Literary Giveaway Hop 9-13th February

 

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Today is my birthday, and it also happens to be the week of a Literary Giveaway hop so I thought I would share the love by joining in.

I’m making it pretty simple this time. 1 entry each and no ways of getting extra entries (but feel free to follow me, tweet, add me on facebook, comment, whatever!)

The rules are:

1) I’ve listed 25 books below, one which has been published in each year of my life (except 2013, because I haven’t read any books published in 2013 yet) you can choose one of the books from this list to win- I’m giving away one book only.

2) To enter fill in the form, answers are only visible to me and your information will not be used for any purpose other than this giveaway

3) To enter you must live in a country to which The Book Depository offers free delivery.

4) You don’t have to be a blogger to enter, you don’t have to be subscribed to my blog, following me on twitter, liking me on facebook or a fellow participant in the hop- but do feel free to do any of those things!

5) Entries are open from now until 23:59 GMT on 13th February

The List:

2012: The Secret Keeper- Kate Morton

2011: The Lover’s Dictionary- David Levithan

2010: Room- Emma Donoghue

2009: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet- Jamie Ford

2008: The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman

2007: Sarah’s Key- Tatiana de Rosnay

2006: The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Muriel Barbery

2005: The Big Over Easy- Jasper Fforde

2004: My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult

2003: The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

2002: Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides

2001: Life of Pi- Yann Mantel

2000: Q & A- Vikas Swarup

1999: The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky

1998: Chocolat- Joanne Harris

1997: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone- J.K. Rowling

1996: The Beach- Alex Garland

1995: Northern Lights- Philip Pullman

1994: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami

1993: Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks

1992: Regeneration- Pat Barker

1991: The Liar- Stephen Fry

1990: The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts- Louis de Bernieres

1989: Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel

1988: Matilda- Roald Dahl

1987: Norweigen Wood- Haruki Murakami

Want chances to win some other books? Have a look at the rest of the blogs on the hop…

Linky List:

Leeswammes The Book Garden Sam Still Reading Candle Beam Book Blog Ciska’s Book Chest Too Fond Alex in Leeds Under a Gray Sky Bibliosue The Book Club Blog Fingers & Prose Lori Howell Rikki’s Teleidoscope Girl vs Bookshelf Lizzy’s Literary Life (Europe) Booklover Book Reviews The Blog of Litwits Reading World (USA/Can) Seaside Book Nook Curiosity Killed the Bookworm The Book Diva’s Reads Breieninpeking (Europe) 2606 Books and Counting Giraffe Days Lucybird’s Book Blog

Roof Beam Reader The Relentless Reader Read in a Single Sitting My Diary (Malaysia) Heavenali Dolce Belezza (USA) The Misfortune of Knowing My Devotional Thoughts Nishita’s Rants and Raves Book Nympho Kaggsysbookishramblings Quixotic Magpie Lost Generation Reader BookBelle Under My Apple Tree (USA) Mondays with Mac Page Plucker

Children’s Hour: Christmas Giveaway!

It’s almost Christmas whooop whoop, and of course that is the perfect time for a giveaway.

Earlier this year Random House sent me 2 beautiful copies of The Nutcracker. The old story was re-written by E.T.A Hoffmann and is accompanied by illustrations by Maurice Sendak. One copy for me to review, and one for my lovely readers.

I accepted the books with Children’s Hour in mind, however it’s not really suitable for the children I work with so I am planning to read it myself over Christmas and use it for my Children’s Hour post on Boxing Day. You can see the amazon page for this book by clicking the image above.

However as I wanted to make it a Christmas Giveaway I’m opening for entries today.

Unfortunately as I have to send the book myself (and it’s a rather large hardback) this giveaway is only open to those in Europe however I will accept other entries provided you are happy to pay for your own postage, just let me know in comments.

To enter just fill in the Rafflecopter by clicking the link below

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Blogiversary Giveaway Winner

So my first blogiversary giveaway is over, and it’s time to pick the winner……

 

Loni @ The Eye of Loni’s Storm

 

Loni has picked How to be a Woman and it will soon be winging its way to her. Well done Loni. (An e-mail is on its way).

 

Haven’t won this time? There is still a chance to enter my Children’s Picture Book giveaway.

Children’s Hour Blogiversary Giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered

Two giveaways in one week, aren’t you lucky, lucky people?! It must by my Bloggiversary!

I thought that Children’s Hour is pretty much my only schedueled post, and a pretty big part of what makes Lucybird’s Book Blog what it is. However the giveaway opened earlier this week was completely devoid of anything related to children’s picture books.

So I’m having a whole other giveaway devoted to children’s books. You can win from a selection of books mentioned in Children’s Hour. Unfortunately not all the books are still available but you can choose from any of the following. One books, one winner.

Owl Babies

I’m not Cute!

