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I won a Goodreads Giveaway...Share with the Group
Hi--I didn't win Goodread giveaway of the Mullah's Storm but I did win it on Library Thing and it arrived today. Read the first chapter and, though not a cozy, it looks promising. Will review it on Goodreads when I'm done since it had been a giveaway here, too.
oooh you lucky person. Everything I see at Goodreads seems to be e-books.
Really? I find that the case at Library Thing--this was a member's giveaway though I did win one from the May list as well as another member's giveaway
Katherine, you caught me... thanks I meant the exact opposite. LT has e-books.
Yesterday won The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel and Game of Secrets: A Novel. And I used to wish my mother had named me after herself! It does pay to be a Karen.I have one book, Following Polly, which I won 4/5 weeks ago that still hasn't turned up. I'll have to give it another week I guess.
okay my other one, does that mean it's my turn next?
I'm happy to share the luck(??) with everyone.
Wrote a review of The Mullah's Storm
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 by Sarah Greenough
My giveaway arrived today--it is huge--over 700 pages and these are the SELECTED letters! LOL
This must be my month for letters--just won The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly
Let us hope it isn't as huge as the last one!
My month too- just won How the Mistakes Were Made (recently won Spellcast).Now, all I have to do is finish writing and write the reviews!
Black Monday arrived today--what was I thinking? It is on CD--I hope I stay awake--I never can manage to concentrate on recorded books but I'll give it a shot!
Not a Giveaway... but feels just as good. I am so excited. I have had Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child on my Shopping List for Amazon for AT LEAST for months (Used Large Print) waiting for it to be listed with supersaving free shipping and a lower price. Now today I see it was for 99 cents on Kindle. *Doing the Happy Dance* and my cats think I am crazy!
Karen B wrote: "Not a Giveaway... but feels just as good. I am so excited. I have had Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child on my Shopping List for Amazon for AT LEAST for months (Used Larg..."Loved Cabinet of Curosities (and Agent Pendergast) I hope you enjoy it!
On a side note, has anyone else had a streak of winning a handful of giveaways then not winning one for ages?
that seems to have happened to me. I won three the first day and it seemed like I was winning at least 3 a week. But I am a slow reader and I guess too slow getting the reviews posted. Also, unless it's a book that I will buy if I don't win, I DO NOT add it to my to read list. I have had a few authors write and ask me to add their books to the TO READ list so I did. But I haven't won for several weeks now.
Well its good to know that it wasn't just me then. I won 9 in a row, the last being
and basically stopped winning. I have been keeping up with the reviews though and are going through them at a pretty quick pace. Welp, will just have to wait and see how the algorithm works itself out.
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I won a giveaway from the "other site" and I thought I had entered for a paper copy instead it was a PDF copy. I have been able to download it to my Kindle however the print is extremely small. When I hit the key to make the print bigger I get a different screen than usual. If I go to "actual size" it's still too small. If I go to 150%, it comes up so large that I can only see part of the page and the arrows don't help. If I didn't have to review it, I would just forget it. Anyone know enough about Kindle to help me with this?
I think the Giveaways Book Fairy must be following our posts. Yesterday I mentioned that I had not won in a while and I won two books today
and
So Heather you are probably going to be winning something soon.
Karen B wrote: "Not a Giveaway... but feels just as good. I am so excited. I have had Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child on my Shopping List for Amazon for AT LEAST for months (Used Larg..."Congratulations, Karen! As you say, just as good as a giveaway. And you can adjust the font on your reader to a confortable size. Enjoy!
Mary Ellen Hughes
Congratulations Karen! I also saw
for sale & got it!
great Ellie and Paula. Paula were you one of the ones who posted you hadn't won in a while?
Karen B wrote: "great Ellie and Paula. Paula were you one of the ones who posted you hadn't won in a while?No Karen, I've never won before. : )
Congrats, other Karen, see I swear they are monitoring our discussion and say, this is a bunch who appreciate our giveaways, let's be generous with that group!
I read the book I won last month and left a very good review right away. Hoping I'll win something else again soon.
Karen B wrote: "Congrats, other Karen, see I swear they are monitoring our discussion and say, this is a bunch who appreciate our giveaways, let's be generous with that group!"LOL Maybe!
So there is such a thing as positive paranoia! :DYay us!
I won again! I can't believe it
and I won something from LT e-book:
Karen B wrote: "I won again! I can't believe itand I won something from LT e-book:
[bookcover:Too Far Un..."
Okay, so I'm thinking blessing or curse? I get free books but not making much progress on my TBR shelves.
Won Little Women Letters on the 13th and it came by UPS on the 14th--I've got about four books to read and review now--and it is summer, and my daughter is here from Montana, and we're expecting company!!! Oh, I'm going to run away--but The Little Women Letters is terrific--I'm really loving it!
I like the cover of my unread proof better than this one!
Katherine wrote: "Won Little Women Letters on the 13th and it came by UPS on the 14th--I've got about four books to read and review now--and it is summer, and my daughter is here from Montana, and we're expecting co..."This is the book I really wanted to win, but didn't.
I wanted it too, Shay-congratulation Katherine.I read & reviewed one of my 2 (
) which I really liked.Now I have to finish & review the other (
which is starting off well.At least I don't feel like GR hates me; I've won enough to soothe the little paranoid voice within me. And I am so "overbooked" for reading this summer I feel like I'm going to finish up these books & stop reading for ever.
Like I can even imagine what that would be like :)
Last call for anyone who would like the
or
email me with your addy for either/ or both of these first reads wins. Otherwise I'll pass them on to the library
MICHELE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA SPOKE UP AND BOTH BOOKS ARE ON THE WAY TO HER THIS MORNING. ENJOY,MICHELE
So I think talking on this thread about how we haven't won in a while is working. I just won
today!
good for you Pauline! It was one I put in for because I like some other Meg Gardiner books I've read. Enjoy!!!!!!!
Way to go Pauline--don't know that author--let us know how it is.
Katherine, come out come out whereever you are. You probably did this alerady but will you send me a private message with you snail mail. I finally finished it!
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Same here. :-(
I try not to get attached to winning certain books but sometimes it's really hard.Sometimes I want to put a pathetic note saying, Oh please please please pick me for this one!
Heather L., why don't you ask someone to pass it on to you? If I had it I would. I want you to win something so badly. If you go through my books and see something I own, let me know. I don't post under the swap site. Actually there are a lot I have given away already but if you let me know I will hold something for you, if it is still in my car.
Won Freedom's Sword today. I've always been into the whole King Arthur, Excaliber, Knights in Shining Armor. This book is about a Scottish King who must fight the English for his throne in 1296.
congrats my other one. *LOL* It's nice to read someone wins something they were really hoping to win. Am becomintg more picky about my own selections.Does anyone know ... does Goodreads have a site of e-book giveaways listed separately?
Heather L wrote: "Shay wrote: "This [Little Women Letters] is the book I really wanted to win, but didn't."Same here. :-("
Karen B wrote: "Katherine,
come out come out whereever you are. You probably did this alerady but will you send me a private message with you snail mail. I finally finished it!"
@ Heather L and Shay-- a really good book--I did a review on it this am. Passing it on to my sisters!
@ Karen B--I forget--why do you need my snail mail again?
Katherine, I know it's been a while but I promised to send you my copy of One Dog Night when I was finished and I finished yesterday. Fooling around with learning to use my Kindle has slowed me down even more. Now I read goodreads first reads during the day and books on Kindle which I can read better in the evening. It works, but I have two books going at once this way plus being on here and writing way too much on my groups. *LOL*
Karen B: congratulations! Another win!! How cool is that?
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