BBAW Giveaway (Worldwide)

It's been a long time since I've talked about actually reading something. It's a little bit of a hit or miss right now, so I try to soak it up when I'm in the mood for it.
Currently Reading...I've spent the better part of last two weeks reading The Underground Girls of Kabul, and nothing else. It's a well-written book, mind you, but also littered with generalizations and a tone of something I can't put a word to yet. It's not condescension exactly (the author's tone is way too neutral for that) but there is a sense that the women in the West are better than Afghan women (better, not just better off). I'll need to think through that more. I know for sure that if I were Afghan and reading it, I would be .. maybe annoyed? frustrated? But how much of it is because of that sense of being looked down upon versus the subject of the book, is not clear yet. Hopefully after a few days of absent pondering, I'll have gotten to my point.

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BBAW Giveaway (Worldwide)

(This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for visiting!)

It's the second day of the week-long BBAW, and today I'm featuring six books from my stacks for a giveaway. I'll be giving away two of those books to one winner who will be chosen on Sep 17. All you have to do is select the one set (out of three) that you would love to win. The winner will receive the set that he/she chose. Some are ARCs I received, and five are books I've read and enjoyed. The sets available for the giveaway are:

Set 1 (Literary Fiction): South of Superior* by Ellen Airgood (my review) and Hello Goodbye by Emily Chenoweth (my review).

* My copy of South of Superior is an ARC.

Set 2 (Literary Fiction set in India): Someone Else's Garden by Dipika Rai (my review) and The Girl in the Garden** by Kamala Nair (my review).

** My copy of The Girl in the Garden is an actual bound galley.

Set 3 (YA books): Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz and Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten (my review).

To enter,

You don't have to be a follower of my blog.
You must be over 13 years of age.
You must be a Book Blogger (My apologies to my non-blogging readers, but since BBAW is an event celebrating blogging, I have to put this clause.)
Open worldwide.
Enter by Sep 16, 2011, Friday, 11.59 p.m. US Eastern time.
Fill the form.