Ready Player One Book Winner

Emily at A Blanket 2 Keep  is the winner of the Ready Player One book copy that I was hosting for my giveaway.

Emily if you are reading this please contact me asap as I need to notify the publisher tomorrow.  Thanks.

To every one else that entered, sorry you didn't win but you can still enter the contest that Ernest Cline is hosting on http://www.readyplayerone.com/.  Good luck on finding the first gate.   I've already located it myself.

Finding The First Gate

Last night J and I were messing around with his computer and I said to him that I wanted to check out the http://www.readyplayerone.com/ website again.  We had checked it out before the contest to win a Delorean started, so that was before 5 June.

Its there, the contest is ready.  As of last night 250 people have not only found the first gate but they have found the first key!  I too know where the first gate is located since I read the book. 

I'm terrible with my hand eye coordination but I too might just give it a try for fun.  I doubt I'd win the car but I've already won an adventure in reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.  I can't wait for the movie to come out.


Have you located the first gate?

The second gate opens up in July.  Are you ready for adventure?

No Engery Today

Ready Player One drawing will be held on Monday, June 18th.  Don't forget to leave a comment on that particular blog page if you want to be entered in the contest to win a free copy of the book.  If you are the lucky winner I'll need your contact information within a day of the drawing so that I can notify the publisher where to send your copy of the book.

I have no ambition and no energy today.  I'm depressed.  Why?  Well I can't have a baby.  Every one around me seems to be giving birth.  Even the other day it was announced on fb that a couple gave birth and the picture was posted.  Their name was just one letter off from my last name and the soldier's rank was the same.  I guess it really gets to me because if IVF #1 had worked I'd be in the home stretch right now, not recovering from a laparoscopic surgery.

I'm still fat.  Since January and with this surgery, though I've lost about half of what I gained from the IV bag I'm still at +16 pounds for the year.  I hate my body and it hates me.

I was going to color my hair today but I'm tired.  I'm not sleeping well and the pain killers aren't working on the pain.  I take them only at bedtime now.  I'm actually a bit afraid of what they'll find when they do the ultrasound next week Thursday for the two week check up.  I don't hurt near the incisions but more in the uterus area and it feels like something was left hanging since it bobs a bit inside of me.  No clue what it could be and I'll just have to wait and see. The pain gets worse at night and of late has become bilateral.

J is upset at all the babies and bellies he is subjected to seeing.  Its getting to him.  He came home in a fowl mood last night from the commissary.  We discussed the "why".  As of today I have exactly enough to do the frozen donor eggs but I have to wait.  I'd like to try a few more rounds with my own while we do a "wait and see" if he'll be able to stay in the Army.  I told him last night that if we went through with the donor eggs right off what would happen if he couldn't stay in?  And the fact that if our kid needed medical for a disability we would no longer be covered.  Its rather scary but I'm being quite adult about this whole thing.  I'm scared that we won't have that money to fall back on and it just doesn't sit right with me.

Ready Player One

I'm a girl geek.  Not such a rare breed these days but I celebrate my difference.  I'm not as geeky as some of the girls out there because I don't spend days at my computer programming and hacking but I still like to game.

Reading Ready Player One brought back all sorts of memories from growing up in the 80's.  I had to refer to my husband, a genuine geek, for some of the references from the book that I couldn't recall.  By calling on him for my life line we were brought closer.  We even decided to watch "War Games" together as he, cough cough, had never seen the flic before!  Shocking I know.

I spent two days reading the book and had a hard time putting it down to socialize.  I'm not really a social creature and the most socializing I seem to do is on the computer.  I can totally relate to Wade Watts.  I've been down the abuse and poverty route.  I've escaped too. 

Truth be told, if it hadn't been for my geekiness I never would have dated my husband.  J used to run his own gaming club on the college campus that we both attended.  I was pushing through with my studies and working part time while in college.  Gaming wasn't much of an option for me.  J showed me that I still had time for fun and escaping from the real world into the virtual world or even a paper one with D&D was just what I needed to survive the stress of college.  He was right.  Still to this day I prefer the virtual world over the real world.  People in the virtual world might not be like their true selves in the real world but often time they are much nicer without the restraints of their real body's limitations.  There will always be those snarky people in the virtual world too but I can just log out and they don't exist unlike the character in the book,Wade, where he had people wanting to kill him in real life as well as kill his virtual character in the OASIS.

I highly recommend this book.  No truly I've been blabbing to everyone even in the surgery pre-op about how good this book is with its action, adventure, humor, and suspense.

 To read more about this particular book please visit the website: http://www.readyplayerone.com/
Or visit the author's facebook page at: www.facebook.com/readyplayerone
 As a participant in this From Left to Write book blog tour, I received a copy of the book for review. Check out the other stops on the blog tour for a chance to win a copy of Ready Player One. 

The publisher of this book is offering one copy of Ready Player One for me to give away. If you would like the chance to win a copy of this particular book please leave me a comment below letting me know if you would like to be entered in the drawing. I will be drawing the winner's name on June 18th. If you are the winner I'll need your contact information right away to submit it to the publish so they can send you your free copy of the book.