Okay I'm new to this whole giveaway process, but since I have more postcards than I have of anything else, I will be doing a postcard giveaway.
I'm new to this whole thing, so I think definitely leave me a comment here, no anonymous comments, because I won't be able to check you out, or track you down if you win.
In addition to leaving a simple comment like "I'm in for this giveaway." Let me know a movie or book that includes a letter or postcard as part of the storyline. You know just because film is my major and it makes it fun.
SO - for example - if I were to participate in this giveaway it would go like this:
Girlzoot (my id)
I'm in for this giveaway! (my expression of interest)
In the book Persuasion by Jane Austen Wentworth wins Anne with a heartfelt letter at the end of the book. (my book with a letter)
Hopefully this is how things are done.
I will give folks until June 30th and I will draw out two names on July 1st, and then mail out two little packages of randomly selected postcards from my stash. Since this is my first giveaway we will say two little packages of 15 postcards.
If I've forgotten anything, or if you have questions, please let me know by email (girlzoot at gmail dot com).
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20 comments:
This giveaway sounds really cool and I hope I win it! I loooove postcards but only have a few.
In the book 13 Little Blue Envelopes, a young girl has 13 envelopes with notes inside hidden all throughout England that eventually lead her to her father who she hasn't seen for years. I thought it was a cute book.
This is a great giveaway, I'm in!
There is a movie that just came out called Letters to Juliet with Amanda Seyfried, where the main character finds a letter and goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Please add me to the giveaway hopefuls.
How about the movie and book "Postcards from the Edge"?
I found your blog via The Missive Maven. I do love me a postcard. I'd love to win!
Since I was an English major, I will have to go the book route, but I will make it a two-fer for you.
Anne of Windy Poplars, the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery, spends the first part of the story as letters from Anne to Gilbert, who's away at medical school.
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, the first full epistolary novel, was written by Aphra Behn in 1684, and isn't quite as scandalous as it sounds to our 21st-century ears; the protagonists are in-laws. However, it was as scandalous as it sounds in the 17th century, when it was considered incest, and the book is about them trying to escape together and the adventures along the way.
Thanks so much for the giveaway opportunity!
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Please enter me!
In the Color Purple, the heroine of the story writes letters to her sister - the novel is epistolary.
*leaps into the entry box* I'm in!
I am reading a book called "Death of the Necromancer" by Martha Wells. Within it, the main character uses telegrams (mostly) to communicate in code with his "partners in crime". There are also letters of note that appear periodically. One letter is so official it grants them access into the royal palace to get a pardon from the Queen!
The only way they could all communicate during the time period in the book was via mail or word of mouth.
Please sign me up! I love postcards- getting them, sending them, just looking at them.
I recently read a wonderful book recommended by a pen pal. The book was 'Alice's Tulips' and was written as a series of letters to the sister of the novel's protagonist. Wonderful story! I highly recommend. I've added some of these other recommendations to my book list.
Thanks!
I can never have too many post cards, thanks for holding this giveaway!
I'll have to go with the novel/movie Dear John. I'm sure you've heard of it, but it's a love story between two people who have to communicate through letter writing. It's so sweet yet so sad!
Sounds like a cool giveaway - I'm in! I thought for a while I wouldn't figure out something to suggest, besides another Jane Austen novel, but then I remembered that one time I went to Borders and found an epistolary novel: "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn. Absolutely hilarious! It's the first time I bought a semi-new book from just browsing a bookstore and it is great. Written all in letters, of course.
This is a cute idea for a giveaway, simple...but a surprise!
I love the movie you've got mail, even if it's email, that's still a form of mail. hah
I'm in :)
I was going to say Dear John, but someone already said it. How about "P.S. I Love You"?
Or, the movie "The Lake House"!
The movie of A.S.Byatt's book Possession is great... I love the scene where he's in the archives of the British Museum reading letters from the couple that lived long ago. One of my favorite movies with Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart. Nice idea for a giveaway!
Jeanne Kasten (Mandaladreamer @ sendsomething.net)
Oooh, ooh, I'll play!
I'll pick a less mainstream movie, one of my very favorites: Impromptu, about the love affair between Frederic Chopin and George Sand. The love affair is started by a mistaken-identity letter, when an evil countess (brilliantly played by Bernadette Peters) steals a letter that George Sand wrote to Chopin, and passes it off as her own. Chopin is intrigued by the letter; previously put off by Sand's personality, he pays her no attention until she proves it was she that wrote the letter, not the evil countess. Great fun.
You're such a movie expert, I bet you've seen this film anyway... but if not, I do highly recommend it. Of course the music is fantastic, and it's one of the only roles I've seen Hugh Grant play (yep, he's Chopin) where I actually enjoy his acting.
To comment on a comment above, I've not seen the movie Possession, but that A.S. Byatt novel is also one of my favorites.
oooh yes please I love postcards!
The movie "84 Charing Cross Road" is about letters between an American lady and a British bookseller. They start off sending business letters but end up as friends.
BTW, I live in Wales!
I'd love to enter :)
In the book Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (based in Bombay), one character works as a scribe, reading and writing letters for the illiterate so they can communicate with their relatives.
One man, who has just heard of his brother's death - killed for a relationship across caste lines - refuses to have the reading fee waived, since it would cheapen the death to hear it for free.
I LOVE this book :)
Hi! Count me in! :)
When we went on my honeymoon almost 5 years ago the rental home we stayed in had shelves of books and one morning I actually woke up and read almost an entire book by James Patterson (first one I had read of his!) and it was called "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" and is a woman's letters to her son! I was almost in tears--it was so touching!
Thanks GirlZootZilla! :)
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Hey! Wonderful giveaway! In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin, Mr Darcy ends up winning Elizabeth Bennett's heart! *sigh*
oh I am in in in in for postcards.
The epistolary novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It is HUGE. Very long and tragic - one of the longest novels in the English language.
It was a brick in my bag for an entire semester, but totally deliciously scandalous. Clarissa wants to be virtuous and get married, various things get in the way.... and I confess, I didn't read the whole thing -- our prof didn't expect us to. She assigned chunks of it, and I am grateful to her for that.
Diana here :) dikatzen at yahoo dot fr
I'm in!
One of my favorite books,plays and also movie is "A lost letter" by I.L.Caragiale, a romanian best known for his short comedy stories mocking the end of XIX.
Zoe loses a love letter addressed to her lover and the letter ends up in the hands on the political enemy of her husband who now intends to blackmail her for political advantages.
The entire plot is fun and entertaining.
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