Book Giveaways: I Haz Them.

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The first one I shall call the All Zelda, All the Time giveaway:

 

A couple of months ago I read Z and was surprisingly drawn into it. As I say in my review, I wasn't aware of loving it while I was reading it, but there was something about the book that made me want to take action.  It prompted me to locate a copy of Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald so that I can give her her due, and not a lot of books provoke action like that.  I haven't read Call Me Zelda, so I cannot comment on that one, but considering the Zelda-Hemingway antagonism, it seems ironic that the author of Hemingway's Girl wrote it.  Anyway, I shall give advance reading copies of these two books away in a package deal. This giveaway is open only to US and Canada.

My other giveaway is for a book with a little bit of everything sensational in it. If you happen to be looking for a book that has a religious cult, arson, polygamy, incest, the Dust Bowl, illiteracy, motor accidents, and love, look no further.  You can read more about it in my review, but let's just say that these characters will not be the poster children for mental stability any time soon. This is also a paperback advance reading copy of the book, but I am willing to ship this one anywhere in the world if it costs me no more than US $20.

To enter, just be a follower of my blog and leave a comment below on which giveaway you're interested in.  For purpose of closure, let's say that the giveaway is open through the end of April. 

It's Fall Cleaning Time + Multiple Book Giveaway Where Everybody Wins

Some folks like to do spring cleaning, but around my house spring = mud season, so autumn is the time of year we start to clear up the clutter around the house. My husband and I are both bibliophiles, so books seem to accumulate more than we're able to keep up with. Yesterday I started working on the downstairs level, clearing out books from my kitchen table:

...the bathroom:

Notice that the entire top shelf is clear (though not for long)!

...the end of the hallway, where we had books double-stacked on top of the case beyond the crossbar of the, er, cross

Roxie gives the photo some scale. She's 150 pounds.

and the back hallway, where both of us just seem to unload armfuls of books at a time whenever we walk in the door:

Note that there are only a few double stacks now

 At first I thought it was going to feel brutal; after all, books are friends and we don't throw away friends, do we? After the first half hour it felt easier, and not long after that I moved through the shelves ruthlessly like Sherman through Atlanta, though with decidedly less burning.  I may give books away, but I trust I'll never be a book burner.

These are for donation. 

By the end of the afternoon, I had culled the herd and rearranged the keepers, created a section of Caribbeana, created stack upon stack of books to be donated, and even four boxes of books to sell back to my bookstore's used book buyer for store credit. (Hah!  I may be getting rid of books, but that doesn't mean that I don't want more.)

These four boxes are to sell for store credit.

Now we get to the FREE BOOKS part. There's a local charity program that will accept ARCs as donations, and I'm happy to donate them, but if you see a particular title in the close-ups below that you'd like to be reading, I'll send it to you by snail mail if you live in the US or Canada. Just drop me a comment below and send me an email with your physical address.  My blog doesn't have hundreds of followers (though apparently there are lots of lurkers out there), so I don't anticipate going broke with this request, but I will set a time limit on it: one week from today's post.

YA & middle grade. Mock not the Twilight books

Stack #1

Stack #2

Stack #3

Stack #4

Stack #5, part 1

Stack #5, part 2

If you want a free book but don't know which one you want, I'll pick one for you based on what you tell me your interests are. I've got lots of literary fiction, lots of commercial fiction, and a couple of stacks of YA (do NOT judge me for those Twilight books, peoples). I've not read every book in these stacks, and some I'm only giving away because I have multiple copies (I'm looking at YOU, Wiley Cash and Andre Dubus).

So, um, yeah.  Pick yer book. Let me know. I'll send it to you.  That's pretty much as easy as it gets.
Send your address to me at ejcrowe42 [at] aol [dot] com with a subject line of Book Giveaway or similar.

Pandemonium Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everybody who entered my Pandemonium giveaway.  My gently-read advance reading copy of Lauren Oliver's sequel to Delirium, to be released in March 2012, goes to...

Nikki of Imaginative Adventure

Nikki, please send me your mailing address and I'll get this out to you by the end of the year.  Congratulations, and I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did!

 Thank you, Random.org, for an outstanding job picking a random number.

I love giveaways, especially when I'm the winner!

 A few weeks ago, the lovely sisters at Rather Barefoot Than Bookless (a name which I love, by the way), were hosting a couple of giveways, open to all readers 'round the world.  I was the lucky winner of two books from The Vampire Diaries series by L. J. Smith.  One of my best friends, Liz, is smitten with the TV series adapted from the books, and she got me interested in watching them--that Ian Somerhalder is so hard to watch, isn't he?  Actually, the whole show is nothing but eye candy, no matter what your preferences and inclinations. When the opportunity came for me to read these two books, it seemed quite fun. 

Thank you, Cecilia, Jessica, and Sandra for hosting the contest and being willing to send these by international post from Sweden to the US!  The books arrived last weekend and I have read them both now.  They're *quite* different from the tv show, most notably in the characters of Katherine and Elena, and in Stefan & Damon's provenance in Renaissance Italy rather than Civil War-era American South. These are two books that I would not normally have ever picked up on my own, but since I won them in a giveaway I read them for my guilty pleasure.  They're very quick reads, and though the books aren't particularly well written, the pacing is good.  I don't think I'll be on the lookout for more of The Vampire Diaries--unless they just show up in my PO Box once more!