Titch

You’ll Soon Grow into Them, Titch

Giraffes Can’t Dance

One Mole Digging a Hole

I Want My Mum

I Want my Potty

Hungry Hen

Walking Through the Jungle

A Squash and a Squeeze

Splat the Cat

Meg’s Eggs

Kipper

Take Turns Max and Millie

Not Not Bernard

Elmer

Two Monsters

Alfie and Annie-Rose

Commotion in the Ocean

Anyone can enter but you must be in a country where the book depository delivers for free. You can get extra entries by following in various ways and tweeting. The contest will close next Thursday 6th September

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Kicking it off (with a Giveaway)!

This Giveaway if now CLOSED. You can still enter my Children’s Picture Book Giveaway however.

Hey it’s that time of year again! Blogiversary time!

It’s my blogiversary this week (the 31st to be exact) so as part of my celebrations I am hosting a giveaway of one of the Top 10 Books I’ve read since starting this blog. That is:

Pop Co.- Scarlet Thomas

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism- Natasha Walter

Brooklyn Bites Series- Scott Stabile*

The Lucifer Effect- Phillip Zimbardo

Handle with Care- Jodi Picoult

How to be a Woman- Caitlin Moran

The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts- Louis de Bernieres

Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami

Mockingbird- Kathryn Erskien

Middlesex- Jeffery Eugenides

Anyone can enter so long as The Book Depository delivers free to your country.

You don’t have to be a follower to enter (just fill in the Rafflecopter and leave a comment saying which book you would like) but you can get extra entries by following my in different ways or tweeting about the giveaway.

Entries are open until next Tuesday 12:01am EST.

*Brooklyn Bites is only available for kindle, so you must have a kindle to choose this prize

This is my first time using rafflecopter so if you have any comments or problems do let me know, I’d like to know if it’s worth doing again.

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The Blogiversary Image is adapted from icons at bella_sol

Literary Givaway Hop

This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered and of course to Judith for hosting.

Hi guys. I’s been a while since I’ve done a giveaway and when I saw that Judith was hosting the literary giveaway blog hop again it seemed the perfect reason to do one.

The giveaway starts today and ends on Wednesday 27th June.

This time around I have 2 prizes up for grabs:

1) Copies of all the Brooklyn Bites series of short stories for you kindle (This one is one of my favourites so far this year. You can see my reviews here- 1, 2, 3)

2) A copy of The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts in paperback (This was my favourite read last year- see my review)

Both giveaways are open internationally (but for the 2nd you need to be in a country to which The Book Depository delivers for free).

To enter just comment saying which prize you would like. You can enter for both if you wish. However if by some strange coincidence the same person is picked for both prizes I will only give them one (they can choose which) just to spread the love a bit wider!

There are around 60 bloggers participating in this hop- why not visit them all?

Leeswammes Candle Beam Book Blog Musings of a Bookshop Girl The Book Whisperer Book Journey (US/CA) breieninpeking (Dutch readers) bibliosue heavenali I Read That Once… The Parrish Lantern The Bibliomouse (Europe) Tell Me A Story Seaside Book Nook Rikki’s Teleidoscope Sam Still Reading Nishita’s Rants and Raves Readerbuzz Books Thoughts Adventures (North America) 2,606 Books and Counting Laurie Here (US/CA) Literary Winner (US) Dolce Bellezza The House of the Seven Tails The Book Diva’s Reads (US) Colorimetry Roof Beam Reader Kate’s Library Minding Spot (US) Silver’s Reviews (US) Book’d Out Fingers & Prose (US) Chocolate and Croissants Scattered Figments Lucybird’s Book Blog The Book Club Blog

Lizzy’s Literary Life The Book Stop Reflections from the Hinterland (US) Lena Sledge’s Blog Read in a Single Sitting The Little Reader Library (UK) The Blue Bookcase (US) 1morechapter (US) The Reading and Life of a Bookworm Curled Up with a Good Book and a Cup of Tea My Sweepstakes City (US) De Boekblogger (Europe, Dutch readers) Exurbanis Sweeping Me (US/CA) Living, Learning, and Loving Life (US) Beauty Balm Uniflame Creates Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book (US/CA) Curiosity Killed The Bookworm Nose in a book (Europe) Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews (US) Giraffe Days Page Plucker Based on a True Story Read, Write & Live Devin Berglund (N. America) Ephemeral Digest Under My Apple Tree (US) Annette Berglund (US) Book Nympho A Book Crazy, Jane Austen Lovin’ Gal (US) Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity

Literary Giveaway Blog Hop back again

Judith is again running the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop on her blog Leeswammes’ Blog. This time it will take part from the 23rd to the 27th June.

The Literary Blog Hop is different because bloggers only give away books with ‘literary merit’. No romance, no Y.A and no urban fantasy. I like this because often I find giveaways fall into these genres, and they aren’t the genres I tend to read. I guess you can say it’s a breath of fresh air.

