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Happy Christmas from Hachette: A Big Honking Giveaway
by SB Sarah | December 23, 2008 | Tuesday at 12:41 pm | 362 Comments
If you follow the site, you know that I’m Jewish and Candy is Agnostic Badass but it’s Christmas season here, there, and everywhere, and Hachette’s Forever Romance wants to make sure you have a whopping pile of books to read this holiday season. It’s still Hanukkah, it’s nearly Christmas, and there’s ample time to read, right?
So let’s get going with a Holy Big Honking Ample Prize offering. Leave a comment between right this minute, describing one thing you’d really like, esoteric or literal, this holiday season, and I’ll draw one random winner from the group. Comments close at midnight EST on Christmas Eve, 24 December, just as Santa fires up the Hybrid Sleigh to deliver all Hofftastic Holiday posters you ordered for Christmas Day.
If your comment is selected, you win…
Filed: General Bitching, Go Ahead, Win Some Shit
Tagged: magic, jewish, hofftastic, free stuff, eight crazy nights






























Wendy said on 12.25.08 at 12:59 AM • [comment link]
I want a Sony Mylo! Ir’s like a PC but for on the go. It’s got camera, video, radio, music, and wi-fi internet and I want one SO BAD!
Wendy said on 12.25.08 at 01:02 AM • [comment link]
I actually thought about buying myself one, but it’s like $300 and I feel SO guilty just thinking about it. Sure, it’s MY money and everything but still.. damn my mother for making me so easy to feel guilt!
Phyllis said on 12.25.08 at 01:02 AM • [comment link]
peace on earth, of course. I’d also like to be able to fly home to spend the holiday with my family in Ohio.
Kristine said on 12.25.08 at 01:10 AM • [comment link]
I would love to get into my top choice for school and then get enough money to afford to go
Tammy said on 12.25.08 at 01:16 AM • [comment link]
I would like my husband’s job to be less stressful for him!
My word is- wish11 so maybe my wishes will come true.
hosie said on 12.25.08 at 01:19 AM • [comment link]
I want to go back to school, without amassing a bajillion dollars of debt. That’s my big wish - I can manage the rest of what I want from there.
Laurie said on 12.25.08 at 01:23 AM • [comment link]
I would really like our basement toilet to heal itself.
Casimira said on 12.25.08 at 01:26 AM • [comment link]
Good exam results in the New Year.
Cheryl said on 12.25.08 at 01:27 AM • [comment link]
I would love to get for Christmas a ton of books to read while
avoidingvisiting the inlaws in January!
Abbi said on 12.25.08 at 01:31 AM • [comment link]
I’d like to meet either Josh Groban or Daniel Radcliffe during the next 12 months.
I’d also like to become an all-around healthier person.
one72 - Oammmmm, I am one with the world, Oammmm.
Sandra Rosa said on 12.25.08 at 01:58 AM • [comment link]
I’d like everyone to have a happy holiday season in the company of their loved ones!
Most of the times you can’t change the world but you can make your tiny spot better
:)
Elizabeth said on 12.25.08 at 02:14 AM • [comment link]
Kristine, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Also, and slightly more frivolously, I want to find a bra that really fits well.
LibraryGirl said on 12.25.08 at 02:24 AM • [comment link]
I’d like to see a positive pregnancy test after so many negatives before this year is over!
SaraC said on 12.25.08 at 02:30 AM • [comment link]
I would like some clarity in life, please.
Mellie said on 12.25.08 at 02:30 AM • [comment link]
Santa is treating me well this year- can’t say I’d ask for more- but I’d take the house cleaner if it was offered!
bzangl said on 12.25.08 at 02:51 AM • [comment link]
I would like a day where I can just sit in my apartment, make some hot chocolate, watch a movie/read a book and just relax. It has been way to crazy the last few months, and I would just like a day or two to relax!!
FunkyBunny said on 12.25.08 at 02:51 AM • [comment link]
I would like more willpower. to lose the weight, to finish the MS, to be a better friend/ wife/ daughter.
If I can’t have that - maybe just a better fitting pair of jeans that don’t show my wonderoos when I sit down.
