giveaway week: books
Posted on 27. Jun, 2011 by Princess Lasertron in giveaway
Last week my friend Paul tweeted about winning a book online, and his excitement inspired me to do a week of giveaways with each day featuring a different theme. Comment to win a prize package chosen by me based on the theme. Today’s prize will be a few of my favorite books, maybe some cool writing utensils, maybe something like that. Maybe a book bag? Maybe a notebook? Anyway, a package of great stuff.
My top 5 favorite books growing up:
1. The Big Hungry Bear and the Red Ripe Strawberry – my parents read this book to me over and over again when I was a baby. I remember the pictures on the pages, and I remember loving the story. Cut it in two, share half with me, and we’ll eat it all up.
2. How to Decoupage – this book was on the bottom shelf in the art section in the elementary school I went to. Decoupage was a big, unpronouncable word, and it became my favorite volume that I checked out again and again.
3. The Babysitter’s Club series – This series was great because there was someone for every reader to identify with. Any girl who grew up in the 90s worth her salt looked forward to getting these books in book order!
4. How do I Know – I had two big orange hardcover books that had short, paragraph-long questions and answers related to all kinds of scientific topics. I loved reading these books by flashlight at night, and the short blocks of information were so easy to remember and tell my parents about the next day.
5. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax – I bought this book from my library, meaning I never took it back and paid a million dollars in fines. It had a hard purple cover with gold lettering. In middle school I was really into a “detective story” phase. I often fantasized about meeting Dorothy Gilman, the author.
What is your favorite book now?
What were you reading ten years ago?
Comment to win a package of something that will make you happy.
xo
meg
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Kristy
03. Jul, 2011
6:27 pm
10 years ago I was reading books for my HSC. Titles such as The Meastro, Frankenstein, and My Place.
I really enjoyed My Place, it was a very emotional story about a womans journey to finding her identity after discovering her mother was one of the Australia Stolen Generation. It really touched me.
I don’t read much at the moment, I tell myself I am too busy. But I reallly think I should find the time for myself. The last thing I read for me was the Herry Potter Series.
corinne
03. Jul, 2011
3:57 pm
i love, and have always loved ‘a year of style by frederic fekkai’. i try to read it every summer. it is about this effortless european beauty and lifestyle that is so inspiring!
i also love light beach reads, including ‘something borrowed’, which was just turned into a movie
Jamie Elizabeth
03. Jul, 2011
12:39 pm
Ten years ago, I was reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Currently, my favorite book is Geek Love.
Ellen Price
03. Jul, 2011
8:22 am
My favorite book now is (and has always been) Mrs. Mike…wonderful book of love and endurance!
Kaylee
03. Jul, 2011
3:42 am
When I was growing up, my favorite book was The Giver, by Lois Lowry. I’ve probably read it 4 or 5 times. Now, one of my favorite books is Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Paula
02. Jul, 2011
2:00 pm
My favorite book now is “The Catcher and the Rye.” 10 years ago I was living in the Washington D.C. area and I was reading lots of historical stuff like biographies about Ben Franklin, John Adams, Harry Truman. I for sure learned lots.
Erin
01. Jul, 2011
10:33 pm
Right now I love to read cheesy Charlaine Harris novels to unwind at the end of the day. 10 years ago I was really into Infinite Jest, which actually I would like to reread soon.
Abby
01. Jul, 2011
5:16 pm
My all time favorite books growing up were Island of the Blue Dolphins and Number the Stars. I think I liked these two so much because the characters were reinventing themselves and reinventing their surroundings. I loved them so much. I haven’t read anything lately, but I am starting the audiobook Bossypants (which took my husband one day at the office to get through) and I would love to get myself a copy of RDQLUS’s book you featured awhile back.
Cara
01. Jul, 2011
4:51 am
My new favorite book is Anne Lammott’s Operating Instructions for it’s wit and honesty.
Ten years ago I was just entering college as a religious studies major so I was reading a lot of Henri Nouwen, Marcus Borg in my spare time and of course textbooks (yuck!). It wasnt soon after that I discovered my love of poetry and Mary Oliver’s work and my love of memoirs and hearing about other peoples ordinary and extraordinary lives.
Rachel
30. Jun, 2011
11:54 pm
As a kid, I loved the Phantom Tollbooth and a picture book called Charlie the Caterpillar. Angelina Ballerina was also one of my all-time faves.
I love reading lots of beautiful prose now. I’m reading The Tiger’s Wife right now which is absolutely gorgeous.
Kelly
30. Jun, 2011
11:09 pm
Love the Anne of Green Gables series, The Giver, Pride and Prejudice, and most recently anything by Daniel Quinn.
AmyC83
30. Jun, 2011
3:27 pm
I’m enjoying the Sookie Stackhouse books right now – they’re great trashy summer reading. !0 years ago I had just graduated high school. I know that for my senior English paper I read three different books by Toni Morrison and really enjoyed The Bluest Eye.
erin g-g
30. Jun, 2011
7:22 am
loved _my name is asher lev_ when i was in junior high. also really got into the hardy boy books.
Karlene
30. Jun, 2011
12:24 am
I liked reading Henry and Mudge detective stories 10 years ago.
Jenny
29. Jun, 2011
11:05 pm
The Little Prince.
Jill
29. Jun, 2011
10:33 pm
My favorite book is Killing yourself to live By Chuck Klosterman. 10 years ago I was reading not very many books but a lot of music and fashion magazines
Katie
29. Jun, 2011
8:55 pm
Nancy Drew series! Read all that my elementary school had to offer by the time I got to second grade.
My current – right this second – favorite book is The Help!
Mariam
29. Jun, 2011
6:43 pm
Oh my gosh, Adrienne, I think we are children’s book soul mates! I was going to list almost exactly the same things! I’ll also mention Ella Enchanted.
These books remain my faves for nostalgic reasons and because I treasured them so when I was young. Geez, I am expecting my first child in a couple of weeks and am getting so mawkish right now picturing reading all my favorites to her!
Maike
29. Jun, 2011
2:10 pm
Annie MG Schmidt, Erich Kaestner and Astrid Lindgren were my childhood adventures. I had a crush on Jonathan of Die Gebrueder Loewenherz. Momo (Michael Ende) and Ronja Raeubertochter were my favorite heroines. (these were more than ten years ago, but I hope you introduce Alice to these great authors).
Right now Dan Zadra’s “Five” is helping me take charge of my life.
Gemma
29. Jun, 2011
1:22 pm
Anne of Green Gables the entire series hands down. The whole “next bend in the road” philosophy is something that gets me through my toughest days!
Adrienne
29. Jun, 2011
12:15 pm
My top five favorite books growing up: Anne of Green Gables, A Wrinkle in Time (that whole series, actually), From the Mixed Up Files of Basil Frankweiler, I also loved the Babysitter’s Clubs books, and there was a series called ‘Mandie’ that I really loved too. I LOVE the big hungry bear and the red ripe strawberry– read it to my students and Maren all the time.
Rachael
29. Jun, 2011
11:22 am
I looooved the Babysitters Club back in the day. And Harriet the Spy and the Chronicles of Narnia. Right now my favorite book is The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, the man who can write non-fiction like it’s fiction.