If you’re looking to win an Advance Reader Copy of White Horse, you’ve come to the right place. Because I’m looking to give two away.
For those of you who don’t know, ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) are uncorrected proofs, bound for reviewers. They’re pretty and they’re shiny and they mean you’ve got a chance to read White Horse months before its April 17, 2012 release date!
But I’m going to make you work for it, just a tiny bit. Before we get to that part, though, here’s the back cover blurb, just so you know what White Horse is all about:
Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are not defined by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.
So if you want to win (and you do don’t you?) answer this question in the comments:
In White Horse, one of the few possessions Zoe carries with her is a toy monkey—a favorite from her childhood. If the world was ending, and you were on the run, what one thing (not a person or a pet) would you take with you?
Because it’s a holiday weekend, I’ll give you a couple of extra days to chime in. Check for an update on Monday. The winners will be randomly chosen, so bribery won’t work. Although you’re welcome to try. 
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you know me, so you probably already know the answer: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
(thought Nick Adams stories might be more useful what with catching food, setting up camp, and cooking on an open fire).
My wedding ring… yeah. If I can’t choose a person or a pet… it would be the symbol of the happiest years of my life.
Well, I assume the IRS would still required me to file an income tax return, so I’d take a calculator.
aw man..Jenn, .i can’t just wear my ring? I never take it off, I just assumed it would go.
That’s a really good question… Assuming all my basic needs were met, probably my old copy of Lord of the Rings. Should keep me busy for a little while
Is my Nook a good answer? I don’t have a “thing” that is really of comfort but I do know I’d have to finish whatever novel I was in the middle of. LOL Congrats on the books!
A can opener.
My bong
My first thought was my trusty old blue hairbrush – the only thing I’ve managed to hang on to from my younger years. Then I thought, to hell with that. I’m taking my shotgun!
I think I would grab my Kindle–even if technology went combust, I think I would still have access to the books already on the device. Besides, I think I would want to die if there was no more books!
Probably my Bible. It’s the one book I own that has wisdom applicable to most moments, and I’ve been reading it since I was five, so it’s full of sentimental value as well. There are stories, there are things to learn from and inspire hope, and there is also the reminder that wonder can come from bleakness. I would have to bring a book, and it’s the most versatile one I own.
I would have to take my hardbound Lord of the Rings edition that contains all three books. Because I can read those over and over.
gashdammit I want this book! Alex!! Ok. What object would I take? This is incredibly hard. I didn’t realize I was so invested in my belongings… I guess I’ll say Watership Down.
Now send me my arc…..
While the practical side says grab the 9mm and get moving, I’d take a small photo album filled with pictures of my family instead. That way, at least I could spend what might be my last days with them, even if just via photographs.
The practical answer is: my netbook. I have to read and write, even during the end of the world. Hell, if I gotta run in a hamster wheel to generate my own electricity, I’ll do it. Besides, cardio is important during the apocalypse (see: Zombieland).
But the sentimental answer: a regular old paper notebook. To tell my story and leave it behind for someone else. Because when all the electricity is gone and the hamster wheels are broken, paper has an uncanny way of enduring.
If it’s about survival, I’d have to grab my insulin. Wouldn’t last long w/o it.
My bullet pen. It’s about four inches long and looks like a bullet. It can write forever and I figure I would still need to write. Netbooks and kindles and ipads will out run out of charge at some point, won’t they? Then they become expensive pieces of nonfunctioning plastic. But a pen can always be used to write on something, somewhere. An old piece of cardboard, the blank pages at the front and end of a book. Old envelopes. Old wrapping paper. I could leave my mark somewhere and the pen is small and I could easily carry it in my pocket or underwear or my sock.
Because even if the word were ending, I’d still have to write.
My Irish flute. I’d go insane without music.
Also… I danced for you.
I *danced* for you.
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Sunglasses.
That way nobody can see how freaked out i really am.
(i was gonna say chess set, but it needs two hands to carry
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I’d bring my leather journal I bought in Estonia, and a pen.
Pencils, as many as I could get my hands on. Hey, we gotta write, right? And then, as soon as I could, where ever I could, on every available surface that would hold the tracings, I’d start writing it all down — every tale, every description, every name and face, every memory and story I could remember, as fast as I could. I’d get down the bones and as much color and texture as I could remember of every memory and tale that ever touched my heart or made my mind work for understanding. And, when others came? I’d tell them the tales — so that they would know and remember. I’d have to because… hey, my handwriting sucks. :0)
Yikes, this is a tough question! Hmmm, the practical side of me says to bring something that I can make other survival tools with, except the closest thing I have to that is my big chef’s knife. I can prepare food with it and maybe whittle some feathers to make quills for writing? The flat side can grind coals down to a powder that, when mixed with water, create a crude ink. Yeah, I’m overthinking this….
A collection of Lord Byron’s poems. It’s always been my security blanket. I realize it’s not practical, but if I’m on the run then I need something comforting and you said I can’t take my dogs.
My Leatherman tool. Because bullets run out, but sharp doesn’t.
If you’re asking about a non-practical item, then all the pictures of my family on a memory stick. Easy to carry, hard to break, and pretty universal.
Extra pair of good shoes, socks, and clean underwear….
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, to give me courage to believe there was a way to survive and keep going.
This is teh hard! Since I assume I will be able to outfit a backpack or scrounge essentials, I will stick to what my mom called “heart stuff.” A tiny little silly Pink Panther figurine that is a souvenir of a really special day many years ago before my own life tumbled down into its own special hell. Even though the person and the relationship that were at the heart of that day are either gone or changed forever, all I have to do is look at it and remember a time when I thought the world belonged to me personally. It is tiny, weighs nothing, is durable, and would likely be dismissed by a marauder as having no value.
This is so cool! Thanks! I would bring my guitar! I would have said iPod but wouldn’t that run out?
I would bring the quarter moon with the Gone With the Wind staircase on it.
It’s made of wood and when I was a boy it hung on my Nana’s living room wall. After she died, her children abandoned her century home to ruin. I went in and took that one possession from the wall…leaving behind the Red Rose Tea ornaments that sat on the stairs of the moon. I would bring that moon and hang it on a tree…to remind me where I came from and of the place where I felt most safe. 
Pez. Cherry flavored Pez. No question.
Do I have to carry it, or might I have a pack animal, a vehicle, or a strong young man happy to do my bidding? Because the end of the world justifies drinking the case of wine that’s ‘too good’ to drink. Cheers!
My iPod. I can’t be on the run without a soundtrack! I added you to my blogroll too.
If the world was ending and I was staying put, I’d go with my Riverside Shakespeare. That’s a bit heavy to take on the run, so I would probably take Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown.
I’m so looking forward to this book, Alex!
Hillary
This is amazingly boring, but I would take my glasses. I’m legally blind without them, and I don’t think I’d last long in a chaotic world just groping along.
The sensitive, artsy-fartsy me wants to say I’d take a copy of Lolita with me. The practical me says I’d take a can opener.