Update: This giveaway has now been closed, winners selected and will be announced as soon as they email me back. Thanks to everyone who entered, and I hope to do another one of these soon because they're super fun!
But maybe just save your excitement until you know what I'm giving away! In honour of Orwell October (my own little attempt to read the things that Orwell wrote) I'm giving away a copy of 1984, that has actually been read by me! (You know like how people want Britney Spears's chewed gum? That's the kind of response I'm looking for with this. And also to let you know that it's not a pristine copy. Yeah. Although I haven't chewed it like gum, because that's not the analogy I was going for with this. Also you should probably just ignore me.)
So that's that. And if you don't know what it's all about, then seriously, you need this book.
Also up for grabs is an actual pristine copy of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which I haven't read, but I have two copies for no reason known to anyone sensible, so if you want it, you may be able to have it if you ask really nicely...
And it's kind of the same story with Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky- I have two copies, one of you lucky people may have one of them (and I'm going to be honest, it's the one I like the look of least... I love you guys, but I love me more...)
And the superfun bonus prize is Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems which I have to say upfront has some highlighting and really bad notes I've made in it (stuff like 'this is a rhyme' and things because I never know what to say about poetry). So I'm fully aware that it's possible that nobody will want it. Which will make me sad, but I will understand. Sniff.
'But Laura!' (I hear you cry) 'How can I get my hands on such amazing books that have been touched by hands such as yours?!' Well, patience my dear ones, I'm about to tell you! So, if you would like one or many of these books then all you have to do is leave me a comment saying which one/s you would like, with an email address at the end that I will be able to contact you on. If you also say something amusing or witty, then I will love you greatly, and I might give you an extra entry or something. Note: You DON'T have to be a follower to enter, but if you want to read someone's gushings on Stephen King and generally want to be amazed into a state of awe and excitement, then why wouldn't you want to follow me?! But, again, you don't have to.
And it's pretty much as simple as that! Again, don't forget to tell me if you want more than one of these books (I won't think you're greedy or anything, don't worry!) and then I'll put your name in the hat for both/three/all four/you get the idea books. This may or may not involve an actual hat, I haven't decided yet (but there probably will be). So yeah, enter, cross your fingers, do whatever lucky things you do, and then move on to all these other lovely blogs to see what goodies you can get from them. Good luck to you all!
Just discovered your blog! I would love to own a copy of 1984. It's one of my all time favourites and I don't even have a copy for myself!
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I want both 1984 and Brideshead Revisited, and please don't think I'm greedy (you said you wouldn't, lol). My email address is yourmovedickens@gmail.com. Thanks for hosting this fabulous giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteYour blog is new to me and it looks great too. Brideshead Revisited is one I'd like to win -
ReplyDeleteHave fun blog-hopping; stop by and enter my giveaways.
I would like Crime and Punishment. I have always been scared of it, but if I own my own copy, I am committed to tackling it! Thanks for the giveaway and for your great blog.
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Oh WOW! You have touched all these books... I have to have them :) I really would love to be in for yeah.. all of them GREAT BLOG!
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I'd like Brideshead Revisted and/or Crime and Punishment. Both on my extensive to-read list, and I'd love to get a copy of either. =)
ReplyDeleteYou can find me at amaranthinedominion on gmail.
(P.S. Pick me, or I'll sic my topiary garden on you.)
I'd love to win Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky or 1984 by George Orwell! Haven't read either but heard a lot about them. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
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I have my own copy of 1984, and I've already had my fill of Emily Dickinson- either of the other two would be great. Nice giveaway!
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Thanks for the giveaway and if it is open worldwide I would like to be entered.
ReplyDeleteI have all the books except Emily Dickinson's poetry because I find it very difficult to read more than one poem at a time. Sorry but it is just not my thing !
I don't have any of the books on my shelf at present and wouldn't mind any of them but if I had my druthers I would chose Brideshead Revisited.
Thanks.
Carol T
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I'd love to have 1984..looks like thats a popular one :) but all of these books sound wonderful. Thank you for the giveaway!
