book shop? As if, anyone reading this needed prompting!
Dovegreyreader brought this bag to my attention the other week. Lizzieeeeeee, it sang, I was made for you! I had to agree. I had placed an order before I’d finished my breakfast toast.
A mixup has, however, meant that I received more than I should have. I contacted Long Barn Books and Susan Hill kindly agreed to a blog giveaway.
So, if you are
a) in need of a sturdy canvas bag that proclaims your book addiction to the world
b) strong enough to carry it full of books – this one is holding a stack of my March acquisitions (currently 10 deep with plenty of space for another stack)
please put your name in comments and tell me the books that will fill it on your next shopping trip.
This competition is WORLDWIDE and I have two bags to give away. Winners to be chosen next Sunday.
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Meanwhile, let’s send some sunshine to the winner of A Time for Gifts #1.
There were 24 comments, of which #19 was not an entry. Random.org decreed
Here are your random numbers: 24 Timestamp: 2010-03-22 12:32:52 UTC
Congratulations, candletea, you now own a signed first edition of Ian McEwan’s Solar!
For the consolation t-shirts Random.org chose:
Here are your random numbers: 7 (jj wylie), 15 (ruth), 14 (mike s) Timestamp: 2010-03-22 12:36:26 UTC
Would all winners please email their details to lizzysiddal at yahoo dot com to claim your prizes. (Please note I received the t-shirts this morning – they’re all size , good quality, Fruit of the Loom merchandise.
Lizzy's Literary Life (Volume One) 
Ooh, enter me please – I *need* one of those!!
Oh this is gorgeous please do enter me 🙂 I would fill mine with the recent Nancy Mitford Penguin releases.
I love this bag! I’m trying not to buy too many more books, but I would use it to haul my library books around, and I would bring it to BEA to help haul all of those great finds!
Oh me please! Me please! Now, I’m trying not to buy any books at the moment, but I would definitely use the bag to ferry my library books to and fro. It would be especially useful as I’m trying to do the Orange longlist, as you know! 🙂
I love this bag – please add me to the draw. I am intending to try and read all of the Orange Prize longlist. I love all Barbara Kingsolver’s books so The Lacuna would be first in the bag.
Are you sure you don’t need two bags? That way you could carry even more books!!
If you really want to give it away then I promise to fill it with lots of lovely books! I’m afraid I don’t know exactly which titles would be the first to go in – that depends what the next charity shop/jumble sale has for sale!
I would love this bag! I would probably nip down to the shops and put The Age of Wonder:How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science, Levethian, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, A Necklace of Raindrops and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. All titles I have my beady eye on!!
These competitions are ace by the way – appreciate the entry again.
What a great idea! I have sworn off buying books for myself this year, but I have not stopped buying them for others! I would fill it with books from the Easter Bunny for my three boys and husband. Easter, Valentine’s Day, birthdays (in the loot bags)–these are all occasions for book-buying for the kids. For easter I am planning to buy Kaspar Snit for my eldest, Miss Nelson is Missing for my four-year-old, and more in the Gossie the Gosling series for my soon-to-be-two-year old. My husband will be getting something about Scotland or about arctic exploration.
On the top of my list is Chelsea Handler’s new book.
amandarwest at gmaildotcom
Ohh where to start??, I would pop Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, and a collection of her stories, So Bright and Delicate- Keats, The Road- Cormac McCarthy, The Swan Thieves- Elizabeth Kostova. Any spare space could be filled with a cake…or two.
Thanks for the entry.
Please enter me! Love Louisa May Alcott. Books that I’m eyeing at the moment are Les Miserables, The Gormenghast Trilogy, Wolf Hall, Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, and Bolaño’s Distant Star. 🙂
Gorgeous bag. :0 My April reading will have to go there–Claude & Camille, This is Just Exactly Like You, The Daughters of Witching Hill, Alice in Wonderland, etc. I’m still currently populating the list. 😉 And I’m with Tracey above, extra space is definitely for food. 🙂
Count me in, please! I would promptly fill this lovely bag with a stack of past Orange prize winners (on my list: Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie and Small Island by Levy) and ALSO some of the recently longlisted (I especially want to read The Long Song by Levy, The Help by Stockett, The Little Stranger by Waters and The Still Point by Sackville, among others).
