"When you open a book," the sentimental library posters said, "anything can happen." This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone's way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one. --Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

I would like to live to be a hunded because loving and being loved are so good and there are so many books; but were I to learn now that I had only a week left, I would finish today's spell of writing, have the cup of coffee that I crave and go on with the one book I'm reading. --John Tittensor, Year One: A Record

November 13, 2010

mission accomplished

This morning I finished my 100th book of 2010! To celebrate, I've decided to give away one of my faves from this year.

Here are your choices:
- The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, by Elizabeth McCracken
- The Ingenious Edgar Jones, by Elizabeth Garner
- The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry
- The Princess and the Hound, by Mette Ivie Harrison


To enter, simply leave a comment telling me which book you might like to win. For a bonus entry: tell me the title/author of one of your favorite books.

Thanks for playing! --V
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5 comments:

  1. Journal of HealingNovember 13, 2010 at 9:07 PM

    PLEASE CHOOSE ME!!!!!!!!!! I would like to win either the Hotel Under The Sand, or The InGenious Edgar Jones, though, I think I'd prefer the first most of all. I have lived off some of the quotes you have listed on your blog from these two books...TRULY LIVED OFF THEM. Sometimes, they went on my own blog, or facebook, or in my journal. You have done an excellent service to my journey by sharing from both of these books on your blog...thank you. And now, that I sound like such a damn suck up just to win...hehe, i will have to draw upon our year-long cyber-friendship for you to to know of my sincerity! :)

    ~Angie

    BONUS ENTRY IS...NeverWhere, by Neil Gaiman

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  2. Journal of HealingNovember 15, 2010 at 9:36 PM

    WOOOOOT!!! I'm the only entry right now?! ...Can I say, I am pretty stoked.

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  3. vera kateNovember 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM

    Haha!!

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  4. AngieNovember 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    Fun! I had read An Exact Replica a couple of months after my son died, and I absolutely loved it. I would love to read The Ingenious Edgar Jones.

    My favorite author is David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite book of his.

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  5. JessicaNovember 21, 2010 at 6:15 PM

    I would love to win A Hotel Under the Sand. I would say An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination BUT I already read that one (LOVED it though)!

    Hmmm I would have to say one of my favorite books is Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel - similar to my baby loss situation and loving Elizabeth McCracken's book - Prozac Nation showed me that other people were depressed (like I was at the time when I read it 3 times in a row).

    <3 Thanks for doing the giveaway <3 What FUN!

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