We’ve got two gems to award for our September back-t0-school contest! Enter to win THE AMETHYST ROAD by Louise Spiegler (who we interviewed here and here) and an ARC of THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD by our very own P.J. Hoover! (What, you say? How is a navel a jewel in the way an amethyst is? Well, this is the second book in P.J.’s THE FORGOTTEN WORLDS trilogy, which started with THE EMERALD TABLET, voila…. or think of a navel as the jewel of the torso… or a prime place to wear a jewel…. oh, never mind.)
To enter, leave a comment on this post with your favorite thing about fall. If you can tie it to a book, so much better. (Here’s mine: I love the smell of dying leaves under my feet because they make me think of reading Stephen King, which is my consolation for the year dying, coming darkness…)
We’ll announce the winner on the day before the fall equinox (September 21).
– Joni, who apparently reads King most in the fall
Chris Eboch
Greg R. Fishbone
Nick
lindajoysingleton
Parker Peevyhouse
Joni Sensel
I love Candy Corn and Pumpkin Seeds, both of which I can eat while reading or writing books
I love making big pots of hearty soup which I can serve as leftovers all week, leaving extra time to read. And heck, I can eat the soup and read at the same time.
I love it that Halloween is just around the corner and makes me think of Ray Bradbury because he is the King Of Fall.
I love Ray Bradbury. He’s one of my favorite authors. He’s stories are perfect fall fare.
I like not having to water the garden and weed–I can turn my attention to other things that I don’t have time for in the summer, like building stone walls…
Fall in Southern California is not as dramatic as other places, but the crowds disappear from beaches and you can walk for miles under clear blue skies and clouds stretched long like jet plumes. If there are no wildfires, you swear you can see boulders and trees on mountains far against the horizon. It is a scrubbed clean time.
Fall for me is crisp weather, overcast days and Poe filled nights. For me, Poe and Fall go together perfectly.
I love baking in the Fall, filling the house with wonderful aromas. While the goodies are in the oven, I curl up under a blanket with a good book.
the best thing about fall is the coolness of the afternoon breezes which reminds me of late afternoons reading the Hobbit with my mother under our oak tree right after i got off the bus from kindergarten
I love the relief from summer’s blazing sun and the crisp, clean feeling to the air that invites you to curl up by a fire and get cozy. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods starts with fall. Their preparations for winter really emphasize how the little house felt snug and safe to Laura as a little girl.
I love the smell of burning leaves in the fall, but most of all…Halloween! We do it big in our house. With vampires spookier than the ones in Twilight and zombies like in Forest of Hands and Teeth!
Hello. Came over from PJ’s blog – thanks for hosting a contest! What do I love about fall? So much! The crisp evenings, the colors turning, driveway parties (we set up the projector screen and watch movies on the garage door) … beautiful stuff.
oops. that was my comment above, forgot to put in my info (so used to blogger doing it for me
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When fall comes ’round, I spend a lot of the early nights sipping rich cocoa, reading equally delectable books, and dreaming of all the new titles I’ll request for my birthday and Christmas.
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