Wonderful, wonderful bag! I would fill it with equally wonderful library books. It’s a very long walk up a steep hill to my favourite library – a sturdy carrying bag like this is definitely needed!
Oh my, I NEED that bag!!
I am frothing at the mouth thinking of how beautiful this bag will look filled with the following: All Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s books, all Wilkie Collins’ books, and all the meaty books like The Far Pavillions, A Suitable Boy, Shantaram, Shogun and a Dickens or three (just because my massive new bag will fit them all in!)
Thanks for hosting. Now I’m keeping my fingers crossed! 🙂
What a great bag! My current book bag is from the Jane Austen center in Bath. My daughter brought it to me a few years ago after spending a semester studying in the UK. It too is lovely but not nearly big enough! I would immediately start filling it with Wolf Hall and any Dorothy Whipple I could locate. Also Anthony Trollope and Angela Thirkell. You did say it would hold a lot, right?
What a great bag! Please consider me for the draw. I can use this bag to carry around my entire Kazuo Ishiguro collection, my knitting books, McEwan collection and still have room to shove in my current knitting project.
What a gorgeous bag. Books that I want to buy, if I can track them down are… The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom, A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic, The middle parts of fortune by Frederic Manning. I don’t have a book bag big enough to carry more than two around and they end up in my handbag!
ohhhhhhhhh enter me please – I have a long live of book on my wish list but top of that would be seeing and The Help.
Wow, I’m totally loving your site right now! 🙂
I always thought the Alcott quote was “she was too fond of books and it has addled her brain”?
Anyway, the books that would fill the bag would be Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Gray, Isabella Beaton’s Mrs Beeton’s book of household management, H. Rider Haggard’s She, …. and so it goes. I’m sure the bag would be strong enough!
I love the bag – pls count me in for this!!!
Oh I have to thow myself in for this one though actually I can’t say which bags I would fill it with because I am on a book buying ban… but I might give it to my Gran and fill it with books for her that I either have duplicates of or have been sent unsolicitied which arent my cup of tea and yet are most definately hers! Is that good enough hee hee?
Oh, please put me on the list. the bag is gorgeous and I would probably fill it with the new alan bradley as well (but not until the german translation is published). It just seem to belong in there.
I walk to my local library and catch the tram to the charity shops several times a week so a sturdy book bag would be ideal. I’m in a new retirement season and reading lots of crime. My favourites at the moment are authors Susan Hill, Carla Banks, C.J. Sansom and, ‘dark’ but perceptive of human nature, the writing of Kate Atkinson, but I would treat myself to some contemporary new hardbacks for 2010 as I catch up on literature with the help of my favourite book blog reviews.
Have two “big” books to put in the bag—“The City of Trembling Leaves” and “The Cloister and the Hearts”. I have many TBR smaller items–“Nella’s Last War” “The Great Influenza” and “82 Charing Cross Road”.
Would love to win the bag.
Barbara
Amazing bag. It would feel wonderful to have a bag dedicated to carrying books; currently I ferry library books to and fro in a beach bag, while purchases are lost in generic plastic bags. Besides filling it with as many library books as it could carry on regular visits, on my next shopping trip I would fill it with: The Dawning by Megan Taylor, blueeyedboy by Joanna Harris, The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale, and a host of other lovely books that would catch my eye and draw me to pick them up and read their cover and be won.
I would love this to take to BEA in May! Plus I love the ampersand on it and I might have a small punctuation obsession 🙂
Can a guy in Canada enter this contest (and please disqualify me if that is a problem)? I would give this bag to Mrs. KfC — and it would soon be filled with tomes of msideeds on Wall Street (Too Big To Fail) and HUGE volumes of photos (Vogue Covers, etc.) which require a massive canvas bag.
Such a lovely bag! Thanks for giving it away… if I got it, I would fill it with lots of lovely second-hand copies of detective novels, poetry, and some of the newly released novels by Indian authors–all to be found at the nicest book shop in India, Blossom’s in Bangalore.
If I were to win, I would take this to the ALA convention here in DC in June. And fill it up and then some. You have to be well prepared to take on that many librarians in one spot!
Giveaway now closed.