UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed! Thanks for visiting.
The folks over at Penguin were kind enough to provide me with a copy of Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link and one of my lucky readers gets to win this gorgeous hardcover! Thank you Jillian!
Here is a brief blurb:
“Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!”
This book is classified as Young Adult but I feel it appeals to both YAs and Adults. To read more about Kelly Link, visit her website by clicking here. Click here to read what Bibliophile Stalker had to say about it. It’s currently a Powells.com Staff Pick.
Giveaway Details:
This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada. There are TWO ways to enter:
1. Post a comment for ONE entry. Be sure to include an email address so I can contact you.
2. For THREE more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and then include the link in a comment to this post. This giveaway will run until Sunday, November 30, 2008, 8pm (PST). The winner will be selected randomly and announced on Monday, December 1, 2008. I will contact the winner for his/her mailing address. Good luck!!!
Book Chatter 
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Please enter me! This sounds great. Thanks!rebecca.bradeen(at)verizon(dot)net
Oooh I’ve been wanting to read this one! I’d love to enter!aleareads@gmail dot com
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Okay, I want I want I want!This looks so good! Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway!breenibooks AT gmail DOT com
Wow, this sounds great! Please enter me.jgbeads AT gmail DOT com
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I would love to win this book!akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com
This book looks fantastic! Please enter me!screamingicecube at bellsouth dot net
Wow, she sounds like she has an incredible imagination. I’d love to read a book of hers.Thanks for the giveaway.booklorn[at]gmail[dot]com
I love these kind of books and I would love to be entered. I agree, there are so many YA books out there that are great but are overlooked because of the “label”.I will be back with my blog link. Thank you.waitmantwillie(at)hotmail(dot)com
Ok, I have posted about your great giveaway on my blog. The link is:http://readinginappalachia.blogspot.com/2008/11/current-book-giveaways.htmlThanks again.waitmantwillie(at)hotmail(dot)com
Please enter me!emailthebookworm(at)yahoo(dot)com
I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read from Kelly Link thus far, and would love to read more. Please enter me!— Memoryxicanti at gmail dot com
Oh I am so glad to see you promoting this book for your giveaway! I have been wanting to read it and hopefully I will win it!!!Thanks so muchDarbydarbyscloset at yahoo dot com
Sounds like a good book and I love the cover its very mysterious! Thanks for entering me.
Would love to read this.Deidredeidre_durance at hotmail dot com
This book sounds awesoem.
Book sounds great and I’ve posted it on my blog at http://thebookbind.blogspot.com/Thanks.
Please enter me..this book sounds intriguing.
Lovely! This will be entry #1 – I’ll post about this giveaway early next week and come back with the link. 🙂 Thanks! Take care.stacey(dot)bookthirty(at)gmail(dot)com
this book sounds really yummy! would love to be entered
please enter me!! this sounds great.i blogged here:http://shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/2008/11/freebie-friday.html-Laurenlauren51990 at aol dot com
This book sounds fascinating!!!! I would love to be entered to win a copy of this book!!Pick me! Pick me!! 🙂
I’d love to be entered as well. This looks like a fun and interesting read. I’ve also left a link of this at my blog, it’s off to the side under Giveaway List.Thanks~ Popinproudbookworm[@]gmail[dot]com
HEY what a great contest. i have it up on my site, please all take a look. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=114545405&MyToken=7519556f-07d3-4785-8ae6-ea65fb169f07hoping to win!!!!!-Amanda Annrebelsparky_nirvana@yahoo.comP.S. if you have any reviews or other books you want listed just let me know. ( this goes for anyone) thanks again!
This sounds so clever! Please include my name. I’d love to read it. I’ve added it to my blog as well. Thanks!http://www.wrightysreads.blogspot.com5wrights1@verizon.net
WOW! I haven’t heard about this author or book. Thanks for the review.
This sounds like a book I would love! Thanks for the opportunity to win! 🙂Lindseyladyufshalott at yahoo.com
I would like to win this book! The short stories all sound interesting!I posted about the contest on my blog:http://paradoxrevealed.blogspot.com/Paradoxparadoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
Would love to win this book.Ziechick@gmail.com
awesomeness! The blurb I read sounds amazing so I will most likely buy or borrow the book even if I don’t win! WOOHOODebiCraftinDeb@gmail.com
I’ve been hearing about this author — I’d love to read this book. Thanks for the chance!geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com
I love Kelly Link’s books, but unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the level of commitment to make a blog.disillusionedcupotea AT hotmail DOT com
Thanks for the chance. Sounds like a really fun book!AndieAndrea_Johnsonatcoxdotcom
I read my first Kelly Link story the other day in The Faery Reel anthololgy. I wouldn’t mind trying one of her new novels.Ladytink_534[at]yahoo[dot]com
makes me wish I had a blogAnnetterakbell13@bellsouth.net
I blogged about it here:http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekly-giveaway-roundup.html
would like to read thank you
I was looking at this book the other day at the bookstore and it looked so good. Another book (which disappointed) won out and now I’m yearning for this one!
Sounds like a great read! Would love to get a copy!catwoman_live@yahoo.com
i’d love to win!i posted a link here:http://thebookmunchercontests.blogspot.com/
Oh please enter me, too–I love the sound of the book (and the look of the cover!)book.splotATgmailDOTcom
Please enter me!Thanks!bookopolis at live dot com
Looks like an awesome book. Enter me please!
Sounds interesting. I’d love to give it a try.
Sounds like it good be a good book. Please enter me into this giveaway, thanks!Mariahpenguinqueen(at)hotmail(dot)com
sounds like a good book!! i wnat to win!!