Monday* Book Giveaway (July 8, 2008)

Congratulations to today’s winner: Jane! She chose the spine-chiller Grave Intent by Deborah LaBlanc. Jane, please send your shipping information to katrina (at) stonoff (dot) com, and I’ll get your book in the mail.

For next week, I have a selection of award winners for two winners to choose from:

• The Echo Makers by Richard Power (National Book Award winner 2006)
• March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer Prize winner 2006)
• A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer (National Book Award Finalist 2003)
• Waiting by Ha Jin (National Book Award winner 1999)
• The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize winner 1995)

To win, just comment below with the name of your first and second choices before noon Sunday (Pacific Time). Then come back next week to see if you’ve won. Contest is open to anyone, anywhere, as long as mail service can reach you.

Not into award winners? Come back next Monday for Your Choice, Any Book, and in two weeks for Beach Reads.

Here’s the hat from which Mad Scientist chose the winners today.

This is one of the most distinctive hats I own, and one of my favorites (I love designs that are imbalanced). The round part sits on the back of your head, and the strip that sticks out wraps around the front just above your forehead. I can’t remember where I got it, but it’s definitely vintage. The label says “Norman Durand Original.” The hat is velvet, and the ribbon is silk, both black though it doesn’t look that way in the picture. The veil (which needs to be steamed) is one of the softest I’ve felt. Very fun to wear, and even just to look at.

Big thanks to Books Love Me, Lori’s Reading Corner, Up for Grabs and all the bloggers who help promote 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, Out of the Blue, Prize-a-Tron, Proud Bookworm, QuiverFullFamily, S. Krishna’s Books, Tara’s View on Books, 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.

*Yep. Tuesday again. *sigh*

Edited to add photograph