And let's just say, I know the three blocks on 34th St. between 8th Ave. and 11th Ave. very well. Here's a bird's eye view (taken from the Empire State Building on Tuesday).
On Saturday at BEA, my main focus was the author signings. In the morning, I went to some picture book signings with my friend Heather. In the afternoon, I ran around trying to hit a bunch of signings with Alea and Gail that were all at the same time. We were successful for the most part! I had such a blast getting to chat with authors, publicists and bloggers that I've been in touch with over the past year. The books are just icing on the cake (and nice souveniers). Here is my stack of signed books from Thursday/Friday/Saturday (not including the picture books or Geektastic).
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Liar - Justine Larbalestier
Once Was Lost - Sarah Zarr
Candor - Pam Bachorz
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
Prophesy of the Sisters - Michelle Zink
Going Bovine - Libba Bray
Sea Change - Aimee Friedman
One Wish - Leigh Brescia
Also Known As Harper - Ann Haywood Leal
The Plague - Joanne Dahme
Lips Touch - Laini Taylor and Jim Di Bartolo
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
The Unnamed - Joshua Ferris
Little Bird of Heaven - Joyce Carol Oates
Saturday evening was Little Brown's Geektastic party. Amy (My Friend Amy) and I had lots of fun bowling badly! I was also stalked by David Levithan (and have top secret pictorial proof). Thanks to the team at Little Brown for organizing such a fun event.
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And now, something special for readers of my blog. While I was at BEA, I got three packages shipped to me. Liar, Shiver and Catching Fire. Since I already have signed copies of these three titles, I want to pass them on to one lucky blog reader. This contest is open internationally, and will run until June 17th at 11:59 PM.
For one entry, tell me either a great lie you told, something that makes you shiver, or to what lengths you would be willing to go to catch Catching Fire.
For a second entry, post a link to this contest on your blog or social network site, and tell me you did so in a separate comment.
Good luck!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 365 of 365O.M.G!!!! I'm dying to read CATCHING FIRE!!! And I'm super excited for SHIVER as well.
What I'd do to get a copy of CATCHING FIRE?
I'd do pretty much anything, except for buying an ARC, because I'd feel way too bad about it.
I also posted a link on my blog.
Jessica
Chicklitteens@gmail.com
OMG! I don't think I've ever seen this many comments on one blog! Wow!
Just posted on Win A Book for you.
Don't enter me.
What makes me shiver -- this recurring nightmare I have of dying by drowning in a car -- how strange is that especially since I live in a landlocked area. But it gives me the shivers everytime I have it.
marielay@gmail.com
hmm...what makes me shiver. well when im cold, obviously. and spiders/bugs.
hj_brunette@hotmail.com
Clowns make me shiver.
I would go on the Hunger Games for a copy of Catching Fire.
In my nightmare, my 17-year-old-son was trapped inside a helicopter. A fire was coming but the helicopter wouldn’t work and his seatbelt wouldn’t unfasten. The fire came closer and closer and he told his buddies to leave him and save themselves. They were all wearing uniforms of some sort, like they were in the army. The next day, I decided not to tell him about the dream, but I did tell him never to join the army. He laughed and said he had no plans to join the army, but he was thinking about becoming a smoke jumper (first time he’d ever mentioned it). Shivers!
lanamk@gmail.com
I just posted a message about your contest on the Utah Children's Writers yahoo group. May the best reader win!
lanamk@gmail.com
I don't really lie, so something that makes me shiver is... -40*C winters. Yep, those make me shiver.
I posted about it here: http://bookcontestlinks.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-5th-2009.html
Laina1312@gmail.com
What makes me shiver? Zombies. That is literally the only thing that scares me anymore. And I mean really scared, not the "I'm uncomfortable because you're showing me gore" scared, because that's not being scared, that's just not being comfortable with what is on the screen. Scared is actually freaking out after seeing a zombie movie while walking through a dark forest...*shiver*
I blogged about this here: http://wisb.blogspot.com/2009/06/sff-links-some-june-book-giveaways.html
Relevant info in my profile. Thanks!
For Catching fire I would learn to breath fire while walking on hot coals(two things that would actually be interesting to learn)but may cause severe burns to me. I adored Hunger Games
As for a lie it isn't great more extensive- I have circle of 2cm diameter on my upper arm that sort of looks like a burn (actually were veins joined together). When I was 11 I told a friend with help from two other friends that I was born with a third arm and it was amputated after I was born,also said that it was displayed at the hospital and after a week my Dad (who found this all very funny) even volunteered to alter baby clothes as if my parents were prepared encase the surgery hadn't worked. It lasted for 3 months until we couldn't add anymore than we came clean.
seahn-gallagher@hotmail.com
Amazing contest!
Something that makes me shiver (not in a good way) would be clowns. I don't like clowns - they totally creep me out. Not sure why but they do.
I would be willing to sing in public to catch Catching Fire. I don't like being the center of attention and singing in public would terrify me.
