Lizzie, Laura, Joanna, and Amy are decidedly uninterested in the pretentious book club they belong to, but they enjoy the time away from their families. Determined to take their ‘us’-time and enjoy it, they decide to use the books as inspiration. It’s great to read about amazing lives, but these girls are ready to live them.
And so, the four women start a new kind of book club, picking a “novel adventure” for each book. Each meeting is an opportunity for discovery, freedom, and fun. The adventure is just the beginning.
The novels that the women are adventuring through are:
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller
The Bourne Sanctionby Robert Ludlum
Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Life So Far by Betty Friedan
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer&Annie Barrows
Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
The most awesome thing is that ONE lucky winner can win all nine of these books! Yup, that’s right-all nine books. If you’d like to be entered, here are the rules:
- For one entry, leave me a comment
- For a second entry, blog about this giveaway and spread the word(please leave me a link back to your post)
This giveaway is only open to US residents only. You have until November 30 to enter. Please ensure you leave an email address so I have a way of contacting you. I will draw for a winner on December 1-the perfect way to start a new month and a holiday month. New Media Strategies will be shipping the winner their set of books.
Many thanks go to CBS and Novel Adventures for providing these books for this awesome giveaway.
Oh my Goodness what a wonderful selection of Great stories. I would so love to win this awesome gift & I so much love reading adventures.
Quitemama@yahho.com
Sherry
I would love to win these books! I’ve only seen one episode so far, and it was very entertaining!
akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com
I just found out about Novel Adventures yesterday…they are so fun to watch! I’d love to win 🙂
Hi Dar! Please enter me! I’ll post about your giveaway on my blog under “Other Blog Posts” (http://jennsbookshelf.blogspot.com/)
Here’s a link for my post about the giveaway! Thanks!
http://loomingintucson.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-chance.html
Sign me up!There are a lot of great books listed here that I would love to read. 🙂
Sign me up, Dar! What a great giveaway!
I posted about it here:
http://bookfan-mary.blogspot.com/2008/11/great-giveaway.html
My email is: meah56@gmail.com
🙂 Enter me Dar. Enter me. I am putting this on my side bar pronto!!
I also want to remind everyone that Kate Jacobs is going to be on one of the episodes Nov 24th. 😉
Wow! What a wonderful giveaway!
hawkes(at)citlink.net
I blogged about it here:
http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekly-giveaway-roundup.html
Hello dar-ling (ok, corny I know) I have posted this giveaway in my sidebar just for you.
I would love to be entered…even though I think my husband would kill me if I win anymore books. 🙂
This is a great selection of books! Please enter me in your contest.
bedfordbookclub@yahoo.com
I’ll add your blog to the post I have about this book giveaway.
Novel Adventures
thanks!
Great giveaway! I would love to be entered. milou2ster(at)gmail.com
I’ve posted this really neat contest on Win A Book. No need to enter the contest.
wonderful selection-I’d like to win all of them!
tiramisu392 (at) yahoo.com
oh my gosh! great giveaway. I’ve seen the first episode of the show and it was good.
I blogged about the contest, thanks 🙂
naidascrochetATyahoo.com
http://thebookworm07.blogspot.com/2008/11/novel-adventures-givewaway.html
Wow! This giveaway would keep a reader busy! Wonderful selection of titles. Thanks for the chance!
geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com
Oh, pick me please! Great give-away!
My e-mail is on my blog.
Lynne
Woo! I’m totally in for this giveaway!
I havent heard about this show, but it sounds great! I’d love to win these books!
What a contest Dar! I want a chance to win these. Thanks!!!!!
samantha.1020@yahoo.com
Great giveaway! Please enter me.
Thanks!
OHHH please enter me! What a wonderful giveaway.
-Lauren
What a great selection of books! I would love to win them!
These books look and sound so good! I’d love a chance to win them, thanks!
unforgetable_dreamer_always (at) hotmail [dot] com
Awesome, count me in! I also put your giveaway on my blog, thanks:)
http://julyso4463.blogspot.com/
What a nice giveaway!
Oh, this is awesome. please enter me!!!
I blogged about this one here too:
http://shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/2008/11/win-it-wednesday.html
-Lauren
lauren51990 at aol dot com
Oh Dar,
HHow awesome!!!! Thank you so much for the heads up you gave us on this series and thank you for hosting this giveaway!
Darby
darbyscloset at yahoo dot com
love the title: The Sharper the Knife…
Thanks for the giveaway! Crossing fingers over here….!
