This Christmas I gave my parents a list with a few gift ideas on it. Of course, they both looked at this rather short list and then went shopping independently, and long story short, I ended up with two brand-new copies of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
The good news is this means Literary Menagerie's first book giveaway! The contest is open to anyone 18 years of age or older in United States or with an APO address. The giveaway will run from now until January 31. The winner will be announced on the blog and have 5 days to respond by sending me their shipping information. If I don't hear from you, the prize will go to someone else. Make sure you don't miss your name by following or subscribing to the blog via the handy links on the sidebar!
In addition, if whoever wins this book finishes it before I get to it (it's not at the top of my list at the moment) they will have the option of writing a guest review for Literary Menagerie, if so inclined.
I'm very excited about this, so lets get started! There are several opportunities to enter, so read carefully.
How to enter:
1. For one entry: Leave a comment on this post stating your favorite book--either in 2008, or of all time, and why you enjoy it.
2. For three entries: Blog about this contest and link back to it, then provide the link to your blog entry in the comments here. The sidebar doesn't count!
3. For five entries: Become a follower (of be one already) and make a note of it in the comments on this page.
4. For ten entries: Write a guest blog for Literary Menagerie. Subject to approval. It does not have to be a book review, but it must have to do with books or reading and it must be original (no old blog entries). The entry will be attributed to you and linked to your blog when it goes up, although I can't guarantee that it would go up immediately, depending on the response and my own blogging schedule. If you would like to take this option please e-mail me and we can talk about what you would like to blog about.
5. For eleven additional entries: Encourage those who click from your blog to here to note where they were referred from. For everyone who cites your blog, I will give you an additional entry, up to eleven.
Any questions, post them here or drop me an e-mail! Separate entries do not need separate comments as I will be keeping a running list elsewhere. The winner will be chosen at random. Be sure to differentiate yourself from other entrants if you have a common name!
Good Luck!
End Date: January 31, 2009
Opportunities to enter: 30
Also check out our giveaway for Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson!
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I read this a few years ago - borrowed it from the library - and have been itching to read it again! I just subscribed to you feed in Google Reader, and I will psot about your giveaway in my Friday links post - I'll come back and leave you the link.
Thanks for being so generous!
Thanks for being my first entry, good luck!
Congrats on your first giveaway!
Thanks for entering my giveaway! I will post yours in my sidebar.
no need to enter me in your contest.
Oooh enter me! My favorite book is A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, and I love it because its well written, the characters are amazing, and I love the Victorian era, which is when it takes place.
Welcome to the blogging community! You'll love it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! I am dying to give it to a dear friend of mine who I think would just totally dig this book. I was going to ("gulp") give her my perfect copy ... ("gulp"), but if I won this one... I could give it to her! She's an avid reader and thinking about becoming a blogger.
Here is my post on the best books for 2008... you'll never guess what's on there:
http://anovelmenagerie.com/ghost/2008/12/21/2008bestbooks/
I am happy to do a guest blog for you ANY TIME. Since we share part of a name... it would be very cool!
My site is A Novel Menagerie. I also run two weekly MEMEs: One is Monday's Movies (movie reviews) and the other is Thursday's Thoughts at wordpress dot com. Thursday's Thoughts is a weekly MEME with different topics each week and a contest attached to it. This week's is New Year's Resolutions.
My third site is BookCharming.Com - you'll just have to check it out.
WELCOME WELOME! Write me any time if you have any questions at all!
Peaches and Sheri, I got your entries marked, make sure you post again if you decide to link back or follow, and good luck!
Hi! Congrats on your first contest. No need to enter me- I read this last winter and thought it was great. Looking forward to the movie!
My favorite book is Blood and Gold by Anne Rice. <3 The character Marius is beyond words.
I blogged about your contest here:
http://morbid-romantic.net/2008/12/29/book-giveaways-1229-0104
I also became a follower thanks to Google Reader.
Also, I'd love to do a guest blog entry. I've never done one before and it seems like it would be a lot of fun... AND motivation to get me writing something. College killed the part of me that liked to write and I want that part of me back!
lisamm ~ thanks for stopping by!
Valorie ~ Thanks for entering! If you'd like to do a guest post drop me an e-mail, there's a link on my profile page, I couldn't find an e-mail address at your blog.
I would love a chance to win this book! My favorite book this year was Gardens of Water by Alan Drew. I loved how he delved into the differences in cultures and religions in his novel.
