Monday, January 28, 2008

Bloggy Giveaway Carnival--Chick-lit and a token male author

Photobucket The de-cluttering never stops around here. And now, I've found a new way to foist my belongings off on the world! Thanks and a tip of the hat to Shannon, of Rocks In My Dryer.

Here's how it works. I'm giving away some books. They have all been read or at least handled, but except for the Jennifer Weiner book (which looks like two beach-book-crazed Mommies wrestled for it at Border's) they are newer rather than older. (You might even be able to get away with regifting some of them ... but you didn't hear that here.)

I was going to post a picture, but because I am Poppy, Hear Me Make an Idiot Out of Myself Whenever Little Buttons Need to be Pushed, No, Not That One, And Get Your Mind Out of The Gutter, I can't figure out why I can't get the picture out of the camera and onto my laptop.

So a list will have to do. I'm giving away:

A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro
GRITS Friends Are Forevah by Deborah Ford
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year Old Like a Skank by Celia Rivenbark
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
This is Chick-Lit, edited by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

To win, leave a comment saying you're interested.

I'll be holding a totally fair, objective, random drawing on Friday at 5:00 p.m. (This means Susie Sunshine will not automatically get them, no matter how much she whines.)

Then I'll post the name of the winner on my blog.

Have fun!

UPDATED because OK, I finally figured out the new camera. Happy?

131 comments:

  1. The books look good! Hope I win!

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  2. I haven't read chick lit in a long time. Are the covers pink? That's the best, when the covers are all pink.

    Awesome prize. Please enter me.

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  3. "Muffy Mead"....

    BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA HA HA HEH!

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  4. I love Celia Rivenbark! Isn't she a hoot? I'm in, of course. For that book.

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  5. This title "stop dressing your 6 year old like a skank" was worth the stop...ha ha! these sound wonderful.

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  6. I haven't read any of those so they would be a fun read.

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  7. I love chick lit! Sign me up, please. Thank you.

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  8. I don't even need to win it - I'm going to walk around SAYING - "Stop dressing your six year old like a skank!".

    (Seriously Poppy, don't enter me - I just love that title.)

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  9. I LOVE THIS!!!!! Fun, Fun, Fun!!! Please count me in !
    gerijones64@hotmail.com

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  10. Looks like some great books! Count me in, please!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  11. awesome. These are a few books I haven't read (well, except Goodnight, Nobody - can't seem to get through that one).

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  12. If it's free, it's for me. Sign me up, per favore.

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  13. Reading material? You've got me. Please enter me in the drawing.

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  14. I'd love to win the books. Thanks for offering them.

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  15. I want them, but I also want your old diapers. can I have both?

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  16. I would like to be included in the draw-ring!

    xoxo,
    -- Chowdah

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  17. i love chicklit! and i'll pass these on when i'm done with them...

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  18. I love to read. Free books are even more fun to read.

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  19. I haven't read any of those books so I'd be game to try any of them.

    www.politics4moms.blogspot.com

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  20. WooHoo! Books!!!! Please enter me!

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  21. Screw books, I got no time to read.
    Where the hell are the Poppy castoff shoes and lavender perfume?! I'd knock down little old ladies for THAT stuff!

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  22. Yes Please! I am interested in these books.

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  23. Books are great! I love reading. Thanks for this giveaway!

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  24. Love chic lit! I'm actually giving away a book too! :)

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  25. oooh, good books! i've been wanting to read the slack mom book for awhile!

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  26. I'm interested... please enter me.

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  27. books, books, yeah! please enter me!
    Tia

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  28. ooh - please enter me in the giveaway - particularly for the Muffy Mead Ferro one. I really want to own a book written by someone called Muffy Mead Ferro.
    If bribery works at all, send it to me and I'll send you one of mine in return.

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  29. They look like fun books. Please enter me.

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  30. I love books! I haven't read any of these!

    I'm giving away 3 books at my blog!

    http://jeniallen.blogspot.com

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  31. I won books in Shannon's last giveaway and I really enjoyed them. Please sign me up.

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  32. ME TOOO!!! Barbies and books.. interesting combination.

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  33. Oooh! Ooooh! Pick me! Pick me!
    (I'm the obnoxious girl in the 3rd row stretching my arm up as high as it will go and bouncing in my seat in a pathetic attempt to make you see me...)

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  34. Ohhh- please enter me! Thanks!

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  35. i've been needing some new books!

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  36. I love to read! Please include me!!

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  37. Thank you for this awesome giveaway, I'd love to be entered to win.

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  38. I'd love to win some new books. Thanks for the chance!

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  39. These look like fun reads, which are my fav. Enter me, please!

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  40. Sounds great! I am glad I am not the only one that has trouble figuring out technology, lol.

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  41. What fun titles! Those would keep me busy reading for the rest of the long and boring winter.

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  42. Great contest! I want to win!!