Hey there, I’d like for a shot to win these books as well.. Thanks! lpmccann(at)gmail(dot)com
What an awesome giveaway! I’d love to be entered! And I added it to my sidebar of contests. Thanks!
–Anna
Diary of an Eccentric
diaryofaneccentric[at]hotmail[dot]com
I’ve been watching the episodes. They did a great job with them! I’d love to win these books.
pls add me too. would love to win.
i also posted about you for another entry coz i really want to win!!!
http://kaycity.blogspot.com/2008/11/sweet-dar-and-her-sweet-giveaways.html
🙂
xx
keyomi
Oh this one sounds awesome! Please enter me…I also posted the contest on my sidebar.
joannelong74@gmail.com
awe-freaking-some giveaway! that knit 2 book [ after yur review] is what i want then the peel society book.. and… well i want all of them LOL!
😀
Thanks Dar 🙂
I blogged about this contest in my new “giveaways” tab!
http://www.skrishnasbooks.com/2008/07/giveaways.html
I haven’t watched any episodes yet, but it seems like the perfect entertainment for a rainy day! What a great giveaway–I’d love to be entered!
Please enter me. It looks like a great selection of books.
This looks like a great package. Count me in!
jgbeads AT gmail DOT com
I’ve also blogged about this in my sidebar at:
http://janelsjumble.blogspot.com
What a great giveaway Dar!! A handfull of those books are high up on my wish list!! I’d love to win copies. 🙂
I’ll post a link to your giveaway in my sidebar.
🙂 Take care,
Wendi
PS – There’s still time to enter my giveaway of
The American Journey of Barack Obama.
I’d love to win!
ibeforem@gmail.com
Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston looks most interesting to me. I've read some of his other work. Gone With the Wind I've read, of course. Any self-respecting southerner such as myself has read both the Gone With the Wind books and seen the movie countless times. Here in Alabama alot of high schools require you to watch the movie.And The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer&Annie Barrows looks like it would be good. It will be interesting to see how the series handles each of these novel adventures.
traymona[at]aol.com
These are all great books! Thank you so much for such a wonderful giveaway! Keeping my fingers crossed! 🙂
Carol M
mittens0831 AT aol.com
Since I already own half of these I don’t need to be entered, but I just wanted to say, How fun!!
Amazing books – I would be thrilled to win.
Please enter me and thank you for the giveaway.
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com
Dar, no need to enter me, but WOW!!! What an AMAZING giveaway!!!
Shana
Literarily
Amazing giveaway is right. Please enter me. Thanks.
Vicki
vicsterhome@aol.com
I would love to win these books-it looks like a fantastic selection!
Please enter me! What an amazing way to use the internet. I think Saturn will gain many, many new fans. I watched two episodes tonight and was quite entertained. How the images of women have changed!
bluebethley@yahoo.com
Please enter me! I cannot believe I don’t have Gone with the Wind on my bookshelf yet… Blog entry is here: http://dreyshouse.blogspot.com/2008/11/cbs-novel-adventures-book-giveaway.html
Thanks!
Please enter me. I’ve also blogged about it here:
smbooks.blogspot.com.
Thanks!
Sararush at hotmail dot com
Please enter me. I’ve also blogged about it here:
smbooks.blogspot.com.
Thanks!
Sararush at hotmail dot com
I’ve seen a few episodes and I LOVE this show! I’d like to enter please.
Ladytink_534[at]yahoo[dot]com
This would be an excellent prize pack for any bookworm. Please include me in the draw! Thanks so much! I actually heard of Novel Adventures about a week ago, but I haven’t had a chance to check them out yet. I’m hoping to this week sometime.
RebekahC
littleminx@cox.net
Please include me in the drawing. What a great giveaway!
Wow! What a great giveaway! Please enter me.
bluebyrd24@gmail.com
Enter me please. What a great giveaway.
Thanks~ Nely
nelaine.sanchez@gmail.com
Wonderful collection of books I’d love to win!!
Ttheresa N
weceno(at)yahoo(dot)com
I started a new blog, just for books etc. Posted about this giveaway there, too – http://dreyslibrary.blogspot.com/2008/11/peeking-between-pages-is-giving-away.html
This is such a neat giveaway. I`ve not seen the series yet – thanks for letting me know about it. Enter me please!
These books all sound like great reads!
lc_intocable [at]yahoo [dot]com
ooo i’d love to win this111
please enter me.
lisalouhoo@msn.com