Books! Giveaway! Random Facts!

Today I'm going to share some random facts, some book suggestions & some great links for you guys to check out, all courtesy of some of the awesome people who are supporting my blog for the month of April!  Be sure to check out their blogs/shops & say hi!

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• I'm actually partially deaf! I don't hear low frequencies. This was the result of my eardrum bursting three times from infections.
• I collect vintage tea cups. It's kind of a problem haha!
• Books to check out: Battle Royale, The Perks of Being a Wall Flower, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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• I'm addicted to Cadbury Creme Eggs
• I love to bake
• One of my favourite books is Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. I know it's not extremely accurate, but it's just one of those stories that I can read over and over again.

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•  I tell everyone I am 5 feet tall, but really I am just under. 
• I have a low tolerance for pain, until I am on the derby track. 
• I just finished reading The Fault In Our Stars - soooo amazing. Definitely made the favorites. :)
  

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• my husband and I were delivered by the same doctor (a year and a half apart!) 
• my first concert was seeing Debbie Gibson's Out of the Blue tour at Radio City Music Hall in 1988!
• One of my fave books: Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk. I *never* reread books, but I've read this one about a half-dozen times. I just keep coming back to it

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• I am running one race a month in 2012  

• I am in love with chai tea lattes 

•  Favourite book: Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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• I have insomnia
• I might be addicted to candy!
• One of my favourite books is Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

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• I can curl my tongue into a three leaf clover shape, as well as curvy W, and the usual U. 
• I have been known to pick a large tomato off the vine and eat it like an apple. So delicious!
• It's hard to choose just one favourite, but I love the entire Harry Potter series, and To Kill a Mockingbird was my favourite book in high school, that I read multiple times. I also really enjoyed The Giver.

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• I have a girl cat named William. 
• My favorite thing to do is sing! 
• One of my favorite books is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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• I lived in the Canadian Rockies on and off for 4 years and only went to the ski hill to hang out in the Chalet. Never made it down a slope!
• My memoir would be entitled, "I'll buy pants when I get there" based on the aforementioned trip to Ireland. Looong story.
• One of my favourite books: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

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• I say Soda, even though I live in N. Michigan-most people here say Pop
• I've only been knitting seriously for 2 years!-though I have gotten very into it
  
• One of my favorite books: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban!

Thanks so much to everyone for supporting my blog! If you're interested in sponsoring my blog for the month of May, all of the info is on this page! Be sure to check it out!  Also, I'm going to have a little giveaway for free ad space for next month.  Here are the ways to enter:

• Follow my blog (1 entry)
• Follow any of the following blogs: Niceties, The In Between is Mine, Delicious Ramble, Grr Feisty, Le avventure di Mia in Italia, Miss Larissa Bree, Miss Kait Online, Knit Nicole Knit, Pretty Little Pink Things, Moments of a Libra, The Life of a Cupcake,  Indie & Chic, Jacobeam, When I Grow Up Coach, News from Fern Street. (2 entries for each blog followed, let me know which blogs you follow!)
• Comment on any of the following blogs: Niceties, The In Between is Mine, Delicious Ramble, Grr Feisty, Le avventure di Mia in Italia, Miss Larissa Bree, Miss Kait Online, Knit Nicole Knit, Pretty Little Pink Things, Moments of a Libra, The Life of a Cupcake,  Indie & Chic, Jacobeam, When I Grow Up Coach, News from Fern Street. (1 entry for each comment, leave a comment on my blog for each comment left on another.  Haha strange enough sentence!)
• Let me know your favourite item from any of the shops above (1 entry for each item)
• Tweet about the giveaway (1 entry for each tweet, you can tweet once a day!)

Good luck!  Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!