Starting a new blog is like performing at a comedy club without an audience. It's like sharing a YouTube video that nobody ever comments on. It's like bringing a casserole to Thanksgiving that nobody even tries (this happened to me once. I brought my famous baked mac n cheese that everybody raves about to an extended family gathering one year and other than myself nobody even bothered to taste it!).
I need readers and I am not patient. So if you're not going to come on your own free will then I'm going to bribe you. Winner will be chosen at random (though I'm not going to lie, if you hang around my blog more than others you may have a better chance at winning). The prize is a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate.
- Mandatory first entry: Comment on this post with the name of your favorite book.
- + 1 entry: Trackback to this post.
- + 1 entry: Become a member of my blog on Google Friendconnect.
Contest ends Feb. 15th, 2010 so you have plenty of time to fall in love with me until then. The winner will be announced here on the blog and also contacted by email. Ready set go!
EDIT: Contest is now closed for new entries, so I have disabled comments on this post. I will announce and notify the winner within 24 hours!
Friday, January 29, 2010
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One of my favorite books is 'a prayer for owen meany' by john irving.
You are too funny. I just found your blog today after joining the Craft Forum and so far I am loving it.
So you wanna know my favorite book eh. I haven't a clue. I recently read The Shack and feel in love with it but I can't necessarily say its my favorite. I like several different authors but I am not sure I can honestly come up with a favorite. Maybe I will think about that. Hmmm
Hi ky2here and Julie! Thank you both so much for dropping by!
I don't have one favorite book, although I do prefer a good mystery/thriller. I go through phases and right now my phase is reading everything I can get my hands on by Greg Iles. (I'm reading Turning Angel)
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I just found you through Craft forum, and I really like your blog! I am a follower.
And my favorite book... can I list a couple? I am loving Deadline, and Hunger Games right now.
My favorite book is Swan Song by Robert McCammon.
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The Terror by Dan Simmons
You just game me a good laugh. I love Steven King and my favorite book is The Stand. Thanks so much.
My favorite book "Contagious" by Scott Sigler...spooky sci-fi.
Hi there cdziuba, I apologize, I did not have a link up earlier directly on my blog. Now it is located on the sidebar to the right :)
Thank you to everybody else for your comments!
I am reading Little Women and it is wonderful. I am trying to read through "the classics" be it centuries old or this decade. History or romance to sci-fi. If a list has been put out and it is on it as a top 100 of ----(insert type) then I am going to get an e-book of it and try to read it. This is my new life improving goal.
African Queen was great until the end...the movie has a better ending.
Little Women is better as are most books then the movie.
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TES283
I became a google follower.
Thanks so much.
Hi Tes - that's one of my goals as well! First I'm tackling the more popular Jane Austen novels. Thanks for stopping by!
And thank you Peg for stopping by as well!
After more than 60 years of reading, there are way too many books that I like to pick one as a favorite. I do have several that I like to re-read, so will just put one of them down--Dawn's Early Light by Elswyth Thane.
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I don't have much time to read but I used to love anything by L.J. Smith. Thanks.
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I have many favorites - but Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is at the top of the list
my favorite book is "IT" by Stephen King
I have a lot of favorites, but I will say To Kill A Mockingbird, great book! Thank you!
I'm following your blog.
im currently reading a book called angels in disguise and its really good
One of my favorite books is Season of Change (it could be seasons, hmmm) anyway it is by Christopher Pike. I am a total bookworm, so I have tons of favorites :)
I am follower #11 on your blog :)
You are welcome to follow mine if you want.
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My favorite book is Our Town by Thorton Wilder
I posted but blogger messed up so I'm not sure if it's going to show up. I'm sorry if it posts twice.
One of my favorite books is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I usually read suspense but came across this book and really enjoyed it. Thank you!
I love Frankenstein. It's an oldie, but there's a reason it's a classic.
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I follow google friend connect!
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Hello! well my fav. book would be Midnight's Children. The post was really funny.
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Lord Of The Rings
I don't really have a favorite book, because as a nanny, all the books I read are to the kids lol So I guess I can pick my favorite kids book? Hmm..."The Grouchy Ladybug" lol because the 3 year old asks me "Hey, you, wanna fight?" all the time and it makes me crack up.
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I follow your blog on google friends connect (ash9)
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Google friend kycouple2000.
Bribes always work...Anything Richard Evans has written would fall in this catagory but to pick just one for a favorite I would go with "The Sunflower."
I can't pick just one favorite, but currently am reading The Lost Symbol.
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I have several favorite books. One I love is Gone with the Wind. Thanks!
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I don't think I have a favorite book. There are several that I will read again periodically. I read a lot of Nora Roberts for lighthearted fantasy/romance, Debbie Macomber for great stories of friendship and support, and a variety of authors for mayhem, murder and courtroom drama (Kate Wilhelm, Karen Harper, Carla Neggers).
I'm a follower.
I love so many books, mostly classics, some of which have been named here already. To Kill A Mockingbirg and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are two favorites.
Favorite book? But I read EVERYTHING! Currently can't put down Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins. Trashy, but I love it.
Hmmmm. I really liked Confessions of a Shopaholic
I love Stephen King's The Shining!
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My favorite book is "Eat Pray Love"
I love The Hobbit
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My favorite book is The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.
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I am following via Google.
