I missed someone out of my auto-read list. This is a bit mortifying as I’ve actually had personal interaction with the author and adore her books. She is lovely and offers good advice on home remedies for things like acid reflux. She wrote a book that felt just perfect for me, like she’d written it for me — I’m speaking, of course, of Jo Walton’s Among Others. She’s written in a lot of different genres: dystopian alternate history with a detective story in the Small Change books; dragons in an Austenesque society in Tooth & Claw; fantasy based around the home and relationships in Lifelode; alternate Arthuriana in The King’s Peace/The King’s Name… She’s a versatile author who has yet to write a book that I didn’t enjoy, and The Prize in the Game is one of those few books that moved me to tears.
This correction is important because now I am going to run a giveaway! I’m going to Belgium to stay with my partner at the end of this week, and before I go anywhere I usually announce a guessing game on Twitter: how many books am I taking with me?
To make this easier, we’re not including the comic books I’m taking to lend to Lisa, or books on either of my ereaders. We’re just talking about dead tree books. That’s all you have to do: guess the number of dead tree books I will take with me to Belgium. I don’t know yet myself, so I can’t give you any hints. The only guidance I can give is that I’ve been known to take anything from five to twenty books with me on this particular trip, I will probably read about a book a day, and I will be there two weeks, but I will be going to one of my favourite bookshops in the world while I’m there.
The prize will be one book, under £10, by any author mentioned in either my auto-read list or my reread list, which I will send anywhere in the world via Bookdepository. If you enter, make sure I have a way to contact you so I can get your address! The winner will be the person whose guess comes closest to the number of books I actually have with me on the train come Friday 15th November.
You can enter by leaving a comment here, or by emailing me at bibliophibianbreathesbooks[at]gmail[dot]com.
ETA: If two people guess the same number, that’s fine — I’ll just pick one of them to get the prize by a random draw.
I reckon maybe 15? x
Probably a good guess — I like multiples of five and three…
I’m going to guess 12 ~Squirtlet
You know me so well. Probably a good guess.
I’d say about 16 in case you read more than a book a day!
Probably a reasonable bet. I like even numbers.
I’ll go against the grain and go for thirteen…
I quite like the number thirteen…
I’ll guess big with 18! I hope you have a great time!
Hmmm, not a bad guess, certainly! I do have a big suitcase…
I am going to go with 11, because I like that number and there’s a bookshop waiting for you 😉
Hmmmm, we shall see…
(Edited: because omg what brain?)
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Like books? My friend is running a book giveaway in preparation for an upcoming trip. ^_^
I’ll go for 10 because all the comments here beat me to the answers I most wanted to give. *latecomer XD*
Yeah, enough people are guessing that I think I’d better allow more than one person to guess the same number! (And then pick a winner at random.)
On 12 November 2013 16:29, Bibliophibian Inc.
Sounds fair! ^-^
I’m going for broke and guessing twenty. I’m a bibliophile myself and I get excitable as to choice when I’m away, so I usually bring at least that many.
Probably a pretty good guess, given my reading habits!
I’m going low and guessing eight, because space for the books you’re going to buy is important.
Very, very true.
I’m guessing 14.
Hmmmmm, a nice even number…
As you know I guessed 20!! But I don’t want to win……..
So who do I give the prize to if you do win?!
To whoever else guessed the same number!!
What was the answer?
Did books bought en route count? Although I gather the train was caught by the skin of your teeth!!
I didn’t buy any books en route. The answer was six.
On 15 November 2013 19:44, Bibliophibian Inc.