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15
Awesome T-Shirt Giveaway: Take Me to Your Reader
2009 at 12pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
I love all things book-related, so I was stoked when, a couple weeks ago, Kamil from Cameesa, an art & t-shirt website with a really unique concept, contacted me about a particular design they’re promoting. The shirt is called Take Me to Your Reader, and it symbolizes the ability books have to transport us into other worlds. Check it out:
Kamil was kind enough to send me a freebie last week, and I’m happy to report that I love it. The design is printed on an American Apparel t-shirt, so you don’t have to worry about sweatshop labor or unethical business practices, and it’s really soft and comfy. In person, the shirt is a creamy color with chocolatey brown text. I’ve been wearing it with jeans and a brown cardigan, but it would go with just about anything. Up close, you can see the words falling out of the book, and it’s clear that the boy in the picture is mesmerized by what he’s discovered in the world of books.
I really like this design and Cameesa’s concept, so I’m thrilled to announce a supercool giveaway. One lucky winner (who will be chosen at random) will receive his or her very own Take Me to Your Reader tee, and two runners-up will receive complimentary Cameesa tees. (Don’t worry–you’ll get to specify your gender and t-shirt size if you win.) Here’s how to enter:
- Leave a comment below describing the last time a book you were reading made you feel transported to another world. (Comments that say only “please enter me” will not be included in the contest.)
- Earn 2 extra entries for blogging about this giveaway and linking back to this post. (Be sure to leave a link to your post in the comments.)
- Earn 1 bonus entry if your post includes the picture of the t-shirt with a link back to the original site http://cameesa.com/read
This giveaway is open to readers in the U.S. and Canada and will close at 11:59pm Eastern Time next Friday, January 23rd. Good luck! Who doesn’t love a free t-shirt?
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the last time i felt really transported by a book was peter carey’s OSCAR AND LUCINDA- he did such a great job conjuring up 19th century australia and all its anarchy and beauty!
The last time I was transported was Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir. It was gut wrenching, but I felt the suffering of the people of Darfur as I read it.
Honestly, it was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Just enough of an off-shift of the real world to make me afraid to go in my basement. I’m not joking! I feel like an idiot as I tear up the stairs as fast as my 37 year old legs will carry me.
Well.. the last time I was truly transported was when I read my very first Harry Potter book. I still have fond memories of that moment.
What a cool T-shirt and giveaway! The last time I was transported was my recent Murakami read, After Dark. I’ve never been to Tokyo or Japan but I really felt like I was spending a night in that world. Thank you!
That was just yesterday. I was transported to London with the Greek gods (Gods Behaving Badly). It was so much fun, I read it in a day.
Cool contest! I read Graceling over the holidays and couldn’t put it down, I was so absorbed with the characters and world that Kristin Cashore had created. Currently, I’m reading The Book Thief and have seriously been enjoying Death (as a narrator). Thanks for this opportunity!
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Science fiction generally makes me feel transported to another world, so I would mention one of the more recent scifi books I read, “Zoe’s Tale” by John Scalzi. The protagonist is a seventeen-year-old girl so it’s a very cute book.
For actually feeling like you become part of another world, I reread Jane Eyre about every two years, and I’m back there with Jane….
Thanks for the giveaway!
I finished The Time Machine by HG Wells a few weeks ago and it definitely took me to another, more scary, world!
We are very excited to partner with you Rebecca, please do not include me in the giveaway, since I will be the one giving the shirts away.
I will be honest here, I am Self-Improvement junkie and only read Non-Fiction books, so I can’t even tell you the last time I read a Fiction. As of 2009 I decided to pick up Fiction again, it’ll probably help my imagination and help me relax. Any recommendations?
What a cool shirt!
I have been feeling transported back in time to 1666 and transported to place…rural England, while reading Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. I started the book a few days ago and after the first 20 pages or so of getting used to the language, I can see it and feel and smell it. There arent many authors that can make me feel that way.
