And you get a book! And you! And you!

Edit: The giveaway is now over and the winners have been chosen.

So I just hit a personal milestone of the number of followers. It is unbelievable. I know everyone says as soon as they have any followers this but, really. I’m flabbergasted that this many of you want me on your dashboard. It’s insane. Simply insane.

To celebrate, I will be conducting a GIVEAWAY! I knew immediately I wanted to give away books. So I went into a secondhand bookstore (that’s when this happened, so blame yourselves for that one). Here are the items:

1. About A Boy by Nick Hornby
   I’ve read four books by Hornby this year, but not a single novel. Either way, I thought it fitting to give away one of his.
2. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
   It’s one of the classic Penguins! I thought someone on here would appreciate it. If I didn’t already have a copy of this I would definitely want to keep this. 
3. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
   I’ve never read this, but I love the movie and like Ondaatje’s grand stories and style.

Each book will come with a kind of lame, kind of awesome bookmark made by me. These are them:

And that’s not all! There will also be five postcards (I’ll upgrade that to 10 if enough people enter) [EDIT: It is now officially ten postcards!] from the amazing selection “Postcards from Penguin”:

I don’t know which five postcards yet, but you won’t be able to chose what postcard you get, so it doesn’t matter. They’ll be wonderful though.

Rules!  

Simple, really.

1. You must be a follower (you can be a new follower). I will check this. The reason is simple: this is a thank-you to my followers.
2. You can be anywhere in the world [within reason. If you were one of the survivors of Oceanic 815, I will not come looking for you].
3. You can chose to enter either the book giveaway, or the postcard giveaway.
4. You have to chose what book it is you want. You can only chose one, and that’s the only one you could win.
5. To chose a book, reblog and add what book it is you want, or use the “reply” feature if you’ve been following me for more than two weeks.
6. For each book, and for the postcards, I will chose the winner by lottery.
7. “Liking” or reblogging this post automatically enters you in for one of the postcards.
8. You cannot have won a giveaway I’ve done in the past. I’ve only done one before so you guys should know who you are.
9. This is going to sound obvious, but just so I’ve said it: if you win, you’ll have to supply me with an address you want the book/postcard to be sent to. If you’re not comfortable with that, I understand, but please don’t enter so that I don’t have to do everything twice.
10. You’re welcome to enter for a week. Next Saturday (1st of May) I will chose the winners.

Now I kind of feel nervous that no one will enter. Please enter even if you think there’s no chance you can win, because there is a chance. And it’s more fun with lots of people joining in. 

Oh! I should also mention I bought brown parcel paper to wrap the books in when I send them. If I find string, they’ll have a bit of string around them too. Because that’s just the kind of person I am.