Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop



Welcome to my blog. I'm honored to take part in the Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop. I’m #155 on the blog hop list.

Thanks to I Am A Reader, Not a Writer for organizing this event. It’s a great way to connect with other readers, authors and bloggers, plus feature banned or challenged books, as well as win some super giveaways. :)

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read. It highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books.
 
A few of the banned and/or challenged books I’ve read are:

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
 
The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targets of attempted bannings. Many are considered classics. If not for the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in library collection, then may have disappeared from bookshelves. For a sampling of these books, visit http://bit.ly/LdDLu.
 
My giveaway is an e-copy of one of my romantic suspense or mystery books (your choice).
 
You can choose from:

(1)   DEFENDING GLORY, book one of the Piedmont Island Trilogy series.

(2)   PROTECTING HOPE, book two of the same series. Please note Protecting Hope will be released later this year. (I'm still writing it!) The winner will receive a copy when it is released on Amazon.

(3)   FRANK, INCENSE AND MURIEL, book one of the Muriel Reeves Mysteries.

 




To enter your name in the giveaway draw:
(1) follow my blog,
(2) "like" my Facebook Fan Page - HERE.
(3) leave a comment and your email addy
I’ll announce the winner October 4.
 
Enjoy the freedom to read along with the rest of the Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop.

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21 comments:

  1. Sometimes I'm shocked at the reasons people come up with for challenging books. Kind of sad to take one off a library shelf just because one parent calls up and says "it's not the kind of book I want my kids to read."

    --Malcolm
    malcolmrcampbell@windstream.net

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  2. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
    Email: sarikapatkotwar@gmail.com

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  3. GFC: Yto
    FB: Elena V..
    witchvela at web dot de

    thank you for the giveaway.

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  4. Thanks for the giveaway.

    lenasledge(at)gmail(dot)com

    Here's mine: Read Banned Books Week Hop and Giveaway

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  5. Thanks for hosting this giveaway, Anne. I follow your blog and I liked your Facebook a while ago.

    khashway(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  6. wow when i went to school they were on the required list to read, thanks for having this tour.
    Julie
    jbarrett5 at cox.net

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  7. This is interesting. Thanks for the opportunity. It's difficult to believe The Great Gatsby and the others were objects of those who wanted to ban them.

    My email addy: jkm1024@comcast.net

    Joan K. Maze

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  8. I want to thank you for making it aware of how important it is to keep the freedom to read what we want. I hate the word" banned" as it makes me feel like I have no right to think for myself. I am not interested in the contest since I do not have an ereader but I did want to say Let the books alone and stop putting a ban on them. susan Leech garysue@dejazzd.com

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  9. name: majka22212
    email: majka22212@azet.sk

    Thanks for giveaway.

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  10. I left a comment on your FB page and see that you'll like comments here too! I'm with Susan, that banned suggests I can't think for myself about what I want to read or not read. Your blog is a great way to celebrate the power of story, even those deemed by someone as a story we should never read.

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  11. GFC Follower - Lolawid
    FB - Lori Widdison
    widsfam7 @ digis dot net

    Thanks for taking part in this giveaway!!

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  12. Defending Glory looked really interesting. Thank you for the giveaway!
    I am a GFC follower as melora brock
    I am a FB follower as anme burgess
    melorabrock {at} gmail {dot} com

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  13. Thanks for giveaway!!

    GFC-judy
    Liked Facebook-judy c.

    Judy
    magnolias_1[at]msn[dot]com

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  15. My apologies to all those who have had a problem leaving a comment. Hopefully it will work now. (Fingers crossed.)

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  16. thanks for the giveaway!
    books look good
    GFC Çråz¥ K¥
    FB Alisia Machado
    nightsky1102(at)gmail(dot)com

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  17. Thanks for participating in the hop. I'm a new gfc follower and I'm following on FB

    alison.fees@gmail.com

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  18. Hi Anne,
    Just wanted you to know that I voted for Defending Glory. (You have quite a lead right now!) I'm a follower, and like you on FB.
    enelrad7@yahoo.com

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  19. Please enter me in the draw, and thanks for the giveaway!

    GFC Darlene
    darlenesbooknook at gmail dot com
    FB - Darlene's Book Nook

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  20. gfc follower (Ruth)
    like you on facebook
    ruthhill74
    Thanks for a great giveaway!
    ruthaw_1974@yahoo.com

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  21. GFC - Gloria
    FB - Gloria Sell Schumann
    Thanks for the giveaway!

    geschumann at live dot com

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