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Get ready for a fun CHALLENGE!!!
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Here's how it'll go:
To Enter: Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite book (include the author too!). Winner will be chosen by random number and will be notified by email (don't forget to include it!). I'll read the book, write up a review that will be posted here and make a batch of soap (and a lip luster!) inspired by that book.
Get ready for a fun CHALLENGE!!!
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Here's how it'll go:
To Enter: Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite book (include the author too!). Winner will be chosen by random number and will be notified by email (don't forget to include it!). I'll read the book, write up a review that will be posted here and make a batch of soap (and a lip luster!) inspired by that book.
The Prize: The winner will receive two FREE bars from that batch plus a FREE lip luster.
The Rules: Suggest as many books as you like
(if you're like me, you have more than one favorite ;-)
2) Become a Follower of the Latherati blog
(if you're like me, you have more than one favorite ;-)
To earn Extra Chances:
1) Blog about this CHALLENGE with a link to this post, then post link here2) Become a Follower of the Latherati blog
Challenge ends June 22, 2009, 9:00 pm eastern time.
Ready, set, CHALLENGE me!!!
Ready, set, CHALLENGE me!!!
Favorite Classic:
ReplyDeleteTo Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (I can't help it, it's awesome...I read it every year)
Favorite Mystery:
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
Favorite New Book:
Only to Deceive, Tasha Alexander
http://edubgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-give-away_15.html
You should enter my give-away too: http://edubgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2009/06/guess-my-babys-birthday-give-away.html
Favorite book: Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
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I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier, or Rag and Bone Shop by the same author, he's just great, really any of his books are worth the read
ReplyDeleteAlso, the earlier books of Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem to be specific, her later books get a little too technical for me and it bogs down the reading, but they are all good :D
oh I do have many favorites!
ReplyDelete#1 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince"- I would love to see this soap:) It's really cute and inspiring book!
#2 "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
#3 "The Interpretation Of Dreams" by Sigmund Freud -would love to see this soap too:D
#4 "Middlemarch" George Eliot- great soap-material;)
#5 "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel García Márquez- just great book!
#6 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams- hilarious!
etc..ok I'll stop now:D
All the best!!
and now I'm following your blog too, so be aware:D
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites is definitely "When Rabbit Howls" by the Troops for Truddi Chase. An absolutely amazing read. It's extremely graphic at times and can be very hard to read through points but it is an absolutely fascinating read and gives incredible insight into Multiple Personality Disorder.
ReplyDeleteAnother book that I love would have to be "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I've loved that book since I was little.
I blogged about this great giveaway:
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I am following you!
ReplyDeleteI've got a few!!
ReplyDeleteOdd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyers (I've joined the madness!)
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice (a 3 book series)
I could go on for a LONG time!!
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I'm stalking...er...following you!!
ReplyDeleteCome Hell or High Water by Michael Eric Dyson
ReplyDeleteHow to choose:
ReplyDeleteClassical literature:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
Current:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Couldn't put it down!
Favorite Fantasy:
Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Favorite Childrens:
Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess
Where the Red Fern Grows by Rawls
Deep Thinking Book
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafasi
I read too much because I could easily come up with 50 more books.
Okay my fave classic, simple little feel good book is The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I think it would inspire a great soap too!!!
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julie-
ReplyDeleteI would love... LOVE LOVE LOVE a soap based on
"The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure":
Of the Amber Room, Theophile Gautier wrote in the 1860s:
Only in The Thousand and One Nights -and in magic fairy tales, where the architecture of palaces Is trusted to magicians, spirits and genies, one can read about rooms made of diamonds, rubies, jacinth and other jewels used for jewelry- the expression 'The Amber Room' Is not just a poetic hyperbole, but exact reality. The eye which has not adapted to seeing this material, applied in such scale, is amazed and is blinded by the wealth and warmth of tints, representing all colours [in the] spectrum of yellow - from smoky topaz up to a light lemon. The gold of carvings seems dim and false in this neighborhood, especially when the sun falls on the walls and runs thru transparent veins, as though sliding..."
http://www.amberjewelry.com/Tracing-the-Amber-Room-s/95.htm
I think such a soap should smell like Ojon restorative conditioner, if you know what that smells like! Vanilla, deep nutty note, vanilla, honey, touch of jasmine, maybe ginger. Earthy & exotic- of course, it should have inclusions!!!
this would be a fun project, if you want to try & we love it, we might even purchase small bars as a gift with purchase for our customers around the holidays!
amber is fun too because there are so many kinds- butterscotch, green, cherry, lemon... I'm thinking of the classic cognac color first, of course!