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:) I own all four books, I think this is the first time that has happened for a giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteI'd like Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A fellow English major/friend and I have Dostoevsky wars where we pronounce his name different ways. I figured I should actually read this book so I can feel like my pronunciation is correct.
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Cheers!
I'd love to try either 1984 or Crime and Punishment. Love the cover of your copy of Brideshead Revisited! (I'm giving away A Handful of Dust, but the cover is nowhere near as exciting).
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samstillreading(at)gmail(dot)com
Hi Laura! I’ve just discovered your blog through the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop. If your giveaway is open to international readers, I’d love to read 1984 by Orwell or Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Thank you! Marta martaplayita at gmail dot com
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OK, I am feeling a bit bad for this, but I would love to have all of these books! You know, they are all amazing, I have read other books fromt he authors/or seen movie adaptations/but I haven´t read any of these books, and I ahve just moved and have these huge bookshelves eagerly waiting for some new books :) Great giveaway!!
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Hello Laura !
ReplyDeleteI am most ashamed to admit that I am greedy whenever books are involved...But as it would be a lie to deny this factso... I am running for both "Brideshead Revisited" which I have never read and sounds fun, and "1984" which I read when I was "au lycée" as a teenager, and loved so much but somehow lost my copy.
Thanks so much for entering a French bookworm into this great giveway...
Virginie
vmenzildjian@gmail.com
I'd love to win a copy of either Brideshead Revisited or 1984. I love the humor in you're writing. Now I'm excited to have the chance of winning a book touched by the hands of Laura! :)
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I'd love to win the 1984 book.
ReplyDeleteIf this giveaway is international please count me in.
Thanks for the chance.
by.evie at yahoo dot com dot br
Hello, I would love to win Brideshead Revisited. I am in the UK, I hope your giveaway is international. Email cerievans1[at]gmail[dot]com. thanks
ReplyDeleteThis book give away is a great way to get to know new Blogs. I came here via Leeswammes and will surely explore your blog once I finish this comment!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win the poems by Dickenson. Thankd for putting me in the hat!
Anouschka_vanleeuwen[at]hotmail[dot]com
I'm not sure if it's because of the poetry, or my sympathy towards the Dickinson plight, but put me down for the poetry, will love it for the rhyme & will be curious about the notes. thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be counted in for Brideshead Revisited. Thank you for sharing and for offering choices as well.
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I have been wanting to read 1984 for such a long time!! Thank you!
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I would love to win Brideshead Revisited, I own the others (though I've only read 1984!)
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I would love either Brideshead Revisited or 1984! Thank you so much for this awesome giveaway!
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Hi Laura:) Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway! I've read Animal Farm, but haven't had a chance to read 1984, so I'd like to enter this giveaway for a copy of 1984. However, Brideshead Revisited is also on my wish list, so I would like to enter for that as well. So, I'm being greedy (and you're politely choosing to overlook it- and I love you for it!) so my 2 choices would be 1984 and Brideshead Revisited.
ReplyDeleteThank you once again for your awesomeness (and I've chosen to follow because your post had me smiling- very rare!:)
Sarah:)
sarah.setar@gmail.com
Great giveaway! I own all of these except the Dickinson, who is on my list of "100 Best Writers to Read" - so I need to. Please enter me for that. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, how is/did Dracula going/go? I finished a few days ago and then finished Inferno yesterday. I've got my review for Dracula up already but plan to write my review for Inferno tomorrow. I enjoyed both - much more than expected!
Hello! This is my first time visiting your blog but it will not be my last so long as you don't actually devour texts (ha, ha...yep that was bad, I know!)
ReplyDeleteSuch a fantastic group of books in your giveaway! I recently won "Brideshead Revisited" and as an old English major and Orwell fan, I've read "1984" a few times but, since my cat actually chewed up a good portion of my Crime and Punishment I'd love to win a new one. I'm also interested in the book of Emily Dickinson Poems & like that it includes your notes....I sometimes need help understanding poems, you see!
Thank you for an amazing & generous giveaway!
Enjoy your weekend :o)
Aimala127(at)gmail(dot)com
I love all of the books you're offering, but I'd really like to win the Emily Dickinson poems.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this giveaway!
angela1997(at)live(dot)nl
Wow, thanks for all your entries guys- tell your friends etc!
