Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers: CONTEST: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Hi there readers!

Welcome back to post two of the day here at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers....the place that despite having less than stellar computer access at times, is still determined to churn out the best bookish posts for YOU!

We started the day with a Teaser Tuesday post, or as I like to call them a Taste Testing Tuesday post, featuring a title just making its debut into the literary world. It comes to us from a writer who makes her living as a bookseller in Alaska of all places (how ironic the book takes place there, no? ^_^) and is now tacking on the title of "published author" to her own personal coat of many colors. (Congratulations!) Curious about the book? I thought you might be. Read on my friend, read on....

From the publisher....

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

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Sounds good, no?

I know I was intrigued when I first heard about it and as it is my current read, I can honestly say...so far, so good! It's moving but not in that fast paced action sorta way...more in a quiet, emotionally striking tone that has you lingering on each page for a moment to see if there is some piece you may have overlooked and can absorb once again. It's really quite good....and as I make my way through the book, I am MORE than pleased to share this bit of good fortune with you.

Thanks to the great folks over at Hachette Book Group (Hi, Anna! Thanks!), I am pleased to bring you the chance to win 1 of 3 copies of this title for your reading pleasure. *insert fanfare here* Here's the scoop...

The prize:

1 of 3 copies of the The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

How to enter:

Just fill out THIS FORM and you're in it to win!

(Is the link big enough for you? LOL...and yes, there are opportunities for extra entries...)

The rules:

Open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

No P.O. Boxes please.

Entries accepted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 through Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 midnight CST.

Though comments are lovely (and most appreciated! ^_^), you must fill out the form in order for your entry to be counted.

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So, there you have it.

Another chance for you to win BIG!

So spread the word, follow along, leave a comment...just be sure to FILL OUT THE FORM before the deadline so you don't miss out on your chance to win this great new title.