A great lie - can't think of one. I try very hard not to lie. :)
lgladnick AT cox DOT net
In order to get a copy of Catching Fire, I'd be willing to jump naked into the Kenai River (in Alaska) in the dead of winter. And I'd be smiling the whole time, if I knew I'd get the book after getting warm enough to feel my limbs again.
tiffanyak1986(at)hotmail(dot)com
I'm a horrible liar. Cockroaches make me shiver - just the thought of them sends chills up my spine. Gross.
melacan at hotmail dot com
I will do anything for Catching Fire. I will lie to you and tell you a silly story about a past lie. I will lie to you about great acts of bravery I will commit in the name of Catching Fire. I will tell you about ghosts, ghouls and demon beasts that made me shiver. The story will be a lie.
Whatever you want me to tell you in order for you to send me this book... I will say it.
I tweeted the contest here: http://twitter.com/Tasses/status/2064343509
No lie.
OOO I soo badly wish I won this! I'm an avid reader but you don't get good YA books here:(
I'll just answer all three questions because I feel like it:D
A great lie I've told? Ehh...I didn't want my frends to know who I had a crush on, so I made up a whole fantasy guy along the course for make-believe. Uhh, yeah. Not proud of it. I wish fantasy-guy existed though *sigh*
The thought of being completely alone in this world makes me shiver. And the though of spiders. I wouldn't say spiders themselves because that makes me scream and run, not shiver.
Lengths I'd go to to snag a copy of Catching Fire:
1.) Break into Suzanne Collins' house (YAY!:P)
2.) Give up pizza (THE HORROR!)
3.) Act like a pretentious girly-girl who loves baby pink and makeup(EECK. I repeat, EECK.)
4.) Not talk for a year (omg. that's gotta be hard. but anything for that book...that piece of heaven).
SO that's it. Second comment coming innn!!
and here I've blogged about this:
http://prodelektric.blogspot.com/2009/06/preseting-lenores-big-bad-sarcasm-at.html
There was this one written roleplay I did where my character got kidnapped. Throughout the whole game, I was shivering nonstop because I was so excited. Sadly, I let her get killed.
Linked this to sidebar: www.orientaldesires.blogspot.com
To get Catching Fire I most certainly would...eat a klondike bar? No wait, I think I messed that up!
And something that makes me shiver...well that would be spiders undoubtedly.
Thanks for the giveaway,
Cheers,
julie.sherritt[at]gmail.com
Bugs make me shiver. And the Blue Man Group. And the Burger King Man. Good luck all :)
What a great giveaway! I'll tell you something that makes me shiver- nails on a blackboard! UGH!
I tweeted this giveaway at: http://.twitter.com/ChickwithBooks
quzy(at)mac(dot)com
Thanks!
Wow - you had quite a haul! What a great giveaway. :)
The sound of someone's teeth scraping against a fork makes me shiver.
nnjmom at yahoo dot com
I blogged about your giveaway here:
http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2009/06/06/bookish-links-for-saturday-june-6-2009/
nnjmom at yahoo dot com
To get a copy of Catching Fire, I would put mayo, ketchup, pretzels and eggs in a blender and drink it. And other possible ingredients.
I linked this contest in my blog as well.
I will have to with a lie. Claiming to parents a very important university exam as passed was the biggest and the most stupid lie I ever said. Lucky me, I passed it the following month, so they never find out.
calcamanin@gmail.com
What I would do for Catching Fire?
I would fun around my school screaming "I'M A MOCKING JAY! I REALLY AM" while wearing a home made mocking jay costume. Oh, and I would answer all the questions - which I am going to do now. :)
What makes me shiver?
Boys who have cooties. Haha, just kidding. Um.. people who are happy all the time.
The greatest lie I've told-
That's a hard one. Probably when I told my sister I didn't break her 100 dollar Mark Jacobs sun glasses. I did.
-Sana
Those three have been on my wishlist for awhile. Well, I'm not much of a liar but I do have a great shiver! We recently moved into a new house but I wasn't aware of the fact that during this time of the year it's mating season for a particular animal: the fiddler crab. Well, I adore crab legs but I've never really seen a crab in real life... until now. Those things are SO creepy! They look like mini-turantulas to me. They're about the size of a half dollar or a little bit bigger and they keep getting in the house. My cat has gotten particularly good at killing them but I still can't help but screech and move to the other side of the room as quickly as possible when I see them. Of course, hubby finds this hilarious *shudder*.
Ladytink_534(at)yahoo(dot)com
I have a lot of great lies!
1. I told my psycho Jonas brother fan of a friend that the Jonas brothers died in a plane crash that morning and she believed me ( until she got home and looked it up of course!)
2. I went to camp with my best friend that looks a lot like me and we lied to the whole camp saying that we were twins ( they all still think we are and we've been back 2 more times)
3. I told one of my friends that is a big Taylor Lautner fan ( Played Jacob Black in Twilight) that he was my distant cousin and to back my lie up I put a contact with his name in my phone which was really actually my number...
Wow I sound so mean.....
So generous! :-) What makes me shiver? Bees (actually it's more like full-on panic, lol), large spiders, and ... BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker. ;-)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Lindsey
ladyufshalott at yahoo.com
Spiders make me shiver! And being cold...but I think that is a given.