Gayle
Just a week ago, I was reading Chalice by Robin McKinley. I felt surrounded by a comforting bee hum (only because the main character was a bee keeper & the bee swarms were a good thing) and felt that I was living quite comfortably in a cottage in the woods. (Was rather disappointed to look up & see my 3rd floor apartment.)
Generally, McKinley’s fantasies are easy to fall into like that.
The last time I read a book that transported me to another world was when I was reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore.
OOooh, cool shirt. The last time I was transported was when reading Affinity by Sarah Waters which is set in a Victorian London women’s prison.
The last book that transported me was Shades of Gray by Jessica James. Her vivid language transported me back to Civil War-era Virginia.
I blogged about this contest, included a picture that linked back to the artist’s site, and I included a link to this post. It’s all on my sidebar:
http://jennsbookshelf.blogspot.com/
I loved spending time in India with Jhumpa Lahiri in Interpreter of Maladies this past weekend. I always feel totally transported when I read her stories — almost as though I’m walking around in the actual dust-covered shoes of her characters. I can’t wait to see where I go in Unaccustomed Earth! I was trying to hold out for the paperback this spring, but I might just break down and get it in hardcover.
I’d love to be entered in the T-shirt contest.
Thanks, Rebecca!
Lucky me, I was recently transported by Steve Toltz’s A Fraction of the Whole a month or so ago. The book travels from Australia to France to Thailand, but it wasn’t just the international locales that transported me, but the crazy-brilliant father and his relationship with his son.
This sounds wonderful. I am reading a collection of short stories called the Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu and each story has taken me to a different country and managed to link back to India and Calcutta. I love the different types of love stories. I wanted to travel and found myself thinking about all the different ways that love appears.
I haven’t really read about another world in awhile…I mean, Harry Potter definitely did that for me for sure. I love books that simply take me away, and any good book can do that.
This shirt is lovely!
-Lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
I’m back. I just blogged about this with a link to the shop:
http://chris-book-a-rama.blogspot.com/2009/01/friday-bookish-buzz-jan-16-brrr.html
some how every book i read does that, i transform myself into a character and bring myself into another realm thanks for the giveaway
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The last book I read that really transported me to another world was The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. I’ve never read about a war so vivid.
I blogged about you and included a picture and linked back to Cameesa
http://regularrumination.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/congratulations/
what a fantastic idea for a t-shirt. I haven’t been transported to another world since reading Pemberley by the sea, though a close second would have been Breathing out the ghost, which I reviewed recently.
The Other Boleyn Girl made me feel transported several hundred years back. Thanks for the chance.
All books transport me, and sometimes it’s very scary especially when you read a Dean Koontz book. Intensity is a favorite one of mine.
The last book that trasnported me to another world hat I read was ” Blackwood Farm” by Anne Rice.
WOW I love the shirt. The last time I felt carried away by a book was the book I just read. The Mermaid Chair (or seat) I cannot remember the exact title its by Sue Monk Kidd. I felt like I could identify with all the characters. Reading should do that.
“Popular Music from Vittula” transported me to Finland, and then left me there for awhile–shocked and devastated and moved by the strength and tenacity of the Finns.
Count me in for the shirt!
That would be when i got hooked on Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction books on the different queens, etc of England….so interesting.
I really enjoyed The Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes, I couldn’t put it down…..
When I picked up my daughters Twilight book on a whim….was sucked in.
Love bookish anything, especially t-shirts.
A Wrinkle in Time. I was rereading this with my stepdaughter and it really takes you into a futurist scifi world.
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The last time I was truly “transported” into a book’s world was when reading George R. R. Martin’s “Inside Straight”–I just got so involved with the characters and plot and world…!
What a cool t-shirt! And honestly, I’m transported just about everytime I read a really good book!
The last time I was truly transported was when I read the Time Traveller’s wife. I’ve been waiting for a similar experience ever since.
Every book I read transports me somewhere, but for me reading John Green’s young adult books transport me somewhere I will never be able to go again – back in time to adolescence. His characters really remind me of how it felt to be a teen.
