Sunday, January 23, 2011

Mailbox Monday and GIVEAWAY



Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! I also have a new GIVEAWAY this week and three winners of last week's giveaway.  Keep reading through the post to find all the goodies.

MAILBOX MONDAY
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. (Library books don’t count, but eBooks & audiobooks do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists!
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it into a touring meme (details here). I am very pleased to host this month.

Please leave the link to your Mailbox Monday post with Mr. Linky. If you do not have a blog, leave your mailbox list in a comment.



GIVEAWAY WINNER

Last week I had three copies to give away of Emotional Currency: A Woman's Guide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Moneyby Kate Levinson, PhD.  The full title gives a pretty good description.  It sounds like a book all women should read.



THE BOOK: Emotional Currency gives women the tools to understand – and challenge – their psychological relationship with money so they can make smarter decisions about their current and future financial responsibilities.
Here’s the book every woman (and most men) need: a clear, thoughtful, and beautifully-written guide for how to cope with the myriad of emotions caused by money. Kate Levinson – practicing therapist and businesswoman –shows how money is both mercilessly public and intimately personal – stirring up our deepest feelings about dependence and independence, status, attractiveness, and terrifying confusion between net worth and self worth. Women in today’s economy are especially vulnerable because of gender biases in the workplace, patterns of parenting and upbringing that assume women do not “handle” financial matters well, and social norms that still disapprove of money-wise women. This book is a wise and important antidote.
Robert B. Reich
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley

THE WINNERS: Based on random.org's choices, the winners are:

Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to the winners!  I will contact you shortly.


THIS WEEK'S GIVAWAY

Again thanks to book publicist extraordinaire, Mary Bisbee-Beek, I have three copies of JOYRIDE: Pedaling Toward A Healthier Planet By Mia Birk with Joe "Metal Cowboy" Kurmaskie (published by Cadence Press). These are finished books, not ARCS.

Mia Birk lives in Portland and is available for speaking engagements in the area.  She is also available for blog interviews.  If anyone is interested, please contact Mary Bisbee-Beek via her LinkedIn profile, or leave your email in a comment and Mary will contact you.




THE BOOK: This is the inspiring story of pioneering transportation leader Mia Birk's 20-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With a table scrap of funding, Mia led a revolution that grew Portland, Oregon into the #1 American cycling city. Mia then hit the road, helping make communities across the nation -- even her hometown of Dallas, Texas -- more human, healthy, safe, and livable. While many books today extol the pain of our world's problems, Mia's funny, touching Joyride is the antidote, offering hope to any and everyone interested in changing our world, one pedal stroke at a time.


THE RULES: The contest is open until Sunday, January 30, 2011. To enter, do any or all of the following, but you must leave a comment for each one:

1. Leave a comment on this post. You must include a way to contact you (email or website address in your comment or available in your profile). If I can't find a way to contact you I will draw another winner. (1 entry)

2. Blog about this giveaway. (Posting the giveaway on your sidebar is also acceptable.) Leave a separate comment with a link to your post. (1 entry)

3. Subscribe to my rss feed, follow me on blogger, or subscribe via email (or tell me if you already are a subscriber or follower). Leave a separate comment for this. (1 entry)

4. Tweet this post on Twitter. Leave me a separate comment with your twitter user name. (1 entry)

5. Stumble this blog, digg it, technorati fave it, or link it on facebook. Leave a separate comment. (1 entry)

There are a lot of ways to enter (maximum of five entries), but you must LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT for each one or they will not count. I will use random.org to pick the winners from the comments.

This contest is open to entries from the U.S. and Canada only. The deadline for entry is 9:00 PM, Pacific Time, on Sunday, January 30, 2011. I will draw and post the winner's name in my Mailbox Monday post for January 31, 2011.


MY MAILBOX

My New Year's reading resolution was to tackle my Guilt List and to stop adding to it.  Luckily, I keep a separate list for LibraryThing Early Reviewer books, so this one doesn't count. Really.



Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts.  This is a short book with 10 stories of Great Lakes adventures.  I asked for it because it would tickle my husband's reading fancy, but I am going to tear through it myself.