Thank you for the giveaway :)
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com
The sound of nails or chalk screeching on a blackboard makes me shiver the wrong way.
I'd love to get Shiver, Liar and Catching Fire
gaby317nyc AT gmail DOT com
I'm a follower
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I'm posting a link to this contest on my blog's sideroll
gaby317nyc AT gmail DOT com
Daddy long legs make me shiver. Serious, serious phobia.
What makes me shiver? It might be strange, but the smell of Halls cherry cough drops, i hate cherries, and these smell terrible. Either that or huge thick black spiders. I'm shivering now!
A great lie, something that makes me shiver, or what lengths I'd go to, to get Catching Fire. That's a toughie to choose from.
A lie: Let's see...Whenever I'd wake up with my little sister in my bedroom (a while ago; it was something she enjoyed to do at the time) reading or doing this puzzle I've got on my desk, I would pretend to be asleep and just yell random stuff. She still thinks that I talk in my sleep ;D (e.g. "Return the diamond at once!" or something >.<)
Nothing much sends shivers down my spine - just the thought of a Hunger Games movie. Or getting Catching Fire early. The excitement of that. Other things that send shivers down my spine are those annoying orange lady bugs XD. I almost dropped my laptop, once, because it was on it.
The lengths I would go to, to get Catching Fire. For one thing, if I knew somebody irl with it, I'd probably stalk them, no kidding. Knock on their door, demand for them to at least lend it to me for a day so I could read it (then, of course, I'd "misplace" it so I could keep it till I got my own copy). Or, online, I'd bid a lot of money, were my mother to let me (darn the fact that it's her ebay account and not mine!). Do bloggers’ contests like I am now, enter contests like that essay one on Scholastic. Really, I would do anything to get my hands on an advanced copy of Catching Fire: steal, lie, stalk. Track down Suzanne Collins, give her fifty dollars (or more :p) for it.
My email: AKMaliens@aol.com with the slim chance that I may win an ARC. If that email does not work, send to sombritta@yahoo.com (two t's). Now to hope with all my heart that I win; I want Catching Fire more than anything right now (I read The Hunger Games as soon as it came out; I'd read Collins' first series already, and I was excited for her newest works).
What makes me shiver, is whenever i read about Cato being skinned alive by the mutants in The Hunger Games. (flinches a little)
Thanks for this opportunity! :)
What makes me shiver, is whenever i read about Cato being skinned alive by the mutants in The Hunger Games. (flinches a little)
Thanks for this opportunity to win an arc! :)
tannercelestin@yahoo.com
What would I do for Catching Fire? How about spending an hour bugging my mom to get her to ask if anyone at her school was going to BEA. Turns out noone was unfortunately, but I was prepared to "convince" them to let me borrow their copy.
September just can't come soon enough. Except for the whole school starting thing...
always.amym@yahoo.com
To catch Catching Fire.... I would give up coffee for a year. This is difficult. I live off of coffee.
And something that makes me shiver is people talking about certain types of injuries, especially the snapping of things. It's not that I'm grossed out, exactly, but somebody talking about snapping their achilles tendon just makes me squirm.
yummyfishmeisterATgmailDOTcom
**The greates lie i have told and that i was so amazingly supprised that nobody caught on was that I meet Brad Pitt yes I know who would beleve a lie like that
** Somthing that make me shiver, is rats I hate seeing theme ever since i found on dead in my coat packer !!
*** I would sell anything i own to get a capy of aching fire
Something that makes me shiver is spiders. I can't stand them!!! Eek.
Briana
getanzt@gmail.com
I also posted a link to this contest in the sidebar of my blog. Thanks!
Briana
getanzt@gmail.com
Hmm, to catch Catching Fire? I would show up at the football team tryouts at a different school despite the fact I don't play football and I really dislike the sport. I'd do just about anything.
What makes my shiver? Roller coasters, don't ask because I have no idea whatsoever why. It's the combination of speed and heights, ugh. (I'd go on a roller coaster for Catching Fire)
Best lie? Well, my friend and I "hypnotized" my brother and blindfolded him before we moved around talking to him in funny accents. We had him convinced that when we hypnotized him he had been sent to an alternate reality.
hippofanatic@yahoo.com
A great lie I told? Once, I found $50 on the floor. I knew it must have belonged to someone, either my mom or dad. But I kept it in the cupboard and didn't mention anything. Then, my mom came searching for her lost fifty-dollar note. I lied to her that I didn't see anything. However, I returned the money to her at last and claimed that I found it in the cupboard. She knew I took it and scolded me for it.
aikychien(at)yahoo(dot)com
What makes me shiver? People who don't take care of their books. Books should be tread like humans. lol. Enter me please! cnhand84@yahoo.com
I'm a follower!
Roaches make me shiver!
linna.hsu(at) gmail (dot) com
Okay so I am sctually going to tell you something that makes me shiver AND what I would do for a copy of Catching Fire...