I would love to be entered in your giveaway for that cool tee
shiloki(at)gmail(dot)com
Both White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan’s Saturday transported me to diverse, cosmopolitan, urban London.
Both books are close to my heart for their ability to take me back to my favorite city and all the memories I have from it.
There was this book called White Lines…It was about 600 pages but I could NOT put this book down for anything. I read it in 1 day. I felt like I was the poor girl on the streets doing the drugs and getting kicked out of the car by a john. The book was Awesome. I’m thinking about reading it about because it was so impacting
The last book that transported me (books always transport me! In fact it’s funny, I’ll find myself wanting to get back into the “jungle” to see what happens next like in “The Royal Exhile”- what I’m trying to say is that I always want to get back into the setting of whatever the setting is…) was David Morrell’s book “The Spy Who Came for Christmas”, I just couldn’t help feeling like I was in this quite house in the middle of a snow storm!
Thanks
Darby
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I love this tshirt!!! I would love to be included in the giveaway.
Books that I read always take me back to another world. But the one that comes to mind first is The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, which I recently finished. It wasn’t a good time to be taken to, but it took place during WWII in Poland. So sad, but it definitely evoked strong feelings of being right there with the characters at that time.
http://iyamvixenbooks.blogspot.com/2009/01/take-me-to-your-readerwin-t-shirt.html
Above is the link for your giveaway and the link back to the original site for the delightful tees.
GONE WITH THE WIND is one of the books that always takes me with when I read it.
The last book I read that I fell into was Charles De Lint – WIDDERSHINS.
I love the tshirt, but not entering the contest. However, I did mention it on my blog for sunday salon.
Robin
What a clever shirt design.
The last book that transported me off my couch was Kat Richardson’s Underground. It was a fun story to lose myself in. I have to thank my grandmother for giving me books for Christmas and birthdays. She defiantly gave me the gift of travel to other worlds and times.
Diane Setterfield’s “The Thirteenth Tale” was a good book to get lost in. The story really pulled me in, at least from about page fifty on. The beginning was a little slow, but from there on out, it was an amazing story.
Deidre
The last time a book moved me, it was A Full House – But Empty by Angus Munro. It’s the story of little Angus Munro during the Great Depression. Little Angus turns into Big Angus later but the first part of the book, I just wanted it to continue!
This shirt is soooo awesome! If I don’t win, I will buy one immediately.
Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture definitely took me to another place just by the sheer force of the poetry of the language. The subject matter was of the earthly variety but the words were ethereal.
Money A Memoir by Liz Perle It did not transfer me to another place but it helped me make goals that made me move to another place…… I am living on a Farm in Iowa… i have never lived on a farm before
The last time I was transported to another world was reading Bonnie Burnard’s “The Good House”…The story was set in a place that I grew up in and around (London, Ontario) and it took me back to the streets and places that I had forgotten about…wonderful book!!
Thanks for reminding me about this book!!
I loved Michelle Moran’s Nefertiti and The Heretic Queen which both transported me to Ancient Egypt
Becky (http://blbooks.blogspot.com)
Well I was reading twilight last night and it transported me to forks
Thanks for the giveaway.
Ok, this last book that really transported me to another world was Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.. Such a strong romance that touches your heart and makes you live with the characters.
I blogged about this giveaway here
http://desertrosebooklogue.blogspot.com/
and here
http://desertrosechallenges.blogspot.com/
I also added the picture and both links!
Hope I win
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Supremely awesome design. I’m easily carried away by books. On the weekends, I’ll sit down on the couch after breakfast just to finish the chapter I started AT breakfast (yeah, you see where this is going) and won’t get up until dinner. Happy sigh.
Most recently, I was dragged away by Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace. It’s a sci-fi action adventure romance that made me think of Joss Whedon’s Firefly, which I adored.
I blogged on this contest at http://jessaslade.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/wearing-your-passion/ with the picture & link.
last night reading in bed!!