I also hit the jackpot at Powell's the other day.  I always check the Anthony Powell shelf when I am there (no relation, and the book store name rhymes with "towel," while the author's name sounds more like "pole"), looking for books other than A Dance to the Music of Time.  The Dance books are always there, but it is hard to find his others.  I got lucky.



From a View to a Death, his third novel, first published in 1933, before he started Dance.



What's Become of Waring, his fifth novel, first published in 1939, also before he started Dance.

To Keep the Ball Rolling: Infants of the Spring and To Keep the Ball Rolling: Messengers of Day, the first two volumes of his four-volume memoirs, published in1976 and 1978. They have plain gray covers with no dustjackets.



The Fisher King, a novel first published in 1986, after he completed Dance.

26 comments :

  1. You had a wonderful mailbox last week! And I have to say that Joyride sounds very interesting to me as I'm just finishing reading Empty (Scholastic), a fiction YA book about what happens when we run out of oil, and it briefly talks about bikes as a mode of transportation. :)

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  2. I am a follower and would love to be entered in the giveaway.

    MARY - I tried to contact you via LinkedIn, but I'm not sure if it went through. :)

    Wendi
    wbarker at hotmail.com

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  3. Never read anything by Anthony Powell but it looks like you had a good week.

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  4. Wow, what a fun set of finds! Enjoy your books :-).

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  5. An unusual mailbox here! enjoy the reading.

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  6. All of these titles look new to me, and I am curious about a few of them. enjoy

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  7. Looks like you added some interesting books to your shelf. Enjoy!

    No need to enter me. Thanks for hosting!

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  8. You've made me curious about Anthony Powell! Enjoy your new books!

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  9. The Shipwrecks, Mosters & Great Lakes sounds like an exciting read.

    Enjoy all your new books!

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  10. No need to enter me in the giveaway, but congrats to last week's winners.

    I'm jealous that you got "Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts"; that sounds like a good one.

    Happy reading.

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  11. Lovely set of books this week. I understand your comment about A Dance to the Music of Time, as we always have several copies of that in our used bookshop, but not many of his others :)

    Good luck with your New Year's resolution to pare down your guilt list!

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  12. I have a my Mailbox posted

    http://myheartbelongs2books.blogspot.com/2011/01/mailbox-monday-jan-24-2011.html

    ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

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  13. Intriguing titles, RCR! Hope you enjoy them all, and thanks for hosting this meme.

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  14. I too am curious about the Anthony Powells now -- I'm going to start nosing around my library sales for his books!

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  15. Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes looks like a good read I'd be interested in! Great Mailbox this week. :-) Thanks for hosting this month!

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  16. That is quite an interesting assortment of books! The only one I've heard of is the Fisher King...enjoy!

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  17. The Ed Butts book sounds really good! Have you read Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye? It concerns an epic storm on Lake Superior and it's effect on a man and his son. Superb!

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  18. What a busy mailman, huh? These look like some fabulous selections that I've not read before - looking forward to your thoughts on them. Here's my Mailbox: Coffee and a Book Chick -- Mailbox Monday...

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  19. Wow! That does sound like quite a haul. Enjoy!

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  20. I ve a couple of his novels other than dance recently got agents and patients which I think comes between your first two ,all the best stu

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  21. I'm looking forward to reading Emotional Currency. Thanks.

    Looks like you got some good ones this week. Enjoy!

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  22. I'm afraid to make a guilt list that I could actually post, although I do have my guilt list written down and review books in order of release date on it. :) The Great Lakes book looks interesting, especially since I live in Cleveland on Lake Erie, and the short story format would be great to fit in a bit each day. I have The Fisher King in my shelves; I think that I will likely re-read it soon; I recall liking it very much. Enjoy!

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  23. I live with in walking distance of one of the Great Lakes so of course that book interests me. I may have to check that one out.

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  24. Thank you very much for hosting this meme. You have a gorgeous book blog. (I wonder if doing this meme actually increases the number of books we get in the mail?! :)

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  25. what a haul! no need to enter me. Thanks so much for hosting!

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  26. Oh goodness, I am thrilled because I never win anything! Maybe my luck is starting to change. Or maybe the universe took a peek at my checkbook. Either way, thank you!!

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