Armchair BEA Day 2 Giveaway: Book Haiku Contest

Win $25 to The Book Depository by writing a Book Haiku

My favorite 2011 books that I'm looking forward to purchasing or have read and loved are:

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Hounded by Kevin Hearne

With $25 you can choose some of my favorite books or any books up to $25.  Whatever you choose will be sent from the  The Book Depository and the contest is international as long as you live in a country that the Book Depository ships to.

Haikus should be about your favorite book or book characters.

Examples of Book Haikus:
Disillusionist                                            Oberon the dog
Using fears to save the day                 Loves sausages and poodles
Justine's fate unknown                        Also talks a lot

1.) Haikus must be in 5-7-5 form.
2.) Write your haiku along with your name email address in the comments.  If you don't want to leave your email address leave your Twitter, or Facebook details.  Just make sure I'm able to contact you to let you know that you've won                  .
3.) You don't have to follow the blog to win, but feel free to follow if you like what you see and leave any comments on reviews or posts that you find interesting.  :)
4.) The contest will run from May 24-31st.  It will start on mid morning on May 24th and end at midnight (Central time) on May 31st.

*  Winner will be chosen by me and Tiny Reverse Vampire.  The winner will be posted on June 1st.

Bibliognome - Armchair BEA Introduction

Welcome to the first day of Armchair BEA and to Bibliognome.

Hi, my name's Becky B.  I started Bibliognome on August 16, 2010.  As my first post says,

"Why the name Bibliognome, well I like gnomes and I like books so I combined the two.  Since starting a full time job as a Library Assistant I've been reading a lot more.  I've always enjoyed reading but now I want to try my hand at reviewing.  Feel free to tell me what you like and tell me what you hate.  I'm always up for a good discussion."

I've always been a librarian at heart and was thrilled to find a full-time job at a community college library as a Library Assistant.  It's great when you can work around books everyday and teach/help people discover how essential libraries are.  Being in a library also led me to book blogging.  At first I just read a lot of reviews then after applying for a reviewer position on a blog I pretty much thought, why not start my own blog?  Now I love having my own blog and have had a great time learning as I go along and hopefully improving too.  

I've always loved to read and having this blog has introduced me to so many books that I might have never picked up before.  Then when you throw in the aspect of Twitter, that's when things get really interesting.  It was great to discover authors on Twitter and be able to actually interact with them.  My favorite genres are YA, Urban and Paranormal Fantasy, Science Fiction and Fantasy.  I will review anything that I find interesting though so I'm pretty eclectic with what I read.  
I decided to participate in Armchair BEA as much as possible because it looks like a lot of fun. I of course would have loved to go to BEA but my funds are rather low and I don't have a lot of vacation time.  So this looked like a great alternative to the real thing, I'm sure we'll have our own brand of fun.  :)

During Armchair BEA I hope to meet more book bloggers and discover more blogs out there.  I love talking about books so it's always great to find others that love books too.  This week will be full of cool stuff like giveaways, interviews, lots of surprises, learning new things and meeting some bloggers that I've never met before.  

There are over 390 participants so make sure to go to the Armchair BEA site and check out all the cool people.  :)

Heres hoping you find something here to like at Bibliognome and you can always feel free to email me - geckyboz[at]gmail[dot]com or talk to me via Twitter @GeckyBoz.  

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to come back tomorrow for more Armchair BEA goodness.

Top 5 Sundays - Favorite Book Quotes!

This feature was thought up by the awesome Larissa's Bookish Life
Rules:

1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2 - Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3 - Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
4 - After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.

5 – If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)  

Favorite Book Quotes

"Anyone with a cursory knowledge of mythology knows that it is suicidal to sexually harass a goddess."

"She didn't know which was worse: licking a toad to get high or carrying a toad around just to be weird."

"If you really wanna take out your frustrations on someone, you should go find a crowd and have a good old-fashioned rumble!"

"It ranks right up there with lockers.   In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all."

"You are the bravest, best person I've ever known."