A few weeks ago Elana Johnson had this great idea to have a day celebrating the books and authors we love. Today is the day. A bunch of bloggers will be highlighting favorite authors and a lot of us will be giving books away (some people even have SIGNED books to give!) Go check out Elana's blog for a complete list of participants. With so many giveaways the odds are in your favor to win a book or two. And who doesn't like free books?
For me choosing a favorite book is like choosing a favorite child. I just can't do it. So instead I chose a recent read that I really enjoyed: Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.
I am not too good at book reviewing, and I really don't want to give anything away (there story has some great surprises), so I'll keep this short and sweet. This was an awesome read--well written, page-turning, and sweet. I was engrossed from beginning to end. It was brilliant, and you don't have to take my word for it, it won the Newbery. Um yeah, that means a lot of other people thought it was great too.
Read it.
I'll be giving away a copy. To win it all you have to do is:
1. Follow this blog
2. Leave a comment telling me about a book you love
I'll pick the winner Wednesday morning. If you comment before midnight on Tuesday, you'll be in the running!
We're doing a blog chain so you can check out all the Spread The Awesome posts if you want to. Next up is Windy Aphayrath. She's highlighting Elizabeth Scott and she's giving away SIGNED books. Enjoy!
61 comments:
This is such a neat idea Natalie, I'm glad that you are in it, I completely missed it, I suppose that's what happens when you take several days off at a time!!! I've heard great things about this book!
I am enjoying all of the blogs this morning on this subject. What a great idea.
I love this idea:) A book I love? Amy Reed's Beautiful
Thanks for the recommendation -- sounds like a great book. It's now on my to-read list!! Putting a link to your contest on my sidebar with the other Spread the Awesome contests :))
I LOVE Hex Hall right now, it's SUCH a fun book!
Natalie, I've been wanting to read this book!!
I'm taking part today and spreading the love on BLEEDING VIOLET by Dia Reeves. I feel the same way you do about selecting a fav book but this is one I highly recommend. It's so unique!
I have been meaning to read this book, but have failed at decreasing the size of my TBR pile. Sigh. Thanks for rekindling my urge!
Natalie, I have a copy already -- loved it. But great you'll be giving some lucky reader a copy. My daughter just borrowed it, after reading "A Wrinkle in Time," which, as you know, is a bit of a prerequisite to this one.
Happy Monday!
I've been wanting to read that one! It's on my list! Enter me, please! I've been a follower for a while. =)
I'm really loving Eat, Pray, Love. And I finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson in about a day. That book was made of awesome. The Smoke Jumper was also terrific. I couldn't pick just one! I've read some great ones lately.
sounds great! I cannot wait to check this one out!
Please enter me to win.
this is so much fun! I am loving browsing all these blogs and discovering even MORE books for my TBR! lol
Thanks for the great post!
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Love it. :)
You already know two of my semi-recent favs. Graceling and Soulless. :)
Happy Monday!
OMG! I'm loving Deathday Letters right now...have ARC will gush!
Very cool, Natalie! Im currently listening to one of my faves, The Hunger Games which needs no introduction:-)
This book is amazing. I read half but then had to return it to the library. :-/
OOhh...this sounds good too. Man, there are a lot of great books I've added to my TBR list! GO BOOK!
HOw did I miss all this awesomeness???? I was on blog hiatus. :O( Glad to be back. How are you?
I'd love to win this book since I've heard so much about it. Thanks for being part of the awesomeness!
Oops, forgot to tell you about a book I love! Well, I blogged about Marcelo in the Real World and I did love that book. I also love just about anything by Suzanne Collins, Maggie Stiefvater, Eoin Colfer and Jordan Sonnenblick.
Sounds like an awesome book! I'm highlighting PC and Kristin Cast's House of Night series on my blog - I also really love Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Excellent books!
Okay...so cheesy, but my all time favorite books would have to be THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH and any of the HARRY POTTER SERIES. I read them whenever I'm sick. They are all the best books to curl up with. They make me feel better lol.
Favorite book: Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
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A book that I love is Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. It's the first book that made me cry.
I'd love to read and review When You Reach Me in my blog. Please include me if this is open internationally. I follow you.
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Ooo, I've been meaning to pick this book up. I've heard such good things about it. Definitely must add it to my tbr list if I don't win it here. As for books I love, i'm with you, I have SUCH a hard time picking favorites. So I'm just going to go with the book a book I just read--and loved: It's Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder. With a title like that it HAS to be good--and it was. :)
I just finished this book. I wasn't sure I would like it but in the end I did!
Brilliant book. It's very understated, revealing itself to be more than it lets on--until the very end.
I've never read this, but I really, really want to. Like, a lot.
So, anyways, I did my Spread the Awesome on Garth Stein's THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, a book that is so touching and real that I sobbed through half of it. I'm giving away an autographed copy on le blog.
Another book I really want for my shelf! Great pick.
