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Back To Books Giveaway Winner!

Thank you  I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and Buried in Books for hosting the Fabulous Back to Books Giveaway Hop! 

And thank you to everyone for participating in this giveaway! We loved reading about your favorite bakery treats.  Needless to say, we are now all very hungry for some yummy baked goods.


And no one tried to fight me for Peeta? I am shocked but pleased that I didn't need to break out my bow and arrow :-)


And now for the part that everyone is waiting for....





The WINNER of our Back to Books Giveaway is...




Drum Roll Please!

Ellen Elizabeth! 



Congratulations Ellen!  We will be contacting you via email.


As mentioned before, we just might be cooking up another GIVEAWAY in honor of a certain Bibliojunkie's 21st birthday (oh wait did we say it was her 25th before? We'll never tell...).  Check back this coming weekend to find out the details.  Trust us.  This will be a fun one!

Also, to celebrate the release of Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan we will hosting Greek Week October 3rd through 9th.  We have lots of fun goodies in store for you during this event so don't miss it!



~Nat

Back to the Books Giveaway Hop!

Here we go again ladies and gentlemen!  BiblioJunkies are excited to be participating in the Back to the Books Giveway Hop hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and Buried in Books.  We are celebrating back to school (or as I like to call it, thank goodness traffic is getting back to normal) season.  We are offering up a brand-spanking-new copy of Hunger Games and a Mockingjay Bookmark.  See the pretty bookmark (and the book) -

Isn't it pretty?  Anyway, you may recall that Nat is completely in love and obsessed with Peeta, so to enter this contest, I want to know - what is your favorite bakery treat?  Bread, dessert, boys in aprons - we want to know!  So, comment below with your favorite treat (or why Peeta should choose you instead of Nat - But no spoilers - I haven't finished Hunger Games yet!) and that's one entry.  Follow our blog and that's a second.  You can get a third by following us on twitter.  Be sure to leave your email address, GFC and twitter names so that we can verify your entries and contact you if you are our lucky winner.  The Giveaway will run from 12:01 a.m. on September 1, 2011 thru 11:59 p.m. on September 7, 2011.  On September 8, 2011 we will ask random.org to pick our winners.  The winners will be announced on the blog and contacted via email.  Go forth and comment!

~Shel

Confessions of a Peeta Lover

Hello.  My name is Nat and I have an obsession with Peeta Mellark*. 

For as long as I can remember I have loved romance.  I love reading about falling in love.  Even as a kid, while reading Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, I couldn’t wait to get to the romantic parts.  Hell, I even loved the “romance” in my Babysitter’s Club books.  Seriously, what 10 year old doesn’t love Logan? 

I became a teenager and introduced myself to Jane Austen…the queen of romance.  She gave us Mr. Darcy and Mr. Knightley and Captain Wentworth and many others.  Then I hit my late teens and discovered the dreaded historical romance.  I have read more romance novels than I care to admit.  Most of them were terrible but some really were great….assuming you love reading about LOOOOOOVE.   I did finally tire of the over abundance of terrible in this genre but continue to read books by a few favorite authors (Julia Quinn for historical romantic comedy, Lisa Kleypas for historical romance and Nora Roberts for contemporary romance). 

Then Bibliojunkie Shel gave me Twilight (my first YA novel – not counting Harry Potter or Percy Jackson) as a gift this past year I had no idea that I would find a whole new class of fictional boys to not only fall in love with but thoroughly obsess over.  Thank goodness Bel and Shel share some of this obsession. 

I of course fell in love with Edward Cullen.  Then came Jace Wayland/Morgenstern/Herondale/Lightwood and all his beautiful and snarky honesty.  This particular obsession lasted months.  Even now if you mention brick walls and mangoes, Bel and I will dissolve into a fit of giggles.  Then I finally caught up with the world and read the Hunger Games.  And now my obsession with Peeta borders on the ridiculous.  It’s been months and months.  Patch gave me a temporary reprieve and I really thought Sam Roth might take over but no…it’s all Peeta.  All. The. Time.  I can’t get enough of the boy with the bread.  Jace?  Patch?  One night stands.  Peeta?  Much like Sam, he is the forever boy. 

So the point?  Good God, help me find a new fictional boy to obsess over.  My poor fellow Bibliojunkies (not to mention my husband) are getting tired of the Peeta obsession. 

What do you suggest?  What boy do you think will wow the pants right off me?  I am taking book recommendations starting. Right. Now!

Nat

*The above drawing of Peeta was done by DeviantArt artist sacha11410.