This weeks book winners are (ta da dum!) … Ginnie and Shama-Lama Mama! Congratulations! You each win a copy of Michelle Richmond’s A Year of Fog. If you’ll send your shipping information to katrina (at) stonoff (dot) com, I’ll put your book in the mail.
For next week, you can win any book I’ve mentioned. It can be a book I’ve already given away, one I’ve referred to on the blog, something I’ve reviewed here or here, or any book on either of my giveaway shelves. Here’s your chance to get a book you wanted in the past and didn’t win. I’m trying to get new reviews on my website, so hopefully there will be some new choices today or tomorrow.
Just leave a comment, telling me which book you want, before noon Sunday (Pacific Time). I’ll choose a winner from one of my hats. Contest is open to anyone, anywhere, as long as mail service can reach you.
Here’s the hat I chose the winners from today. It’s a vintage cloth hat I purchased on ebay for almost nothing.
The label says “Marche,” but I’m not familiar with the designer. The green fabric is velvet, and the blue and purple fabrics are satin. I like to imagine who wore this hat. Definitely a woman of spirit and fire!
Big thanks to the following bloggers for promoting the Monday Book Giveaway: A Contest Blog, A Striped Armchair, Ardently Book Reviews, Blog Giveaways, CallMeaBookworm, Fiction Scribe, In Spring It Is the Dawn, Juxtabook, Laura Williams’ Musings, Melody’s Reading Corner, Mom of 2 Dancers, My Friend Amy, My Weblog, Prize-a-Tron, QuiverFullFamily, Things Mean a Lot, and West of Mars. If you found the giveaway via a different blog, please let me know, so I can thank them for the link.
May 26, 2008 at 5:22 pm |
I wonder if the label refers to the Bon Marche? That was (is? I haven’t heard the name in years, but who knows?) a store chain, somewhat classy. Sort of like Macy’s.
Don’t toss me in the hat for next Monday–I rearely read actual good fiction these days, tending to stick to murder mysteries, and it’d be a shame to take a book away from someone who would properly appreciate it, should I happen to win. I wouldn’t even know what to ask for.
May 26, 2008 at 5:26 pm |
I wondered that myself. I loved the Bon Marche, but it was bought out by Macy’s and has become another ho-hum department store.
As far as not knowing what to read, have you read Karin Slaughter’s Triptych? Or Tess Gerritsen’s The Bone Garden? Or M. J. Rose’s The Reincarnationist? Those are all murder mysteries I’ve read recently (though none of them are what I’d call typical murder mysteries).
May 26, 2008 at 6:43 pm |
Just read The Mermaid Chair, so I think I’ll hope for Where the Heart Is again. Maybe I’ll even be productive enough to remember to link to the contest on my blog. It’s always on my mental to-do list…sadly, that thing gets so long that I accomplish very little on it.
May 26, 2008 at 6:57 pm |
I’d love a copy of Freakonomics, read the blog but have never read the book.
May 26, 2008 at 7:11 pm |
Where’s Your Daddy? Book on the shelve looks good!
cpullum@yahoo.com
May 26, 2008 at 9:40 pm |
I was wondering if I could win one of YOUR books? East of Jesus or Old Fabric, New Pattern both sound wonderful!
If not I would also love to read Running with Scissors.
May 26, 2008 at 10:57 pm |
I’d love a chance to win a copy of Water for Elephants.
May 27, 2008 at 12:35 am |
Gonna try my luck for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thanks Katrina.
May 27, 2008 at 7:22 am |
I’d love a chance to win Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult.
Thank you!
May 27, 2008 at 7:25 am |
I’d like to get Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.
Thank you!
May 27, 2008 at 7:57 am |
Great hat!
If possible, I would like a chance to win “Mistress of the Art of Death” I’ve heard such lovely things about that book.
May 27, 2008 at 8:29 am |
Hey sorry I haven’t been over in a bit!
Allergies have been killing me and been busy with the boy!
Just wanted to let you know that I have your link up on my blog so others can see and visit and ME too!
