Contest - Concluded! And the winner is...

Out of our 43 entrants (oh my stars and garters!) by 2pm today, I have used random.org to generate me a number between 1 and 43.

It gave me the number: 27

When I counted down from the first entry to the 27th entry this was what was there:

As someone else has mentioned, I also don't read many books that fall into the popcorn category. The only one on my bookshelf at current that qualifies is Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell. I had to read it for a class - I remember having no problem picking it up to read so it must have been more enjoyable than ones average school assigned text, but I barely recall what it was really about. Popcorn. (Marvelous book ratings, there, btw.)

Kat

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Therefore we have our winner!  Yay!  Congratulations to Kat whom I will email and alert to her prizes and also send over an email to the lovely Ms. Carey to let her know the results of the contest.  Thank you to everyone who entered and hopefully you all might stick around for a bit and see a little of the blog aside from the contest.

Contest! Win a signed copy of Saints Astray!

I have been given an incredible opportunity by one of my favorite authors of all time and I am sharing it here with all of you!  However many that might be.  That's not what's important!

The important thing is that Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, has another series in the works right now.  The first book of which, Santa Olivia, I have read.  Now, while the original book didn't quite tickle me pink I did find it to be relatively enjoyable and many of my problems with it are fixed by it being the beginning of a series rather than a stand-alone.  All of the plot that I felt didn't get address is obviously just waiting for the rest of the series to see it bloom to fruition and that is perfectly alright in my book.  Many of my all-time favorite series have a first book that, on it's own, leaves too many holes for my little OCD soul to accept.

So, when I found out that Ms. Carey was writing Saints Astray, I was very excited.  Then I saw on Facebook that she was going to offer signed copies on a first-come-first-served basis to bloggers so that we could give them away to our readers.

I think I exploded in a joy-gasm at that moment.  Not only am I going to get a continuation of this story that intrigued me but I could share it with other people - which, let's be fair, is obviously one of my favorite parts of good books or I wouldn't blog about them.  So now I need a contest to go with the give away and I am going to use it to find more books that I might enjoy.  Because, you know, that way I can trick people into giving me reading recommendations and I'm currently out of books to read.

The contest is as follows: In the comments of this post, tell me what your favorite popcorn book is.  One entry per person.  I'll run the contest for one week from today - therefore, it will end on Wednesday, November 16th.  We'll say at 2p EST.  At that time I'll total up all the entries and (because I'm a geek) roll a dice to determine the winner.  It's that simple!

Good luck and if you haven't read Santa Olivia, then go to your local library or bookstore and pick up a copy.