Did you remember the giveaway post I posted in September? I posted the City Reading Challenge and Giveaway and offer some suggested reading. If you haven’t that’s fine, enter yourself for a giveaway and I’ll include your name for the draw!
I am hosting a giveaway from now until at the end of November which will mark the 3rd year of my blog anniversary. Anyone can sign-up for the giveaway but you get an additional draw with additional book (with city name) that you read and reviewed. Post all reviews by 30th November and I’ll draw TWO winners on the 2nd of December (GMT) using random.org and send the book over to you, hopefully before Christmas! Open to all blog friends and regular visitors who commented at least once on my blog this year. Travel journal and travel guides do not count. Drop a comment to express your interest! I have your name entered for this giveaway, they are:
- Jill@rhapsody in books
- Mel U@reading life
- Judith@Leeswammes Blog
- Bernadette@ReactionstoReading
- Stu@Winstondad’s blog
- Diane@Bibliophile by the Sea
- Vishy@Vishy’s blog
- Mystica
- Dolce Bellezza
- Bina@if you can read this
- Soul Muser@life’s wordsmith
- Kinna@Kinna Read
- Sharkell
These are the books for the giveaway, let me know which one you wish to win!:
JoV's Book Pyramid 
I don’t remember entering! LOL But I don’t need to win any books so you can pull my name out of that part – I have enough books to last me through 2013! :–)
Posted by rhapsodyinbooks | November 13, 2011, 1:26 pmJill,
I’ll take you off the list then! 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:01 amI would love to win Room. It’s on my to-read list! Hopefully I can get a review book up by the end of the month too! 🙂
Posted by ragoblogger | November 13, 2011, 10:51 pmHi Ragoblogger,
Thanks for your first comment, hope there is many more! I’ll put your name in the bag! Hope to hear from you soon. 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:02 amSadly no books on my tbr shelf that include a place name at all let alone a city, which I’m surprised at actually! The only book from your give-away I have read is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which I really loved. As for the rest I’m interested in trying Love, Eat, Pray and Stuart: A Life Backwards.
Posted by jessicabookworm | November 14, 2011, 10:53 amI would love to be entered, please, JoV?
Posted by readingwithtea | November 14, 2011, 4:58 pmYvann,
Of course you may! I’ll put your name in the bag! 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:07 amAww.. Jessica,
I actually love, Love Eat and Pray but yet to read Stuart. (Yes, I’m giving away books I haven’t read too!) Best of luck Jessica!
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:03 amI ll have to pick one out to review think I ve a couple with place names ,all the best stu
Posted by winstonsdad | November 15, 2011, 12:02 amStu,
All the very best Stu. 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:07 amAw, Shanghai Girls ! it’s been a while since I last commented, not sure if I qualify, but just for fun. Let’s see, books on my tbr with city names, I think the first one that comes to mind is probably ” The guernsey literary and potato peel society” Just couldn’t resist dropping the ” Aw, Shanghai Girls ” comment because that’s the last book to complete my Lisa See collection. I really need to update my blog *guilty*
Posted by Joanna | November 15, 2011, 3:43 pmJoanna,
Lisa See published “Dreams of Joy”, a sequel of Shanghai Girl this summer, so there will be 2 books before you complete the selection of Lisa See. 🙂
Yes Guernsey and that potato peel thing of a book is one as well! Maybe I hate it therefore I didn’t put it in. 🙂 I look forward to reading your book blog. 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 16, 2011, 11:09 amI’m on the list, awesome? What do I do? Sorry, long day! 😀 I read Reading Lolita and Night train ages ago, so I’ll just review those till the end of Nov? I’ll just get a full 8 hours of sleep and reread your post, from my stammering comment you would think it was rocket science.
And hey, you’re back! (right? I mean this is live and not scheduled?) So, yay 🙂
Posted by Bina | November 16, 2011, 9:37 pmBina,
Do nothing! If you write a review, I’ll put you in on an extra entry and two Bina’s to draw from! 😀
Posted by JoV | November 18, 2011, 10:27 amBina,
Yes and this post isn’t scheduled!
Posted by JoV | November 18, 2011, 10:27 amHahah, wow, then you’re making this giveaway even more awesome! 🙂 Glad to have you back!
Posted by Bina | November 18, 2011, 11:39 amHaha, how cute! I don’t remember entering, but nice to see I am there. But I never win anything in these draws 😦 If I ever do —-well Junichiro would be nice
Posted by soulmuser | November 17, 2011, 12:38 pmSoul,
Why would you say that? Always believe that good things will happen to you! 🙂
Posted by JoV | November 18, 2011, 10:25 amHaha, Jo. Arite. Done. 🙂 How can I disagree?
Posted by soulmuser | November 20, 2011, 1:33 pmThis is wonderful, Jo! Happy City Reading Month! I read Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ recently. I didn’t like the plot that much – there was not much of a plot but a long monologue on a writer – but Mann’s prose was beautiful and I loved many passages in the book. I read ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ sometime back and loved it – Mercier’s prose is so beautiful and this book is one of my alltime favourites. I never thought that ‘Timbuktu’ was the name of an actual city! I was surprised to know that it is the name of a city in Mali. It is amazing that you have found so many books on cities!
Posted by Vishy | November 18, 2011, 6:43 amVishy,
I’m really glad you read Thomas Mann but not sure if that’s for me. I will read the night train to Lisbon soon. Yes Timbuktu is a name of a city in Mali where they have this beautiful gigantic moat mosque is built in the middle of the desert.
Posted by JoV | November 18, 2011, 10:24 amGreat contest-I would love to win Room-hope all well with you
Posted by Mel u | November 19, 2011, 10:05 pmNice choices! I’d love to win the Joshua Ferris book. Thanks for doing the giveaway. 3 years of blogging is amazing – I’ve only done it for just over 1.5 years. I’m not sure I’ll make 3 years. We’ll see!
Hope you’ll keep going for a long time, I love reading your reviews.
Posted by Leeswammes | November 22, 2011, 9:15 pmJudith,
At the rate you are going, you will be blogging for 10 years! 😀
Thanks for your kind words, it means a lot.
Posted by JoV | November 23, 2011, 1:01 pm