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the moon is a harsh mistress by robert heinlein
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It may sound silly but right now I am reading through all the harry Potter books and enjoying them all
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My favorite book is The Stand by Stephen King.
Good luck with your new blog! :)
I follow you on Google friend connect. ladyt64
My favorite book is War and Peace.
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My favorite book would have to be "The Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I'm a google friend connect follower: guettel78 (#27)
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My favorite book I've read lately was "A Thousand Splendid Suns". Thanks and good luck with your blog!! pamelashockley(AT)netscape(DOT)net
I'm now your 28th follower on GFC!!! (pamelashockley)
Thanks so much!! pamelashockley(AT)netscape(DOT)net
I love Matilda.
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My favorite book is Charlotte's Web!
Thank you for the giveaway :)
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Following with Google Friend Connect
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Sula by Tony Morrision.
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A tale of two cities.
You read me, I'll read you! :)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I like my sisters keeper :)
following your blog as klp1965
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens is my favorite.
And I love baked Mac and Cheese, invite us over, we'll be happy to indulge. :)
Welcome to the blog world.
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I love anything by Chuck Palahniuk. Thanks!
My favorite book is Gone with the Wind
Hmmm. I don't know that I have a favorite book. I have a favorite author who writes a series of books that I love. I like Lucy Maud Montgomery and her series of Anne of Green Gables books as well as the spin offs. I've loved reading them ever since I was a tween.
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My favorite book is The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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My favorite book has to be either The Great Gatsby or anything Mark Twain has written!
Thanks
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I just discovered your blog and 'love it'!
And currently - my 'favorite' book is 'The Last Song' by Nicholas Sparks!
A great read!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Good Luck to all!
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I follow your blog via Google Friends Connect!
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I just found this and I see no harm in trying! My favorite book is All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.
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I love Diana Gabaldon's Fraser series. I've read them all many times. Keep up the good work.
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Follow on Google Friend Connect-rosannepm
My favorite book is always the one I'm currently reading:
"Footprint - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Extinction" by John H. Patterson
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Vol. One by Danzig Baldaev. That and a bottle of vodka.
My favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen! Yep, a classic!
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My favorite book is Nights in Rodanthe. Such a wonderful love story.
Thanks so much!
I am now following you on Google Friends Connect.
My favorite book of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird.
I follow your blog on Google Friendconnect.
The House on Mango Street is my all time favorite book, but The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver is the best I've read recently.
i love the chronicles of narnia series!
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Believe it or not, my favorite book is The Lake House by James Patterson.
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My favorite book is The Pillars of the Earth.
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I follow via google friends.
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My fave book is 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley...my boyfriend in high school had me read it and it was amazing cause I love sci-fi/fantasy stuff.
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I am now following you via google friend connect
Justine417
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I love The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. I've read it to my son 3 times now!
Thanks.
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Dear John
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I follow publicly now with Google Friend Connect.
Thanks!
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Closing Time By Joe Queenan is my favorite book.
Alicia Webster
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant is my favorite book.
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i am now following your blog through GFG as wendy wallach
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I'm absolutely in love with Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs.
If you're into that style of grimy, visceral, breakdown fiction, you'll probably also like:
Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis
Filth, by Irvine Welsh
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
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Hi, I just found you today (at Online Sweepstakes). My daughter in law has written a book entitled "Just Enough Grace" Reflections on Ordinary Miracles in which she journals challenges with children--change--cancer. It started out by her blogging as she went through various events happening in her life...a publisher found it and wanted to print it. Praise God she is now cancer free but must undergo tests every 6 months.
I am following with Google Friend Connect
tweet here for your new blog and for the giveaway
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I have so many favorite books. Right now it's Sweetgrass be Mary Alice Monroe.
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I just finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" and it is definitely a new favorite!
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The Stainless Steel Rat-Harry Harrison
My favorite book today is Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
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Following through Google connect
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The Stainless Steel Rat-Harry Harrison
How to prosper in the 21st Century" By Howard Ruff
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I Digg you here with link back
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and it will show up under life: educational
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submitted under Betty3710
Added to Stumble Upon fav's with a link back
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(under name grandmaabc)
blogged here with a link back
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
To Kill A Mockingbird
My favorite is "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is a great book!
Thanks for the chance. And congrats on your new blog ^^
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I Really love Books that open my eyes and heart, like the Christian Author Francine Rivers in the Mark of the Lion Series.
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One of my favorite books is stil Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs & Ham! Some things you never outgrow!
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I love reading! One of my recent favorites is A Thousand Splendid Suns. And my all-time favorite is The Catcher in the Rye.
Following via Google. :)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
I still love catcher in the rye the best
My favorite book is To Kill A Mockingbird, thanks for the chance!
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My favorite book is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Don't have a specific favorite book. Whatever is currently on my nightstand. :)
Fell in love with Janette Oke books growing up.
Hard one, but I would say One hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.
Thanks for the giveaway...My favorite book: "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham.
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1984
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Following via Google Connect (Genny Heavenly)
One of my favorite books is a walk in the woods
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I have lots of Favorites Nicholas Sparks, Love YOU Forever kids book.
My favorite book is Shogun
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THE BIBLE
Jaws
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My favorite book is Rose Madder by Stephen King.
My favorite book is The Secret Garden.
I love Pride and Prejudice.
I follow via gfc as /\Heather/\
One of my favorite books is called 'hunger games' eelyk_the_only at hotmail dot com
Twilight :)
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