Today is World Book Night
Who is helping to give out half a million free books all across America on one day? I am.
WHO: From Kodiak, Alaska, to Key West, Florida, in 6,000 towns and cities across America, 25,000 volunteers will give away half a million free books on one day: April 23, 2012.
WHAT: World Book Night U.S. is an ambitious campaign to personally give out thousands of free, specially printed books across America. Volunteer book lovers like myself will help promote reading by going into our communities and handing out free copies of a book we love to new or light readers, reaching them especially in underserved places – and even some fun spots. Volunteers will be picking up the books at a local bookstore or library in order to go out and share them in locations as diverse as VA hospitals, nursing homes, ballparks, mass transit, diners, and more.
I am very proud to be a part of the first World Book Night in the U.S., following the impressive launch of this campaign in the UK and Ireland last year.
For more information about World Book Night, please go to www.worldbooknight.org
I will be giving away ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card
It’s a book that changed my childhood and I hope it will inspire the teens that I give to today. I recommend that everyone reads this book, no matter your age or history. Do you have a book like this that you would love to give out to everyone???
So what does this mean for you?
To spread my love of both ‘Ender’s Game’, Reading in General and Blogging — I have three options on the TABLE for you guys…
Let the Reader Giveaway Commence…
Option 1: $20 Barnes & Noble Gift Card (Of course restricted to people that can use the Barnes & Noble gift card…)
Option 2: Copy of Ender’s Game (Ender, Book 1)
Option 3: A Pre-Made blogger template to start you on your way to blogging –> one of these
I would love if you follow me, but it is not required — just fill out the Rafflecopter Form. Here are the deets:
- Following is not required
- The first winner will get the choice of the first three
- The second winner will get the choice of the two left
- The third winner will get what is left behind
- Extra entries are listed on the widget
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I neglected to indicated that I would pick the $20 gift card to B & N because I have already read Ender’s Game and an excellent book it is!
For me, the book I would love to share with the world is Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey. I just think the writing is amazing! Thanks for the giveaway!
I got to participate in WBN and I gave out my first choice book – The Hunger Games!
I loved WBN! I gave away Kindred by Octavia Butler! I had a blast!
Harry Potter, of course!! (Seriously, what better choice than that?)
Yes I do! But I’m pretty sure many would not appreciate it. It would be Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein (not sure I spelled that name right).
I’d pick the B&N gc.
I would give out Jane Eyre. It’s been so influential in my life and has really gotten me through some hard times. I just love it
I’d love to be able to give the Harry Potter books to everyone. But since a lot of people already own them, or have at least read them, I guess I’d say Cinder by Marissa Meyer. It’s just such a good book!
The Alanna series by Tamora Pierce-especially for girls. They’re fantastic!
Yep, and it’s Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
I’d give away The Giver
I totally loved Ender’s Game and that is why I also passed out WBN copies around my county.
If there’s a book I would like to giveaway to everyone that would have to be… Perfect Chemistry Series
I really love the series. I think Simone Elkeles is a great writer, she captured every nerve in my body while reading Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction and the last book Chain Reaction.
Thanks for this chance!
One book that changed my thoughts on reading, and that I cannot recommend enough, would have to be A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle. =)
Thanks for the great giveaway.
On the rare chance I stumble across someone who hasn’t read Harry Potter, I of course recommend the series to them! If they’ve already read that? Then I’d probably go with Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel or Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger or the Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (I guess it would kind of depend on who I was talking to)!
I have to say I’d give out The Hunger Games. I only gave in to reading it because I was so sick of hearing about it’s awesomeness and not knowing what the heck they were talking about. It completely changed my reading habits! I recommend it to everyone no matter their age or preferred genre.
I’m not sure if there’s a book I could say that changed my life. (Then again I could probably say The Giving Tree since it was the first I read on my own and got me into reading.) However, I if I had the chance I would love to give out something like So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, both which I think anyone could enjoy.
Ender’s game is a great book!
I would love to give everyone The Book Thief by Markus Zusak!!