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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Bout of Books Day 3 - Challenge and Giveaway

 Day 3

It's Day Three of the Bout of Books Read-a-thon and I'm so happy that you've stopped by. What's going on today:

Read-a-thon Recap link-up
Book Spine Poetry Challenge
Particihost Giveaway at penny-laine (this is a one day only contest so enter today)
Twitter Chat Tonight 8-9pm EST - use #boutofbooks

Recap
Day 2 wasn't the greatest for me. As I was running out the door, late for work (as always), I grabbed my phone and the nearest book and ran out the door. On my way to work I realized that I grabbed the book I had finished the night before. Now I didn't have a book to read during my lunch hour, not only was this a pretty lame as I announced on Titter, but as Reading Angel pointed out "That was a serious fail!! And a general reading fail all together! I hate not having a book...lol" Thanks for that! I did find another book to read from my department's Reading Room, so not all was lost and the end of day 2, I have read 2 books and am starting my third (the book I that I meant to grab when running out the door!)

I'd like to know how everyone else is doing, so if you are updating, please fill out the form below and provide a direct blog/twitter link and I will stop by to comment and cheer you on!



Challenge
I know some of you are looking for my challenge and here it is:

Book Spine Poetry

create a poem using the spines of your books
e-book readers, don't fret, you can still enter

Guidelines
Must include at least 3 books/titles
submit an original poem (please do not copy from another site)
if you can, you may add extra words to the photo/poem

How to Enter:
Take a picture of your Book Spine Poem and post it to your blog or twitter, then leave a link in the comments here
OR
If you are not posting on a blog or twitter or are reading e-books, write your poem in the comments 

The Prize:
Book or books of Your Choice Valued up to $20.00 from the Book Depository or B&N.com

Contest Rules:
Must be 13 or older to enter
Must have signed up for the Bout of Books 2.0 Read-a-thon
(the Master List will be checked)
One entry per person
Open to US and International
Ends Oct 30th 11:59 PM EST

One Winner will be selected randomly from all qualifying entries and announced on the blog.
Here is my Book Spine Poem



NOW Don't forget to stop by penny-laine and enter the
Halloween-Themed giveaway!!

Twitter Chat Tonight!! 8-9pm #boutofbooks
at

13 comments:

  1. CarlaOctober 26, 2011 at 4:44 AM

    I'm still halfway through my FIRST read-a-thon book *scandalous!* :0

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  2. CarlaOctober 26, 2011 at 7:07 AM

    Ok, I made my poem :)
    I'm only using Goodreads for updates, but I wanted to post the picture I took so I posted on my Goodreads profile, hope that's ok!
    Here's the link.

    But I'll post it here also:

    The Sweet Far Thing
    Brightly Woven in me
    Is like a Song In The Silence
    For the Soulless, Heartless You.

    This was a great challenge. ;)

    jen7waters at gmail dot com

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  3. AnonymousOctober 26, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Cool challenge! My poem is HERE.

    christina(dot)behe(at)gmail(dot)com

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  4. FICTION STATE OF MINDOctober 26, 2011 at 12:51 PM

    great challenge: here are my books:

    The Princess Curse by Merrie Haskell

    Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

    Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray:Poem

    The Lost voices, are drowned out by the Song of the nile. Weeping bitter tears for the Princess, and her Curse.

    Kai
    fictionstateofmind@gmail.com

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  5. Jacinda (The Reading Housewives)October 26, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    I love book spine poems!

    I posted mine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ReadingWifeJac/statuses/129252887208534016

    I also will add it to my blog update post for bout of books later!

    Thank you!

    jacindahinten(at)gmail(dot)com

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  6. Amanda @ On a Book BenderOctober 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    Done! This was fun, though I realized I have a lot of books with one word titles.

    http://twitter.com/#!/BookBender/status/129290298454065153

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  7. Jo KOctober 26, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    What a cool and fun challenge! Here is the link to my poem.

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  8. aliceOctober 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    Here's the link to my attempt at book spine poems:

    http://fauvely.blogspot.com/2011/10/book-spine-poetry-challenge.html

    Thanks for hosting this wonderful giveaway! :)

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  9. evening-greenOctober 26, 2011 at 6:44 PM

    Mine turned out rather short, a lot of interesting book titles on my bookshelves are in German and I had a hard time arranging my books into something that made sense, I'll have to try this again with some other books.

    Here's my link:
    http://twitter.com/#!/eveningreen/status/129325566494130176

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  10. Kelly RubidouxOctober 26, 2011 at 8:52 PM

    I've never done one of these before. It's fun except now I've made a mess out of all my books. *sigh* It really just gives me another excuse to reorganize.

    So... here's my attempt.
    http://twitter.com/#!/soulswallo/status/129358118164504577

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  11. AnonymousOctober 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM

    This was sooooooooo much fun! Great challenge idea and I can't wait to come back tomorrow to see what everyone else did. :-D Your book spine poetry was so fun to read and I hope you are able to get more reading in the next few days of Bout of Books...I've totally done the grab the wrong book thing! It's never fun. :-/

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  12. AnonymousOctober 26, 2011 at 9:31 PM

    Wow, forgot my stinking link! :-( I fail...

    http://paperbackdaydreamer.com/2011/10/26/book-spine-poetry-challenge-bout-of-books-2-0-day-3/

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  13. Kat C @ Books and SensibilityOctober 28, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    This was more fun than I thought it would be. Here is my poem : http://booksandsensibility.blogspot.com/2011/10/bout-of-books-20-spine-poem.html

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