ReplyDelete@Adam- I just finished Dracula today and OMG I loved it/was terrified/am really excited to review it and call it sexist/also amazing. So yeah, I've gotta say that I liked it :)
Yay giveaways!!! I'm not sure if you're doing international. But if you are, I would like to enter and I would be more than happy with any of the books. :) I know you have my email, but just in case, jenniferlladd@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteAlso, congrats on finishing Dracula. Although this week I read something I found more terrifying. I'll email you later.
Thanks for joining in the giveaway blog hop, Laura. I love your post - very funny!
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to enter as I have already read some of these books and think the others deserve a better home than mine. :-)
I would love to win Brideshead revisited, so thank you for the opportunity to enter.
ReplyDeleteKarin
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Go ahead and put me in for all of them^^ Thank you for the excellent choices. edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom
ReplyDeletePut my name in the hat for all four of them. I'll tell you something crazy. I want to read Crime and Punishment. I know it's going to be hard and might take a very long time, but I want to do it. It's one of those books that you just have to say you read.
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i would love to be enterd for all the books - i AM greedy like that ;)
ReplyDeletewell i especially have my eyes set on 1986, but i would love to get any of them really.
thanks for the giveaway ^^
witchvela at web dot de
I would so much rather have a book read by someone than gum they chewed ;-) I'd love to win Brideshead Revisited or 1984!!
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Ohhhh.....my pretty!! 1984!! Have been wanting to read this before Murakami's 1Q84 comes out so I can nod knowingly at any literary references while reading it on the train. Also wouldn't say no to Crime and Punishment (similar train-riding snobbery).
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Katie
Katiebaxter{at}hotmailDOTcoDOTuk
Long time reader, first time (I think?) poster here. I just gotta say: I think your writing is amusant, your giveaway offerings are generous, and hey! Also we like the same things! (Dooce, Hyperbole and a Half, Postsecret, Good Books)
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to win any of these books, excepting the Emily Dickinson collection of which I am already a proud owner.
Thanks in advance for randomly picking me! (StinaVW at the ol' gmail)
I would like to be entered for 1984 and Crime and Punishment. Thanks!
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Thank you for the giveaway. I would like to be entered for the 1984 & the Emily Dickinson poems.
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Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to read 1984. I love the classics. Hope you enjoy your first giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have either 1984 or Crime and Punishment. Thank you.
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I would love either 1984 or Crime and Punishment.
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I would love to enter for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, if this giveaway is International. Thank you! :)
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LOVED the Britney Spears reference, I even thought of my own of how people love Justin Beiber so much they will pay hundreds of dollars to have locks of his hair...on another note, I liked your corny(no offense),cute,and sarcastic jokes so much that I've decided*drum roll* to start following ur blog, to quote you; 'why wouldn't you want to follow me?!'
ReplyDeleteps I'd like the Brideshead Revisited or Crime and Punishment OR(best option) BOTH!
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I'd like 1984 or Crime and Punishment.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this international giveaway
blogmicia@yahoo.it
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy with any of the books, but "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh would be my first choice. I wish I could think of something funny or witty.
marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Although I would love a copy of "1984" read by you, I do have one read by myself in my bookshelf, and I think one is enough. "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh, though, would be a very welcome addition to my bookshelf (well, shelves...). Thanks for making the giveaway international =D
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I'd love to win Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
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I'm just stopping by to say hello. Giveaways are always lovely, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI'm giving away a decidedly non-literary book, Matched, on my little blog. I wish you'd come by, if not to sign up for this book, then to read and comment on my blog post for today, a second look at Maira Kalman's Principles of Uncertainty.
I'm one of those folks that hasn't read 1984 yet, so I'm tossing my hat into the ring for it!
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Thanks for the giveaway! I'd love to win either Brideshead Revisited or Crime and Punishment - I enjoy reading classics. :) (I already have copies of 1984 and Dickinson's poems.)
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I would love to have all four books, yes I'm greedy I guess, but I've not read any of them. I would especially love to win the poetry books because I love reading used books that people have actually read before me and written in.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chance to win!
methom@earthlink.net
Hi. I've already got 1984 so can I enter for all the others pretty please?
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Thanks for doing this! I would love a copy of Brideshead Revisited.
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I loved George Orwell's Animal Farm and i'd love to read his other books. So, i'd love to be entered to win 1984 please.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway!
icrave13@hotmail.com
What a great selection! I'd love a copy of Brideshead Revisited. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletekate[at]noseinabook.co.uk
Is it open internationally? If so, I'd die to have a book touched by you. Even a gum chewed by you (no, okay, let's skip the gum)! And I would choose Brideshead Revisited cause I haven't read it
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Hello and Thank You for this!
ReplyDeleteI would like any and all of these books, because...incredibly, I know, I didn't read any yet 0_0
Thanks again!
tirabaralla{at}yahoo{dot}com
id be okay with winning any of these books. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I am in no way, shape, or form ashamed of my book whorishness, so I will joyously beg and plead to be chosen to win the Dickinson poems, Brideshead Revisited (I know it's on all of the books-you-must-read-before-you-die lists and I'm not getting any younger), AND Crime and Punishment (because I've committed the crime of not having read it yet and must be punished by being sent a copy?!)
ReplyDeleteOh, and don't think I'm not down for the classic, 1984...I just have that bad boy already, so I'm trying to expand Mt. TBR by adding some new peaks:)
If I am so lucky as to be chosen as a winner, I can be reached at booklover@myself.com
Thanks for a lovely giveaway and an entertaining read of your lovely blog:) ~KT
Id love to be entered for all of them
ReplyDeleteim abook whore and i confess i havent read any of them andddd want to
mortalsinn@yahoo.com
Hi Laura, I'd love to win either 1984 or Crime and Punishment. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteaikychien at yahoo dot com
Thanks for this amazing giveaway! I would love to win a copy of 1984!
ReplyDeletesusanw28 (at) mindspring (dot) com
Thanks, Laura! 1984 is a book I need to read again.
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Enjoy the hop!
1984 is one of my favorites but I haven't read it in English yet. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to read Crime and Punishment, or the Dickinson poems.
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icecreamavalanche at gmail dot com
I would be very happy to win any of these. Thank you!
ReplyDeletequixoticdreamer(at)hotmail(dot)com
I'd love to have your chewed gum aka the 1984 book. Heh. And Brideshead Revisited, too, please? :)
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I would absolutely love to get 1984 and Crime & Punishment. Thanks for the great giveaway.
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I'd love a copy of 1984 and/or Brideshead Revisited...heavensent1@yahoo dotcom
ReplyDeleteDid you know that turtles can breath thru their butts?? Or that it's illegal to look at a Moose while flying in a plane over Alaska?? True stories...hehe
Brideshead Revisited, if you please.
ReplyDeleteNot pleased? Oh well...I tried.
neerrr(at)gmail(dot)com
I love books and am not ashamed of wanting them all. Also, I'm super nosey and I want to read what you wrote. lol I like your style of writing and am now following you.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I love Stephen King as well. Did you see on cable they had a special day with just his movies showing. It was the first time in a long time that I sat in front of the boob tube.
Favorite line ever: Give me the bat Wendy, I don't want to hurt you, I just want to bash your brains in! *ahem* Sorry.
Please count me in for Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!:)
Janhvi
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I would love to get my hands on any of these. I haven't read any. Thanks so much for this wonderful giveaway!
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I'd love the Emily Dickinson book - I love her poems. And Brideshead Revisited sounds fascinating. Thank you for the chance - fingers crossed!
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I'd love to win either 1984 or Crime and Punishment.
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I would love to get my hands on Crime and Punishment! I haven't read it yet so it will be good
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katie_tp(at)yahoo(dot)com
I haven't read either of them yet. Therefore, I'd love to be entered for all of them. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteI would be happy to win any of them!
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I've read 1984 but I must admit I haven't read any of the others. Shame on me!!!!! With that being said I guess I'd like the rest of the books if I'm lucky.
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