The thing that makes me shiver: Feet. I hate feet, if I didn't need them, I wouldn't have them. I hate my feet, other people's feet, seeing feet, anything feet. They just...ew.
So what would I do for Catching Fire? I would lick a stranger's foot. Ew, but yes. I would do it, for Catching Fire.
HarlequinTwilight@gmail.com
I posted about it on Twitter! twitter.com/samanthaleanne
HarlequinTwilight@gmail.com
What makes me shiver, gosh what a list! Rats, roaches, spiders, clowns (especially the Clown episode on Supernatural), and those creepy guys from the Buffy episode Hush!!!!!! Oh, and most of the food that Andrew Zimmern eats on the Travel channel show Bizarre Foods! I have wanted to read Shiver from Maggie Stiefvater since she started talking about it on her blog. Please enter me for it. Thanks for the great contest!
What is something that makes me Shiver? Spiders! I'm scared to death of the creepy-crawly, little nasties.
Briana
thebookpixie(at)yahoo(dot)com
Well, I told many lies as a child since the truth was too awful.
Psycho makes me shiver and I haven't been able to take a shower if I couldn't see out since I saw the movie!!
rebecca.cox@charter.net
Tweeted at ccqdesigns about this wonderful giveaway.
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rebecca.cox@charter.net
What would I do to catch Catching Fire?
Well, I'd be willing to fight 23 other kids to the death on national TV.
I'd love a copy of this book!
What makes me shiver? Have you ever seen those large brown cockroaches the size of a thumb? I don't know what they do in Texas other than crawling about, but in Sri Lanka they fly.
Just writing about them makes me shiver. Thankfully I haven't seen any in Canada. We just have mammalian pests like mice and raccoons here.
mdperera at hotmail dot com
Very cool giveaway!
Something that makes me shiver when I was a teacher of 4 year olds are when they would accidentally poop in their pants. I can handle vomit and I can handle blood, even urination if necessary, but poop? Not a chance I am going anywhere near that. It gives me the heeby-jeebies. Assistance here please!
mycreativeimagination at yahoo dot com
A great lie...
Well, the best i can think of is, a few days before my January results were coming out, in March, my mother asked me when they were coming out. I told her they weren't out till April and she believed me. This saved me from the possibility of being locked in a room for months just studying :)
Okay, I have a great *acting* a lie story (I'm not very good at lying in general so I hope this counts):
I was backstage at a Def Leppard concert (and just for reference, my most prized possession is my banged-up Def Leppard Hysteria keychain my brother gave me 19 years ago) and I had my ridiculous little manual camera and I was off to the side but there was this eight-foot stretch of empty space between the stage and the fenced-off crowd for media photogs only and I just waltzed in there all 'what? I belong here' and started shooting and one of the security guys knew I wasn't supposed to be there but he was too afraid to come tell me to leave because I was very much unapproachable, I-don't-have-time-for-your-crap in my general attitude and I TOOK PICTURES OF JOE ELLIOTT SINGING.
Lovely contest, by the way. Very generous.
Lots of things make me shiver... but mostly creepy stories... like about the scary guy that semi-stalks my Subway co-worker friend. And wears thongs that he pulls up over his sweatpants. Very creepy. Also the cold because I live in Michigan where it is winter more than any other season it seems and I am constantly shivering with goosebumps.
grochowskis@hotmail.com
I posted a link to your blog and an post about this contest on my blog.
http://thehidingspot.blogspot.com
grochowskis@hotmail.com
Something that makes me shiver- snakes! We recently had a small one in the HOUSE and I literally shook until it was gone!
I know this is the old lie that every girl has probably told. But I told a guy that I would date him and for him to call me (I just needed to get rid of him). He wouldn't take no for an answer and kept stalking me until I told him that. Then I never went to that club again (BTW i gave him a wrong number) He was a creep and scary!
clenna@aol.com
Lie- one of the biggest lies i told was when i was living a few hrs away going to community college and my mom asked me how i was getting to school and i told her a taxi but i was actually lieing because i was driving myself to school without a license... i know bad me... very bad... :S
Shiver- bugs make me shiver... or maybe its more of a shudder... blood too a little doesn't bother me but if its a lot ya that definately does
Catching Fire- hmm what would i do? i'd walk around my town and hug every person i saw... and im not a very huggy touchy person... lol
romancebookaddict(at)hotmail(dot)com
I would Paint my room with ketchup (hate it) and when i get my copy i would lick it all :)
blogged about it http://www.bebo.com/franmari :)
Something that makes me shiver...definitely fingernails down the chalkboard and standing outside in the freezing New England winter, in snow up to my knees, while my kids run around oblivious to the cold!
I'm also linking your contest to my blog!
http://blogs.ellingtonschools.org/larkin/
Thanks!
What makes me shiver?
Well... spiders. That's obvious. But one day, I was working at McDonald's and there was a spider crawling across the camera outside (the ones that point to the cars in drive thru) and it was so creepy to see it there... I could not stop freaking out.
That's one thing that makes me shiver...
