On the fifth night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches gave to me: MORE book store shopping money!
Today's 5th night of Hanukkah gift: a $100 gift card to the bookstore of your choice.
Standard disclaimers apply: I'm not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and a curious reader. Open to international residents. I recommend sweet potato latkes, especially with a little curry and cinnamon.
To enter, leave a comment telling us which book you'd buy as a gift this year. I will choose the winner at random. You have 24 hours to enter.
Happy Hanukkah! (I hope you are enjoying the week of Hanukkah Mayhem.)
The Percy Jackson books for my friends with elementary age kids – awesome adventures and great characters
I’m giving a bunch of books this Christmas to my nieces and nephews! Including Ender’s Game, the Ordinary Princess, and The Thief!
I would buy (and have done) Shannon Stacey’s Exclusively Yours to give as a gift to two people this year.
I would buy childrens books for my two kids, then go have fun for me. 🙂
I need to buy a copy of The Five Love Languages for my niece
For someone else – The Signal and the Noise for my spouse, who has been a Nate Silver fan since before he changed from baseball to politics. 🙂 For me – My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall.
As a gift to someone else? Or a gift to ME !! For me, something historical off of my Amazon Wish List like Elizabeth Hoyt’s upcoming book. For someone else – probably a book on the Civil War for my father.
I’m buying Behind the Beautiful Forevers for my son’s fiance, who has lived several places overseas, and is training to be a social worker.
And I need some ideas for a sixteen year old boy. He likes science fiction, non-fiction survivalism and homesteading, and he’s currently reading The Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed Abbey. Suggestions appreciated!
I’d buy the children’s book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon for my friend’s daughter.
The Moonstone and Miss Jones by Jillian Stone 🙂
I would buy books 6-11 of Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series and books 2-4 of J.R. Ward’s Fallen Angels series.
With a 100$ gift card, each of my kids would be getting a shiny new book for Christmas. Mo Willems’ new Pigeon book for the two-year-old, a lego ninjago book for the six-year-old boy, and probably the first Percy Jackson book for the nine-year-old girl who just recently fell in love with Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia.
I have many friends and family who are readers, but I tend not to give them books because taste can be a tricky thing and because it’s so hard to get them something they want before they get it for themselves. I can still keep ahead of my nephew though and kid’s books are so fun to buy that I’d get something for him (after checking with his mom to make sure he doesn’t already have it).
Granddaughter has asked for anything by Melody Carlton.
I would buy my best friend “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” by David Rakoff.
I’d buy “Bet Me” by Jennifer Crusie, one of my favorite books, to give to a friend who needs to be convinced romance is awesome.
Easy. Heh. Spindle Cove series by Tessa Dare.
Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine.
I think I’d get The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex by Kristen Schaal. It looks fun and maybe informative.
I LOVE gifting ZooBorns to people. It’s such a happy book! I keep it at my desk for when I need a smile, and I love sharing it with people!
For gifts? In the Bleak Midwinter (Julia Spencer-Fleming) for my mom and Little Pea for my 4-YO nephew.
I’d buy the Carina Press “Romancing the Holidys” anthology for my best friend, the only lady I know who enjoys a good romance more than me.
Since my niece has finally taken an interest in reading for fun due to the Twilight movies, I would get her the books to see all the details the movies missed.
I think I’d buy the new Martha Wells for my sister (and hey, one for myself too)
Cold Days by Jim Butcher. I’ve already read it, but I’d get it for my dad, since he refuses to borrow from my e-reader.
life among giants and mystery of Edwin drood
Mercedes Lackey latest since I’m behind.
I’d buy Bared To You by Sylvia Day for my sister.
I’d go through all the “which one’s first” lists here, stock up, and not leave my couch for a month!
Depends on who it’s for, actually. But as it happens I have already bought one book already – Norwegian Sweater Techniques for Today’s Knitter, by Therese Chynoweth. That one is for a friend who is very much into knitting, and who spins and dyes her own yarn. She is Canadian, and getting a book about the kind of knitting that is prevalent where I live is just the right sort of thing for her.
I will/would buy To Be Or Not To Be: That is the Adventure, which is a chooseable-path novel being kickstarted by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics. It sounds like…maybe the best?
I’d buy a complete set of the Little House books for my niece’s girls.
I’ve already bought several gift books. One was $60! A commentary on John Calvin’s sermons for my dad.
I bought Damien Echol’s book Life After Death for the boyfriend and think I would get Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden for my mom so we could chat about it together.
I gave my sister Monty Don The Ivington Diaries for her birthday. Not a romance, strictly speaking, but she misses him while he’s off the TV over the winter, until he returns in the spring with Gardner’s World.
I’d buy Let’s Pretend this Never Happened for my friend!
I would get my husband Stephen Colber’s America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t.
I would buy Riveted by Meljean Brook. It’s a wonderful book and a great intro to steampunk as well.
My Special needs son is MAJORLY into the Titanic. I’d get him several books on that tragedy.
I got a Bouchon Bakery cookbook for my husband. I’d get something Transformers for my son, and Charlotte’s Web for my daughter. She is loving Trumpet of the Swan right now. Nothing beats a classic.