Today is my third blogiversary! Thanks so much to all my readers for sticking with me over the past three years, and adding your thoughts and comments to the posts and making the whole experience fun.Please have a slice of the cake. It's very low calorie.
And wait. I have a present for five of you.
The British Council were kind enough to pass me five copies of New Writing 15 to give away to readers. (I blogged about the book here.)
So here's a little competition: name any three of the writers who have pieces in the collection, and if you're one of the first five to get it right, I will give you your book. (Name three different ones from the winner before you lah!)
I am too lazy and disorganised to post anything anywhere, so the competition is limited to those folks I can pass the copy to by hand.
Julian Barnes, Anita Desai and Ma Jian!
ReplyDeleteone copy is yours. i shall bring it to your book launch.
ReplyDeleteMoniza Alwi, Helen Dunmore, Alasdair Gray
ReplyDeleteJohn Siddique, Catherine Smith, Saradha Soobrayen!
ReplyDelete*fingers crossed*
Gerard Woodward, Robin Robertson and Doris Lessing
ReplyDeleteleon wins (although has a spelling mistake alvi not alwi!!)
ReplyDeletesashi wins.
eric wins. (though books to someone who works with books is coals to newcastle innit!)
leon and eric i'm bound to see here or there and soon. but sashi, how do i find you??
one more to go ...
richard beard, moses isegawa, sudeep sen
ReplyDeleteSue Rullière, Kerri Sakamoto and Fiona Sampson!!
ReplyDeletestarlight wins. but comes in at exactly the same moment as hameedah so i guess i will find a prize for her too! :-D
ReplyDeletecompetition closed now
congrats to the winners. let me know where and when i can deliver your prize.
too early in the morning for a competition. :(
ReplyDeleteyou're right. just because i'm up with the lark doesn't mean that other people are too! i forgot about all those post-merdeka-weekend hangovers!
ReplyDeleteHappy blog burfday, Sharon!! Wow, three years... here's to many more! *toasts*
ReplyDeleteCongrats! :)
ReplyDeletesharon happy blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary!
ReplyDelete3 writers, eh? Hmmm.... :)
Zoë Strachan
M. R. Peacocke
Sue Rullière
Thanks Sharon! Was really looking forward to receiving a book! Could you pass it to Muntaj at your next book club meeting? I will arrange to pick it up from her as I am now in Kuching, ..but enjoying your blog from here!
ReplyDeletelesha - soory lah. you're just a wee bit too late. early birds and all that!
ReplyDeletehameedah - sure. when are you going to join us again?
Congrats! It's very telling that it took 11 comments before anyone wished you Happy Blog Birthday.
ReplyDeleteBut then, if I had been an early bird, I would probably done the same.
Happy Blogiversary, Sharon. Thanks for keeping up this blog. I'm sure those who live in Malaysia appreciate it just as much for different reasons, but for me it's a unique link to the Malaysian lit. scene and I feel so lucky to have found it.
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Hi Sharon, Happy blogiversary. This is my first comment on your blog and I just want to say that I enjoy it tremendously. I love reading - also have shelves of books and quite a number of unread ones (books, i.e.). Cheers, Zuraidah Omar (Zu)
ReplyDeletesharon, reply to you bounced back.
ReplyDeletekaka teh - i think streamyx is down at the mo
ReplyDeletepreeta, zu, animah, lesha, kak teh, poppadumdum and all who wished my blog happy birthday ... many thanks.
ReplyDeletei do this because it's fun and because i enjoy the friendships it brings.
and because ideas there are to be bounced.
Happy happy blog anniversary!! Stay fabulous!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday biblio! may your blog continue to educate, entertain, inform, enlighten etc etc all of us!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blog Birthday Bibs!
ReplyDeleteHavent been around much...have been naughty and not reading, so dropping by always makes me feel guilty for being so illiterate. :D
Better pick up my Karen Armstrong tonight...
And many more!!!
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