This is ridiculous. I'm reopening the contest for as long as I feel like reopening it. Your job is to post a comment. Don't make me come after you. I repeat: Katherine. Paterson. The one. The only. Leave a comment or I will tear this book by my most beloved author into teensy little pieces and then throw the pieces onto a bonfire. It will feel to me as if I were burning KP herself, but don't think I won't do it if you force me into it. I DON'T PLAY.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
SERIOUSLY???
It's one thing to have only three people enter your book giveaway contest, but it's an entirely different and much suckier thing to have the person you declared the winner NOT EVEN SHOW UP TO CLAIM THE PRIZE. I have two words for you people: Katherine. Paterson. How could anyone not want to read her memoir, let alone acquire it for free? The woman is a god.
This is ridiculous. I'm reopening the contest for as long as I feel like reopening it. Your job is to post a comment. Don't make me come after you. I repeat: Katherine. Paterson. The one. The only. Leave a comment or I will tear this book by my most beloved author into teensy little pieces and then throw the pieces onto a bonfire. It will feel to me as if I were burning KP herself, but don't think I won't do it if you force me into it. I DON'T PLAY.
This is ridiculous. I'm reopening the contest for as long as I feel like reopening it. Your job is to post a comment. Don't make me come after you. I repeat: Katherine. Paterson. The one. The only. Leave a comment or I will tear this book by my most beloved author into teensy little pieces and then throw the pieces onto a bonfire. It will feel to me as if I were burning KP herself, but don't think I won't do it if you force me into it. I DON'T PLAY.
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No,no no,no, don't tear it up! Not recommended even if she was your least favourite author!
ReplyDeleteNila, I'm gratified to hear that I really sounded scary! Mission accomplished.
DeleteAs one of the other two commenters, I must say I am feeling slighted by your reopening of the contest. Gimme the prize Susan. Gimme the prize. (How's that for a comment?)
ReplyDeleteThat is a GREAT comment!! But unfortunately the declared winner left a comment 13 minutes after you did, so now I have to give him a second chance...
DeleteYeah, what am I, chopped liver?
ReplyDeleteYes, you are indeed chopped liver, unless you email me your mailing address as I instructed you to do! Otherwise how can I send you the book? What am I, clairvoyant? Muranosb(at)gmail.(com).
DeleteI already won a book in a previous contest and felt guilty entering again. My comment is this:
ReplyDeleteJacob Have I Loved -- one of the reasons I write YA.
Also -- I am on a social media break this week but I emerged just for you. :) I will not know if you reply to this.
I am entering, even if the prize has already been awarded. Seriously, I almost never enter these things because the competition is so stiff. But if you love this writer, I would sincerely like to read this memoire.
ReplyDeleteThe pandas all send their regards!
And please send my best to the pandas as well! If I hear from Crossword Person again, he or she has to get this book. But here's the deal: I own a lot of books. If you three awesome women - Nila, Jody and Anne the Panda - will send me your mailing addresses, I will send each of you a different but also wonderful book which I have personally selected for you. (Yvonne doesn't count in this because I know she has more books than she knows what to do with.) What say you all?
ReplyDeleteI think you have my email... but putting this comment here so I don't miss out on my PRIZE!!!
ReplyDeleteTypically I don't read memoirs, but I'm all for trying new things. =)
ReplyDeleteWell, Crystal, here's my dilemma. I decided that someone using the name MDGCrossword won this contest, but I haven't heard back from him/her and without an address, I can't send him/her the prize book. So now I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll give MDG until the end of this weekend to get in touch, and if that doesn't happen, I'll choose someone else who left a comment. BUT I really want to see a sign that the commenter loves KP's books and would really appreciate this memoir, or else maybe I'll just keep it myself.
Deleteruff ruff ruff...Murphy and Finney
DeleteMy darling Murphy and Finney: I'm afraid you cannot win this contest prize because (1) being dogs, you lack opposable thumbs, which are essential for turning pages, and (2) even if you did figure out how to turn pages, you can't... exactly... read. Which is fine. Very few dogs can. But it makes owning a book sort of pointless, no? Hey, how about some nice belly rubs instead?
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