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  43. i'm oh so interested!
    thank you for this awesome giveaway. please put my name in the hat too! good luck everyone.

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  44. Oh my - I need these, I want these, I gotta have these... and my birthday is Sunday - so give them to me :-) :-) :-)

    Thanks for offering this awesome opportunity for the giveaway! You are very generous! Good luck to all!

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  45. Please enter me in your drawing
    Jen

    whitty4jen@yahoo.com

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  46. What an awesome giveaway with great books! I'd love to be entered please :)

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  47. Be still my heart! I just soooo love books. They are my best friends. So your giveaway just has my name written all over it!!!!

    If I win, please contact me at dmj53 at hotmail dot com. Thank you.

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  48. These sound like some great reads! Thanks for sharing!

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  49. Books? You're giving away books?!
    Sign me up please!

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  50. How fun! I'd love to win. Thanks for a generous giveaway.

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  51. I would love to get these books.

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  52. Love to read, this prize would be so fun to win!

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  53. I'd love to win these books! Thanks!

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  54. LOVE the title 'stop dressing your 6 year old like a skank'. Too funny and TOTALLY appropriate to some people I know. Yikes!!

    charlainej@hotmail.com

    great giveaway!!

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  55. Include me in your drawing please. Thank you!

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  56. I'm laughing just from the titles! Sign me up please!

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  57. I can understand why Goodnight Nobody would be a little beat up. My copy of In Her Shoes is kinda the same way. The rest all sound really good, too (especially the one by Celia Rivenbark...oh my!) Thanks for the chance to win them!

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  58. new reading material, yay! thanks for entering me.

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  59. Please enter me. ernestsgirl82@yahoo.com

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  60. I would love one of these book! Thank you!

    anislandlife at yahoo dot com

    kailani
    An Island Life

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  61. Yay, chick lit! And used books are better--might as well pass them 'round and 'round to all the girls. Plus, it's ecological! I'd love to win. Funny blog!

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  62. I'm a bookworm & would love to have more to read. Thanks for a great giveaway.

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  63. would love to have more time to read, and the books will motivate me!

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  64. Great giveaway! Count me in.
    bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  65. Thanks for the fun giveaway!!

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  66. the books look great! thanks for giving them away!

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  67. These sound great! What a great giveaway! Please enter me, arogers(at)gmail(dot)com

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  68. What a great giveaway! Please count me in! Thanks!

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  69. me me me !!! I NEED these books! I do, really! Please let the random number chooser land on my number!

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  70. Could use a new book to read!!

    laura_licious101(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  71. I can always use some new books!

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  72. I am very interested. Thanks for the great contest. I love to read but haven't been able to sit down with a good book for quite some time.

    Thanks for the great contest and Good Luck Everyone :)

    missreneer@excite.com

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  73. This looks like a fun book list to get the winner thru the remainder of winter. Thanks for the chance to win. :-)

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  74. Enter me in your giveaway, please. Thank you!

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  75. Please enter me in your giveaway. Those are great books. Thanks!

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  76. Would love any of these books.

    taowyn (at) gmail (dot) com

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  77. I would love to read the one about dressing your six year old.

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  78. These sound very interesting. I would love to read them. Thanks.

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  79. Sounds great!


    chas779@gmail.com

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  80. always on the lookout for new stuff to read. thanks!

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  81. These are great, and I CANNOT believe there is a Jennifer Weiner book I have missed. I must look into that ASAP. Thanks!

    kpuleski at gmail dot com

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  82. Awesome, I'd love to read these, especially the Jennifer Weiner one.

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  83. Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank... man, I don't even need to read this one-- I already love it!

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  84. I'd love to enter! :D

    anastasia_falling@yahoo.com

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  85. Great giveaway! Would love to win!

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  86. I am oh so interested in winning. Really. Really, really. I am. Really.

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  87. awesome plesae enter me thanks

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  88. Please enter me--pretty please, with all that is good and fattening on top!

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  89. I would love to read chick-lit or goodnight nobody. THey look like really fun reads!

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  90. I am always looking for a new read. Thanks.

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  91. I love me some mindless reading! Thanks so much for this generous giveaway!

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  92. Love books! Thanks for entering me.

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  93. Always looking for new books to read! Count me in!

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  94. enter me please

    tonya w.

    fins2thrite at aol dot com

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  95. I love books & appreciate the chance to win:)

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  96. Here's my entry. Thanks!
    callmeabookworm at gmail dot com

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  97. I love chick-lit (and books of all kind). Please count me in!

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  98. Oh, what a selection! Count me in! ( meg.wilson@gmail.com )

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  99. Count me in! I'm a chick-lit junkie, and there's nothing like a funny book to make a bad day good!

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  100. OOO bedtime reading! ID love to have any of them

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Gentle Readers:

For the time being, I have turned off comment moderation. Please don't spam; it's not nice.

xxx, Poppy.