiel reviews Stanley Arthur
Stanley Arthur reviews Molly McHugh
Maya Green reviews Annikaa Agarwal
Annikaa Agarwal reviews Melinda Brasher
Molly McHugh reviews Maya Green
Kaye Newton reviews Ronit Tal Shaltiel

Yay! Count me in. Cruising Alaska on a Budget by Melinda Brasher

Me too please! Through the Mind's Eye: A Journey of Self-DiscoveryJ.P. Willson

Hi
my name is Ronit Tal Shaltiel
my book is : Coloring book - The Adventures of the number.
This is a children's Coloring book. the subject is in numbers and math.
I would like to join this review group

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Thank you

Ronit

I am not sure if I am too late as I seen a message regarding this today and no messages since then. My book is titled "How To Quit Drugs: How I Survived 1000 Days Without Drugs and Learned to Enjoy Life" -Stanley Arthur and can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071QX9VHG

I would like to add my latest book, "Budget Backpacking for Boomers": the fourth and final memoir in the Boomers' Adventures series to the list, if its not too late.

I'd like to add my non-fiction book, Goal Planning for Moms. It's written with women in mind obviously, so I hope it's not too specific?! Thanks for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to reading my assigned books :)

When signing up for this group, please post a link to the Goodreads page for your book. The "add book/author" function can be used, or the URL can be copied into the post. This will make it easier to make certain that the right book gets added to the list.

R.

This book is currently being updated (new title, new cover, updated MS) on Amazon, so this Goodreads link is for the previous version. And I published it under a pen name - Sorry it's complicated ;) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Hi,

I would like to add my self - help book - Excuse me...You're in Your Way to the list

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Annikaa

I am in the final editing stages of a divorce book. I know I'm late for this round but I'd like to add my name for future interest in this category.
Elaine

I'm adding mine is as most here I have not read and maybe we can start a second one with all these replies?

:) Molly

Author profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

My non-fiction book: Bipolar 1 Disorder - How to Survive and Thrive https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

thank you!

Authors:

We have seven participants. I will post the review schedule in a day or two. Please let me know about any conflicts as soon as possible.

R.

I have reviewed Molly McHugh's Bipolar 1 Disorder, so we should probably be spaced out. I have no other conflicts.

no conflicts​ as far as I know

I have also previously reviewed Molly's book.

No conflicts at all

If possible, I'd love to join your group. I wrote a guide to getting through surgery titled "Incision Decisions"

https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=in...

Authors:

We have an eighth participant, and the schedule has been posted in the initial comment of this topic. Please post to this topic, when you get your review copies and when you post your reviews.

R.

Ronit wrote: "Hi
my name is Ronit Tal Shaltiel
my book is : Coloring book - The Adventures of the number.
This is a children's Coloring book. the subject is in numbers and math.
I would like to join this revie..."

Hi Ronit,

I have been assigned your book to review. Please send me an ebook of the same on - [email protected]

Have a pleasant day!

Annikaa

Here is my review for Ronit Tal Shaltiel's 'Coloring book - The adventures of the numbers: (volume 4) addition and subtraction


https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Hi Stanley,
Just following up on my messages to you. It looks like you are reviewing my book "Incision Decisions." Could you let me know if you would like a Mobi file or ebook and where I should send it? Hope you have a great weekend.

Many thanks,
Kaye

I'm a little ahead of myself, but here are my reviews for Kaye Newton's "Incision Decisions"
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.amazon.ca/review/R3T5AUBJ...
https://www.amazon.com/review/R25O0PO...

here is my review for Molly's book: " Bipolar 1 Disorder - How to Survive and Thrive
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2463FW...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1V92...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thanks

Ronit

Here are my reviews for Melinda Brasher's "Cruising Alaska on a Budget"

Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
Amazon uk:https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R27UT...
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks,

Kaye

Here are my reviews for Ronit Tal Shaltiel's "Coloring book - The Adventures of the number"

Amazon:httpshttps://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
Amazon uk:https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3SGN...
Goodreads:httpshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks,

Kaye

Thanks, Kaye!

Thank you Kaye for the review.

Here's my review for " Through the Mind's Eye"
on Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZGNZ1...

Ella wrote: "Here's my review for " Through the Mind's Eye"
on Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZGNZ1......"

Thank You Ella,
Undeniably, "hope" is a four letter word, no?

Sorry I'm late with round one, but the review will be up soon.

Me too, apologies.

Here's my reviews of Maya Green's

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1MUO...
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.com/review/RPZUYJO...

My reviews of Maya Green's "Resolution Evolution for Moms".

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2CZW...

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Many thanks for the reviews, Melinda and Molly!

Much thanks to Annikka for being so patient. Here is my review of her book "Excuse Me - You're in Your Way."

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Excuse-Me-Your...

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Excuse-Me-Yo...

I'll have my review of Through the Mind's Eye up soon. Sorry again for the delay.

Here's my review of Through the Mind's Eye: A Journey of Self-Discovery

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R24U07U...
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1W29...

Hi,

I will post the review of - Cruising Alaska on a Budget: A Cruise and Port Guide - by 1st August. Sorry for the delay

Authors:

It appears that there are two participants who are no longer active on Goodreads. We will give them another week to show up. If they do not, those whose books were assigned to them will be given the option of an Alternate Reviewer. Also, reviewers may be asked to remove reviews from Goodreads and Amazon for participants who have not made a good faith effort to fulfill their obligation to this group.

R.

Annikaa, no problem.

Thank you Melinda...

This may include me. I did not get review by Stanley Arthur or any replies to sending my book copy to him.

Not cool.

Here's my review of Melinda Brasher's book. Will post the Amazon link as soon as it is processed.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

For Ronit Tal Shaltiel's book I had put the review on Amazon also, but not mentioned the link here.

http://www.amazon.in/Coloring-book-ad...

Hi,

Here's the link to the review posted on Amazon for Melinda Brasher's book - Cruising Alaska on a budget.

https://www.amazon.in/review/R2724VAO...

Annikaa,

Thanks for the great review on Amazon.in! I really appreciate it. Many of my readers are from the US, so is it possible to put it on Amazon.com (US version?) I also think there was a technical error with the Goodreads one, as it's not showing up (the link above is to the edit page). Again, thanks for the review. I hope you get to travel to Alaska one day.

Melinda

PS--it's pretty cool to have my first review on Amazon.in :)

Melinda wrote: "Annikaa,

Thanks for the great review on Amazon.in! I really appreciate it. Many of my readers are from the US, so is it possible to put it on Amazon.com (US version?) I also think there was a tech..."
Hi Melinda,
I don't know why it is not uploading on Goodreads page, will try again tomorrow :-)

Since all my purchases are from Amazon.in, they are not taking the review on .com. Will buy the kindle edition from there and post the review.

Hi,

Sending the link again for my review of Melinda Brasher's book. Hope this time it works.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Annikaa,

Oh dear, you shouldn't have to buy it. I know they let me write reviews on Amazon UK even though I make all my purchases on Amazon US. I think I originally had to sign up on both sites, however. Will they let you do that?

And thank you for the Goodreads review. It's showing up now.

Melinda