I'm sold!
My favorite read this year, The Book Thief and Walking on Broken Glass.
Thanks Natalie!
Sounds interesting! I'd love to win it and read it. ;-) I have so many favorites, but one I just read recently that wasn't YA (which is all i usually read) was Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society.
You got my interest--I'm in! And I posted a Spreading the Awesome book today, too--The Stolen One by Suzanne Crowley.
I love The Shadow of the Wind. I wrote a review on my blog as part of the Spread the Awesome, and I'm giving away a copy of it too.
Thanks for your review and the chance to win this book!
I think I've already mentioned to you how I'm dying to read this one. So now, because of your recommendation, I might put aside the others I'm reading and get to it.
Recently I read the 5th Fablehaven book (Brandon Mull) and really loved it. Sometimes I didn't think the dialogue is as good as it could be, but the whole book was non-stop action so that I couldn't help but love it!
Thanks for the great reccomendation, Natalie!
Yay! Ummmm...I really enjoyed GONE by Michael Grant.
This book is on my wish list - it sounds so good!
I love anything by James Dashner, and I adore the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke.
This one is SO on my radar! right now I'm engropssed in If I Stay!
I'll go with one of the latest YA books I've read ... SWEETHEARTS by Sara Zarr.
Thanks for having a giveaway. This is a really fun day to follow YA writers. ;)
I'm following!
A book I love is definitely Hatchet by Gary Paulson. Resoursefulness, genius, and individuality all mixed together, with some very original ideas thrown in!
I'd love to win this.
Happy writing!
Sounds great! I've read a lot of Newberry books and loved pretty much all of them, so I'm sure this one must be good.
I love a lot of books, but right now, I'm recommending Will Grayson, Will Grayson. But Jane Eyre is probably my absolute favorite book.
Well done, Natalie! I think what's most important is that award, Newbery.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! I used it as a read aloud just a few months ago.
And I am a super fan of A Wrinkle In Time - one of my all time favorites!
This book is already on my to-read list. I might have to bump it up higher now!
My favorite Newbery winner is Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. The characters are vibrant and quirky, and the ending is unpredictable. Love it!
I will have to check this one out! I love The Secret Garden, it was one of my favorites growing up :)
I'm rereading A Wrinkle in Time in prep for reading When You Reach Me.
I love THE HUNGER GAMES and CATCHING FIRE, among many, many other books.
You know I'm totally following you. :) I love so many books too. Well, I think I'll say James Dashner's "The Maze Runner."
I've loved all the blog posts today! I really loved Mistress of Rome. I just finished Shanghai Girls and that was pretty good too.
I have this book on hold! I cannot wait to get it. I like a good surprise. Another fave of mine is MAGIC UNDER GLASS by Jaclyn Dolamore. (I think that's her last name.) I almost chose it over Skin Hunger, that's how good it is.
I really enjoyed When You Reach Me, too. It was so different and cool and fun. Unfortunately, the library wanted it back, so I'd <3 to get a copy of my own. :-D
There have been so many good books I've read lately, but my most recent fave is The Adoration of Jenna Fox - which is why I chose it for the blog tour. :o)
I've been back and forth on this one, but it sounds like I NEED to add it to my TBR list! Thanks Natalie.
Sounds way good. Thanks for the awesome review. This week, my STA book choice is Incarceron, by Catherine Fisher.
But I also love Hunger Games. And...wait, you only asked for one so I won't leave you a list.
My most favorite book I've read recently was My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay. I also enjoyed Fire and Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Kristin is an excellent young adult writer.
Thanks for the awesome book rec!
Some of my favorites right now are Hunger Games and Catching Fire. I can't wait for Mockingjay!
I thought I commented on here yesterday. I meant to - I read your post. Sounds like and interesting book. Right now my favorite book is: I Am Not A Serial Killer, but honestly it changes all the time.
I'm already a follower.
I loved THIS book!
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I loved this book! So profound and wonderful. Currently, I'm reading "Catching Fire," by Suzanne Collins. If you haven't read her books -- all of them, not just "Hunger Games" -- you're truly missing out!
I've been wanting to read this book forever! I hope I win! :D As for a book I really love, Where the Red Fern Grows comes to mind. One of those ones I haven't been able to forget since grade school.
"When You Reach Me" was fabulous -- great choice! I apparently missed this entire Spread the Awesome phenomenon, but it looked really cool :)
I've heard so many great things about When You Reach Me! *puts it on my reading list*
My current booklove is Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I keep reading and re-reading and planning on using it in my final paper for Children's Lit course! :)
I'm a follower. I loved Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel by Michelle Moran.
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Hey, I missed the contest, still making my way through the posts. But, I agree on WHEN YOU REACH ME. Really enjoyed it, as well!
A recent read that I loved, loved. Was IF I STAY by Gayle Forman http://www.ifistay.com/ .Beautifully written, compelling and I could not stop turning the pages-
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