Alright. So, after a lot of counting and recounting and losing my place because people kept talking to me, I finally have the giveaway winners from my Blogfest contests!
This was an incredible experience for me and I'm a little overwhelmed by the response I received. It was incredible! I figured I'd have a lot of entries in my contests, because this was a big event, and a lot of people were involved, but I was not prepared for the 169 people who entered my Vertical Run contest, let alone the 366 who entered my "Wishlist Surprise". It's a little mind-boggling but makes me pretty happy.:)
I also was not expecting the number of new followers from this event! It's almost scary, and a lot humbling, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me feel pretty good. I've more than doubled my followers, and that makes me really want to do something extra special for you guys. (Stay tuned, because I'm thinking of a really cool giveaway, just for you!)
Anyway, what you are actually interested in here — who won my giveaways? Well, because this response I received from Blogfest WAY exceeded my expectations, I'm going to exceed yours!:) I decided to pick a second winner for my wishlist surprise giveaway, just because I can.:)
So, for my US giveaway — The winner of Vertical Run is Lisa, who blogs over at Once Upon a Chapter. I'm pretty excited to hear what she thought of the book, as well as anyone else who added it to their tbr this weekend.
For my international (and really super awesome, if I do say so myself) Wishlist giveaway, the two winners are The Book Vixen and Ashley at Book Labyrinth. I'm pretty excited, going through their wishlists and deciding what I'm going to send them and I can't wait to hear from them once they've received their package! If you are interested in what they are going to get, stay tuned. The Book Vixen has already told me she would be including this in a future IMM, and I will include a link to her post once it's live so everyone else can see what she received as well, and if Ashley is interested, I'll do the same for her!
Thanks again to everyone who entered my giveaway. I'm thrilled by the response, I found a TON of really great blogs that I'm now following (and very few are blogs that had followers as a requirement for their giveaway.) It was a great weekend, and I hope you had just as much fun as I have!!
Oh, and just in case you're interested — I've added an astounding number of new books to my TBR shelf. Going through the comments you left me, with the titles of your favorites I saw a lot of great books. I kind of feel that if a book is someone's absolute very favorite (even if it is just for right now...) that it must have some merit. I know that not every book is for everyone, and there are some genre's that I just don't read, I tend to give a book more consideration if I know it's a specific someone's personal favorite. I was thrilled to see some of my favorites and books I just really liked included (Pride and Prejudice, The Book Thief, Harry Potter), and a great childhood favorite (The Girl with the Silver Eyes) that no one seems to know about anymore. I also saw a lot that have been on my TBR for a while that have now been moved up higher (Jane Eyre, Graceling/Fire, finally finishing The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and many more that I've now added to my TBR pile (Her Fearful Symmetry, The Hand that First Held Mine, Still Alice). Thanks again to everyone who participated in anyway, and I really do hope that everyone else's weekend went just as well as mine!