I think it’s been a while since I last did a giveaway too so I’m looking forward to this one.

If you want to join in sign-ups are open until 20th June here at Leeswammes’ Blog

It’s Giveaway Time

Ooh yay it’s time for the literary blog hop giveaway! The last time Leeswammes hosted this hop was my first giveaway, and I’ve done a couple more since.

Anyway onto the giveaway.

I will be giving away a copy of Scarlett Thomas’ Pop Co. which was my favourite book last year. Entry is open to anyone so long as The Book Depository does free shipping to your country.

Entry is is easy just fill in the form below:

Also have a look at all the other giveaways in the hop.

Leeswammes Devouring Texts The Book Whisperer Seaside Book Nook The Scarlet Letter (US only) Rikki’s Teleidoscope Bibliosue Curled Up With a Good Book and a Cup of Tea The Book Diva’s Reads Gaskella Lucybird’s Book Blog Kim’s Bookish Place The Book Garden Under My Apple Tree Helen Smith Sam Still Reading Nishita’s Rants and Raves Ephemeral Digest Bookworm with a View The Parrish Lantern Dolce Bellezza Lena Sledge Blog Book Clutter I Am A Reader, Not A Writer (US only) The Blue Bookcase Book Journey (US only) The House of the Seven Tails (US only) In One Eye, Out the Other (US only) Read, Write & Live Fresh Ink Books

Living, Learning, and Loving Life (US only) Bibliophile By the Sea Laurie Here Reading & Writing Reviews Amy’s Book World (US only) Teadevotee Joy’s Book Blog Word Crushes (US only) Thinking About Loud! Kinna Reads Sweeping Me Minding Spot (US only) Babies, Books, and Signs (US only) Lisa Beth Darling Tony’s Reading List SusieBookworm (US only) Tell Me A Story Close Encounters with the Night Kind Nerfreader Mevrouw Kinderboek (Netherlands, Belgium) Boekblogger (Netherlands) In Spring it is the Dawn No Page Left Behind Elle Lit

Good Luck.

Edit: Some people have been having trouble with the form. I think I have fixed the problem so please use it in the first instance but if it doesn’t submit via comments. I’m adding old comments to my form personally so don’t feel the need to re-enter.

More delays

Sorry guys I am ill so won’t be posting giveaway winners today, more delays I’m afraid, am on my way to bed.

But I can say only one person got the right answer (and a couple of close guesses) so if that’s you you have certainly won.

Last chance

 

Tomorrow is the closing day for entries for my Blogiversary Giveaway.

People seem to be struggling somewhat with finding the answer to the scavenger hunt so I am going to give the second book to a randomly picked person who enters, rather than answering the scavenger hunt leave me a message on the form.

Cheat Sheet

As nobody has yet got the right answer to my Scavenger Hunt Giveaway I have added a little hint to the original post. Feel free to enter again if you have already entered.

Scavenger Hunt GIVEAWAY

Yes I promised a giveaway for my blogiversary but I wanted to make it a bit more interesting than letting people who wanted to win just comment (or fill in the form, or whatever) so this giveaway will take the form of a scavenger hunt. I’ll explain the scavenger hunt rule in a moment, first lets do the giveaway details.

1) I will be giving away a copy on any book reviewed on this blog (lists by author, by title) to 2 entrants

2) The giveaway is open internationally so long as The Book Depository does free delivery to your country.

3) To enter just follow the Scavenger Hunt rules (listed below) and put your answer and information in the form below

4) Entries are open for a week from today (so until 6th September) 23:59 BST

The Scavenger Hunt rules

It’s pretty simple really. In 6 posts on this blog is a random word. Find all the words (by following the clues below) and join them together to create a sentence.

1) Words could be anywhere in the blog posts but will be bold and highlighted in blue like this

2) There are two possible sentences you can make from the words, I have one in mind but either is acceptable.

3) You must use all the words to be in with a chance of winning.

The clues.

1) What was my favourite read?

2) The title of this book relates to my blog

3) Lots of fandom here

4) Oh how exciting!

5) For the ones I love

6) Never impressed by these adaptations

Hint: Keeping reading my Blogiversary posts and you may find some of these clues easier

Any questions can be asked in comments or via twitter.

GOOD LUCK!

Harry Potter Giveaway Winner

random.org picked the number 126 which was an additional entry for entry 35.

Entry 35 is Erin. Well done Erin! I will e-mail you now to arrange to send the books to you.

You can visit Erin on twitter @erinberry12

Harry Potter giveaway closes today

Don’t forget to enter my big Harry Potter Giveaway. Entries close tonight 11:59pm GMT. Last chance to win all 7 Harry Potter books.

There are currently 72 entries!

