GIVEAWAY: WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THE SUMMER GARDEN!
January 6, 2011
Hi everyone, We are excited to bring you our first giveaway on PaullinaSimons.com. For a chance to win a signed copy of the newest Paullina Simons title, The Summer Garden, we are asking for your answer to this question:
What song reminds you the most of Tatiana and Alexander?
Your answer can be about their relationship, about the books, or about how you felt while reading the books — it’s up to you! Feel free to tell us why you picked your song, too. To enter, please send your response to paullinasimonscontest@gmail.com. We will pick ten winners at random next Monday, June 13th. Check this space for more.
Sia – My Love
Andy Williams – A Time For Us
Sara Bareilles – The Light
I love all your book!!!
love
Vanda
Can’t wait for the release of The Summer Garden!
Please Don’t Go – Barcelona
This song triggers a lot of motions with me, as do the lives of Tatiana and Alexander, and that is why I choose this song.
the song that reminds me of Tatiana & Alexander is On The Night We were Wed
to the end of the road by boyz 2 men. Its just one of those songs that i could hear when reading the book.
All for love by Bryan Adams – because Tatiana and Alexander endured the toughest lives but they lived through it for love
The song that reminds me of Tatiana & Alexanders relationship is
‘zero 7 – destiny’ it was as if it were written for them, no matter if they were on opposite sides of the earth it’s their destiny to find each other forever!
I loved the series my favorite series of books I have read!
Well done Paullina
Danielle Nathan
(Australia)
Not just one song, but a whole album! I had just bought Franz Ferdinand’s album Tonight and was listening to that during the time I was reading The Summer Garden. Now whenever I hear it, it always reminds me of Tatiana and Alexander.
Dear Paullina,
this is the magnificent piece of music which reminds me of Tatiana and
Alexander:
Dimitri Shostakovich’s – Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz 2 -wow-that makes a
heartbreaking combo.
kind regards,
Daria
P.S.
Last Saturday I tried to bake the Delicious Rum Cake from “Tatiana’s
Recipes”.
Firstly,there were not flour in it(!),secondly,too much salt and pepper(!!)
and lastly…far too much fuss about baking:)
That was good!
i love this whole trilogy! i want to meet these characters in real life.
The Power Of Love – Celine Dion: It reminds me of Tatiana & Alexander and their undying love and passion for each other. It is the type of song that gives you that tingling feeling & that is how Paulina makes her readers feel by writing this beautiful love story so magically!!!
The Power Of Love – Celine Dion: It reminds me of Tatiana & Alexander and their undying love and passion for each other. It is the type of song that gives you that tingling feeling & that is how Paulina makes her readers feel by writing this beautiful love story so magically!!!
Come on Get Higher –by Matt Nathanson.
This song describes an intimacy and a love that is seen in Tatiana and Alexander’s relationship. One lyric in particular, “Faith and desire and the swing of your hips,” reminds me of Tatiana and Alexander’s time in Lazarevo.
Love is a many-splendored thing,
It’s the April rose that only grows in the early spring,
Love is nature’s way of giving a reason to be living,
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
Once on a high and windy hill,
In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still,
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing,
Yes, true love’s a many-splendored thing.
I love this song – LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING, I think it suits the love of Tatiana and Alexander!
I have loved your books since I first randomly selected The Bronze Horseman from a vast array of other novels. Your writing somehow delves deep into people’s inner most emotions and pulls them to the surface. I would be honored to have a signed copy of this novel, as since I first read your book you have trumped all other authors on my list of favorites. The song I picked speaks to me, almost as much as your novels.
wow, I thought we were just supposed to e-mail the song title, but here it is! “Clair Voyant” by Two Steps from Hell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0nXUv_DD2M
I think the song Endless Love suits the love of Tatiana and Alexander.
Josh Grobin’s – My Confession
Beautiful song and amazing lyrics and I think it epitomizes Tatiana and Alexander’s love.
Dreams by The Cranberries
You know how some things just fit. Well it just fits.
“And then I open up and see
The person falling here is me
A different way to be
I want more, impossible to ignore
I want more, impossible to ignore
And they’ll come true, impossible not to do
And they’ll come true, impossible not to do”
YAY I think the excitement is bubbling off me!!!
I will always love you!
