Thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway! Many beautiful book covers and descriptions of books! It was exciting and wonderful for me and I hope it was the same for you.
I did draw the winner and after checking, if everything’s fine with ruling, that the person who will receive The Miniaturist is…
Disha from Ireland!
I will send you an email to your provided email address and hopefully the book will be on it’s way this week! Congratulations and thanks to all who participated in my first ever giveaway!
Rules and general information:
Hey, everyone, this giveaway of Jessie Burton’s first novel The Miniaturist
In order to participate in this giveaway:
1. You need to follow bookowly.wordpress.com! I wanted to thank you for spending time and reading my reviews, for commenting and liking posts and sharing your views, it is very interesting to read thoughts of other people, which is a reason that this giveaway is open for followers only. I can track wordpress and email followers only, so, if you follow me from another platform, I might need a print-screen of that.
2. You need to comment on this post:
a. In order to make our lives easier, please start with the sentence: “I currently live in…” and the country you live in. This is to speed up process and I don’t have to double check, if you actually are from Europe, when I will draw the winner and I am actually interested in where you guys are from.
b. Post a link to you favourite book cover (can be many, if you wish), the prettiest cover you have seen. It doesn’t have to be the best book, it just has to be a pretty cover. And if you like, you could explain, why you love this cover so much or how did you like the book!
And that is all you need, in order to participate in giveaway of The Miniaturist.
Giveaway is open from the moment I post this and will be active for one week, making midnight (London time) of 13th of September the last moment for entries. I will announce the winner in this post on 14th of September and will contact the winner via email provided in the post. If I will not receive an answer to my email within two days (midnight 16th of September), I will select a new winner and so on and on. If the winner will answer, we will agree on the way of delivery (probably via Royal Mail) and (s)he will agree to share her/his address to receive the book.
The winner will be selected randomly, no matter what book cover and country (as long as it is in Europe) is selected.
If you have no knowledge of the book, you can check out my review in wordpress or in goodreads.
Example of a post and how to insert a link:
“I am currently living in UK and I think that the prettiest book cover is for The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, because…”
“I am currently living in UK and I think that the prettiest book cover is for <a href=”YOUR LINK”>TITLE</a>, because…”
bookowly 
September 6, 2015 at 14:28
I currently live in Portugal. In my opinion the prettiest cover I’ve ever seen is A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray because everything thing blend so perfeclty and it makes me dream of far away places and magic adventures. And it has pink and pink is a great color (as you can probably guess it’s my opinion from seeing my blog hahaha)!
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September 6, 2015 at 14:36
I currently live in Switzerland and I think the prettiest book cover is for The Gospel of Loki. I love the geometrical shapes that create the landscape on the cover. I also really love the colour scheme and the flecks of gold used throughout the drawing. I wrote about my love of the book here: The Gospel of Loki.
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September 6, 2015 at 17:05
I currently live in the UK (waheyy!). For my favourite cover I am currently in love with is the penguin clothbound edition of the Odyessy, which *fingers crossed* will be arriving tomorrow. I love the simple pattern and the colour scheme. The whole series of Penguin Clothbound Classics are gorgeous though!
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September 6, 2015 at 17:07
I currently live in the UK. The prettiest cover I’ve ever seen is for Dream Strider because it was beautifully edited to capture different elements and ideas in a dream. There are so many things to see and analyze in the cover alone that it will capture your interest automatically. 🙂
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September 6, 2015 at 17:15
I posted without the link, so here it is again: Dream Strider
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September 6, 2015 at 18:00
I live in the UK and I do think this is a great challenge. Off the top of my head I’m going for the cover of ‘The Blind Assassin’ by Margaret Atwood which (hopefully) can be seen at http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Og6Di3z8L.jpg
It’s stylish and beautiful and the position of the girl’s hand is going to be an extremely important clue in the novel …
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September 6, 2015 at 19:36
I live in Belgrade, Serbia. 🙂 My favorite covers are covers for Virginia Woolf’s books, made by her sister Vanessa. Some of them you can see here: http://data.whicdn.com/images/3939744/large.jpg
They maybe not be the prettiest covers in the world, not even prettiest covers of Virginia’s book, but I see them as very special, that must have been tough and exciting experience for both sisters. 🙂
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September 7, 2015 at 01:46
The cover of that book is so pretty!
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September 7, 2015 at 14:21
I currently live in Austria. The prettiest cover I’ve ever seen is from the book “Aleph” by Paulo Coelho http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780007435524/aleph . I love all his books, but this one I guess has the best cover. The blue color, blue sky, the woman in this dress, the hula hoop and the railroad are so perfectly presented. It makes a great idea for couple fotosessions :). I feel a tiny happiness when I watch the cover, and innocence. Btw it is a very good book to read.
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September 7, 2015 at 17:23
I currently live in the UK I think that the prettiest book cover is Spintered by A.G Howard – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Splintered-G-Howard/dp/1419704281/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#reader_B008JHQ56Y It’s such a pretty cover and a great re-telling of Alice in Wonderland. 🙂
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September 8, 2015 at 11:21
I’m in the UK and my favourite cover on my shelves is this one for Savage Lane by Jason Starr https://mrsredsreviews.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/savage-lane-by-jason-starr/
I love how vibrant the colour is and how dramatic the cover looks.
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September 8, 2015 at 14:25
I currently live in the UK and I think that the prettiest book cover is Temeraire by Naomi Novak because it (and others in the series have such amazing detail in their cover art that it’s as easy to get lost in the cover art as it is to get lost in the writing.
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September 8, 2015 at 15:46
I currently live in Ireland. I have too many favourite book covers to choose from, so I’ll just share my dearest one of this week – The Tea Planter’s Wife
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September 14, 2015 at 19:14
Hi, Disha! I also really like this cover and for a while am already thinking about reading this book. I’m happy to announce that I just drew the winner for my giveaway and that is you!
I will send you an email with request for address and other details that I will need to send you The Miniaturist! 😉
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September 8, 2015 at 17:03
I live in the uk and the most memorable book cover I have seen thus far is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent because it has my favoruite colour combination – blue and purple – and it is simple yet still mesmerizing for me.
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September 8, 2015 at 17:05
Oh and I forgot, here’s a link to a picture of the cover – http://www.picador.com/getmedia/0e7b4024-c1da-4a9e-949b-6ea52454a166/burial-rites-978144723316901.jpg?ext=.jpg&height=430
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September 12, 2015 at 21:19
I currently live in Latvia. I have many favorite book covers. Here’s one of them http://i.imgur.com/Yrinhcu.jpg
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