My hope, since this is to promote reading among reluctant readers, is that if one of you book-loving people wins, you'll share your copy around and push it on new readers in turn, so this is sort of my investment in you. A fun Pay-It-Forward type of deal. (Though of course, you're free to do what you want with it if you win.)
This year, I'm giving away 3 copies to my followers: one here, one on Facebook, and one on Twitter (so make sure you enter through those, too, for an added chance of winning!). Each giveaway is US only, and lasts only one day!!
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Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
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this is so awesome i so want to be a giver next year it is so awesome to spread the love for reading especially john green
ReplyDeleteI always recommend children's books xD, Like Matilda, Harry Potter or Tuck Everlasting
ReplyDeletethe book I would push out would be wildthorn by jane eagland since it is so beautifully written and amazing in so many ways
ReplyDeleteI have pushed "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" on anyone that has ever asked me for a good book recommendation. I love that book!
ReplyDeleteEither The House Next door by Anne Rivers Siddons or The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.
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ReplyDeleteI hope to participate in World Book Night next year. This is so great of you to share a chance to win with us internet people who probably don't get out enough. :)
ReplyDeleteI would push 'The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern towards adults and young-adults and 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman on younger readers.
Awesome give away.. I am a HS English teacher.. if I have a girl who is a reluctant reader..I steer her towards the Sarah Dessen books. For a male in my classroom, I usually start with Chris Crutcher or Carl Deucker
ReplyDeleteI've pushed The Time Traveler's Wife to a couple friends. I've even shared MY copy. That almost never happens.
ReplyDeleteIt depends on what their interests are but I just recently finished the Infernal Device Series by Cassandra Clare and it was amazing so I would probably recommend that series!!!
ReplyDelete"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith but that's mostly because (a) I figure a series would be conducive to getting the person to *continue* reading and (b) Andrés already said "The Time Traveler's Wife"
ReplyDeleteThe Marbury Lens - definitely not your typical YA book! It's not for the younger crowd, more for older YA or adult readers!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Leanne
The Fault in Our Stars! I'll turn a reluctant into a frenzy :)
ReplyDeleteA Wrinkle in Time is a great book to get the reluctance out of the readers! Hopefully I'll be able to read this book, my whole AP class has been raving about it
ReplyDeleteI would push The Maze Runner on to reluctant readers because it is really captivating and a really great read.
ReplyDeleteI'd push Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteGreat fairytale retellings from princes' POV and it's funny!
I think kids will enjoy it :)
I would push the Twilight series. I didn't want to read it until my brother was reading. I am glad I did. I love it. Tore923@aol.com
ReplyDeleteWell I would want to share the story of Pudge and his coming of truth and finding a new challenge in his life by reading "Looking for Alaska" by non other than "John Green" that is what the object is is to share our love of books with others and I have 4 daughters in law that get my books and pass them down to others.. Thankyou..
ReplyDeleteName Me Nobody by Lois Ann yamanaka. It's about bullying and friendship. And all that stuff. People need to read it.
ReplyDeleteWhat book I would push on a reluctant reader...hmmmm? Depends on the reader. I work in a library with a lot of middle grade students that say they don't like to read so I try to recommend books about something they find interesting.
ReplyDeleteI push the Percy Jackson series or any books written by James Dashner.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the awesome giveaway Misty! I usually suggest The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It's one of my favorite books and it's also super short so people don't have to invest a lot of time in it
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway! I haven't heard of World Book Night before - I'll need to look into it.
ReplyDeleteAs for book pushing - it depends on the person's age, honestly. Can't go wrong with The Hunger Games or Harry Potter though!
I was a giver this year too! My son and I walked around the neighborhood tonight. I am pushing Nora Roberts' Montana Sky.
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I'd love to give out copies of The Secret Garden. One of my all-time favorites. A very special book. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a big-time The Hunger Games pusher. And the best part is that even my friends who hate to read (yes, these weirdos exist) have loved the books.
ReplyDeleteHmmm.. I think it depends on what they enjoy. I'd say to start out maybe Ellen Hopkins books. While they are on the larger side, they're in poem form which catches people's interests and also maybe makes it a little easier for people to read. That's my starting point and then I start to branch out a bit :3
ReplyDeleteDepending on the age, etc I think Percy Jackson is great for reluctant readers, particularly boys.
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