<3 Chelsie
bookluverreviews@hotmail.com
The biggest lie I ever told was when I once told my friend that I could talk to bees. Both my brother and I would hang around an area of our backyard when we were 6 or 7 and also pretended this was true. Of course, being so young, my friend believed me.
venus_blossom at hotmail.com
What would I do to catch Catching Fire? Just about anything. I've been searching all over the Internet for contests to win a copy and even wrote my own version of what I would do in the Hunger Games in order to try and win a copy. I'm pretty sure I would do just about anything but kill or die for the book, because if I happened to die, how would I know what happened?
barbrafl737 (at) yahoo (dot) com
My biggest lie was in second grade. I hated my teacher. I told my parents that she teacher was a lazy woman and didn't give out any homework, and I got away with doing homework for most of the year...
ttt1612 AT yahoo DOT com
Something that makes me shiver is when I think about a hundred tiny spiders crawling on my back (or anyones for that matter...)
I posted the link on my sidebar!
taintedpoet@gmail.com
The thing that makes me shiver is the dark and mirrors. I'm terrified of both.
ajourneyofbooks(at)gmail(dot)com
This is linked to here: http://ajourneyofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/contest-list.html and on my sidebar.
ajourneyofbooks(at)gmail(dot)com
What would I do for Catching Fire? I would burn my only copy of Breaking Dawn!
Enter me please!!!
i_love_tennis_25@hotmail.com
Thanks a bunch!!
greatest lie? I told someone that I loved him even when I didn't. And I did it to make the person I really did love jealous. Not very nice of me, but it was in college and I've learned since then to be true to myself and others.
shiver? My nickname is shivers since I'm skinny and I get cold easily. So I guess I'm shivering over lots of things!
catching fire? Well, I certainly wouldn't let myself catch fire to get the ARC, but maybe I'd play with fire....
To get my hands on a copy of Catching Fire, I would write to David Levithan and Suzanne Collins and anyone at Scholastic everyday until it's released, begging for a copy. Or, I would paint Flame tatoos on both arms and my neck to pretend like I'm Katniss.
brainliar AT gmail DOT com
I posted this in my sidebar!
brainlair AT gmail DOT com
Roaches and caterpillars make me shiver. Yuck! Please count me in.
linna.hsu(at) gmail(dot)com
Something that literally makes me shiver is the sound of wet rubber boots(I'm not sure if that is the correct term in in English, perhaps it is Wellingtons?) shrieking on a floor. That makes me shiver and gives me goosebumps. Spiders also makes me shiver!
I've posted this great giveaway on my blog sidebar, here.
Thanks for doing this great giveaway!
My email: ladybug[AT]bluezone[DOT]no
A great lie I've told? Now I'm going to paint myself in a shade I probably wouldn't usually. I once told my parents (when I was 18 and still at home) that I was going to stay with a friend an hour away and instead was twenty minutes from home engaged in a romantic rendezvous with a delicious young man who I would have never wanted my parents to meet at that point.
I posted a link to you on my blog:
http://bookworminginthe21stcentury.blogspot.com/
A lie I once told was that my soul was born into two worlds, ours and the mythical parallel universe of Kalendria and that my alter ego on the other world was a witch. Her realm was under attack so I had to hypnotize myself to go fight the evil nations. The best part about the lie? They actually believed me.
japanese_starr@yahoo.com
Discovering something I can't identify in my food really makes me shiver.
What would I do to win a copy of "Catching Fire"? Hmmm... well, what have I already done? I've contacted the editor and asked for a copy (no go). Entered no short of five contests to win, and dream about it all the time. I would seriously think about flying or driving out to someone's house to pick it up anywhere in the country.
I tweeted about your contest!
http://twitter.com/eellsworth/status/2120484534
emilysreadingroom AT gmail DOT com
What makes me shiver? Cougars.
It was midnight and my cousins and I went out in their back yard (which happens to be in the middle of a forest filled with cougars) to jump on their trampoline. Well, it wasn't too long before we hear noises and thought it to be a cougar. My cousin screamed and then I did as well, plus, I pissed myself. SO, this counts for what I would do in order to catch Catching Fire: Tell the world that I peeed myself on a trampoline in front of my cousins...Which happened only a year and a half ago...
I've blogged about this contest at: http://3tsprincess.blogspot.com/
For Catching Fire? I'll fight you for it. Thumb wrestle, leg wrestle, or a spitting contest would be fine.
Heck I'll fight all you people for it! Let's go!
Or maybe not.
Something that makes me shiver: Heights--I always shake and sweat when I am up high. I even shiver when I am on an escalator!
Blogged about it: http://salenana.wordpress.com
I fI want to read Catching Fire, I'll have to find something about me that isn't dull to you. I guess when I was in 7th Grade, I had an awful math teacher. She was very strict and would bite your ear off if you forgot your homework. One day, I realized that I had left my homework at home, and I made myself throw up.
I guess that's not really a lie, but it wasn't telling the teacher I forgot my hoework either. Ah, my life is still so dull, I can't even think of anything better. :)
hmsflynn (at) sbcglobal (dot) com.