I have to say Never My Love by The Association. It’s been my husband’s and my love song for 44 years!
Howl-Florence and the Machine
It is just like there love is so deep and they go to the ends of the earth to find each other, like when Tatiana hunts Alexander down in germany. I know its probably not as sweet as the other songs people are describing but oh well.
The song for Tatiana &Alexander is
The first time I saw your face sang by Roberta Flack
Faith Hill – “Baby you Belong” – Because God brought Tatia and Shura together and seperated them when it needed to be done, and helped them find each other in just enough time. Even though they are only characters in a story they were made for eachother they belong together on those beautifully written pages. Tatiana is Alexanders rock and visa versa.
Alice in Chains – “Rooster” – Just read the lyrics for yourself
Ain’t found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere
Here they come to snuff the rooster
Walkin’ tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
Got my pills ‘gainst mosquito death
My Buddy’s breathin’ his dyin’ breath
Oh god please won’t you help me make it through
Here they come to snuff the rooster, aww yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die
No, no, no ya know he ain’t gonna die
Sorry my comments were so long.
Fix You by Coldplay
dont wanna miss a thing from Aerosmith.
In facto every love song reminds me Tatiana & Alexander.
xxx
I will always remember you” Sarah Mclachlan ~ I will remember you, will you remember me?” “Don’t let your life pass you by” clinging to a past that doesn’t let me choose”
1812 Overture …… What an ending!!
I have many songs that remind me of Tatia and Shura but two of the main ones are:
Faith Hill – “Baby You Belong” – For the two of them.
Alice in Chains – “Rooster” makes me think of Alexander.
Paullina,
I just want you to know that this series drew me in from the very beginning. I am a farely new fan of yours. The raw emotion and love between Tatiana and Alexander is absolutely beautiful. This series is my all time favorite. I have passed my books along to so many family members and friends hoping they would enjoy them as much as I have. I have re-read them multiple times and they are better each time .. i wish their story would never end. Yesterday I finished reading and said “I am going to try and email Paullina, and tell her how much I love this story. I am dieing to read the conclusion.” I had no idea there would be a 3rd book (although the 2nd did end in a way that would suggest that) or a movie being made (which I will be sure to see the opening night!). But I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Good stories like yours are a great get away from everyday life.
You have touched so many people from all walks of life, it’s beautiful.
1. Janusz Radek-Kiedy umrę kochanie (A Polish song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHy5eDLKcg
KIEDY UMRĘKOCHANIE
Untitled (“When I Die My Darling”) – Halina Poświatowska
Translated by Marek Lugowski
when I die my darling
when I part with the sun
to become an oblong object rather sad
will you then draw me closer
embrace me
and fix what savage fate broke
I often think of you
I often write to you
silly letters — love within them and smiles
then I hide them in the stove
let the flame jump word to word
before it calmly goes to sleep in the ashes
looking in the flame my darling
I am thinking — what will happen
to my heart hungry for love
so please do not allow after all
for me to die in a world
which is dim and which is cold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYhZVqODYsI
And also REM- Night Swimming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4
I chose “Cinema Paradiso” by Ennio Morricone, but In particular i love this version of the violinist Itzhak Perlman : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NevIuswgU6g
Dear Paullina
This is the song which reminds me T&A story:
Joe dassin- ” et si tu n’existais pas” this is the song about Tatiana and Aleksander.
love in spite of adversity, and love – perhaps even more difficult in everyday life and, above all, love to the end
Another one this is “Hymn of the love” (of a Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 13,1-13)
Thank you to share with us your talent. I have no words (especially in English – I’m Polish) to express how much T & A story touched me as much conquered my mind … not even thought that I have ever lived are reading this novel – and read a lot.
Thank you again.
Dorota
from Cracow
Oh my god. Hope I’m not too late. Love TBH series. No books have touched me in this way. I carry Tatiana and Alexander’s story with me everyday. Thank you Paullina for this gift you’ve given us. Here goes.
TBH – Unintended by Muse – As heartwrenching as T&A’s love
T&A – White as snow by U2
TSG – Unchained melody by righteous brothers – I can see through their curtains. Tatia and Alexander dancing in their living room in their Arizona home
Finally, White Nights by Ludovico Einaudi. Found this on youtube while researching white nights in leningrad. Beautiful