In Honor of Reading Month!

 The Give Away is now Closed. I will announce the winner on Monday! Thanks to all who entered.
Reading has been a life long passion of mine. I remember being quiet young and my dad taking me to the library, letting me browse the books for hours and then we would sit down together in the reading pit and he would read me a story. Sometimes it wasn't a story, maybe it was the Comic Strip he so dearly loves, Calvin and Hobbes! Those are such fond memories of mine. So it is no wonder why I came to love reading. I loved the characters I got to engage with and lands I got to go. This of course was way before the love affair with knitting ever entered my life. I feel a bit bad actually. Knitting has just swept me off my feet, so that I don't get in as much reading as I would like. Why I used to chop thru a book in a week, sometimes two books! Fortunately for me the books do not hold the knitting against me. In fact they have embraced it and showed me that just because I love knitting doesn't mean I still can't have my time with the books. There are so many books on knitting from tutorial to fiction, that the two loves are blending together quiet nicely.

I loved reading so much that I had wanted to become a Librarian so I could be around books all day. Alas I did not become a Librarian, much to the disappointment of my high school librarian, but it is on my to-do list still so maybe one day. Then I could be a knitting librarian! But that is not the point of this post today. We are in the month of March(goodness really? Already? My how time flies), and March is National Reading Month. Yippie! In honor of National Reading Month, and as a way to Celebrate the launching of this blog(heehee I sound like I am launching a ship) I am doing a book giveaway! I thought long and hard about what book I should feature for the give away. Should it be a mystery, lighthearted, romantic, a combination of all?? Then it hit me, the only proper thing to do is give away a book that had something to do with knitting or yarn! After all that is what over 90% of this blog is about. I am happy to announce that the book in this months give away is, Needles and Pearls by Gil McNeil(I am in no way compensated for having featured this book. It is of my own accord).

Knitting is supposed to keep you sane right? But what happens when life starts to unravel? Follow the story of Jo Mackenzie as she adjusts to being a single parent of two lively boys after being widowed, and the highs and lows of her new knitting shop. This book is the sequel to The Beach Street knitting society and yarn club. This book is an excellent read and you can't help but get lost in the world of the characters.

This give away will be open till the 9th of March(I want to be able to get the book to the winner before the month is over so they have something good to read before the month is out). I am so happy to be doing my first giveaway. Its very fitting that it be a book and about knitting. To enter please leave a comment about any great books you have read recently or perhaps a childhood memory you have about reading, along with your email address so I can get in touch with you to notify you of winning and obtain your shipping information. If you leave a comment and become a subscriber or follower you will receive one additional entry point for a higher chance to winning. If you do subscribe or follow, please leave another comment stating so, this is how you will gain your other point. The winner will be chosen randomly. Happy Reading Month everyone! Let the comments roll!

Till later,
Amanda