I LOVE that book, I wrote about it here:
http://www.amberjewelry.com/Tracing-the-Amber-Room-s/95.htm
whatever you choose have fun with it!
ambergirl
oops I cut off a line: by by Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark
ReplyDeleteWatership Down by Richard Adams. The movie sucks, the book is great!
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HI! my fav:
ReplyDeleteA Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I have a personal connection to this book because she grew up in the same neighboorhood that my ancestors did and that is what the book is about!
I'm also going to start following your blog :) my blog is new check it out!
Even if I don't win, go read The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. I haven't turned one person on to this book yet that hasn't ABSOLUTELY LOVED it.
ReplyDeletemy fave book, um... how about...
ReplyDeletethe book of esther in the bible?
Oh boy Oh boy Oh Boy! Bath and Books, such a natural combination! Favorites galore!
ReplyDeleteFavorite Graphic Novel:
Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil. Start with Talisman, a book about books. :D!
Favorite Kids' Book:
The Patchwork Girl Of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Nobody reads the later Oz books, but they're the best!
Favorite Essential Changed-My-Life-Book:
Momo, Michael Ende- Some might say this is a kids' book. They are wrong. It is an essential. Just read it.
Favorite Sci-fi- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
Favorite Nonfiction- Larry Gonick, Cartoon History of the Universe-- cartoon, yes, but I defy you to find any other history book that covers so much so well so quickly!
And I could go on..but I think you'll have your reading for the next year laid out here already!
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Oh, and I'm following-- any blog with a challenge like this has to be worth a read from time to time!:D
ReplyDeleteThe Little Price - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ReplyDeletei have a few!
ReplyDeletelike water for chocolate-esquival
birth of venus-dunant
jane eyre-bronte
pride & prejudice-austen
hummingbird's daughter-urrea
oh i could go on and on... :)
My favorite book currently is The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. I read the entire saga in less than three weeks lol.
ReplyDeleteI also love The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
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I'm a follower :)
ReplyDeleteI would have to say The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory.
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Favorite Book: the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
ReplyDeleteWizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
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Fun contest!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book ever is The Ousiders by S.E.Hinton. I must have read this book at least 60 times while growing up. Movie was good, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, etc.
Oh, I'm following you now too :)
I love the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers, but since that has been mentioned, how about my next favorite book, The Visitation by Frank Peretti
ReplyDeleteok, if you don't read the "Merde" series by Stephen Clarke, you'll be a really horrible person! Check out "A Year in the Merde" by Stephen Clarke. He is my favourite author. EVER!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHot Zone by Richard Preston
ReplyDeleteYou've got to be kidding!! Can I give you my favorite 100 books? Well I'll have to say that the CHESAPEAKE BAY series by Nora Roberts is my favorite - can read it every year.
ReplyDeleteI love Night Letters by Robert Dessaix....
ReplyDeleteI adore Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie. Definitely my all time fave!
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Sophie
My favorite book is Girl, Interuppted by Susanna Kaysen. I believe they made it into a movie with Angelina Jolie, too. My favorite English teacher suggested that book to me in High school. (:
ReplyDelete"Crimson Petal and The White" by Michael Faber.
ReplyDeleteGood, good book but really long. :)
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Ragtime by EL Doctorow. :)
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I tweeted! :)
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One of the most romantic and heart warming books that I have ever read is
ReplyDeleteThe Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks.
My favorite spiritual memoir is
It's Here Now (Are You?)
by Bhagavan Das
My favorite book in college was
Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
My son's current favorite book is
Number the Stars
by Louis Lowry
And finally my favorite book of all time would have to be
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Thanks for creating this thought inspiring contest ;)
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and I'm following you ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book is midnight in the garden of good and evil by by John Berendt
ReplyDeleteI also really like Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. The book is WAAAAY better than the movie!
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One of my favorites was The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer. I loved the concept of it being the women in the time of King Arthur.
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I love the Kusheils Legacy Trilogy by Jacqueline Carey
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Monica
moni-777@hotmail.com