This year’s OMG Fourteenth Blogo-Birthday Week Celebration technically began with yesterday’s Sunday Post. The actual, technical blogoversary is this Friday, April 4, with my own birthday the following day, April 5, which is when the final giveaway will be posted.
Reading Reality began on April 4, 2011, under the name “Escape Reality, Read Fiction”, which is also the reason the ratings are “Escape Ratings” and “Reality Ratings”. This blog, and all of the other reading/writing/reviewing activities that have grown up around it over the past fourteen years have turned into both my longest and my absolute favorite job. At least in part because I created it out of things that I wanted to do, and can do the work at whatever time feels right to me.
Meaning that I do a lot of my reading late at night – although not generally as late as I used to. More often 1:00AM and less likely 3:00AM – not that I don’t see that time on the clock when the book is so excellent that I can’t make myself stop reading!
This week, this Blogo-Birthday Celebration, is a Hobbit Birthday. In The Lord of the Rings, at the very beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, we learn that when hobbits celebrate their birthdays, its an occasion for giving presents to others – not receiving presents for oneself. In that spirit, there will be giveaways every day this week, whether gift cards or books or the winner’s choice between the two.
It’s my way of saying thanks to each and every single one of you who read my reviews, comment on my posts, participate in the giveaways – and admire the pictures of the cats. I’m grateful to you all for being a part of my journey!
Therefore, in thanks and appreciation to YOU, on this second day of my Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week I have a giveaway, just as I did yesterday and will every day the rest of the week. Today’s giveaway is for a $25 (US) Gift Card for Amazon or to a bookstore of your choice if you have a local that sells gift cards over the interwebs. (If you live outside the US and have a local Amazon, the gift card will be the equivalent of $25 US from your country’s Amazon.)
I also have one $25 Barnes and Noble Gift Card to give away as well. This is a physical card that I’ll mail to the lucky recipient. It’s a lucky find from one of my desk drawers, but it’s unused and doesn’t expire so someone will get the benefit of it this year.
As always, from the bottom of my bookish and cat-loving heart, my heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you who has been part of this adventure. There’s more to come!
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