Giveaway!

Hey Everyone!

I'm back! And in honor of Michelle Zink's new book coming out next week (Guardian of the Gate), I am giving away a signed ARC of  her 1st book Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink and 4 book marks!

Prophecy of the Sisters

by Michelle Zink

Summary from Michelle Zink's website:
"Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents’ deaths, a boy, a book, and a lifetime of secrets.
Lia and Alice don’t know whom they can trust.
They just know they can’t trust each other."

Giveaway Information:

What You Win:
A signed ARC of Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
or
a Prophecy of the Sisters bookmark

How Many Winners:
One for the book
Four for a bookmark
(total of 5 winners!)

Open To:
Addresses in the United States only

Last Day To Enter:
August 4th, 2010
11:59 PM PST

How To Enter:

1. Leave a comment and tell me what has been the best part of summer so far
   ***Make sure I you put a a way I can contact you via e-mail. No e-mail address, no entry.***(OR, send an email to: caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com with “Bookish giveaway” in the subject line and make sure that you list everything you did in the e-mail

How To Get Extra Entries:

1. +1 entries for following me on Twitter. Please @ reply to me and tell me in the your comment. I will check at the end to make sure that you're following.
2. +2 entries for blogging about this contest. Make sure you give me the link. Sidebars are AWESOME. (2 entries per each place, no maximum number of places... Twitter, blog, sidebar, etc. Make sure I can see it)
3. +2 if you were referred--please name the person whom you were referred by
4. +2 if you referred anyone-- they have to name you, you can't say that you referred someone.
5. +3 entries for following me (new and old followers!)
   .

Please put all of the entries in one comment and tell me everything you did with links and your e-mail address. (OR, send an email to: caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com with “Bookish giveaway” in the subject line and make sure that you list everything you did in the e-mail)

Also, I made my first FiveAwesomeYAFans video for Season 2! Check it out, I'm also opening up the giveaway to people on YouTube.




More later!
Genevieve

Insatiable Winners!

Hey Everyone!

It's that time to announce the Insatiable winners! I received a large amount of entries both here on the blog and even more were e-mailed to me. The person who referred the most amount of people was Meg Cabot herself because she retweeted about the contest. I tallied up all of the entires and then used a random number generator. The winners were:


#22 and #109


Drum roll...
Diana (who e-mailed me) and  Donnas from  www.donnasbloghome.blogspot.com


Congrats! I'll e-mail both of you today. If I don't hear back from you in 48 hours, I'll pick a new winner(s).


Thanks everyone for entering! 


~Genevieve

Bloggiesta Day One!

Hey Everyone!

Today was the 1st day of Summer Bloggiesta '10. I've been working on some of the mini challenges all day. I'm rather tired at this point but I want to show you my new header:

New Header!

VS

Old Header!

So, what do you guys think? Thoughts?

Because of Bloggiesta, I decided that I needed a new header. So I grabbed some books in my house, took a few pictures on my iPhone, uploaded it, and ended up with this new header! Bloggiesta has been really fun so far. : )

More later,
Genevieve

P.S. I know that the new header doesn't match the blog layout... yet! That's the next step.

Insatiable Giveaway!

Hey Everyone!

As you may have noticed, I've been absent from the blogging world for a significant amount of time... well, I'm back! I don't have school this summer so I'll have plenty of time to read books and blog. To kick off my return, I am hosting a contest for Meg Cabot's newest Adult book, Insatiable. I haven't had a chance to read it yet but I cannot wait!
(scroll half way down this entry and you'll find the giveaway information)

INSATIABLE

by Meg Cabot

Summary:

"Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper. But as a writer for Insatiable, the second-hottest daytime soap (thanks to her burdensome if lucrative psychic ability to see into the future and determine how people are going to die), Meena’s being forced to use a vampire story line to boost ratings. But, just as Insatiable is switching to a vampire theme to attract a younger demographic, a spate of chilling murders-by-exsanguinations grips New York City.

