Wednesday, October 12, 2011

WHAT CAME FIRST by CAROL SNOW

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What Came First


Carol Snow


I don’t know how I JUST discovered author Carol Snow but I’m so glad that I did. Her latest novel, What Came First (out last week!) is a delightful book about marriage, love, sperm donors, and … chickens in the backyard? Hmmm….

Here’s a blurb:

Vanessa wants just one thing for her twenty-ninth birthday: an engagement ring from her longtime boyfriend, Eric. But when the ring turns out to be a mix CD and Eric turns out to be a guy who doesn't want to get married or have children, Vanessa considers a new path to having a family.

When Wendy and her husband, Darren, couldn't have children the old- fashioned way, a sperm donor seemed like the perfect solution. She never imagined she'd have out-of-control twins who'd drive her to cookie binges and scrapbooking while Darren escaped into the virtual world of computer games.

Single and career-driven, Laura didn't need a man to have a baby - at least not one that she ever met. Thanks to an anonymous donor, she shares her life with her adored eight-year-old son, Ian. She'll do anything for Ian - even fill their backyard with a bunch of noisy chickens. But the one thing Ian really wants is something Laura's never been able to give him: a sibling.

Now, to grant Ian's wish, Laura starts a search that will not only change her life but Vanessa's and Wendy's as well...


Take a sneak peek at an excerpt here.

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91 comments:

  1. Jezebel's Mama4:10 PM

    The chicken.

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  2. Hmmm...I'll say the egg.

    Margaret(singitm)

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  3. LizzybethDJ4:59 PM

    The egg.

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  4. michelle m!5:18 PM

    chicken

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  5. Lesley Davis, Esq5:26 PM

    The chicken.

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  6. I have no fricken clue and not enough brain cells left today to figure it out. You kill ME too, Manic! Nan :)

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  7. Joani 155:55 PM

    The chicken, without a doubt, because chickens are female and females can figure anything out including how to lay an egg. lol

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  8. Anonymous6:17 PM

    Chicken.

    ~Colbey J

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  9. oh boy. chicken. no egg. no chicken. umm egg? nope going with chicken. no. egg. really. whew this is exhausting.

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  10. Chicken. How else would the egg have gotten there?

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  11. The chicken.

    Carly H

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  12. You need eggs before chickens, right?

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  13. The chicken!
    ID Eloisepeaches

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  14. I try not to think about this for very long!! I have no clue!

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  15. God made chickens.

    -tmd636

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  16. The chicken? I don't like the thought of god laying an egg.

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  17. MonaLisa3:18 AM

    Chicken....hmm chicken...Breakfast

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  18. Anonymous4:54 AM

    I'll say the chicken.

    -Donna W.

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  19. kathygold97785:15 AM

    I hate this question...because in my mind all questions need to have an answer...and I know there will never be one....sigh. But, I guess I'l go w/ chicken because I liked the other posters comment about chickens being women and we can gifure anything out...LOL!

    kathygold9778

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  20. following your reasoning, probably the rooster.

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  21. Bernadette75:29 AM

    the road.

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  22. Emma S.5:37 AM

    I'll say the chicken.

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  23. ncsuloges5:42 AM

    Egg just to be different, there seems to be a lot more chicken answers. Sounds like a really good book!

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  24. chicken!

    crystal717

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  25. Well it takes a chicken to lay an egg so maybe both?!

    Katie in Indy

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  26. absolutahnie6:45 AM

    i'm going with the chicken!

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  27. Lindsay Elizabeth6:54 AM

    your comment made me laugh out loud!

    The Egg!

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  28. LynnBelo6:58 AM

    For the chickens we know today, I say the egg came first. Evolution and all that...

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  29. Juliet Farmer7:00 AM

    the egg

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  30. The egg.

    Denise F

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  31. Amy Goddard7:56 AM

    Chicken

    Amy Goddard

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  32. love some of these and yours! hahaha I'll go with the egg

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  33. Egg-can't have a chicken without the egg.

    Sherry V

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  34. Lizett348:48 AM

    chicken

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  35. I think that the chicken came first!!!

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  36. The chicken? I don't know, haha. I love Carol Snow! They don't have many of her books at the library here. =[

    Thanks!
    -Jessica M
    walkingcorpse11@hotmail.com

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  37. BrendaL719:29 AM

    I always said the chicken, just like Adam and Eve came first and then they populated the earth... Adam and Eve didn't start out as babies. So no Egg first.

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  38. lucy8729:37 AM

    the egg

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  39. No idea, I'll go with the egg :)

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  40. Anonymous11:18 AM

    Just to throw something else out there ... THE FARM?
    cindyinmiami writeoncindy@yahoo.com

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  41. DaphneSFL11:22 AM

    The apple

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  42. I am going to have to go with the chicken.

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  43. jennjend12:52 PM

    I've always figured the chicken came first.

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  44. animallover751:23 PM

    The Egg

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  45. I vote for the chicken!

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  46. ludy22882:44 PM

    chicken!

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  47. Chicken

    Melissa Rem

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  48. I'm gonna say neither :)

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  49. Kelley c.7:07 PM

    The egg

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  50. The chicken.

    Kristi Hooke

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  51. The chicken, no wait the egg. On second thought, maybe the chicken? Or the egg?

    Such deep questions, MaNiC, really?

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  52. the chicken, for sure.


    Emily116

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  53. The Cadbury Egg ;)

    LOL

    queenofcrunk at gmail dot come

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  54. Hmmm, I'll go with egg!

    ChristinaL

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  55. CAnative2:53 PM

    Girl Power!!! The Chicken

    Nicole

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  56. chicken

    :)

    fourkidsmom4@gmail.com
    Brenda Bargenquast

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  57. LOL you are so silly! UMM I guess the egg!

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  58. The chicken, of course! :)

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

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  59. Chicken! Hmm, I'm getting hungry with all this chicken / egg talk!

    Terri M.

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  60. Chicken!

    Kristen27

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  61. I'm another that thinks God probably made a chicken first.

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  62. I think the chicken came first!

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  63. Anonymous9:35 AM

    The chicken! My reasoning: God created man and woman (not a sperm cell and egg); therefore, in my brain He created the chicken first...egg came later.

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  64. I'm gonna say the egg.

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  65. Erin G6:05 PM

    I'll go with the chicken.

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  66. The egg.

    I read this book and it's fantastic!

    Melissa A from CLC

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  67. The margarita...I mean..the egg. :P

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  68. Chicken....and you CRACK me up!

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  69. Becki ****8:42 PM

    The chicken .fresh from God's hands!!! :)

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  71. The egg...

    -Philly5

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  73. Gosh, there's a great deal of useful material above!

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