Monday Book Giveaway (December 1, 2008)

 Today’s winner is … rat-a-tat-tat … Kimmy Lane! Congratulations! Kimmy wins a copy of M. J. Rose’s book The Memorist. Kimmy, please send your shipping information to katrina (at) stonoff (dot) com, and I’ll get your book in the mail.

As promised, this week, you can win any book! Your choice. Any book you want (well, any book readily available for $25 or less, not counting shipping). Tell me what book is calling your name.

To enter, comment below with the book title, and come back next Monday to see if I’ve pulled your name from one of my hats. Deadline noonish Sunday. Contest open to anyone on the planet who has access to reliable mail service.

Now, the hat from which I pulled Kimmy Lane’s number:

  

This one’s by Louise Green, whose popularity went to Mars after one of her hats was featured on Desperate Housewives. The hat is felt with a velvet hatband. And yes, the velvet really is multi-colored. On my computer, the colors are true.

This was my first cloche (a tight-fitting, bell-shaped hat popular in the Roaring Twenties). I have very thick hair, so when it was long, I couldn’t ever find a cloche that fit. But it’s short now, and I adore this hat. In this picture, I don’t have it on right though. It’s supposed to be further forward, so your eyes barely peek out. I put it on without a mirror. Later I pulled it down where it’s supposed to be, but none of those pictures worked.

I wore this hat to the Missy Higgins concert. It was a mistake — TOO hot! But it looked darling.

Big thanks to Au Courant, So Many Precious Books, Mom Giveaways,Sharon Loves Books & Cats, Pudgy Penguin Perusals and all the bloggers who help promote the Monday Book Giveaway: A Contest Blog, A Striped Armchair, Blog Giveaways, Blogfully, Bookluver–Carol’s Reviews, The Book Muncher’s Contest List, Books Love Me, CallMeaBookworm, Chick Lit Teens, Exotic1, Fiction Scribe, Giada’s Blog, In Spring It Is the Dawn, Juxtabook, Laura Williams’ Musings, Literarily, Long Relationships, Lori’s Reading Corner, Love to Read, Melody’s Reading Corner, Mom of 2 Dancers, My Friend Amy, My Two Blessings, My Weblog, Out of the Blue, Powersweepstaking, Prize-a-Tron, Proud Bookworm, QuiverFullFamily, Rat’s Reading, Reading Room, Rhonda’s Corner of the World, S. Krishna’s Books, Samsakara, She is Too Fond of Books, she reads and reads, Tara’s View on Books, Things Mean a Lot, Trish the Conqueror, Under the Loupe, Up for Grabs, Wendi’s Book Corner, West of Mars, Win a Book, Wrighty’s Reads, and Writesalot. If you found the Monday Book Giveaway via a different blog, please let me know, so I can thank them.