Harry Potter Giveaway.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

It’s day two of Harry Potter Week here at Lucybird’s Book Blog and today I am launching my BIG giveaway.

I will be giving away all the Harry Potter books (yes that’s right books 1-7) to one lucky person. You can choose between either the new Signature Editions or the Adult Editions (sorry my budget won’t stretch to the original children’s editions)

What you need to know

1) This giveaway is international, so long as The Book Depository does free shipping to your country

2) You don’t have to be a follower to take part- although if you’d like to subscribe you are very welcome

3) You can get extra entries if you subscribe by e-mail, RSS feed or through your wordpress dashboard, and if you follow me on Twitter (@lucybirdbooks)- up to 2 extra entries (there is no point subscribing to e-mail, RSS and wordpress as they give you the same)

4) You can get an extra entry by promoting my blog and/or this giveaway. Feel free to steal my banner at the top of the page.

5) Entries for this giveaway will close next Sunday (24th July) at 11:59pm GMT. The winner will be announced and contacted the next day.

How to enter

Simply fill in the form

EDIT: 1) Some people have said they are having trouble finding my twitter the link to my profile is here

2) You must fill in the form to enter, I won’t enter anyone who enters only by comment

The Scarlet Letter WINNER!

I got 23 entries for my Scarlet Letter Giveaway. I’ve had good fun doing this, I may well do it again! I may even make it international next time.

I used random.org’s number generator to give me the winner and that winner is

Ceri

Ceri has decided not to have a DVD but to donate money to The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, please head over there if you want to add your support.

Ceri I am about to e-mail you for your details.

Thank you everyone for stopping by and for your entries, I hope to see you around again.

Last chance

Tomorrow is the last day for entries to my giveaway for The Scarlet Letter, if you haven’t already time to add yourself to the list.

I will pick the winner at random on Thursday evening, so stay tuned!

Literary Blog Hop GIVEAWAY!

Oh my goodness my first giveaway! This is exciting.

I will be giving away a copy of The Scarlet Letter plus either a copy of Easy A (which is loosely based on The Scarlet Letter) or The Scarlet Letter on DVD. If you don’t want either I will donate £5 to the charity of your choice.

The book is pre-loved but in good condition. The DVD will be brand new and sent from Amazon (so will arrive separately from the book).

Entries are simple fill in the form!

Open to Europeans only (sorry!) Entries close 29th June 11:59pm GMT

Lots of other blogs are also joining in with the literary blog hop, why not hop over and have a look?

List with all the Participants:

Leeswammes (Int) The Book Whisperer (Int) Kristi Loves Books (Int) Teadevotee (Int) Bookworm with a View (Int) Bibliosue (Int) Sarah Reads Too Much (Int) write meg! (USA) My Love Affair With Books (Int) Seaside Book Nook (Int) Uniflame Creates (Int) Always Cooking Up Something (Int) Book Journey (Int) ThirtyCreativeStudio (Int) Col Reads (Int) The Book Diva’s Reads (Int) The Scarlet Letter (USA) The Parrish Lantern (Int) Lizzy’s Literary Life (Int) Read, Write & Live (Int) Book’d Out (Int) The Readers’ Suite (Int) I Am A Reader, Not A Writer (USA) Ephemeral Digest (Int) Miel et lait (Int) Bibliophile By the Sea (Int) Polychrome Interest (Int) Book World In My Head (Int) In Spring it is the Dawn (Int) everybookhasasoul (Int) Nishita’s Rants and Raves (Int) Fresh Ink Books (Int) Teach with Picture Books (USA) How to Teach a Novel (USA) The Blue Bookcase (Int) Gaskella (Int) Reflections from the Hinterland (USA) chasing bawa (Int) 51stories (Int) No Page Left Behind (USA)

Silver’s Reviews (USA) Nose in a book (Int) Lit in the Last Frontier (Int) The Book Club Blog (Int) Under My Apple Tree (Int) Caribousmom (USA) breienineking (Netherlands) Let’s Go on a Picnic! (Int) Rikki’s Teleidoscope (Int) De Boekblogger (Netherlands) Knitting and Sundries (Int) Elle Lit (USA) Indie Reader Houston (Int) The Book Stop (Int) Eliza Does Very Little (Int) Joy’s Book Blog (Int) Lit Endeavors (USA) Roof Beam Reader (Int) The House of the Seven Tails (Int) Tony’s Reading List (Int) Sabrina @ Thinking About Loud! (Int) Rebecca Reads (Int) Kinna Reads (Int) In One Eye, Out the Other (USA) Books in the City (Int) Lucybird’s Book Blog (Europe) Book Clutter (USA) Exurbanis (Int) Lu’s Raves and Rants (USA & Canada) Sam Still Reading (Int) Dolce Bellezza (Int) Lena Sledge’s Blog…Books, Reviews and Interviews (Int) a Thousand Books with Quotes (Int)