I will also be a follower very shortly.
Thanks for the contest!
My favorite book of 2008 is The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I liked it because it was completely unexpected. The story line was unpredictable, and you weren't sure about the characters' real identities until the very end.
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I am now following your blog.
Alyce ~ I've heard good things about The Thirteenth Tale but haven't gotten around to reading it yet, I should add it to my list!
Guess I'd have to say my favorite book is the one I'm currently reading or want to read. And any book that I used to read to my children when they were growing up.
Please enter my name in The Time Traveler's Wife giveaway. Thanks and have a Happy New Year !
Favorite book....gosh, that's like choosing your favorite child, just can't do it. LOL
I was just thinking this morning about a book that I've read several times though not recently. The book is named Night Magic and is by Charlotte Vale Allen. It is truly magical and I highly recommend it.
Deidre
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BevE and ddurance, I've got your entries, thanks for stopping by!
My favorite book is Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. It started me on my love of books
I blogged about it here:
http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/weekly-giveaway-roundup_30.html
Ok...Time for a good laugh.....I started reading Bobbsey Twin books when I was 6. I taught myself to read them because my Mom (83 now) wouldn't read them to me as often as I wanted!!
I still collect them and read everyone that I buy!
I really enjoyed two books of fiction this year: "The Senator's Wife" and "The Road."
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I am one of those people whose favorite book changes with every book that I read! In the last 2 months though, if I have to say - it would be Assaulted by Joy by Stephen Simpson.
I also just linked up to follow your blog!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kristi
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I loved The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent, The Book Thief by Mark Zusak, and The Road Cormac McCarthy in 2008. My all time favoutite book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Count me in, please!
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MJ ~ I used to love the Babysitter's Club books, we had boxes of them at one time stuffed in closets around the house!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I am a new follower and would love to be entered in the contest.
i would love to be entered!
My favorite book of all time is Harry Potter, because it changed my life.
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I also am now following you on Blogger
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Fav book of all time?? Wow, lets see...probably On the Road by Jack Kerouac, just because it changed the way I looked at writing and novels.
Thanks so much, I have been wanting to read this book!
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PS. I heard they're turning The Time Travelrs Wife into a movie.
Hi, I just became a follower. Enter me in the contest please. There have been maybe 4 standouts and it's hard to narrow it down to one. Very Valentine (loved the close family ties and all the lush descriptions of Italy), The Piano Teacher, The Seamstress and Leeway Cottage(loved the setting and indepth characterization)
my favorite all time books are anything by ann rule i can read them over and over again
Thanks for entering, to all haven't said hello to yet! I have gotten too far behind on coming by to say thanks to those who enter, so I apologize for my communal greeting, but there it is. I have added all your entries to my roll, good luck!
The Watchers by Dean Koontz :)
follower entry 1
blogged entry 1
http://sweeps4bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/01/literarymenagerie-time-traveler-book.html
Valerie ~ Thanks for entering, I got your entries, but deleted all the extra. You only really need to post once, I have a spreadsheet with the entries on it!
One of my favorite books is Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen. Just a simple, refreshing book. I have to read it every few years or so.
I follow your blog - thanks!
Right now my favorite is I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Such a good book!
My favorite book I read this year was My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Thanks.
My favorite book that i read this past year was Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. Hands down one of the best. This book is on my list to read!!
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My favorite book of all time is Jane Eyre. I love the character of Jane and that even though this book was written so long ago, it's still filled with adventure, mystery, and love that we can enjoy today.
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i love the book marley and me! i have heard that this book is good so i would love to read this!!
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Fave book ever- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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My favorite book ever is To Kill A Mockingbird. Classic story that never grows old. Even the movie adaptation was good.
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My favorite book of 2008 (and one of my favorites ever) was Fancy White Trash by Marjetta Geerling because it was obvious (to me) through the book just how much the author loved all of her charactes and it came through in the story :)
and I'm following your blog, too :)
My favorite book is Persuasion by Jane Austen. It is a rich social commentary and brilliant love story. Thanks for the giveaway!
I also subscribed to your posts through Google Reader. Thanks again!!
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I love so many...but "The Blue Castle" by L.M. Montgomery is a top choice. Always a comfort read.
Liars & Saints--It's good beyond description, I just read it about a month ago.
And I'm following you :)
Evidence Not See by Darlene D. Rose
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I just read Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" and although it was my last book of 2008 it was definitely the best. What a wonderful writer she is and such convincing characters. I highly recommend it.
