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Monday, June 6, 2011

Small Blogs, Big Giveaways!!!



37 Books + 11 Gift cards = 48 PRIZES
Read the full list of prizes and all the information here!

**Be sure to check out the mini-game at the bottom of this post for an additional entry!!

WOW, amazing giveaway, right?! And this is very simple, all you have to do to win some of these great prizes is to sign up using the inlinkz and…That’s it! If you want extra entries, please go to our hosts and see what you can do to win them! I bet you’ll find some amazing new blogs and follow them to show support! Please READ THE RULES!

HOSTS:
Organized by: Reading Romances(+5 is the number of extra entries you may get here) Leave a comment, Become a follower, tweet/blog or link about the giveaway. Will be hosting a giveaway on June 17th.


A Little Sun Shy:(+3)- Also giving away for the EU readers, a hardback copy of the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead Reckoning!











Love, Laugh and Read (+3)

My Book & Me (+5 entries)








Romancing the Darkside (+3) Also hosting: Save My Soul Blog Tour: Excerpt & Giveaway – June 9th


So Many Books, Here’s Mine (+3) Also hosting: Sizzling Summer Setting Writing Contest.

The Magic Attic (+5) Will also be hosting blog tours during june 6-13!

Rules:

1.Sign up using the inlinkz tool(you only need to do that once for the big giveaway, the SAME inlinkz will appear on all blogs).

1.2 Go on each blog and find how you can earn more entries. Then use send your entra entries by filling out the form.

1.3 Read the blog rules to know how to sign up for the prizes other blogs might be providing.

2.This is an INTERNATIONAL giveaway

3.You must be at least 18 years or older, or of legal age in your country.

4.The contest will end on JUNE 13th at 11:59 pm GMT and winners will be posted after they have been selected.

5.Winners will be selected using Random.org

5.1 The winners will be notified by email and announced on all hosting blogs.

5.2 The winners will have THREE days from the date they are posted to provide a mailing address. If you do not contact me within three days a replacement winner will be selected. NO EXCEPTIONS.

6. Each blogger will be responsable for mailing the prize they provided. No replacements will be made. Your email address will not be saved or used for any other purposes then to contact the winner in the contest for their mailing address.

6.1 Love, Laugh and Read is not responsible for other prizes that are not honored, distributed in a timely manner, lost, stolen, or damaged during transit.

7. All giveaways are subject to change/cancellation without prior written notice.

Winners:
The more participants we get, the more prizes we’ll give!
The first winner will choose 13 items (including the maximum number of 2 gift cards)

The 2nd will choose 12 items after the 1st winner has chosen(including the maximum number of 2 gift cards)

The 3rd will get 10 items after the 2nd winner has chosen (including the maximum number of 2 gift cards)

The last 2 books will be given to one of our lucky hosts – who’ll be selected using random.org! In case any gift cards remain, they’ll also be awarded to our hosts.

If we reach 50 sign ups I’ll select one random lucky winner to receive one of the gift cards listed!

If we reach 100 sign ups I’ll select another radom lucky winner to receive one of the gift cards listed!

If we reach more than 200 sign ups, by the end of the event I’ll select THREE random lucky winners to receive one of the gift cards listed each!

How you can get Bonus Entries HERE:

1. +1 entry for leaving a comment

2. +2 entries for becoming a follower (networked blog, twitter or RSS)

3. +3 entries for tweeting about the giveaway/blogging about it/ linking via your sidebar (don’t forget to share the link!).



Mini Game!!

I want to know your favorite quote from your favorite book. Could be anything, anything at all! Just leave a comment telling me the quote and the book, and why you like it sooo much!! That easy to get an extra entry!!









How do you get extra entries from Love, Laugh & Read you ask? Simple:

+1 Follow via Twitter (right sidebar)
+1 Follow via Google Friend Connect (left sidebar)
+1 Answer my mini-game question (see above)

That simple! And don't forget to tally up your entries and check them off using the form below:

Send your extra entries by filling out this form!

Think you might want to get in on the action for the next giveaway? Sign up to host the 2nd edition by filling out this form!

49 comments:

  1. "Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"
    "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did."
    — Ilona Andrews (Magic Strikes)

    I love these guys' humor, and this is my fave quote :)

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  2. I'm currently reading Winterborne by Augusta Blythe and late last night this just absolutely grabbed me. (I guess because I am really cat lady myself) LOL " I must look like an idiot shaking my head and murmuring to myself. Like a lady with too many cats."
    Laurie

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  3. The favourite line of mine would be from Twilight
    "Bella-You are my sun Jacob, balancing out my clouds.
    Jacob- Clouds, I can handle that but I can't fight with an Eclipse."

