Book Giveaway: The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller
November 12, 2008 by Book Dads
This contest is now closed, and the winners are:
- Kyle from The Boy Reader
- Marina from Momma Writes About Books
- Tricia from The Miss Rumphius Effect
Congratulations, winners were chosen using Random.org. I am sending an email to each winner, please respond by Mon. December 1st., if I don’t hear from a particular winner by then I will award the book to the next person on the list.
Book Dads is having a book giveaway courtesy of the Hachette Book Group.
Three lucky winners will receive a copy of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia
Here is a full description from Hachette:
THE MAGICIAN’S BOOK is the story of one reader’s long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. Enchanted by its fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books’ mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis’s tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien.
Finally reclaiming Narnia “for the rest of us,” Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a life-long adventure in books, art, and the imagination.
The contest ends on Tuesday, November 25th. We will announce the winners the following day.
Only residents of the U.S. or Canada are eligible to win. No P.O. Boxes please!
How to enter:
For one entry, simply leave a comment here telling us you’d like to win the book.
For three entries, write a post about this contest on your blog with a link back to this post. You may leave a link to your blog post in the Mr. Linky below.
| 1. Michele Thornton 2. Holly Cupala 3. avisannschild 4. Clare Bell 5. Marina |
6. Bridget Zinn 7. Solvang Sherrie 8. Tricia 9. teacherninja 10. ms_teacher |
11. Sherry 12. Kyle 13. The Old Coot |
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Thank you.
congrats to the winners! i just discovered this and was too late to enter.
One entry will do. I’m too much of an airhead to remember all the contests I sign up to win. Not very lucky, either, lately. LOL
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Pick me!! I would love to win!! Thank you
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Hi book dad, I’m definitely one that reads, to myself and my son. Great giveaway, 1st time here, I’ll bookmark it, thanks.
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I’ve loved Narnia ever since a kind neighbor gave me The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe when I had the measles at age 8. I think I also heard Prince Caspian being read on Station WHA (Madison Wisconsin’s) “Chapter A Day” radio program.
I would absolutely have loved to sit down in the “Bird and Baby” pub and listen to the Inkling’s conversations.
I’ve read just about everything Lewis wrote (including his autobiography, Surprised By Joy ), and some books about him as well, including “The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land, which was an odd book, but provoking.
I think the great lion Aslan was a major literary forebearer to my big prehistoric cat character Ratha.
CB
She has done the difficult research and now I would love to read what she has found out about C.S. Lewis! Very intriguing.
Many thanks, Cindi
Count me in please! Thanks.
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Ooh! I would enjoy winning this book! Please enter my name.
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I linked to the contest as part of my Sunday Salon post, I hope that’s OK (if not, no worries, just enter me once).
That’s Ok. That works, thank you.
I love all the Narnia books so I would very much like to win and read this book. Thanks!
This sounds like a great title. I will need to look for it!
P.S. - I posted about your giveaway on my site.
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Thank you for the post.
love Laura Miller!
And promise to pass the book along to one of my readers should I win.
thanks
Sounds intriguing. Having read a lot about (as well as by) Lewis, I can already feel myself gearing up for some vigorous note-taking in the margins. Would enjoy winning this!
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This book is on my wish list! Thanks for the contest.
The comment challenge is introducing me to so many new blogs.
Thanks.
I would like to enter, too! I’ve read all the Narnia books, have introduced them to my daughter, and would love to read about Laura Miller’s thoughts on Narnia…
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I feel like I’m a giveaway hound here, lol! What can I say? I love books…
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It’s fine by me.
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I’d like to have this book!
(I’m using my wife’s BlackBerry to write this; I’ll try to remember to blog the contest when I get to a computer tomorrow.)
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Thanks for sharing books! Books are always a great gift!
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Your welcome!
Thanks for posting about the contest.
Sounds like a fascinating story - count me in.
Thanks!
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