Thanks toAnna Balasi of Hachette Books, I am giving away up to three copies of this book.

Book Description:

As a scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s, just before Arnold Schwarzenegger became a hero to boys everywhere and Pumping Iron became a cult hit, Paul Solotaroff discovered weights and steroids. In a matter of months, he grew from a dorky beanpole into a hulking behemoth, showing off his rock hard muscles first on the streets of New York City and then alongside his colorful gym-rat friends in strip clubs and in the homes of the gotham elite. It was a swinging time, when “Would you like to dance?” turned into “Your place or mine?” and the guys with the muscles had all the ladies–until their bodies, like Solotaroff”s, completely shut down.

But this isn’t the gloom-and-doom addiction one might expect–Solotaroff looks back at even his lowest points with a wicked sense of humor, and he sends up the disco era and its excess with all the kaleidoscopic detail of Boogie Nights or Saturday Night Fever.

Written with candor and sarcasm, THE BODY SHOP is a memoir with all the elements of great fiction and dazzlingly displays Paul Solotaroff’s celebrated writing talent. 

The number of entrants to this giveaway will determine how many copies of this book I will giveaway:

Here are the rules:

1. For one entry, leave a comment.  Please be sure to include your email address (if it isn’t available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win. If I can’t find your email either in the comments or your profile, you will be disqualified!

2 .Bonus Entries:

+2 Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an referral entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.

+3 Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower three times! I will give you the extra  entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.

+3 Become a follower on Twitter.  I’m teddyrose1
+3 Become a friend of Teddy Rose on Facebook
+2 comment on my book reviews (+2 for each you comment on) 
 

That’s up to 14+entries!
Sorry, the giveaway is only open US and Canadian residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address

Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.

This giveaway will end on Friday, October 8th,11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn’t available in your profile! Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.

Thanks toAnna Balasi of Hachette Books, I am giving away three copies of this book.

This isn’t just any regular giveaway, this one is very close to my heart!  As most of my regular readers know, I take my animal loving very seriously and am a vegan because of it.  I don’t preach about it but I would love to give this book away to anybody who is interested.  Therefore, no matter how many entries there are, there will be 3 winners, unless there are less than 3 entries.  LOL!

Book Description: 

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child’s behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer’s profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we’ve told-and the stories we now need to tell.

Here are the rules:

1. For one entry, leave a comment.  Please be sure to include your email address (if it isn’t available in your profile), so that I can contact you if you win. If I can’t find your email either in the comments or your profile, you will be disqualified!

2 .Bonus Entries:

+3 Go to The Animal Rescue Site and click to give away free food (there’s no cost to you.)

+2 Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave link to your blog post in the comments. You will also get an referral entry for each person who tells me that they learned about this giveaway from you.

+3 Become a Follower of my blog or subscribe to my blog through Google Reader or other subscription service. If you are already a subscriber or follower you still get the five extra entries! Please do not comment that you are a follower three times! I will give you the extra  entries myself. I will delete any extra entries that you make as it will just confuse me when I go to pick the winners.

+3 Become a follower on Twitter.  I’m teddyrose1
+3 Become a friend of Teddy Rose on Facebook
+2 comment on my book reviews (+2 for each you comment on) 
 

That’s up to 17+entries!
Sorry, the giveaway is only open US and Canadian residents only.
The winner’s mailing address: NO P.O. Boxes.
Only one entry per household/IP address

Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.

This giveaway will end on Friday, October 8th,11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email, so remember to include your email address in the comments, if it isn’t available in your profile! Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.