    This was the only line which was a masterpiece in the entire saga!

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  4. @Laurie: Lol, I love it.

    @Soutik: I am not a Twilight fan (ducks from Twihards throwing tomatoes) but THAT is a terrific line!

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  5. "There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

    -Jace from the Mortal Instruments series.

    And I'm not a Twilight fan either, but that is a pretty line!

    breakkanamexd[at]aol[dot]com

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  6. Jace:"One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
    Clary:"Meaning you?"
    Jace:"What else?"

    or

    Jace:"Can I help you with something?"
    Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
    Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive."

    or

    Clary:"Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    Jace:"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked."

    Sorry for three quotes but I love The Mortal Instruments! And I love Jace even more! And also Cassandra Clare´s writing! Really. =) That is the reason why The Mortal Instruments are my favourite series - just because I love TMI and Jace. There are not necessary any other words. =D

    I know I am fool. =D =)

    Nikita

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  7. My all time favorite book quote is
    "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

    from Pride and Prejudice, which is my all time favorite book in the world. I love the quote because no matter how the times change, this is still the truth. I doubt THAT will ever change.

    tfalick-twitter
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    tfalick(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  8. GFC Krystal Larson twitter Icecream1891 edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom
    "Just a squirrel. Think the old man was feeling sentimental this morning, even wished me luck!" The Hunger Games :)

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  9. "Simi? What was it you told me once about families? (Aimee)
    We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts. (Simi)" from Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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  10. " you're slower than a fat kid on crunches"
    from the house of night series
    when I read it just makes me laugh!

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  11. Thank you so much for the giveaway!

    GFC Follower: Kati R
    romancingrakes AT gmail DOT com
    Twitter: romancingrakes

    Favorite quote: "'You either need to find your way out of my bed, or I will find my way into you,' he growled."
    -The Rake and the Recluse by Jenn LeBlanc

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  12. +1 Follow via Twitter: ===> @SpadesHigh
    +1 Follow via Google Friend Connect: ===> SpadesHighReads
    +1 Mini-game question:
    "If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." - The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho

    Isn't that a great quote!? I was so voicing out "I know right!!?" to myself when I read it LoL

    You guys are trully awesome for hosting this HUGE and generous giveaway!! Thank you so much for the chance to enter and win some cool prizes!!
    SpadesHigh @ http://SpadesHighReads.blogspot.com
    
Bayayrea_munkie at hotmail dot com

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  13. One of my favorite books is Never Change by Elizabeth Berg. Here's a great quote:

    "Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything."

    I'm a new follower from Book Blogs - this giveaway is incredible! Thanks for hosting.

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  14. You guys are all awesome!! Loving reading the answers!! Great quotes. Good Luck to you all :)

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  15. Douglas Adams is one of my favorite authors ever and he has many, many quotes I could choose from, but this particular one is poignant and makes me a bit sad every time I read it. I love it and I think Douglas Adams was a literary genius...

    "This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for." - Douglas Adams

    Anyway, thanks for the chance for extra entries and I'm your newest follower. Please follow me back when you get the chance. Thanks! :)

    -Sandra from http://sandrathenookworm.blogspot.com

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  16. Sakura, I love that quote! What a powerful statement. I love it! Thanks so much for sharing...and I'll be checking you out soon :)

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  17. Thanks for the giveaway!

    My favourite quote:

    "To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed."
    Katniss Everdeen @ The Hunger Games

    Ana Norte

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  18. My favorite quote:

    "When he plays
    all the flowers swap colors
    and years and decades and centuries
    of rain pour back into the sky"
    The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson.

    I get chills every time I read it.

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  19. "If the moon smiled, she'd resemble you
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating."

    Ariel by Sylvia Plath

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  20. The one that comes to my head is from the latest Cat & Bones book where Bones says to Teddy "If you ask me if I sparkle I'll kill you" or something along those lines!

    I Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/Maria_Smith_76/status/77920437249646592

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  21. "Your job will be to separate the white thumbtacks from the colored ones. Be sure to throw the colored ones away. They must leave the building. If they don't, then you will. The president, Daniel Rosen, likes only white thumbtacks at The Agency. Also, should you ever serve him a drink, he has just four ice cubes in his Diet Coke. If you put in more, he will throw the surplus ice cubes at you. If you put in three, he'll throw the entire drink at you."

    From The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder by Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare

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  22. Quote from Pride and Prejudice. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." I like this because it sets the stage for what is to come.

