The Got Books Event has come to an end and while I'm sad the fun is over I'm excited to announce the winners of my giveaway! I am giving away two great nonfiction books, Notes From No Man's Land by Eula Biss and The Moon, Come to Earth by Philip Graham. Yeah yeah, you know right! So who won?
The winner of Notes From No Man's Land is Betty! Congratulations Betty, be sure to check out her blog Reflections With Coffee.
The winner of The Moon, Come to Earth is Vasilly! Congratulations Vasilly, be sure to check out her blog 1330V.
The winners were chosen using the true random number generator. The Got Books Event was a huge success in my opinion. I learned about several other blogs and got some new visitors at my blog. Friday and Saturday were both record breaking days here! I really want to thank GMR from Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers and Danielle from There's a Book for hosting this awesome event- I can't wait until next year's!
This weekend I'm joining over one hundred blogs in the Got Books? event where we are all giving away some books to our lovely readers, new and old. This is really my first book giveaway and I put a lot of thought into the books I wanted to give away. One of them is a book I continuously talk about even though I've never reviewed it here and the other is a book I read when I first started blogging and it's one of my favorite books I've read since I started blogging. So what books am I talking about?
The first book is Notes From No Man's Land by Eula Biss. This is the book I haven't reviewed on here since I read it over a year ago before I even had a blog. I have talked about one of Eula Biss's essays though, The Pain Scale. This is a fantastic book of essays that I think a lot of you would enjoy. It deals with race, gender, human differences, and America. I mean, I read it over a year ago and I'm still talking about it, so that has to tell you it's pretty good right?
The second book I'm giving away is another work of nonfiction, The Moon, Come to Earth by Philip Graham. This is a book that came out of Graham's McSweeney's dispatches from Lisbon, Portugal. It's a travel narrative, but different from a lot of travel narratives I've read because it's about Graham's experience traveling with his family. The story actually really comes away from being a simple travel narrative and becomes more about the experience of being a parent. I posted a review back in November when I was still trying to figure out this whole blogging business. It was the tenth review I ever wrote on here! How crazy is that. Anyway, I also posted about a reading of his, which I attended.
If you'd like to enter (and I really hope you do!) just fill out the form below. You can enter for one book or both. The contest is open until Sunday, July 25 at MIDNIGHT Central Time. You can earn extra entries by being a follower or by tweeting, but you don't need to be a follower to enter the contest. This is only open to U.S./Canada.
