May 202008
This is post number 82 since I began blogging at the end of February. I have decided that I would like to do something special for my 100th post, I would like to share with my wonderful readers some of the fabulous books I have read.
Here’s how it will work:
- Start looking through all of the books I have reviewed. You can just browse the blog or click the ‘book review’ tag.
- Leave a comment on THIS POST telling me which book you would like to receive and why.
- I will draw up to three winners. If 15 or fewer people enter, I will draw one winner; 16-30 people, two winners. Over 30 people, I will select three winners. If I have a really overwhelming response, I may be persuaded to have even more winners.
- Winners will be drawn and notified with my 100th post or on June 18th, whichever comes first (due to scheduling).
- Books will be ordered from Amazon and sent to you, unless the winner chooses one that I’m willing to part with that hasn’t gone on bookmooch, in which case I will send the book media mail. Books will be ordered/sent out by July 7th, so if you win and don’t get back to me by then with your address, you’ll be out of luck and I MAY choose someone else.
Want more chances to win? There are two ways to do so:
- Leave comments around the site. Anywhere, on any post. Any comment you leave from now until the drawing will be considered an additional entry in the drawing, as long as you make sure to leave a message here about what book you want before the drawing ends.
- Blog about my contest on your own blog (just make sure to email about it if you don’t blog on WordPress) with a link here and double your chances to win.
A couple of notes about the contest:
- If you choose a book that hasn’t been released yet, I will let you decide if you want it pre-ordered for you from Amazon, or if you want a different book (if I’m not willing/able to let go of mine).
- Comments changing your decision from one book to another are allowed, but will not count towards your extra chances to win.
- People’s extra chances do not count towards extra winners being chosen. There have to actually be 16 different people entering in order for 2 books to be pulled, no matter how many chances everyone has.
- When you leave a comment, please either leave your website or include the link to your email so I can get ahold of you if you win.
Attention: This contest has ended. For results click here.
I have read “The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis and “The Plague Tales” by Ann Benson, so “Year of Wonders” by Geraldine Brooks sounds right up my alley!
Great idea for a contest
I also blogged about it on presentinglenore.blogspot.com
I actually just mooched “Year of Wonders” on the strength of your recommendation, so how about “The Botany of Desire” by Michael Pollan as my pick.
This is great! I will be linking to this contest from my blog tonight. I would love to read The Historian – especially since you’ve read it so many times. I’ve heard iffy things about it (or at least I think I have) which is why I’ve never picked it up myself.
P.S. Do my previous comments count toward my chances???
Happy Almost-100th-Post! I would love The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Check out my giveaway too: http://thebluestockings.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/poetry-tuesday-inaugural-meme-giveaway/
Thanks for blogging!
I’d have to choose “The Translator” because the wars of Africa both fascinate and sadden me, and you said so many great things about it last week when we were talking about what books I should read! Look for my own blog post to double my chances soon…
(Great idea, by the way! You rock!) (Does flattery get me more chances???)
Hmm “Queen of Shadows” I think is what I would like to snag, although it was very hard to choose! I’ll be blogging about this contest, and I’ll drop you a not when I do so
Literate Housewife: if your previous comments counted towards your chances, nobody else would have a prayer
“Monique and the Mango Rains” sounds fabulous. I’d like to put in my order for that please! ;o) Thanks for your generosity.
I’d love to own Change of Heart since I have liked her previous books. Happy 100th and thanks for the contest. make sure you check mine out too! tracy
oops my contest is at http://www.bookroomreviews.wordpress.com thanks tracy again
Thank you for the opportunity to read your reviews and pick a favorite. I was able to get down to two books and would love to read either. One is about coming into the world and the other is about leaving. Monique and the Mango Rains sounds like a great book – I have read a number of books about midwives and always maintain that if I was a younger woman I would be a midwife! As a history lover (especially Eastern and Central European), I think I would also love Year of Wonders about the plaque. Both coming to and leaving this world have a strong impact on those involved and I bet both of these say something to that.
