Update: We have winners! Congrats to Alyssa R for winning Mansfield Park, Vanya for winning Garlic and Sapphires, and Shianne Kropf for winning Canterbury Tales. The only thing more fun than finding a perfectly delicious book is forcing all your friends to read it as well. (Don’t ask my friends if I am annoying this way; I already know the answer.) Anyway, I think my friends’ “To-Read” lists are all quite long enough, so there’s nothing left to do but…
Now for the fun part. I am giving away a mandala cloth to one Striped Pineapple reader this month.
Update: The giveaway is closed, and we have a winner! Congratulations, Marylou, your bookshelf should be expanding shortly. Thank you all so much for your comments. I loved reading them all, and appreciate your participation. And to answer your questions, yes, you can certainly enter if you’re family, and yes, submissions from other countries are always quite welcome. Also, if you signed up for the emails, and didn’t see anything this morning, be sure to check your spam folder. Sometimes…
Update: The lucky winner is Naomi. Congratulations! Thank you all so much for your entries. Hello pineapple comrades. This is a giveaway! But you already knew that. This is ostensibly to celebrate the summer solstice happening tomorrow, but mostly it’s to celebrate that you’ve stuck with me and read my ramblings and cheered me on this far. The winner will receive the book pictured above- a gift from my personal library. It’s a compilation from one of my favorite authors,…
One Friday evening I left work and was headed to New York for the weekend. I like my job, but this Friday had been rough. I had talked to a particularly difficult customer whose scathing remarks had left me in tears, and I was unwinding in the car, trying to stop replaying the phone call in my head, when suddenly I got an email. I’ve followed Urban Southern for some time, since I really admire the bags they produce, and…