Book Review/ Giveaway: God Never Blinks by Regina Brett

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From Hachette comes another great little book of widsom!

Synopsis:  God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours is a quick read, and a good resource for when you need a little "pick me up".

Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way.


When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in all the wrong places, working on her relationship with God, battling cancer and making peace with a difficult childhood. It became one of the most popular columns ever published in the newspaper, and since then the 50 lessons have been emailed to hundreds of thousands of people.

Brett takes the 50 lessons and expounds on them in essays that are deeply personal. From "Don't take yourself too seriously-Nobody else does" to "Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift," these lessons will strike a chord with anyone who has ever gone through tough times--and haven't we all?

Author Info:

You can find out more about about this book and the author, Regina Brett, online at www.reginabrett.com, Regina Brett has been a newspaper columnist for fourteen years, eight of them for Cleveland's Plain Dealer, where she was a finalist in 2008 and 2009 for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. She also hosts a call-in talk show once a week on WCPN, the Cleveland NPR affiliate, and speaks regularly to companies and not-for-profit organizations.


Review: The 50 essays are short and start off with a simple thought (ie God Loves You Because of What God is, Not Because of Anything you Did or Didn't Do -chew on that one for a minute!) and expound on it by an example, as we would tell a good friend of ours. The author survived breast cancer, so alot of her essays deal with her battle, or others, with cancer. The book would be very comforting for someone who is going thru the same experience!  I cant recommend it enough!  Check below to read the first chapter!

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 THREE lucky readers will win a copy of God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours!

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Disclosure: This book was sent to me free of charge, for review purposes, by Hachette Publishing. I was not told how to review it however.