Bloggy Carnival Giveaway Day 5- Encouraging Me Time For You

Friday, January 30, 2009

***CLOSED*** I don't know about you guys but I'm about carnival'd out and I still have so many to enter! But I have to take the time to thank everyone for participating and Tweeting for me. I really appreciate it and I'm sure the sponsors do too. I've got new followers on Twitter and here on the blog and I hope you stick around. You won't regret it. I can be pretty funny sometimes. Moving on. Short and sweet today:

This giveaway is a little self serving. I just agreed to do book reviews at a fairly new site, MahoganyButterfly.com and I want to have an arsenal of books at the ready (see that? sounding literary already!) So, to enter this contest please leave me a suggestion for a really good book. Maybe your favorite of all time or one that made you think, made you cry, or was just so good you read it in a few hours.


My only caveat (again with the literary!) is no Twilight or Sisterhood of the Shopaholics. Not that those books are bad (I don't want to incur the wrath of you Twilighters. You're serious about that Edward guy. Plus, I read plenty of chick lit). I just want books with a little more.... meat to them.

In exchange for providing me with your suggestions I will buy a book for you.* I know there are a lot of fellow readers out there and I'm sure your "to be read" lists are just as long as mine. So to enter:

1. Leave me a comment with your most awesomest book suggestion (required).

2. *The winner will receive a book from me in the form of a $20 gift card to Borders, Barnes and Noble or Amazon for an international winner (some countries don't allow Amazon cards, make sure yours does before entering).

3. For an extra entry
(not required), send out a Tweet about this contest and come back to this post with the link to your Tweet. Here's the shortened link to this post: http://tiny.cc/XbqCD (you'll need a Twitter account.)*ETA: If you're the chosen winner and you've sent out a Tweet to help me publicize, I'll throw in a $5 Starbucks card!

4. I MUST have a way to get in touch with you! NoReply@Blogger will not send you a response. I will have to delete comments with no contact info.You can leave your email address in the myemail [at] thisaddress [dot] com format to prevent spam.

5. Comments will close on Friday, January 30th at 11:59pm CA time.

6. I will use random.org to draw the winner and post the results/notify winners via email and in a "Winners" post on Saturday 1/31.

7. Winner will have until Monday, 2/2 to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

8. You don't need a blog to win, but I MUST have a way to contact you. US residents only (sorry!)

Below are my other giveaways which also end tonight. Click the picture or follow the link in my upper right sidebar to enter.



(Coffee photo from here)
Be sure to visit the carnival giveaway hub all week for more great contests!

22 comments:

  1. I'm obsessed with Pillars of the Earth. I recommend it to everyone and it is such a page turner!

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  2. I'm an absolute horror junkie..the only meat in those books are the kind zombie's eat. I'll go with my required high school reading book that's stuck with me all these years: "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank. It's a timeless post-apocalypse novel.

    shel704 at aol dot com

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  3. I tweeted it out:
    http://twitter.com/auntiethesis/status/1162585710

    shel704 at aol dot com

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  4. I love Augustine Burrough's memoir, DRY.

    Great giveaway. Thanks!

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  5. tweeted you here:
    http://twitter.com/nape9393/status/1162603940

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  6. I am reading Tuesdays with Morrie. It's been a slow savoring over hot tea by the wood stove.

    lynne at fairpoint dot net

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  7. Ok, two good books are...

    Nonfiction: "Ace of Spades" which is a memoir by David Matthews. http://tinyurl.com/4ww3rv - Matthews gets all into racial identity and his experiences growing up in Baltimore.

    Fiction: "The Journal of Dora Damage" by Belinda Starling? http://tinyurl.com/dxbykn It was her first and last novel because she passed away and it's about a bookbinder's wife in Victorian Era England who gets into binding "pornographic" material to make ends meet and then all SORTS of things happen.

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  8. My favorite book of all time is James and the Giant Peach by Rohald Dahl. A classic children's book that paints clear and lovely pictures in your mind. I can't wait to read it to my kids when they are a little older.

    I also really, really love Memoirs of a Geisha. Such a beautifully written novel.
    fratzels at adelphia dot net.

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  9. This may seem like an obvious one, but I think "The Secret" is a must-read. Even if you don't believe in the law of attraction after reading it, the book and its message will give you a whole new perspective and push you to take responsibility for your own life. Email: jennae {at} greenyourdecor {dot} com

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  10. Well my favorite all time book is To Kill A Mockingbird. But I find most people have read it. My second all time favorite book is One Hundred Years of SOlitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I would totally recommend this book. It's an epic novel about a latin american family and their life. It's beautiful, funny and so magical.

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  11. I tweeted:
    http://twitter.com/carogonza/status/1162916901

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  12. Outlander. By Diana Gabaldon. One of my faves hands down.

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  13. I love the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. They are laugh out loud funny! My favorite is To The Nines.

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  14. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford is great!

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  15. I LOVE anything by Frannie Flagg, esp. Fried Green Tomatoes and Can't Wait to Get to Heaven.

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  16. I highly recommend: Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin it is a wonderful Memoir.

    knittingmomof3 (AT) gmail (DOT) com

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  17. I love anything by James Patterson!

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  18. I would say Middlesex, but I know you've read it. I just read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and it was so so good. But I love drawn out adventures that are fueld by the characters discovering ancient texts.

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  19. Here's a fairly new one--I picked it for my book group and everyone seems to be enjoying it. The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

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  20. Thanks so much! I've never heard of some of these authors. I've copied down all the suggestions. Good luck! I'm pulling numbers now.

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  21. I have read all of Jodi Picoult's book so far and loved the - my most recent reads were Salem Falls and Change of Heart. I'd love to start reading anything by Nicholas Sparks next. Thanks for the chance. iclipalso(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  22. Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth"
    However to fully understand and grasp the concepts you may have to go to Oprah's site.

    Anything Nicholas Sparks and or the auto biography of Jenna Jameson..very interesting.

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