And a big honkin pile of books would be awesome too!
Berni said on 12.25.08 at 02:57 AM • [comment link]
I would love my husband to get a full time job with benefits. He’s been underemployed for years now. And while we’re at it, I’d like some assurance that my job will still be there in six months.
AmandaV said on 12.25.08 at 03:12 AM • [comment link]
I would like for our finances to get better this next year, so that I can make them worse again by having a baby! I would also love to lose some weight and motivate myself to write more.
I also hope the economy gets better so the family business that supports my Dad, sister, husband and Uncle plus others who are not family members, can earn more money and stay open!
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Erin said on 12.25.08 at 03:12 AM • [comment link]
I would like to live closer to my family, and/or have a line on some beam-me-up-scotty-style transportation. :) Happy Holidays, everyone!
Kimbelina said on 12.25.08 at 03:23 AM • [comment link]
I wish for all my loved ones to find peace and healing as we recover from a tragic incident that took my cousin and her niece and nephew from us. Also, on a purely practical note, I would like a bigger vehicle so I don’t have to depend on others when I have to transport big stuff.
Tabatha B said on 12.25.08 at 03:25 AM • [comment link]
Hmm me I think I want… a hottie that seems right out of the romance novels by my bed. The kind that loves me big ass and all… =D I like some more books… YEY BOOKS! -cough- Umm a cleaning fairy to clean the mess thats become my room. And chocolate.
Happy Holidays and Excuses to get Gifts
Rachel said on 12.25.08 at 03:39 AM • [comment link]
I love the fact that I don’t need to fill in my name on the from portion of the gift tag because my crap-ass job of wrapping identifies me as the gift-giver. Did I mention I use tshirthell.com wrapping paper? Don’t get me wrong—I love Christmas. I just happen to enjoy spicing things up a bit.
zephiey said on 12.25.08 at 03:44 AM • [comment link]
There really isn’t anything I can think of that I would like to have for the holidays that I do not have already…although, I am not adverse to finding George Clooney wrapped in a bow in my stocking on Christmas morning!
Or Jason Isaacs.
cheryl c. said on 12.25.08 at 03:45 AM • [comment link]
I want the willpower to lose about 40 lbs. Santa, can you bring me a new and improved body?!
EmilyS said on 12.25.08 at 04:04 AM • [comment link]
I would like world peace. But, I’ll settle for a space heater for my cold, cold office. (And a big bag of books…)
Kaishai said on 12.25.08 at 04:13 AM • [comment link]
There’s a lot I’d like, but foremost peace of heart for me and mine: a few days (or more) without stress, without worry, without anything significant going wrong. I want time to appreciate the season and make each other laugh; the leisure of spirit to listen to carols and read particularly fluffy or charming romances that leave me with a little more belief in happy endings. I had that today. I’d love for it to continue as long as it can.
And if I didn’t have to take our beautiful Christmas tree down so soon after New Year’s, that’d be nice too!
Kathryn K said on 12.25.08 at 04:34 AM • [comment link]
I’d love a big pile of paperback books to curl up with (one at a time). I’ve been reading ebooks for a while now, and they just don’t have the same… vibe to them.
Merry Christmas Eve!
Lara F said on 12.25.08 at 04:36 AM • [comment link]
Please Santa, let it rain and wash all my snow and ice away. I’d love to leave my house again someday. And if not, please let me win a big pile of books!
Lara in Kirkland, WA (homebound 7 days and counting)
Sheila L. said on 12.25.08 at 04:45 AM • [comment link]
I hope for a happy year for my family and everyone else
Happy Holidays to everyone!
WriteBlack said on 12.25.08 at 04:46 AM • [comment link]
Just one? I could go for so many things: an endless supply of macaroni and cheese, a Kindle, for Sallie Mae to forget I owe them student loans…
But really, what I’d like most is to go one complete 48-hour period without any responsibilities to anybody except myself.
Allison said on 12.25.08 at 04:53 AM • [comment link]
All I want for Christmas is for the ice to go away. Forever, preferably. Or at least for my town to get better about dealing with it.
Or, lots and lots o’ books. :D
sya30 said on 12.25.08 at 04:56 AM • [comment link]
The only thing I can really wish for is health and happiness for my family and friends…
happy holidays!