Enter Lucien Antonescu, a sexy, melancholic Romanian history professor / vampire who recognizes that the murders are the work of rogue vampires who have broken away from his order (Lucien happens to be the son of Vlad the Impaler, whom Bram Stoker gave such a bad rep). Lucien's opposition: Alaric Wulf, a sympathetic detective from the Palatine Guard, who hopes to use Meena and her prophetic gift to stop the murders and track down Lucien. Unfortunately for Alaric, Meena is a little in love with Lucien.

Meg Cabot winningly applies her trademark likable fallible protagonists and breezy storytelling. With INSATIABLE, she injects some much needed Gothic romance (and humor) back into the vampire oeuvre, and once again stakes her claim as the “master of her genre.”"

Here's a fantastic book trailer for Insatiable:



For more information visit Meg's site.

Giveaway Information:

What You Win:
Insatiable by Meg Cabot

How Many Winners:
Two!

Open To:
Addresses in the United States only

Last Day To Enter:
June 16, 2010
11:59 PM PST

How To Enter:

1. Leave a comment and tell me what you are most looking forward to this summer with an e-mail address
   
   ***Make sure I you put a a way I can contact you via e-mail. No e-mail address, no entry.***(OR, send an email to: caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com with “Bookish giveaway” in the subject line and make sure that you list everything you did in the e-mail

How To Get Extra Entries:

1. +1 entries for following me on Twitter. Please @ reply to me and tell me in the your comment. I will check at the end to make sure that you're following.

2. +2 entries for blogging about this contest. Make sure you give me the link. Sidebars are AWESOME. (2 entries per each place, no maximum number of places... Twitter, blog, sidebar, etc. Make sure I can see it)

3. +2 if you were referred--please name the person whom you were referred by

4. +2 if you referred anyone-- they have to name you, you can't say that you referred someone.

5. +3 entries for following me (new and old followers!)

   .

Please put all of the entries in one comment and tell me everything you did with links and your e-mail address. (OR, send an email to: caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com with “Bookish giveaway” in the subject line and make sure that you list everything you did in the e-mail)

I look forward to seeing all of your entries and I can't wait to read the book myself.


More later,


Genevieve

P.S. I'm going to put up a NYC/TAC/BEA post some time in the next few weeks. Also: expect reviews on BEA books this summer!

Are You Going To BEA?

Hey Everyone!

So I saw at The Story Siren that she put up a form to find out who is going to BEA. Sooo, I'm going to steal the idea (and she borrowed the idea from other people also).






Thanks! I look forward to see who is going. : )

~Genevieve

Tech Help Please! Essay Emergency!!!!

Heeelp!


How do you retrieve a file that you saved over? B/c I kinda just deleted about 80% of my essay by accident (by copy pasting one bit over the ENTIRE essay, then saving and not noticing until afterwords... it's late and I'm tired, mistakes happen). And I NEED this essay. It's due tomorrow. And I don't have the time/energy to re-write. It is due in 13.5 hours! Blah, this really sucks. Because I was about 95% done. And I only have a few bits left. I can't believe that I did this. I've done it a few times before, but never this much of an essay and never this close to the due date. I'm desperate and I've posted on twitter, facebook, and here searching for some help.

Please, if you have any ideas, tell me!

Thank you,

Genevieve

Wishing For Wednesday (21)

Hey Everyone!


So I decided to do my own version of Waiting on Wednesday. Waiting on Wednesday is a way to showcase books that are not yet released but excited to see they are coming out. It's hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. My version isn't for just books that haven't come out yet but any book that I am wishing to get. Each week I'll put up a book that I'm "Wishing for" or "Waiting on". I just kind of like the name Wishing for Wednesday better. : )

This week is a book that I'm "Waiting on":

Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King

Summary from A.S. King's website:

---Is it okay to hate a dead kid?
---Even if I loved him once?
---Even if he was my best friend?
---Is it okay to hate him for being dead?

Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything.

So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone—the kids at school, his family, or even the police. But will she emerge and clear his name? Does she even want to?

An edgy, gripping story, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising.


Release Date: October 12, 2010



I can't wait for this book! I read A.S. King's book Dust of 100 Dogs and loved it. I really hope that this one will be as good, I have high expectations of Please Ignore Vera Dietz.


More later,

Genevieve