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  23. Easy "DONT PANIC" Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy rocks :)

    Tweet

    http://twitter.com/#!/frellathon/status/77995195467173888

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  24. "Want me to flex my magic for you, baby?" :D
    It's from The Demon's Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan

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  25. Okay, so I think it's safe to say that Breaking Dawn was a book that incensed me beyond the tell of - but - my favorite quote came from Eclipse actually and it belongs to my favorite character in the whole Twilight Saga, Rosalie Hale Cullen.

    "Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending – but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now."

    There was so much telling in who Rosalie really was and why she who she became, that made me love her even more. It was such a beautiful quote and very real. Probably the most real this series will ever get. And even then, it never really appreciated Rosalie too much.

    But, yes thank you so much for being a part of this and of course, I'm totally your new stalker now and I hope I haven't offended you. Ignore the crazy girl in a tree. LOL. ;)

    Suz @ A Soul Unsung

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  26. Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

    From Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    And ain't it the truth?

    danaan at gmx dot at

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  27. Such great quotes! I love reading them!!

    @Maria: I LOVE that line. Bones is one of my favorite characters ever and when he said that I literally LOL'd! Awesome

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  28. "You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
    If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea."
    From Francesca Lia Block's "Wasteland".

    Usagi @ Birth of a New Witch
    http://witchoftheatregoing.wordpress.com

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  29. My favorite book quote is "Well, I'm back." from The Lord of the Rings. Beautiful and melancholy in its simplicity, the perfect ending to the novel.

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  30. "We is so much better than I"-"Suzanne's Diary of Nicholas" by James Patterson :)

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  31. I don't have the book with me (so this is just loose wording) right now but i love when edward tells bella "thats like comparing a tree to the entire forrest"

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  32. "I set off, off to kill the man I love."
    From the end of Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead because it's a great line, just horrible to end a book with when (at the time) it's the latest in the series. Plus it kinda signifies the point at which I really fell in love with the series.
    jessicamariesutton(at)msn(dot)com

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  33. GFC Follower.Thanks for the giveaway.augustlily06(at)aim(dot)com.

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  34. Delirium has some amazing quotes , one of my favourite being 'You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes'

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  35. I have so many quotes I love, so I will pick one from the current book I'm reading. The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Markus Sakey: " "Life is a raindrop." "

    It's so simple, and yet very beautiful and so true. Life is so fragile..

    April @ My Shelf Confessions

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  36. "Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right." from Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I like this quote because sometimes that's just the way life works.

    GFC follower = Juana Esparza

    jmesparza821(at)gmail(dot)com

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  37. Vampire Academy is my favorite so I like this one "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you." - Dimitri, VA Their are so many great ones!

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  38. Hmm... Okay, got it! Fourth book of Hitchhiker's:

    "God's final message to his Creation: "We apologize for the inconvenience."

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  39. Oh this giveaway is coming along great! I wish I could give you all a prize...these quotes are fantastic...and giving me some thought of picking up some new books...hmmmmm :)

    Good luck guys!!

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  40. Twitter: imabookshark
    Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/imabookshark/status/78814911274291200
    GFC: Mickey @ imabookshark
    Answer to question: "We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts."
    — Richelle Mead (Succubus Blues)

    Thanks,
    Mickey @ imabookshark

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  41. My favorite ever is this one: "Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)"
    — Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

    It's so much like me it's scary. LOL :P
    thank!

    kah_cherub at hotmail dot com

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  42. My favorite book quote is "Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk."
    by Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)
    GFC follower as Diana
    Twitter as @artdem83

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  43. Thanks for the giveaway!

    +1 Follow via Twitter - @IngaSilberg
    +1 Follow via Google Friend Connect - GFC inga
    +1 Answer my mini-game question (see above)-
    My favoritequoute is "To be or not to be, is thy question" by William Shakespeare' Hamlet

    inga from http://www.ingasilbergbooks.com/

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  44. I like this quote from the Hunger Games:

    "Happy Hunger Games and may the odds be ever in your favor" Effie Trinket

    I just always found that line so funny in the book.

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  45. I like this Pride and Prejudice number:

    Mr. Darcy: I... do not have the talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.
    Elizabeth Bennet: Perhaps you should take your aunt's advice and practice?

    I love the dialogue in P&P really. So great!

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  46. "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

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  47. "So long and thanks for all the fish" --Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    It just amuses me (:

    Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/hikablack/status/79937113386258432

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  48. Ahahaha....I LOVE that line. Always gives me a giggle :)

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