Announcing day one of a week of my own giveaways on Book Club Girl in celebration of Book Blogger Appreciation Week! I've been waiting for the appropriate time to debut these fabulous new mousepads and BBAW seems like just the right time! The artwork you see is from the original edition of the classic play by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. This art will appear on an upcoming reissue of the book, which is one of my favorite plays and movies. The quote on the book is one of my favorites from Betty Smith's classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- "The world was hers for the reading." I'm sorry it doesn't look bigger here, if you double click on it, you can see it in all its glory.
Every day this week I will give away 10 mousepads to 10 lucky winners! How to win? For day one, I want to know what books your book group has read this past year. Send me a comment that lists at least 6 of the books your group read in the last year (feel free to list more than that if you'd like!). Blog about this contest and post that link and you'll automatically have 2 entries into the random drawing.
And keep checking back for news of the Book Club Girl Hostess Survival Kit I'm giving away on the official BBAW giveaway list!
My book group has read the following books the past year - -
Annie John (Jamaica Kincaid), The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls), The Orchid Thief (Susan Orlean), The Measure of a Man (Sidney Poitier), Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen), The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson), The Memory Keepers Daughter (Kim Edwards), The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield), Beautiful Boy (David Sheff), What is the What? (Dave Eggers), Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson) and this Thursday's discussion of A Women's Place (Lynn Austin). Next month is Plum Wine(Which I found through this site!)
Posted by: Michelle B | September 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM
This year we've read:
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khalid Hosseini)
The Worst Hard Time (Timothy Egan)
The Big House (George Howe Colt)
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
next up are:
Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
A BCG mouse pad would be a great accessory for the desk! I love the quote!
Posted by: Dawn | September 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM
This year we've read:
Charlie Wilson's War (George Crile)
Ghost Wars (Steve Coll)
The Highest Tide (Jim Lynch)
Washington's Secret War (Thomas Fleming)
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
(My book club is full of war mongers!)
Posted by: Anne | September 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I would love to win one of these -- I love that quote so much that it's been on the header of my blog since my blog has existed.
Some of the books my book club has read in the past year -- we're doing half contemporary, half classics:
The Friday Night Knitting Club
The Lovely Bones
The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Jane Eyre
Anne of Avonlea
North and South
Posted by: Ruth | September 15, 2008 at 11:38 AM
As part of my new book club at Everyday I write the Book Blog, We are reading Anne Patchett's Run. I cannot wait for discussion on this book next week.
Posted by: Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit) | September 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Here is our list for 2008:
What is the What?
I, Mona Lisa
Banker to the Poor
A Long Way Gone
Madame Bovary
The Unknown Terrorist
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Mister Pip
The Meaning of Night
Infidel
The Inheritance of Loss
Cane River
The Bone People
I think the mousepad looks great! Hope I win one!
Posted by: Ti | September 15, 2008 at 12:04 PM
The mousepad looks great! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of my favorite books of all time. I love the quote!
My Book Club has read:
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister-Gregory Maguire
Atonement-Ian McEwan
The Friday Night Knitting Club-Kate Jacobs
The Kept Man-Jami Attenberg
The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox-Maggie O'Farrell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbara Kingsolver
Posted by: Bonnie | September 15, 2008 at 12:19 PM
2008
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
The Tortilla Curtain
The Darkest Child
The Book of Bright Ideas
Matrimony
The Reincarnationist
Without a Backward Glance
Sweet Love
Whistling in the Dark
Posted by: Julie P. | September 15, 2008 at 12:21 PM
We've read:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Twilight
Remember Me?
Galileo's Daughter
The Host
And our next one is up soon
(I'd list six but our book club is relatively new so we haven't read six yet.) Thanks!
Posted by: Amanda | September 15, 2008 at 12:24 PM
What a great mousepad!
This year, my bookclub has read the following:
Atlas Shrugged
East of Eden (we read this when we formed, and reread it to celebrate our 5th anniversary)
The Handmaid's Tale
A Raisin in the Sun
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Pieces of My Sisters Life
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Posted by: Jenn | September 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM
LOVE the mousepad! Very nice!
Hmmm, now you are going to make me think!
The Next Thing on My List
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Reedeming Love (christian fiction)
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Baby Proof
Abundance
Geez, that was harder than I thought! I really should keep an excel spreadsheet of the books we've read!
Posted by: Stephanie | September 15, 2008 at 03:02 PM
I'd love to win! Here are the last 6 books we've read:
Redeeming Love
Unholy Grail
The Kite Runner
The Poisonwood Bible
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Reading Lolita in Tehran
This month we're reading on a topic, rather than a single book. The topic is Jackie Kennedy, and we're to read any biography of her that we choose.
Posted by: Heather J. | September 15, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Those are gorgeous! Believe it or not, no book club. I keep trying to find one, but it's been a battle.
Thanks for offering such a genourous giveaway (s).
Posted by: Amy @ My Friend Amy | September 15, 2008 at 04:07 PM
um, please forgive my spelling issues.
Posted by: Amy @ My Friend Amy | September 15, 2008 at 04:07 PM
My book club has read:
To Kill A Mockingbird
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
Book Thief
Secret Life of Bees
Middlesex
One Thousand Splendid Suns
Sense And Sensibility
Eat, Pray, Love
Away
In October we are reading Keeping The House. It was a contest you mentioned a few months ago, that Ellen was having. a Conversation with her, and cookies to be sent to our book club. By the way the art work on the book sold me. That is the first time I suggested a book solely on the book cover. I hope it is good. I love the mouse pad. If I don't win is there a way to buy one it is great. I am linking up my blog to your and mentioning the contest.
Posted by: Susan | September 15, 2008 at 04:26 PM
How fun!
We have read:
The Pact
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Beautiful Boy
Into the Wild
Water for Elephants
Eat Pray Love
and more!
Posted by: Jen | September 15, 2008 at 04:55 PM
For day one, I want to know what books your book group has read this past year.
January--Them by Nathan McCall
February--Color Me Butterfly by LS Marlow
March--Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon
April--Seen It All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage
May--Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
June--Gather Together in My Name by Tracy Price-Thompson
July--From Dusk to Dawn by Niambi Brown Davis
August--Trading Dreams at Midnight by Dianne Mckinney Whetstone
Posted by: Yasmin | September 15, 2008 at 04:58 PM
I left a comment about you on my blog in honor of BBW.
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Posted by: Susan | September 15, 2008 at 05:43 PM
I left a comment about you on my blog in honor of BBW.
SEASIDE BOOKWORM
Posted by: Susan | September 15, 2008 at 05:43 PM
Books my book group (The Book Club on CafeMom) has read this year:
Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Jemima J by Jane Green
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Posted by: Amanda Walworth | September 15, 2008 at 08:24 PM