I fI want to read Catching Fire, I'll have to find something about me that isn't dull to you. I guess when I was in 7th Grade, I had an awful math teacher. She was very strict and would bite your ear off if you forgot your homework. One day, I realized that I had left my homework at home, and I made myself throw up.
I guess that's not really a lie, but it wasn't telling the teacher I forgot my hoework either. Ah, my life is still so dull, I can't even think of anything better. :)
hmsflynn (at) sbcglobal (dot) com.
i have posted this on my facebook and twitter. What would i do for catching fire....anything that does not equal me dying....what makes me shiver spiders and people i hate...The most recent lie i told was i took a $100 out of my grandmothers bag then told her my cousin did she believed me!
Mice make me shiver. I cannot stand the thought of one in my home after one of them ran across my pillow while I was on it. This past winter, I found two rats in my garage. I want to get rid of the mice, not for them to get bigger.
Thank you,
Christine
womackcm@sbcglobal.net
Something that makes me shiver is thunder and lightning.
I love the giveaway
Thanks
Megan
bookworm8675309@yahoo.com
I would do anything to catch a copy of Catching Fire. I'm sorry. It's true. I am a book junkie. If I have to swim to Alaska in my underwear I would be happy to. You can even stick me in one of those reality tv shows that pour bugs over you. In fact, I would even write on a blog for the first time(usually i'm just the creeper that reads the blogs and laughs at other people's entries).
Hi A great lie I told. MMMmmm. Well I remember a April fool's day fairly long ago, where I took it upon myself to play a couple of jokes on some coworkers. One of the jokes was replacing a fellow's desk plant with a dead one in the same pot. I was surprised at how annoyed he was. Of course I was asked if I did the deed and I denied it. But 10 days later the actual missing plant did show up on his desk repotted.
MarionG
polo-puppy-fluffy AT hotmail Dot com
Sounds like some fun books. Well my number one thing that makes me shiver is spiders especially walking through their webs out in the garden but my first thought was actually my niece when she screams LOL.
budletsmom(at)yahoo(dot)com
Alright...something that makes me shiver. Well, I would have to say whenever my cat, Mittens, leaves us little "presents" by the door outside. Yuck! There's nothing worse than finding a dead rabbit right beside your shoes. :P
Oops forgot my email!
booksobsession(at)gmail(dot)com
Wow. Way to make me salivate.
I once convinced my little sister that my best friend went overseas to get her tonsils out, only her boat shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland and her tonsils spontaneously changed into gills so she could breathe. Only when she swam to shore, she went ahead and got her tonsils out, and then on the way back the boat wrecked AGAIN, only off of Maine this time. Since she didn't have her Aquatonsils anymore, she just had to flail around in the freezing water until a lobster boat picked her up. She ended up losing her nose to frostbite. The moral of the story is, what happens in Ireland stays in Ireland.
My sister fell for it.
I have no idea why or how.
bookworm.crs@att.net
Wow, this is really generous of you!
Lol, something that makes me shiver (literally) is getting up in the morning when it's been snowing and the heat pump isn't on! (I live in a house that's up on this little hill- I feel bad when couriers have to deliver things to us!)
Ooh, something else that makes me shiver are scary movies- like Silence of the Lambs, the Ring, Carrie, etc. ;)
Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway! =)
Since I'm not much of a liar, or know of anything that makes me shiver, the last is my only option. If I could get a copy of Catching Fire, I would stay a virgin for at least the next 4 years. Not that big a deal, but I really want to read that book.
timidbutterfly2008(at)yahoo(dot)com
What makes me shiver? fingernails on a chalk-board!
lulimendez AT gmail DOT com
I would do absolutely ANYTHING- ANYTHING- to get this for a VERY special friend, who is one of the best people in the whole entire world! She has one of the best blogs out there! She was absolutely devastated when all the people were coming back from BEA and showing all their books to people! All she wanted to do was go to BEA and she couldn't. I would do absolutely ANYTHING to get this book!!! It would mean so much to me!!! OMG! She would love it!
What would I do to win Catching Fire?
Compete in the Hunger Games!
silverbookgirl@yahoo.com
Posted here: http://mariah-readingadventure.blogspot.com/
I shiver and get goose bumps anytime I see bugs crawling all over someone-even if its a just a picture. Freaks me out!
allygotts567@hotmail.com
what make me shiver is..
driving over a any kind of bridge, i always use to have this dream where i was always in the back seat and the driver passes out i try 2 take the wheel but we crash into the reel and the a big great white shark with its mouth open waiting to eat us.
*AND*
my dads creepy ghosts stories
*nightmares*
redlecat@yahoo.com
I don't want to say what I'd really do to get Catching Fire - it's never a good idea to post your illegal plans online. :)
Anyway, ferrets are something that makes me shiver. In a bad way, of course. I'm not even sure it could be called a shiver... more like a shudder/cringe/freakout.
