• Jaimie from Bell Literary Reflections is giving away three books. Because these books are her favourites, so the winners will be getting brand new ones! (Click here for more details.)
• Dewey from The Hidden Side of a Leaf is celebrating her one-year blogiversary too! She's giving away a book and the winner will get to choose any book under $20. On top of that, she's also giving away two $20 Amazon gift certificates for Buy a Friend a Book Week. (Click here for more details.)
  Edited on 5 April: I have misunderstood Dewey's post about this giveaway. The following is actually what she meant. As quoted: "I have two amazon gift certificates for $20. I am not giving them away. I am letting two people (one for BAFAB, one for my blogiversary) choose any book available at Amazon for under $20. And I will use the gift certificates to pay for them. Hope that clears things up! :)"
• Katrina from Stone Soup is giving away some books from her bookshelves! She has a great list there; please click here for more details.

Have fun blog hopping! And of course, good luck with the giveaways! ;-)

One of the best things about blogging is, not only you get to write and share your thoughts with other readers, but you also get to know a lot of wonderful bloggie friends along the way. I am glad to say that Ms Alice Teh is one of them. I would like to thank her for giving me the Blog Friend Forever Award.

Thank you, Alice! Cheers and long live to our friendship!

• Jennifer from From My Corner (Note: You should know that we are more than just bloggie friends; just can't resist passing this to you ;-D)
• Julia from Julia's Book Corner
• Kathy from *RittyRats*
• Wendy from Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Besides receiving the award, I have another sweet surprise which I received in the mail today. I have won a book over at Rhinoa's blog during the BAFAB Week - Spirits In The Wires by Charles De Lint. I had chosen this book because the story premise sounds interesting, and moreover I have not read anything by this author. So you can imagine how thrilled I am when Rhinoa claimed I am the winner of this book!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Rhinoa for hosting this contest as well as sending me the book. I will post a review after I have read it, although not at this time since my reading 'cards' are full.

Thank you, Rhinoa! :-)

Happy New Year to all readers! And because this is the first week of January, so that means Buy a Friend a Book Week (BAFAB) is here! What are the rules? I could hear you asking. It is pretty simple. Below is a list of books which I am going to give away to 3 lucky participants, and all you need to do is:

1. Leave a comment on this post and tell me which book(s) you want to win. You may enter your name for each book but you can only win one book (so that other participants will have a chance to win too);

2. Your name will be entered twice if you do a post about this giveaway, so please send me the link to your post.

Closing date is 8 January 2008 and the names will be drawn randomly by my three-year-old daughter. The winners will be announced on 9 January 2008.

Here is the list of books to be won:

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (different cover from the link shown)
   
2. Men of Courage by Lori Foster, Donna Kauffman & Jill Shalvis
   
3. Left to Die by Taylor Kincaid

I am very glad to say this is my first year in participating in several reading challenges. It is a wonderful experience, to be able to read books with fellow participants and it is also through this channel that I have known and made a lot of booklover friends around the world. :-) It is indeed a pleasure to read their reviews, exchange comments and share the reading pleasure through recommendations and all. What could I ask for more?

Besides this, another reason I participate in these challenges is, I want to see how far I could read in a year. It is more like a personal challenge for myself. Although I am very happy to say I have read more books as compared to last year, still I regret to say I am not able to complete these challenges even though I have tried my best. Thus, I would not take on too many reading challenges in the following year, although the temptation is so great.



Fall Into Reading 2007 Challenge

I would like to thank Katrina of Callapidder Days for hosting this challenge.



My list:

2nds Challenge

I would like to thank Joy of Thoughts of Joy for hosting this challenge.

My list:

• Smart Mouth (Pending)
• My Immortal (Pending)
• Mouth to Mouth (Pending)

I am ashamed to say I did not even read any of these books for this challenge! I remember when I first signed up for this challenge, I was so excited and had looked through my TBR pile for an author to read. I decided on Erin McCarthy because I enjoyed her debut novel Bad Boys Online so much. Regrettably, with several reading challenges going on and in addition with my change of reading mood, I have kept these books aside thinking I would pick them up once more when my reading mood changes again, but by the time I feel like reading them, the challenge is almost over! I admit this is my fault for not able to complete this challenge, but still that doesn't mean I will give up these books.

On a different topic, comes the first week of January will be the Buy a Friend a Book Week (BAFAB). I will be posting a list of books to be won during that period so do look out for it. :-)