I finished reading Agamemnon last night without looking at the notes and I must say, it went much better and was much more enjoyable. Still, I requested the Mueller translation from the library and before I post on the play and continue on to Libation Bearers, I will wait for the other book.
Since I am not going to post on that and since the only other thing I read last night was the lecture for my statistics class, we’ll get straight to the blogiversary celebration week giveawy today. Here is the list of books that resulted from asking for favorite children’s or YA book:
- A Wrinkle in Time (Wordlily)
- Summer of My German Soldier (Alyce)
- The Little Lame Prince, The Borrowers and Little Women (melanie)
- The Little House series and Black Beauty (Teresa)
- The Secret Garden (Carrie K)
- Treasure Island and Looking for Alaska (Okie)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Jessica)
- How I Live Now (Litlove)
- Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret (Iliana)
- Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner (Rebecca)
And the winner of a copy of Nancy Pearl’s Book Crush is…Teresa from Shelf Love!
The next giveaway is a copy of The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. It is an unread advanced reading copy that looks like a paperback version of the hardcover. I’ve had this book since it really was “advanced” meaning to give it away the whole time and never getting around to it. And then it got mixed in with other books and it wasn’t until recently when I was tidying up the book piles that I found it again!
If you would like this copy to be yours, leave a comment answering this question: If you were to suddenly find yourself inside a book, what book would you want that to be?
Drawing for the book will be tomorrow evening. Now, I’m off to squeeze in some homework, watch the Dancing with the Stars results show and then settle in for the presidential debate.
I would love to be entered! Answer: I’d love to be Jane in Jane Eyre.
Gee, no one picked Alice. Those are my picks for the last question, the two Alice books. “Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,” “Soup of the evening, beautiful soup,” and so on.
I don’t much want to be in those books.
Hi. I found your blog via Tangobaby, and I’m so glad that I did. I would love to be entered into your giveaway. If I were to wake up in a book (fabulous question, by the way) I would be in The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. A perfectly lovely story.
I would love to be in one of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragons of Pern books!
Oh, hooray! A librarian friend has been telling me for ages that I ought to get a copy of Book Lust. I’m glad to be getting a copy of the YA version because I’m always looking for good YA books for some quick reading.
And of course, you would follow up with a giveaway for another book on my TBR list. I’ve always thought it would be lovely to live in the Shire—in the time of The Hobbit, though, not so much during the time of Lord of the Rings.
Richard McKenna’s THE SAND PEBBLES, so I could fight beside Jake Holman.
If I could find myself suddenly IN a book, I would want to be the character of Eddie O’Hare in John Irving’s A Widow For One Year.
I will probably not at all need to explain why I say this, for anyone [any male, at least] who has read the novel.
In a nutshell, there was sort of a reverse Humbert Humbert thing going on there.
Hmm. There are many books I’d like to be in, but I think for sheer pleasure I wouldn’t mind waking up inside Scruples, a terribly self-indulgent Judith Krantz novel. Isn’t that awful? But the life sounds pretty good…
Failing that, I wouldn’t mind waking up inside The Little Country — Charles de Lint’s world is pretty incredible, not to mention beautiful.
I’d like to be in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as one of the silly sisters – somewhere in the middle of the pack. Or failing that, in St Mary’s Mead with Miss Marple, so long as I’m taking tea and not getting bumped off because of what I know.
I would like to be a character in Yellow Knife by Steve Zipp.
In a book? Oh that is a very tough (but most excellent) question. I was going to say I’d like to wake up inside The Iliad (but only if I get to be Hera or Aphrodite, because otherwise I would either get killed or become someone’s slave) but I think I’ll choose the Tale of Genji, someone who gets to wear those fabulous kimonos and write poetry all day.
Count me in for that lucky draw! When I was a child I imagined I was Laura Ingalls in The Little house on the Prairie, but now, I guess I’d like to take a sneak peek inside A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
I would absolutely want to be in a Redwall book by Brian Jacques I think (althought I was tempted by P&P), probably Martin of Redwall.
Oh, Little House on the Prairie, as Smithereens said, definitely, and also Anne of Green Gables. Those were the books I tried to imagine myself into as a kid! (oh, I already have a copy of the Connolly book, so I’ll step aside in this one.)
This might be slightly cheap, but if I could plop down in a fictional universe, it would be Jasper Fforde’s from the Thursday Next novels – not as a written character, just as an extra. The amusement value would be nearly endless, and the tax rates would help me cut back on my cheese consumption.
I want to be inside Elizabeth Enright’s The Saturdays — having a Saturday all to myself to explore NYC in the early 1940s — and being able to do so with a mere 60 cents!
P.S. I sent that before adding, give the book to someone else if I win it, though. We already have a copy.
I would like to have been in Maeve Brennan’s Notes from the Long Winded Lady. These were her essays about New York (for the New Yorker) in the 1940s and 1950s and they are gorgeous. (And she was gorgeous) Maybe we could have had dinner together or I could have just watched her from behind a newspaper.
Any book in a culinary mystery series with places like the cookie shop in Joanne Fluke’s series or the chocolate shop in JoAnna Carl’s series. YUM!
I would like to be in The Squire’s Tale by Gerald Morris or one of Morris’ other books. Something with magic and swords but nothing so scary it would make me scream like a little girl and run in terror.
Bartholomew Rossi in The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Congrats to Teresa!
Oh my first thought was to say any book set in Italy but I guess that’s a bit vague
I’d love to be in Chocolat by Joanne Harris. I would be at Vianne’s shop every day. Hey, maybe I’d even get a job there!
Emily stole my first answer — The Saturdays. Loved those books. So let’s see… I think I’d like to be in a book about faery, like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell or War for the Oaks or Fire and Hemlock. As a kid, I used to imagine all the rules you had to obey to get out of that kind of situation alive. I bet I could do it now.
Stefanie, I have been eyeing this book in the bookstore for, I don’t know, at least a year! Please enter me!
Book I would want to be plopped into…it’s a hard choice but I think The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis would be the one!
Thank you!!
I hope I’m not too late! I’ve been hearing forever that this is a really good book. And I love YA. My choice to join a book might be Harry Potter for when I’m feeling adventurous and a Janet Evanovich book when I need a good laugh. Thanks for the opportunity!
Sorry Jenny, Carey and Debbie I already did the drawing before you posted a comment. There is another giveaway though on Wednesday’s post and there will be another on Thursday!
I loved this book! I would love to win a copy of it! County me in