I love a A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. It's honest, it's pure, it's simple, and it's grounded in reality.
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I subscribed via google reader.
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I blogged about it: http://andreasbooknook.blogspot.com/2009/01/win-time-travelers-wife.html
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I would love to enter. My favorite book was The Thornbirds. It was such a great story.
My favorite book that I read last year was The Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury. And my all time favorite is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Thanks for entering me.
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I just became a follower. Thanks.
I just became a follower. The book sounds wonderful. The books that I have read in the last year are all related to ecology, natural sciences, fire science, and so on. It would be nice to read something much different! Thank you.
My Favorite Book is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. I can relate to her family circumstances so well. I first read it when I was 9 out of boredom and felt like I was Francie but now at 25 with a family of my own it brings tears to my eyes because I can relate to the mother of Francie. My birthmother bought with her the first edition for me when I went to go meet her for the first time 3years ago so it is just that more special to me.
-Lindsey
MrsLindsey83@yahoo.com
My fave book is an oldie I read many years ago called "Flowers for Algernon."
I also subscribed via email.
My all time favorite book would be Gone with the Wind.
Hi, I have always remembered reading
To Kill a Mockingbird in grade school. It left quite an impression on me. The characters grew on me; especially Boo Radley and Scout.
Thanks, Cindi
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I posted about your giveaway here:
http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2008/12/29/2008-in-review/
Have a great weekend!
I have 2 all time favorite books the first I read in elementary school, it was Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder and it started my love of books the second is Gone with the Wind , I have read it several times. Thanks.
My most recent favorite book was the Kite Runner!
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Following you on Blogger.
My favorite book? Two,actually. I keep buying and giving away copies of Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Also gave away my only copy of The Time Traveler's wife and would love to read it again.
Thanks for the chance.
My favorite book of 2008 was Water for Elephants. I LOVE reading about Depression-Era circuses and it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole read.
My favorite book that I read in 2008 is What the dead know by laura lippman because it has twists and turns and I really enjoyed the book. thanks for the giveaway.
Where the Redfern Grows is my fave all time book ever. I read it so much it fell apart.
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I follow!
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i loved reading life of pi, it was full of adventure and i definetly want to get the illustrated version!
I have so many favorites because I love to read, but one of my favorites (of all time) is Les Miserables...the ultimate story of truimphing of hardship....also really love Memoirs of a Geisha and The Kite Runner
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My favorite book that I read in 2008 is A Free Life by Ha Jin. Great giveaway! milou2ster(at)gmail.com
My favorite is not really A book, but more the entire series--The Williamsburg series by Elswyth Thane. They were one of the first historical series of books I ever read, and take a family from just before the Revolution up to the eve of WWII. As with most series, some are better than others, but overall it is a very good group! Of course, since I read all the time, there are lots of other books I love as well.
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I read the Looking Glass Wars and I loved it. Loved the new take on Alice in Wonderland.
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I subscribed.
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Have read all of Tim LaHaye's books.
There will never be another book as great as The Holy Bible - I always learn from it
My favorite book is a clockwork orange. Always has been and always will be.
My favorite read in 2008 was Twilight. I was a little late reading it but I was able to read all four of the books all at once and I loved every minute of it. It was a totally different type of read for me so I especially enjoyed that.
Thanks so much!
I am a follower!
My favorite book is Ender's Game because it introduced me not only to a new author but a whole new-to-me genre.
Too many people have told me to read this book, but I imagine actually having it in my minds might finally do the trick!
My favorite book of 2008 (cheating, I know) but the entire Twilight series. I fell like I'm too old for it, but its such a guilty pleasure, reminds me of the good ole days when I watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (waterprincess812@aol.com)
I'm a follower. +5! (waterprincess812@aol.com)
My favorite book of 2008 was Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich. Please enter me.
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GONE WITH THE WIND is my favorite book. I have wanted to read this book for so long...I hope I win!
I'm signing up to follow. I hope you will come visit my site as it isn't even a month old! http://bookinwithbingo.blogspot.com
Thanks!
broken by kelley armstrong is my fave all time book.
favorite of all time, 'Where the wild things are'
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I really liked Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney. I read it quite a few years ago but it left a lasting impression.
Thanks for having the wonderful giveaway.
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My favourite book was Persian Girls. It was a beautifully touching memoir and an insightful look into another country and culture.
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I am a follower. Entry 1
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