Yes, that’s right…someone got it!
Sorry to anyone who has been working on figuring out the titles, but I really appreciate your participation! I plan to host another giveaway that I’ll announce in late January/early February. This giveaway will be a limerick contest; I’ll accept fantasy/sci-fi-related limericks for the month of February, pick my top five, and open a vote on the top five limericks that will close the day before St. Patrick’s Day. More details on the actual rules and the prizes when I make the full announcement. (Also, I do expect this contest to have first through third place winners.)
So! To reveal the books from the header. Here’s the original photo:
A wooden cat. For no reason.
The winner, Lucia, correctly guessed the book title and author name for each book. I will list them below since some still aren’t clear in the photo above:
A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire #1)
THE NAME OF THE WIND by Patrick Rothfuss (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) (My review here.)
THE WAY OF SHADOWS by Brent Weeks (Night Angel #1)
MAGIC’S PRICE by Mercedes Lackey (Last Herald-Mage #3)
THE DRAGON REBORN by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time #3)
CHOKE by Chuck Palahniuk
THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials #1)
LUCK IN THE SHADOWS by Lynn Flewelling (Nightrunner Series #1)
The Name of the Wind is the only one that I reviewed on my blog, but all of the others are listed in some form or fashion on my ‘About’ page as they are all some of my most favoritest books.
I asked Lucia a couple of questions about her win:
1) How did you discover the answers?
Firstly, I tried to find out some names from the banner – that’s how I found e.g. Golden compass, Rothfuss, George R.R.Martin – just from the letters that I saw. The rest of the books was more difficult to identify and I spent some time just browsing random fantasy series on the Internet and looking for similar book covers. Luckily, I clicked on your ABOUT page and thought that maybe you had taken photo of your favourite books. So at the end I just searched the books via Google and tried to find some pictures in which I could see the books at the right angle – e.g.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4333689661_dece47424a.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_2hN6VwzPAUg/S9HFMsip2rI/AAAAAAAAC4M/c1G62sPfHME/_DSC0035_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg
And then I sent you my answers
2) Have you read any of these books before, and if so which do you like best?
I’ve read just His Dark Materials and this series belongs to one of my favourites. But I’ve heard a lot about the rest of the books and I’m really looking forward to reading them
She also opted to change out Luck in the Shadows and Choke for the next two books in the Night Angel trilogy–an excellent choice, I think. Congrats to Lucia, and many thanks to everyone who participated or was in the process of participating! I hope you’ll all return for the limerick giveaway.
Schephful reading!
January 7th, 2011 at 7:08 PM
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