Thank you Anna at Hachette Book Group for offering this book for me to giveaway!
What is it about the number seven that has such a hold on us? Why are there seven deadly sins? Seven days of the week? Seven wonders of the world, seven colors of the spectrum, seven ages of man, and seven sister colleges? Why can we hold seven numbers or words in our working memory–but no more? Author Jackie Leo explores everything about this mystical, magical, useful, and fun number in her new book.
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Leave a comment here letting me if you have (had) a favorite number and why that number is significant to you.
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i like the number “17”
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I forgot to mention that many, many things in my life have happened on the 17th…
For the last 44 years my favourite number has been 11 but I’ve long forgotten why.
I would like to enter. As for a favourite number, can’t say that I have one!
This book sounds interesting! When I was young our house number was 13, so that’s one of my favorites!
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Just signed up for email this morning…before I saw this book post! Good timing!
7 is my favorite!
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What a fantastic giveaway, sign me up.
I have always tended to go with 7 and 15 for some reason. I think it’s because I was born on the 15th. For longer number 7926 is my other favorite because it spells out my first name, silly but what can I say.
My fav # is 22- Wedding anniversary and # of kids!
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I like #1 because it was the date we got married.
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7 is my fav # I’ve won a lotta $ on it!!!!!!
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I’ve always liked the number 5. I don’t really know why that is do. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
I would love a chance to read this, sounds like such a good read!
I tend to like the #’s 7 and 8 these aren’t “special” to me just numbers I tend to choose~
Thanks for the chance=)
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The number 4 has long been my favorite number. There were 4 of us in my family and it has always been a lucky number for me.
My favorite number is 9 — no reason — just like it!
A long time ago someone told me my lucky number was 3 and I have liked that number ever since
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I rather like the number 13 because I am not supersitious.
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I like the number 8 because several family members are born on the 8th.
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My gramma would love this book for Christmas from ME 7 is her lucky #..
were a lucky family …& 7 seems to be a great #
I don’t have a favourite number.
No favorite number for me. Never did get the favorite number thing. Favorite color, favorite food, favorite holiday- those things I get…but a number?
2 has been my favorite number for as long as I can remember. Why I’m not quite sure. I prefer even numbers, so maybe because 2 is the first even, lol
My favorite number is 13. Just basically because so many people are so weird about it, I suppose. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Seven by Jacqueline Leo sounds wonderful.Please enter me in the giveaway.augustlily06(at)aim(dot)com.Thank you.
Outstanding new seven book on the block
Number seven has fascinated me for years. As a fellow author and septaphile, I am delighted about the publication of “7, the Number for Happiness, Love and Success,” by Jackie Leo. I may be one of the first seven people in the world to comment publicly about Leo’s seven book which is an intriguing and thought-provoking literary exploration of the wondrous world of seven.
I applaud Leo and her publisher TWELVE for recognizing the cultural, mystical and scientific influence of the number 7, as I did in my book “7: The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven,” which Aventine Press published this past March. http://www.theSevenBook.com . I was in touch with Jackie Leo a couple days ago for the first time and her kind words of praise about my 7 book mean a lot to me. The feeling is mutual x7 for me. It’s a pleasure to be her new 7 friend.
Here are my seven favorite things about Jackie Leo’s collection of sevens: 1. “Seven Siblings” story about Kristin van Ogtrop’s (editor of Real Simple) father as one of seven children 2. Striking book cover with a royal gold image of my favorite number seven 3. Feast of the Seven Fishes celebrated in Southern Italy 4. “Odds on Seven” piece about dice rolls 5. Walter Anderson’s “Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment” 6. Delightful “Counting on Seven” piece by Washington Post writer Sally Quinn 7. “Seven on Seinfeld”-a 7 factoid which I also enjoyed including in my book about seven which describes Seinfeld’s “The Seven” episode #123.
I wish Jackie Leo huge success with the launch of her book on 7 December. I regard our two books as complementary because they each document and validate the significance of the number seven throughout recorded history. If you’re a septaphile-a fan of the popular number seven-no book collection about the number 7 would be complete without buying both “7” by David Eastis ( thesevenbook.com ) and “Seven” by Jackie Leo ( http://www.seventhebook.com/ ).
Seven cheers to Jackie Leo from David Eastis, author of “7”-“7:The Magical, Amazing and Popular Number Seven” published by Aventine Press in March 2009.