If I win, please surprise me! I will post a link to this on my blog.
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I doubt that you’ll let me win, but I’d really like to read “The Historian” so maybe you should just be a nice sister and buy it for me for no reason.
Sister, If you don’t win, you can borrow my beat up copy when you’re here for the wedding, but you’d have to give it back. I think mom wanted to read it too.
Great contest! Hmm . . . each comment as an entry sounds familiar!
Okay, I really want to win this one. You have reviewed several that I would LOVE. It would be really, really hard to choose between Monique and the Mango Rains, The Zookeeper’s Wife, and Three Cups of Tea, all of which are on my TBR. I recently read and reviewed The Translator from a library copy and I would love to have this one if my collection. If I only chose one I guess I would have to go with The Zookeeper’s Wife.
What a clever idea! I’ll throw my hat in ring, hoping for The Historian. As I posted recently in my own journal, I used to be a huge vampire buff. As in to a scary level. Now that I’ve been ‘cured’ of my obsession for a good seven years, I decided it was safe to recrack that door by reading some Christopher Moore books. There don’t seem to have been any ill effects, so I think another venture into the genre would be safe, and you make The Historian sound really interesting. I’m torn by my interest in the plague, and will probably have to pick up Year of Wonders on my own now, but, should the heavens smile on me, making me a winner, my desire is for The Historian.
Congrats on the progress of your journal- it looks like you have a lot of regular readers! I’ll be sure to stop by from time to time, and maybe boost my chances with some comments.
I’d like a chance to win The Zookeeper’s Wife, because I’ve enjoyed reading some of Ackerman’s nonfiction but I’ve never tried reading her fiction.
Oooo…. cool contest!
I would love to win Someday My Prince Will Come because I am a wannabe-princess! (There, I said it.)
I’ll be blogging about this soon. Thanks!
Blogged for a 2nd entry here: http://bunnymoney9.blogspot.com/2008/05/devourer-of-books-giveaway.html
Thanks!
Natasha – I thought you might notice that… It seemed to work so well in your contest that I borrowed the idea. I get lots of good ideas from you!
ooh, i recently found your site through ‘the literate housewife’ and this giveaway is so exciting!! i think i would really like historical genesis. thanks so much for offering it up and congrats to you on 100 posts!
Hi,
I would want Year of Wonders. I work on a university campus and for the past year, they have been focusing on the anticipated “pandemic” that will hit the U.S. at some point. They have been drafting “working from home” scenarios, and although it is scary to think about.. it’s also fascinating. I think a book about the plague would be right up there for me right now.
Ti
http://www.bookchatterandotherstuff.blogspot.com
Hi – Today is my first visit to this site (learning of it at literate house wife) but it will become a regular visitation! I would love to win C. W. Gortner’s Last Queen. Since first reading of this book I’ve been fascinated by the idea of Juana.
I would love Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. It’s on my wishlist.
Please put me in for The Zookeeper’s Wife … it’s been on my TBR list since 10/8/07! And I’ll do a post about the contest on my blog sometime next week (I already spent too much time on contests this week – sorry!)
Just letting you know I’ve now linked to your contest
You’ve read some great things lately, but I would have to pick The Historian. The book looked interesting to me when it first came out, but the hit and miss reviews kind of turned me off. If you’ve read it 3 times already I would love to give it a shot!
What at great idea to celebrate your 100th! I’ll blog about your contest on my blog. I’ve been reading your blog for a couple weeks now and really like it. I’ll be back to enter the book I’d like to win.
I am new to reading your reviews and you’ve picked some great books!! I’m having to add so many to-read books on my list now
I’d love the read the Zookeeper’s Wife which sounds like such an interesting story with a unique perspective. Thank you for the contest and congratulations on the 100th blog!