I tweeted about this. Or twittered about it? Whichever you prefer. :)
http://twitter.com/xoKRaZyy/status/2177373162
Linked it!
http://dontlose.mtplace.blogspot.com
emmynoodle@gmail.com
if i win i would be so excited i'd take a plane to go pick it up instead of waiting for the shipping!
by the way i live in Uruguay!
marism4(AT)hotmail(DOT)com
I would love to win this! Here goes:
1) The creatures that make me shiver are ticks - deer ticks, dog ticks, any kind of ticks.
2) To get a copy of Catching Fire, I would (gag moi) EAT an engorged tick.
3) #2, above, was a LIE!
Do I win?
pasturepremium at yahoo dot com
+1
Add a second entry for me, please. I blogged about this at http://tinyurl.com/mbqjzz
Thanks for offering these books! I want to read all of them, but Catching Fire first, of course.
- Sara
pasturepremium at yahoo dot com
I start to shiver when I'm nervous.
I posted a link on my sidebar.
towerofbooks.wordpress.com
hmmmm...what makes me shiver..well here goes. I had this one friend in jr high, she was really in to the occult. I mean, she was REALLY into it. The entire school was afraid of her, and I was dared by my typical suburban christian friends to sit at the table claimed by her for a week. Turns out, she wasn't all that creepy, at least that is what i thought. So we became buddies, to my other chums disgust. She invited me over to her humble abode one fine Sunday afternoon for a sleepover. She told me to bring a candle, innocent enough, so I thought. It was around midnight, and this girl brought out a Ouija board, she then proceeded to "access the supernatural" to ask how long we would be friends. Apparently, these "beings" told us we would be chums for about 5 more minutes. The candles went out, and her big brother screamed bloody murder and jumped on me. That freaked me out so much. Indeed, we were only friends for about 5 more minutes. To this day, the glimpse of a Ouija board makes me shiver.
The best lie? See above :)
cnabanena@yahoo.com
What a great contest! I wasn't going to enter because there are already so many but I decided I might as well because I might just be the lucky one. :) Thanks for the chance!
To win Catching Fire I would enter a contest that already has over 300 entries!
5wrights1[at]verizon[dot]net
I would be your online slave for a week for a copy of Catching Fire =)
http://twitter.com/andreatn
posted the link to your contest!
*crosses fingers*
i would do anything for catching fire!!.....even sponge bath 50 old men!!!!
something that makes me shiver would be thousands of ants crawling all over my body and the gentle cascade of a rain drop against my skin on a sunny day....
fromasia81@gmail.com
I would probably go to the length of the local Barnes & Nobles down the street for Catching Fire. One, because I am not a runner and another because it's the only bookstore around my house, you know?
lilibethramos@live.com
posted on my side-bar: http://lilibethramos.blogspot.com
lilibethramos@live.com
Wow, what an amazing haul! A bunch of those are on my wishlist.
Vines make me shiver. I have a strange aversion to nonflowering plants after getting some caught in my hair once. Totally creepy.
Something that makes me shiver? Ohh, definitely bugs. Just thinking about it right I am getting goosebumps.
Sue
okibi_insanity[at]yahoo[dot]com
I blogged about this contest at my LJ: http://okibi-insanity.livejournal.com/8901.html
Sue
okibi_insanity[at]yahoo[dot]com
What would I do for Catching Fire?
I would probably run through a burning forrest, eat a bucket of worms, and dive into a pool of peanut butter!
I posted it on my journal:
http://rakelacreations.deviantart.com/
I posted a link for the contest here: http://snuffums888.deviantart.com/journal/
what makes me shiver?
when i dive into a pool of freezing cold water at night
I'm dying to read catching fire! i would give up my phone and computer and television for a year! (and I use my phone A LOT)!
i posted it on my myspace!
http://www.myspace.com/rainlover888
OH MY GAWD.
What would i do to get Catching Fire?
I would tatoo Peeta Mellark on my butt and i would run amok in the bookstore until someone hands the darn thing over. Thats what id do.
graceaparker@bellsouth.net
post blog in sidebar
http:/fayeflame.blogspot.com
redleocat@yahoo.com
Insects make me shiver. I can't stand them.
Mary D
zenrei57 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Hmm ... what makes me shiver? This sounds goofy, but the original B&W version of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD still scares the heck out of me lol
Not that I believe in zombies lol
I have the biggest fear of spiders, but I don't exactly shiver when they're around it's more insane screaming. I also can't stand ants. You know what, I just hate bugs.
I posted about this contest on my contests page.
http://justblindedbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/03/contests.html
I would love to win!
What would I do to get the book...hmmm. Maybe whip out the old lemonade stand!
runningmatey at hotmail dot com
To catch Catching Fire I would walk from one end of New York City to the other at midnight wearing only a towel.
I blogged it, too.
http://anda-andalee.blogspot.com/2009/06/catching-fire.html
What makes me shiver? Nails on a chalk board or my nieces high pitched yelp. Terrible Two is nothing to play with, believe me!
I shiver when my mom throws water on me in the morning to wake me up
What I would do to read Catching Fire? Eat mashed potatoes (I hate most all potatoes), mix foods (food should be left separate), listen to Bobby Dupea (my sister is obsessed). Or Maybe I would hire a certain boy wizard to help me get the book. Hmm. That sounds more like it.
