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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Giveaway Alert w/ Sparkles and Lightning (Part 4)

Bringing new giveaways to you ASAP.

Here's this week's Sparkles and Lightning giveaway:

Day 6:

For this giveaway, three winners will have the chance to choose a YA novel + a random YA ARC from these three publishers: Tor, Penguin, and Harlequin. I love this giveaway. It's different and one of the best ones's I've ever entered.

So, to enter, click below or to the right on the button :

Day 6 Giveaway

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Day 7:

For this giveaway, Annabelle is giving away 5 giftcards to Barnes N' Noble with mystery amounts of $5 to $25. You won't know what amount you get until you redeem it or cheat and find out. :D

To enter, click below or to the right on the button:

Day 7 Giveaway

Until the last one!

Celebrate Books: Why I Love YA Books

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Why I Love YA Books

Why do I love YA? Why? Hmm.....I think I love YA because I'm a dreamer and love a good story. I love reading a story and pretending I"m the main character and that I'm an awesome kickass character. That I'm better than my real life self. Not to say that I don't love me and myself, there are soem things that I wish I could change, but with YA, life's more excitng within all those white pages. Life in rural, small town Savanna is boring. Well, not totally boring, but not overly exciting. Fighting bad guys with awesome skills is a lot more exciting than going out on the river or working.

Plus, I'm an isprinig author. I like to write, and reading YA is a great way for me to come up with ideas. Writing won't be my full time career, but just a nice hobby on the side. but yeah, YA helps me write my stories. I hope one day to see my name next to New York Bestselling Author and my book in all my favorite stores. WAL-MART!

Also, I like a good story. Stories expand my imagination to beyond what I could normally come up with. Stories, or books in general, are escapes to some place new. Come on, who is going to visit every place on Earth besides a billionaire? No one. Stories are way for me to explore the places that I'll probably never get to see in my entire life. That the places that may or may not exist. You never know.

Last thing: I'm a romantic. I love happy endings. Cliffhangers and I don't mix. In books, I can get those happy endigns I love much sooner until I get my own, and in YA there's always the hot hero everyone falls for. The dreamy guys are always in the books. :D

That's why I love YA books.

Why do you though? What's the reason behind the love you feel for YA?

To enter Beth Revis contest, go to the link below:

Celebrate Books Giveaway!

Until Next Time!

Giveaway Alert w/ Sparkles and Lighnting (Part 3)

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Bringing you giveaways for the days to come.

Here's more Sparkles and Lightning!

Day 4:

Fifteen winners, international I believe, will win 1 of 15 ebooks she has planned out. A lot, yes.

But totally cool? Duh.

Those ebooks are:

Illuminate by Aimee Agresti

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Stalk Me by Jillian Dodd

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Exiled by M. R. Merrick

Venom by Fiona Paul

Black City by Elizabeth Richards

Ever by Jessa Russo

The Fallen Star Series (Books 1, 2, and 3) by Jessica Sorensen

The Other Slipper by Kenechi Udogu

I know, it's a lot!

To enter, click below or to the button on the right:

Day 4 Giveaway

Day 5:

For this international giveaway, several lucky winners will get to win:

EVER by Jessa Russo

THRONE OF GLASS plus all four novellas by Sarah J. Maas

STARCROSSED, DREAMLESS, and GODDESS by Josephine Angelini

ILLUMINATE and INFATUATE by Aimee Agresti

I'm in it for the Starcrossed Trilogy. Don't know about you. :D

To enter, click right on the button or below:

Day 5 Giveaway

Well, she's have another one sooner or later.
Until Next Time!

Giveaway Alert w/ Sparkles and Lightning (Part 2)

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Bringing recently new giveaways to you.

Here's more with Sparkles and Lightning:

So the last time I featured Sparkles and Lightning, it was for Day 1 of her blogoversary.

Today, it's for Days 2 & 3.

For Day 2, she's giving away to two of her ten favorite books to five people, two books per person.

To enter this giveaway, click to the right or below:

Day 2 Giveaway

For Day 3, instead of her favorite, she's giving away more of her favorite books. Same as the last one.

To enter: click right or below:

Day 3 Giveaway

Tune in tomorrow. I'm sure there will be another Sparkles and Lightning Giveaway Alert.

Until Next Time!

Giveaway Alert w/ Sparkles and Lightning

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Meme for awesome new giveaways that just hit the blogosphere.

Today's:

Yeah people, that's right, another giveaway from the awesome Annabelle from The Sparkles and Lightning book blog! And congrats to her; it's her one year blogoversary!

To celebrate, she's doing an entire week of fun!

For day one, one winner can win $65 worth of books from TBD. $65! Wow, that's a lot.

So, to enter, click the button to the right or click below:

One Year Blogoversary Celebration!

And here's mine. This giveaway is a way for me to get rid of some of the books I have that I don't want or have multiple copies of. I hope to get rid of them either by this giveaway, trading, or selling them. ALL THE MONEY GOES TOWARDS MY COLLEGE FUND!

So, yeah, get over here and enter:

Floating Books Along Giveaway

Well, that's it.

Until Next Time!

Update + A New Giveaway Meme

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UPDATE:

So, since I never remember, my meme

is canceled.

And is being replaced by a monthly meme:

Floating Books Along is going to be a monthly giveaway meme.

I feel this will be a way to:

1) Get the fact that I have books for sale out there

2) Get some books out of my shelf

3) And since I'm a little greedy, more followers. lol. :D

So, each month, I will feature a group of books, and depending on the type of book, hardback or paperback, one winner will get one or two books from the ones listed.

So, here are some rules:

1. Only one winner! Sorry, I'm not that rich.

2. Open to US only

4. I'm not responible for the book if it gets damaged or lost.

5. 13 years or older please.

6. The winner will be choosen at random from rafflecopter.
7. Winner will have 48 hours to respond, or I will have to pick a new winner.
8. Just use the rafflecopter to enter :D

Easy huh? Well, one winner will have the chance to grab one of the books below.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

~~UPDATE:~~

~~Unearthly has been traded.~~

UPDATE:

Right now, I'm not sure on Unearthly's status. The girl hasn't gotten back to me on trading, so it's still up for grabs. :D

And if you didn't win this giveaway, but still want the book, please contact me.

Since these are ARCs, they are all tradeable, unless you are willing to just pay shipping for them.

Thank you!

Until Next Time!

A Shell Full of Books #27

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ASFoB is a my version of IMM of The Story Siren. The goal is to bring the world books that have come out or are coming out that I have received.

Here's this week's:

Won:

Wildefire (Wildefire #1) by Karsten Knight

Embers & Echoes (Wildefire #2) Karsten Knight

Thanks goes to Cindy from Books Complete Me

Unravel Me (Shatter Me #2) by Tahereh Mafi

Thanks goes to Grace from Books of Love

Grasping at Eternity (The Kindrily Series #1) by Karen Amanda Hooper

Thanks goes to Karen herself & Alexandra from her blog Alexandra Shostak & YA Confidential

Traded:

Rebel Heart (Dustlands #2) by Moira Young

Thanks goes to Angela from ARC Swap on Goodreads

Bought:

A Winter Wonderland by Fern Michaels & Various Authors

Winter's Kiss by Catherine Hapka & Jennifer Echols

Swag

So, with Grasping at Eternity came this cute little envelope and ribbon, and I'd thought I'd share them with you. I love the peacock on the envelope and the card.