May Giveaway Winner
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Congratulations, Rain!
You’re the winner of this gorgeous copy of The Door On Half-Bald Hill.
I’ll get it in the mail to you soon!
Thanks, everyone who entered! A new giveaway arrives with the next newsletter!
tonia
April Giveaway Winner
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Congratulations, Lori O! You’re this month’s winner! I love it when a book giveaway matches the recipient so well. <3 I know you’ll enjoy this one.
I’ll get this book (pre-sanitized and blessed by all my best healthy wishes) in the mail to you, ASAP!
Thanks so much to everyone who entered!
April book giveaway
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Our beloved bookstore opened for online orders, so I was able to get a book for this month’s giveaway. This month, one of my favorite books of last year, The Overstory, by Richard Powers. A story about the complicated relationship between humans and nature. Just about perfect for right now.
February Winner!
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Congratulations
Velinka Marton!
You’re the winner of this month’s book giveaway! I’ll get this book out to you ASAP.
Thanks to everyone who entered!
xo
tonia
February book giveaway
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Squeaking in here at the last minute with the book giveaway!
Details for entering are in this month’s newsletter, which goes out Wednesday. Enter by February 28th, 2020, 9 pm Pacific. Winner will be announced on the blog February 29th!
This month’s book is James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Mountain. This is a challenging (and semi-autobiographical) novel about John, the 14-year-old son of a Pentecostal preacher struggling to waken to his own identity and faith. The novel takes place mainly during a couple of church services where John and the other characters confront memory, desire, expectation, and truth. Baldwin’s dive into the enormous pressure and emotional manipulation of a Pentecostal upbringing astounded me and took me right back to my own teen years. (With the caveat that Baldwin’s Pentecostalism is also an escape from a racially charged and oppressive world I have no ability to understand.) This is a book about race, doubt, sexuality, abuse, and rage, and Baldwin is a profoundly skilled writer. I hope you’ll give it a try.
Good luck!