Also, I get the shivers the most late at night. It is then that my imagination runs away from me. I swear the shadows turn into creatures and are just waiting to grab me. And every noise seems like a creatures voice just waiting...
To get catching fire, I would go around my neighborhood running naked with I love Peeta written all over my body and then break into someones house and tell them continuously that I love peeta until the cops come and take me away!
Spiderwebs. They make me shiver, almost more than the actual spiders (unless they are creepy and huge.) I used to have nightmares about spiderwebs.
paradoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
I couldn't get pregnant for 7 years. It was really hard when insensitive people asked why we didn't have children yet. So one day I got sick of the questions and told an unsuspecting person, "I can't have children because I don't have a uterus!"
I shiver when taking the ice cube tray out of the freezer!!
Things that make me shiver:
Spiders
Snakes
Small Inclosed Spaces
And The cold =)
Mandy,
bratdownstairs@yahoo.com
I posted the contest on my blogspot taffyscandy.blogspot.com
I really don't remember if I already posted a comment but i'll do another just in case.
What makes me shiver are spiders and well, just about all bugs...
Liz
liztapioka14@yahoo.com
I would have to say snakes make me shiver- I don't really like them
"Astrid," coach said, spitting on the ground, "I want you in left field. Karl's hurt himself and we need a body out there."
I stared dumbly at him. What in God's name had possessed him to make a decision like that? I was the second worst player on the team, except for Wally, who was three years younger than us and a professional clown to boot (Pratfaller, grade 3, fyi).
I have to admit, I was rather nervous when I walked out onto the field. Cory Higgins's mom up in the bleachers started to boo, and I couldn't blame her. Things must be dire if Coach was sending me out to play.
I only joined because of my brother James really. Mom said because James was as dumb as rocks he needed his sister to watch after him. Sadly, this is true. Once when I wasn't watching he duct taped himself to the cat. So I really needed to keep an eye on things.
I stood out in left field and watched James at his position as shortstop. He was stupid but he was an amazing player. No one could play like him, which made it more embarrassing when I had to. It wasn't too bad though. Mostly I just stood around. If I had to catch anything I just ran where Mrs. Higgins told me to. I'm pretty sure her voice was what inspired bullhorns. Well, that and the fact that she kind of has the face of one.
Anyway, so I was standing out there, minding my own business, when I hear the incredible sound of a CRACK! -ing noise that usually sends shivers down my spine because that means someone's hitting the ball out into my field.
"ASTRID!" blared Mrs. Higgins. "RUN RIGHT! RUN RIGHT!"
Blindly I obeyed, or thought I did, and looked up, still running, to see the object sailing out of the sky towards me. Well, actually, there were two. Because Mrs. Higgins had lost her patience with me when I ran left and instead had hurled a copy of a book she'd just bought, and I could see even from five hundred feet away that it was Catching Fire, which I'd been DYING to read. I ran towards that instead, glove outreached to catch it.
But I had forgotten about the zombie moles. You see, our town has had quite the infestation recently and while the mayor has tried measures like anti-viral medications and good old-fashioned shootouts, it hasn't really done much to get rid of the infestation. They did manage to contain it in the woods not too far from the field, but I guess that was just too much. I stepped right into a nest of them.
Have you ever felt zombie moles crawling up your legs? Imagine desiccated claws digging into your flesh. I'd found something even scarier than baseball hitting bat. But damned if I was going to let that book out of my grasp!
I lept and caught it at the VERY TIP of my glove, and smashed down onto the turf. I bruised a rib and ended up having to spend six months in an undisclosed location to fight zombie-itis, but I had a copy and I had fought moles and gravity to catch it.
Okay, so that was a lie. But if it were real those WOULD be the lengths I'd go to. ;)
Posted at astridaspera.livejournal.com
Ooh! I'd love to enter. My email is max.e.brown.94@gmail.com
One thing that makes me shiver is the sound of styrofoam touching anything. Not sure why. It always does, though, in an uncomfortable sort of way.
Thanks!
Max.
Posted and sidebarred the contest. http://maxsbooksandthings.blogspot.com/2009/06/three-book-giveaway.html
Max.
hmm... what makes me shiver are bugs.... just thinking about them crawling over me with their little hairy legs gives me shivers... ick. I would do sooo much for Catching Fire!! i would do next to anything for it, like entering every contest i can find (which believe me, I have been working on)
THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. A WINNER HAS BEEN CONFIRMED.
What would I do for Catching Fire? Let's just say a lot. Specifically, I would camp out doors just to be the first in line so I could make sure I would get it- and I very much dislike camping. Not to mention the hours I've spent online searching for an opportunity to get it, and any more time I have to spend searching it out if I have the opportunity to get it. I'd do a lot.
To catch Catching Fire, I would get plastic surgery and hair style to look like Venia, Flavius and Octavia. You know, skin dyed weird colors, intense makeup, tattoos above my eyes... The whole deal. ^_^ Yes, I would put myself in the despicable position of the Capitol to get Catching Fire.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
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