win a $250 Powell’s Card
and two $100 cards for your friends.
Powell’s Bookstore is running a neat contest.
You needn’t buy a thing — just sign up for one issue of their free e-mail newsletter. By the way, we get 25 cents for each new subscriber! The banner sign-up is a bit large for this text area, so I put it in the footer at the bottom of the page. If you use that banner to sign up for the newsletter, we get 25 cents and you get to enter this contest.
Your votes will decide who will wear this year’s Golden Galoshes.
Writes Powell’s, “So, was the best book you read last year an Oprah-recommended memoir about a recovering drug addict, or an Oprah-recommended, sixty-year-old novel about a severely dysfunctional Southern family? Did you savor the newest adventures of a young wizard, or the latest chronicles of a young wizard and his talking dragon? Was your favorite 2005 book about an Afghan boy who loves kites, or was it a reprint of a classic comic strip about a bald boy who gets tangled in kite-eating trees?”
“We really don’t know. But we’d like to. So enter the contest (after you sign up for the newsletter in the footer below, of course!). Voting ends February 1.”
Hmmmm … What an excuse to mention a famous author in our midst, Nancy Pickard, known here fondly as “Kansas.”
We first “outted” the modest Kansas in this January 9th story: “Kansas: SEX, VIOLENCE, EVIL?,” where you’ll find links to this famed mystery author’s many novels, as well as her touted book on writing, “Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment.”
OPEN THREAD! Talk books, Kansas, voting for certain books (!), whatever’s on your mind …
