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Dear Reader,
Congratulations to Jan Hildebrant, who won the Shakespeare deck of cards giveaway. If you've never entered one of my crazy, just-for-fun giveaways, you should. They are fun, and someone always wins. It could be you, but you need to enter.
From my Shakespeare Card Email Bag:
"Dear Suzanne, All across Canada, Euchre is the choice card game played during many dark and cold winter evenings. Kids now have been hooked on smart phones, I-pads and social media so I'm not sure if Euchre will survive. But, a newer form of the Euchre card game has taken hold in our city and everyone agrees that it is habit forming. That is the card game of bid euchre, a kind of 'bridge' take on the original game. Bid euchre is played by four players, with two decks of cards, jacks to aces only. Bidding can be wild and entertaining. This may be just the card game to keep waiting diners off their digital devices. And the game forces people to at least converse with one another.
I love your book club, both fiction and non-fiction. I've tapped my local library for countless books you've let me preview on line. Thank you." -- Jan Hildebrandt
(Suzanne replies:) Every other Sunday my dad's parents, and his four sisters and one brother, crowded around Grandma Tindell's kitchen table for some serious Euchre playing. So I knew all the Euchre rules by the time I was six years old, including the strange table talk. "Fishing out, dead-set legend, the ribbit, farm hand or no ace/no face, follow suit, trump, and skunked"--which means that you and your partner lost the game without scoring one single point. Rumor has it that in some Euchre circles a team that gets skunked, also gets a "bum run." (If you and your partner get skunked you must run about a predetermined route--naked!)
I don't remember any naked relatives running around the kitchen, but I do remember my mother frequently making Skunk Beans to take to the Sunday evening game.
Today I'm offering another giveaway. Want to learn how to play Euchre? Enter to win a set of Bicycle Euchre Games Playing Cards. This card set is filled with valuable strategies and techniques (to help you avoid the "bum run"!)
Enter to win a set of Bicycle Euchre Games Playing Cards. Simply send an email to: Suzanne@EmailBookclub.com
Other recent winners:
The winners of ON THE NOODLE ROAD by Guest Columnist Jen Lin-Liu are: Mayling Wong, Karla McMurrin, Joy Chu, Nancy Reynolds, Marlys Frisby and Marshall Bennett.
And the winners of CLOSE MY EYES by Guest Columnist Sophie McKenzie are: Amy Whitehouse, Allison Evans, Anne Krivi, Lucille Clark, Eve Koenig, Lois Hume, Mary Robinson, Brenda Gregory and Lynn Demsky.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
AUTHORBUZZ: Fun, free books and meet authors. Ask questions, they'll reply and read samples from their books. Visit AuthorBuzz at: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader
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THE TUDOR CONSPIRACY by C.W. Gortner
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GLOW: A NOVEL by Jessica Maria Tuccelli
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DONNY AND URSULA SAVE THE WORLD by Sharon Weil
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THE CATERPILLAR AND THE STONE by Erec Stebbins
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* This month's Penguin Classics book is DEATH OF A HERO by Richard Aldington. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin totebag. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/July13Classics
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