Lena Sledge's Blog: bookaholic

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Black History Month Blog Hop Giveaway

The Black History Month Giveaway Hop is hosted by Reflections of a Bookaholic and Mocha Girls Read. It starts February 1st and ends February 7, 2012 at midnight. It's a hop, so there are more than twenty other hops participating as well. So don't forget to hop on over to the other blogs and participate in their giveaways. You could win some great prizes.

What am I giving away? I'm giving away 1(one) ebook copy of my book, If I Had My Way to three (3) different participants. So that's a total of three (3) ebook copies. You will receive the copies through Kindle, Nook or PDF, whichever format you prefer. Also, each participant that wins will also receive a $5 Amazon Gift Card. So that means, each winner will receive a free copy of my book, If I Had My Way and 1(one) $5 Amazon Gift Card.

How to enter?

You MUST be a follower of this blog. And you must leave a comment with your email or blog address and tell me what book by an African American author is your favorite?

To get a sense of what If I Had My Way is about visit my Youtube Channel and view all the book trailers.

Here's my Available Now Trailer for your viewing pleasure.

To visit all the other participants in the hop, click Here.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Confessions of a Bookaholic, Plus a Book Giveaway

I confess....I did it. And I did it til my body was tired. I made my goal of reading two books this week. One is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith and the other is "God Ain't Blind" by Mary Monroe. Reviews will be up by next week. Sometime this week, likely Monday, I will chose new books to read. I will be choosing a indie published novel, along with something classic or written atleast before I was born. No, I will not be disclosing that date :-) A girl has got to keep some of her bookaholic confessions to herself.

Another quick confession, I have tons of books I have never finished reading. *gasp* I will be exploring that topic next week, so in the meantime think of some reasons why you didn't finish reading a particular book.

My last confession for today, I have in the past, bought the same book twice before reading the first copy I purchased. Awww c'mon, I know you have done it. Walked into a bookstore, saw the book on the shelf and said, "this looks like a great book, I think I'll buy it." Then you take it home, it collects dust on the bookshelf. Then you visit the bookstore again and low and behold, "there's a book I think I'd enjoy. I think I'll buy it." You get home and darn it, you already have it. It looks so appealing because you didn't read the first one yet. So because, I don't have the memory of an elephant to keep remembering what I've bought, I'm going to give away some of the extra copies of books I have on my bookshelf.

The following books will be given away to the person that makes the most comments during the week on my blog. You can post on different topics or the same topics. The only catch is, it can't be mundane or spam type comments. And atleast one sentence. The giveaway will end Sunday, April 17, 2011 at midnight.

The top commenter will get to choose one book from the following list:

"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom