Banned Book Week Giveaway
>In honor of Banned books week, I’m giving away two books. We all love book give-aways, right? I was originally planning on only giving away 1 book, but with that lovely fiasco last week, I decided to go ahead and add another.
So there will be two winners in this contest. First place winner will receive their choice of Crank by Ellen Hopkins or Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Speak
Crank
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she’s fearless.
Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul — her life.
The reason I added Speak in, is because I think it’s absolutely disgusting that because one man found rape scenes in a YA book sexually arousing, that he has the right to ban other people from reading it. This bothers me for several reasons: 1) From the article it appears he never read the book and 2) if he did read the book, why on earth did he consider the rape scenes pornography, which in its definition states that pornography is “printed or visual content with the explicit intent to arouse or stimulate erotic feelings.”
That in and of itself is…well, it’s creepy to say the least. So, I’ve added Speak to the giveaway. All you have to do is fill in my teeny, tiny entry form below, oh and maybe become a follower, or tweet and blog about it. No biggie, right. 😀
The contest starts today and ends October 5, 2010 at midnight. Winners will be drawn randomly and results will be posted October 5th.
>I wish I weren't first entry, but I probably was. 🙁 First never win. LOL.
I would be thrilled to win either of them! I've already read Crank, but I would love to own my own copy. I've read WINTERGIRLS by Laurie, but not SPEAK. But I've heard it's heaps better than Wintergirls…
Thanks for the contest!
Cass
>I haven't read either of them, but i would love too!
Thank you for making this contest international!
>Both books sounds excellent – and I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. Some people should just learn to keep their opinions to themselves before they show their ignorance to the world.
>Awesome contest.
You know I'm entering and tweeting.
🙂
>I haven't read Speak yet, but plan to soon. Thanks for the contest!
>Hey! We're both giving away SPEAK this week! Go banned books!
If you don't win J.A.'s copy, you might win mine–come on over.
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– Liz
>Thank you for the contest. I would like to read Crank but Speak looks amazing too.
>Awesome giveaway, thanks! 🙂
>I'm glad there's a week long dedication to Banned Books!
>What a great idea! Banning books is a horrible practice. These books deserve to be read!
>I would love to read these books! Great giveaway! No books should be banned!
>I already have Speak, so I won't enter. Just a word of thanks for speaking up about this idiocy of book banning.
>I already have a copy of Speak, so I'd really like to win the copy of Cranked.
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>I've actually read both of these books. I was so ticked off when I read that article about Speak. That is by far the most memorable book I've ever read. I actually just checked Crank out of the library (haven't started reading it yet) to read it again because I also saw that on the banned book list and couldn't believe it and wanted to read it again. I'd like to read Speak again as well, so I'd be ecstatic to win either of these!!!