Winner of BBAW Giveaway
The winner of my BBAW giveaway of a lightly used copy of The Portrait of a Lady is……
Mystica from Musings from Sri Lanka.
Congratulations, Mystica! Please respond to the email I’ve sent you and I’ll get that sent to you.
BBAW Giveaway: The Portrait of a Lady
It’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week and I really appreciate you! Thanks for reading and appreciating the classics with me!
For this giveaway, I am sending a gently used book from my shelf (a double copy), and I will send it anywhere in the world.
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James is often considered Henry James greatest work. To be honest, I haven’t read it yet! But I plan on reading it for my Classics Reading Group in two months, so I’m looking forward to this “essential American novel.”
Do you want a lightly used, mark-free, mass market paperback copy for your own shelves? The cover of the copy I’m giving away is shown above.
Giveaway ended.
Rules for this giveaway:
Because this is for Book Blogger Appreciation Week, you must have a book blog to enter this giveaway. This is to show book bloggers I appreciate you!
Other than that, I do ask if you are a subscriber or have visited Rebecca Reads before. Although I’d love for all of you to subscribe, it will not affect the giveaway, I just want to know.
The giveaway will close on Monday, September 19, 2011. Giveaway ended. I will email the winner.
Good luck!
Our Town by Thornton Wilder (Brief Thoughts + Giveaway)
Thornton Wilder’s sparse and simple play Our Town was first produced during the Great Depression (1938). In a set without any scenery beyond chairs and tables and in three short acts, Thornton Wilder creates an intimacy with the characters. This is probably due to the familiarity of the subject: life, love, and death in a small town. As an audience participant (or, in my case, a reader), I felt I became a part of the small town’s happenings, and the encouragement to enjoy the simplicity of life, the magic of love, and the reality of challenges becomes a poignant emotional journey. (more…)
Literary Giveaway: Favorite Book Edition
It’s time for another literary giveaway from my shelves! This time it is a book I found at a recent library sale. (I didn’t post about the library sale because I’m so embarrassed from my recent Borders sprees….)
I found a nice condition copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It is the 1990 Harper Perennial softcover edition of the book, cover as shown on the left. While it is used (pages slightly yellowing), it’s in great condition, and I didn’t see any markings inside. Since I already have a copy of this book (and I love it! See my thoughts here.), I got this to pass on to a reader of Rebecca Reads. I’m willing to send this anywhere in the world. If you haven’t read the book yet, you get an extra entry, but feel free to enter if you have read it and just want your own copy!
Please, also, share a favorite African-American author or novel by an African-American author. I’m always trying for more diversity in my reading.
This giveaway will close April 30.
GIVEAWAY CLOSED
Classic and Literary Giveaway, Drama Edition
A few weeks ago, I joined a “blog hop” giveaway and shipped two readers two different lightly used copies of books. I really liked sharing the books that I no longer need on my shelves with my readers, and I thought I’d make this a more frequent event.
Today’s giveaway is a Dover Thrift Edition of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. I actually forgot I had this when I reviewed Ghosts last week (I read it on my handheld Kindle app). I intend to get different copies of Ibsen for my bookshelves.
This book has been read a few times but it looks great. I believe it has the same text that Project Gutenberg provides, but if you can’t read it digitally, this book may be for you.
The giveaway is open to anyone in the world that has an address I can ship to. If you’ve commented on Rebecca Reads before today, I’ll give you an extra entry. To enter your name for the giveaway, please also share a drama you loved that you’ve read or seen, a drama you’d love to read or see, or a drama that you’d suggest I read. If you don’t want to enter yourself for Ghosts, feel free to share your suggestions in the comments as well.
Giveaway over.