“Someday My Prince Will Come”– it sounds like an enjoyable, light read and that’s my preference these days— nothing too dark or thought provoking!
Frick! I just got online at the S.D. airport, so I haven’t been able to fully catch up on the blog. Nen, I just bought “Three Cups of Tea” in the news stand b/c you were just raving about it at the shower…I want to win a book, but are you saying you are going to BUY all these books for people? Girl, that’s crazy, but I would like to read Monique and the Mango Rains…perhaps we can have a book EXCHANGE…I just finished “The Inheritance of Loss” and it was fabulous…but then I left it at home for my mom to read…Ooops. Anyhoo, will get all caught up when I get home in a couple hours. Miss you!
The Zookeeper’s Wife is the book I’d love to read and win. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win.
Congrats on the up-coming 100th post.
Followed your link from LT. My youngest daughter is half Vietnamese, so I think “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” would be a perfect book for me
I’ve got a couple of Vietnamese cookbooks, as well, and a few other Vietnam books. I think it’d fit nicely.
I’d like to read C.W. Gortner’s “The Last Queen”.
Happy 100th Post.
What an interesting idea.
I might have to “borrow” the concept sometime, perhaps on my 500th post? 
It was a hard choice, but Margaret George’s “Memoirs of Cleopatra” won me over.
Wow, congratulations on your “almost” 100th post! I would love to read The Historian. I have it on my wishlist after reading your review.
What a great idea for a contest! There are so many books that sound good, but I have narrowed it [finally] to one: Water for Elephants. I got this from the library a while ago and it was just not what I was in the mood for at the time and I had trouble getting into it. It’s gotten so many rave reviews that I really want to settle in and re-read it.
Love this idea! Your review of “Someday My Prince Will Come” convinced me I need to read this book!
Hi Devourer! I posted my (*fingers crossed*) wish for Monique and the Mango Rains under that review. I’ve blogged about your contest and linked to it at: http://sheistoofondofbooks.wordpress.com/
Hi! Great Blog, thanks.
I simply cherish that you have reviewed books that I may enjoy. I don’t need to enter into receiving one from you.
But thanks for this very generous offer.
I’d like to win Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. i havent read any of her books yet but everyone says she’s an awesome writer.
i posted a link on my contest list:
http://thebookmunchercontests.blogspot.com/
What a great idea to celebrate your 100th post – I’d love to win a Year of Wonders by Geraldine March – I just finished up with March and really enjoyed it
I just blogged about it too: http://www.clareswindlehurst.com/bookreviews/2008/05/25/aside-a-round-up-of-this-weeks-book-blogging/
I would love to win Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult – I am a Picoult fan and just read Nineteen Minutes and loved it. I have yet to read a book by her that I haven’t liked. Thanks for entering me in the give-away!
I would love to receive The Other Boleyn Girl. Historical novels fascinate me, and this one in particualr has been recommended to me many times.
What a great contest! My choice would be Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. My website is http://blbooks.blogspot.com. I blogged about the contest here.
Happy almost-100 post! I’d love to receive The Botany of Desire, because I like science books and botany has always fascinated me.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I’ve been wanting to read it a long while but I plum forgot the title! I recognized it immediately when I saw you’d reviewed it. Count me in for that. Thanks for this great giveaway!
I’ve also blogged it here – A Book Blogger’s Diary.
I’m having THREE BOOK GIVEAWAYS! Hope you’ll stop by and spread the word. Thanks!
Can Canadians enter? I’m also having a book giveaway on my blog for Canadians and U.S. residents. Please feel free to drop by and enter (click my name). If Canadians are eligible I’ll take a good look around and pick a book! Thanks
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I would love to win Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. I am a great fan of hers, and this book has been recommended to me many times.
Congratulations on your almost 100th post. That is quite a milestone!
Thanks for a wonderful book giveaway contest. I would really enjoy
reading “The Last Queen!” Please enter me in your delightful drawing.
Many thanks,Cindi