May 27, 2008 at 8:49 am |
I’m bummed that I didn’t win last week, so if I win THIS week, I’d like ‘A Year of Fog,’ please.
May 27, 2008 at 8:52 am |
YAY! Thank you SO MUCH! A Year of Fog sounds awesome.
Your hat collection is so awesome. I’m kind of jealous. I love hats but with my poofy hair, I look really odd in hats. And my hair looks awful when I take them off because the top ends up all smashed down and the bottom half stays poofy. So I just look at hats and sigh…
I know that we are allowed to enter if we just won but I still want to take a week off. I would personally feel too guilty if I won twice in a row. A week in between? That’s cool, but not two weeks in a row. Hee hee hee!
Thanks again Katrina!!
May 27, 2008 at 9:19 am |
Isn’t it fun to imagine what someone might have done with that hat?
I’ll stick with last week’s choice, A Year of Fog. Thanks, Katrina!
May 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm |
I’d love to be entered for The Sleeping Beauty Proposal – thanks for all the giveaways!
May 27, 2008 at 2:59 pm |
I would enjoy reading People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Thanks for this lovely giveaway.
May 27, 2008 at 6:05 pm |
I am going to try for Write Away by Elizabeth George. Thanks!
May 27, 2008 at 6:24 pm |
I would absolutely love to read Girl With a Pearl Earring! It sounds really, really good and your review convinced me even further that it’s a must read.
May 27, 2008 at 6:44 pm |
[...] Katrina at Stone Soup is giving away any book she has mentioned! Really. She gives you links to all places she has reviewed books and will give away any of them. [...]
May 27, 2008 at 6:52 pm |
The Cinderella Pact – that’s a good one that I like to try out! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
May 27, 2008 at 7:51 pm |
I’ll put my name in the hat for Write Away by Elizabeth George. And I found you via a link from Fiction Scribe.
May 27, 2008 at 8:13 pm |
[...] Soup is having another great giveaway this week for anything on her giveaway shelves, or any title she has reviewed or mentioned on her [...]
May 27, 2008 at 9:01 pm |
Hello Katrina, You would have liked my Aunt Annie! She wore hats of all kinds that I have seen in pictures. She had the most wonderful hat boxes. Please enter me in your always wonderful book drawing. It would be great to win
“Plain Truth” by Jodi Picoult. Thanks very much and have a wonderful week!
Cindi
May 28, 2008 at 7:48 am |
well i give this a try thanks what ever we are playing for i well would like to try and win thanks again
May 28, 2008 at 9:20 am |
I would love Marley & Me. My daughter’s name is Marley and I’ve been reading about the making of the movie lately. Thanks~
May 28, 2008 at 10:11 am |
I’d love to read A Year of Fog
May 28, 2008 at 10:39 am |
I would LOVE to win Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. I love his books and this is one I haven’t read yet.
Thanks for having the contest.
May 28, 2008 at 10:54 am |
Picoult or Fog – I can’t pick. You choose
May 28, 2008 at 1:45 pm |
definitely Freakonomics
May 28, 2008 at 4:36 pm |
I’d like to win Cinderalla Pact or Plain truth. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
May 28, 2008 at 5:01 pm |
I’d like to win either Year of Fog or Never Let Me Go. Thank you!
May 29, 2008 at 2:23 am |
I would love to get A Writer’s Guide to Character Traits. it never hurts to have a book like that on hand – especially when you’re to control your characters!
May 31, 2008 at 5:51 pm |
I’d love to read Laughing All the Way by Pat Detmer- your review was enticing and made it sound fascinating and I love humour columns.
May 31, 2008 at 9:42 pm |
I woould love a chance to win marley and me, i love dogs!
June 1, 2008 at 8:20 am |
I’m putting GothamGal in for the book she requested May 14 because I just found her comment in my spam file.
June 1, 2008 at 8:21 am |
I’m putting Broad Horizons in for the book she requested May 14 because I just found her comment in my spam file.