Last week, y'all identified a HaBO from author Gwen Hayes. She is most grateful – who wouldn't be, freed from the unending job of describing a book to librarians and booksellers, watching as their faces crumple into disbelief and confusion as more outlandish and disordered plot details are revealed? So Gwen would like to offer a prize!
She wants to give one of y'all a $25 gift card to the bookstore of your choice to say a big whopping thank you. So! S-HaBO-Day Givaway time!
To enter, please leave a comment and tell us one book you would never, ever want to lose, the one that will keep moving with you from home to home all the way to the retirement community with the incredibly good-looking grounds crew. Leave a comment and you're entered to win. I'll choose the winner at random on Monday, 25 February 2013 at 8:30am ET.
Standard disclaimers apply: void where prohibited. Open to international residents subject to applicable law. Must be over 18 and wearing excellent socks to win. Close cover before striking. And stop striking – didn't your mom tell you not to hit people?
Thanks to Gwen for the impromptu giveaway – hope you're enjoying your lost book!
I can’t pick just one! But let’s just say that I have several series that will be bequeathed to someone and/or rescued from a burning building because they’re that precious to me and hard to find…..
Lori Herter’s David de Morrisey series – Obsession, Possession, Confession, and Eternity are the first vampire romances I ever read, back in the early ‘90s before they were everywhere, and it’s been out of print for a while but I looove this series….
The Sunfire teen romance series….these were my first exposure to different historical romances, and I loved all the different settings! Don’t have them all, but I’m always on the hunt! 🙂
The Silhouette Shadows series…..I think I started hunting these down after I glommed the Lori Herter series….gothics! time-travel! ghosts! all manners of spookiness! I know they’ve reprinted a few of the books in this series, but not all of them, and I love the old-school-looking covers!
Finally, this series called A Century of American Romance – it was published in the Harlequin American Romance line, and they did reprint them in the mid 2000s….this was my first exposure to Americana romance, and I ate this series up! Each book covers a decade, from the 1890s to the 1990s (though the 90s book was campy but fun in a Jetsons kind of way), and I was in love!
Maybe a fireproof safe would be in order soon….as long as it’s the size of a bookshelf…
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier. When I was young (16 – 25 or so?) I reread Rebecca at least once a year. Then at some point the naive girl/older man trope started to tarnish a little for me. I still like Rebecca, but it’s not a must read again and again. Frenchman’s Creek – a mature woman’s choices and adventures, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the movie – grew on me, and now it’s the one that I can always rely on to remind me why I chose potty-training over pirating. (There’s a long story about my particular second hand hard bound copy, but as it involves other people, I shouldn’t share).
My copy of Anne of Green Gables. It goes where I go.
The Windflower by Laura London – who is really Tom and Sharon Curtis. I can’t believe I remembered that. I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night!
It’s a tie, in my case. My leather-bound copy of the Narnia series (it is one GIANT book) and my Pride and Prejudice with the 1800s-era woodcuts. Not only are they some of my favorite stories, but the actual books themselves are pieces of art.
My original copy of Naked in Death by JD Robb. It started an obsession that’s still going strong.
My 1950 copy of The Little Prince in French.
Such a hard decision. I think Jane Eyre.
My Jane Austen collection.
SB Sarah, HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME. Of course before I posted anything I had to browse through the answers…check got that one, yep that one too…wait, I never heard of THAT one so I must read, and that one too, Wow, so many…..
%^&* my library card is getting worn out and my Amazon budget is maxed out. How can i possibly chose a favorite til I’ve read everyone else’s favorite. Sigh.
There’s been a couple of Anne of Green Gables mentions above, but I’ll go with another book by L.M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle. The ultimate story of a repressed spinster breaking free just never gets old 😉
I love so many books, that I’m not sure. Let’s see…maybe books from Russia that I read and brought back then…those books are very precious to me.
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Well, I guess it would have to be the book I have come back to again and again over the years. “Into the Wilderness” by Sara Donati is the first in a long series and, while I can highly recommend all the books, this first one is my favorite. (If you like the Outlander series by Gabaldon then you will probably like this, too!)
We must be twins seperated at birth I love Tam Lin with all my heart! I own one battered copy I would fight to the death to keep by my bedside.
Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Memory”, signed by Herself last Summer.
Diary of a Provincial Lady. It’s replacable, of course, but I love the copy I currently have. Gorgeous, with lots of memories associated with it.
I have a special box of books that I can easily grab if the house is on fire. My sons tease me about it all the time. Some have been mentioned: The English Patient, Anne of Green Gables, Tam Lin and Jane Austen’s novels. I have a paperback of Georgette Heyer’s Venetia from 1965. It is my treasure book, I don’t dare read it anymore, but I’ll never part with it.
Terry Pratchett’s and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens. I re-read it at least once every year or so and I’ve bought it at least three times because I keep giving away copies. Finally found a nice hardback copy at a used bookstore so that one is mine to keep.
The Poetic Edda. I’ll never ever get tired of that!
My copy of The Collection Poems of Wallace Stevens is filled with notes—jotted from when I first read when I was an undergraduate to the present. It’s like this palimpsest of who I am and who I used to be and I would never ever want to lose it.
Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels is my favorite re-read and I usually have my copy nearby.
Definitely hard to pick, but I think I would go with the Blue Castle. A friend gave it to me when we graduated high school so it has some sentimental value also
The Cliffs of Night by Beatrice Brandon. It is all things Irish: Celtic treasure, folk songs, myths, a wolfhound, the Cliffs of Moher. It is sort of like Mary Stewart and Elizabeth Peter’s “Vicky Bliss” novels, with a touch of Mercedes Lackey thrown in. It is archaeology, folktales, romance and danger. I’ve carted this paperback around for over 30 years, and I have considered buying a backup copy. It is just that good!
Persuasion by Jane Austen- although now that I have it on kindle, iphone and seven or so copies hanging around my house (every library sale gets a search) I’d have to make a real effort to lose it.
The perfect rake by Ann Gracie, love it to bits!
My Nalini Singh collection. Sad to say, but I have both the paperbacks and ebook additions, so that the books will be readily available whenever I want to read them, wherever I happen to be.
The Secret Garden. I always go back to that one.
I love that book so much! And the movie was just so terrible! It’s sometimes hard to convince people they should read the book since they’re only point of reference is the movie.
Nora Roberts’ Montana Sky – I’ve read that book so many times I’ve memorized the whole thing.
Oh, geez. Tough call. I keep saying that I will hand over paperbacks to my mother when I get an ebook, but there are some I just don’t. I did reluctantly give her a copy of BLUE SMOKE by Nora Roberts that was the reason I got a Nook. The poor thing was coming apart at the binding. I would have to say I would have to take one (or all) of my Nora Roberts books. I’ve re-read all of them, some more than others. I equate them to snuggling in with a comfy blanket.
Mercedes Lackey’s By the Sword (Kerowyn’s story.
Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.”
A paperback copy of The Once and Future King, by T.H.White, bought in Willmngton when i was 17. I was in a bookshop hiding from the july heat and the frustration of all those feels i had not recognised as love.
As i nested a broken heart in a cold airport a month later that book taught me about love and loss and hope and legends and life.
When my sis wanted to read it i got her her own copy, so she would not read mine. Books are ment to be shared, but that one is too much part of my soul for me to part with.
It’s not a traditional romance, but I love These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingels Wilder
Three Fates by Nora Roberts. It is my absolute favorite book—the one book that I can read over and over again and feel comforted by it. After the craziness of Hurricane Sandy, I needed a break from everything and I grabbed that book. I think it is what got me through that first week of slogging through all of my possessions and tossing out some of my most beloved treasures.
Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy. My number one comfort book, and I would be devastated to lose it. Not likely, though; I have two copies.
Honor Splendour or the Bride by Julie Garwood
I read most of my books on my ipad as I live in a small house with very little room to store anything, let alone the hundreds of books I read every year. So I guess my answer is my ipad would go everywhere with me. That way I can take ALL my books wherever I go, cuz I’m just greedy when it comes to books!
That would be Magician by Raymond E Feist
It’s actually a inspirational romance series by Linda Chaikin but the books are Port Royal, The Pirate and His Lady, and Jamaican Sunset. These are the first romance books I’ve ever owned so they are precious to me. I grew up in a household were I was not allowed to have such things.