Val Pearson said on 12.25.08 at 04:58 AM • [comment link]
WOW! There are lots of entries! One thing I would LOVE is no drama from my teen girls! Whew, I hate that saying “Save the drama for your mama!” Who is the person that said came up with that?
Jodi said on 12.25.08 at 05:13 AM • [comment link]
I would love a personal chef to prepare meals for my family. Otherwise, books are ALWAYS good!
Kristen said on 12.25.08 at 05:21 AM • [comment link]
I would like my niece and nephew to sleep in on the 26th. Little kids are loud!
KeriM said on 12.25.08 at 05:25 AM • [comment link]
My hope is for the New Year, my husband dream finally comes to fruition. I have watched him struggle for the last 6 years trying to stay in the box and work for one of the most horrid companies. But he finally came to the realization that his dream is outside of the box and that is where he is the most happiest. Here’s to you Sugar, may 2009 be your year! Love Tex
Sugahhlove said on 12.25.08 at 05:33 AM • [comment link]
I would like the people who have been laid off in the past week to find some happiness with their families during the holidays.
krsylu said on 12.25.08 at 05:48 AM • [comment link]
One thing? Just one? You have got to be kidding me. I have so many things I want, not the least of which is enough money to send all five of my kids (currently aged 4yrs to 17yrs) to college. Barring that, what I’d like this year is honking big gift card to a bookstore. Any bookstore!
Mary Emily said on 12.25.08 at 06:05 AM • [comment link]
All I want for Christmas is to hug mom’s cat until she hates me. (Should take about five minutes.)
GirlyNerd said on 12.25.08 at 06:11 AM • [comment link]
As a mother to two very energetic little boys, I would love to have 24 hours of uninterrupted sleep. In a king sized bed. With the softest sheets you can buy on it.
seriously.
Galadriel said on 12.25.08 at 06:11 AM • [comment link]
What I’d like, I can’t have, unfortunately. I really, desperately want, with every fibre of my being, to have back a loved one I’ve lost.
Failing that, I’d like the year ahead to be kinder, and to bring a few things, including a giant step into the next stage of my academic career, and a new job. *sigh* That’s not so much to ask, is it?
Monatami said on 12.25.08 at 06:14 AM • [comment link]
What I want for Christmas? My husband and I have been struggling with infertility for the last three years. I really want to be able to be off the pills, the shots, the planing, and temperature taking. For christmas, I want to see my husband play with our two year old neice without the pain in his eyes and the longing on his face.
Sorry for the maudlin.. Hormones suck like a bitch.
Mary Beth said on 12.25.08 at 06:24 AM • [comment link]
I’d like a great Christmas day at my grandparents surrounded by my family, and I’m getting it. For the first time in a decade we’re going to spend Christmas day with them all. I’m so excited!
Kirstin said on 12.25.08 at 06:27 AM • [comment link]
All I want is some time to myself so I can curl up in that itchy, but oh-so-warm cover, sip some scalding hot chocolate and read that one book that’s been reopened so many times, pages are falling out left and right.
kate said on 12.25.08 at 06:32 AM • [comment link]
There are many things I’d like for the holidays, including a way to make my father not an insomniac, and another set of these Merrel boots before they wear out but seeing as I have a roof, food, heat, books, what I think I want that I might actually get is my man to read a good trashy book.
EmilyYS said on 12.25.08 at 06:34 AM • [comment link]
I’d like world peace. Barring that, maybe a space heater for my very cold office?
Jennifer C said on 12.25.08 at 06:36 AM • [comment link]
I want some My LIttle Ponies! Baring that, yarn. Yarn and more yarn. And books.
That is all
rednikki said on 12.25.08 at 06:41 AM • [comment link]
I’d really like my mom to be happy about her presents, even if only for one minute.
MamaNice said on 12.25.08 at 06:46 AM • [comment link]
This is a holiday wish…to finally be able to move the piano my Grandma bought for me when I was 10 from my mom’s to my house and have it tuned so I can teach my daughters how to play.
angela said on 12.25.08 at 06:51 AM • [comment link]
I would like my divorce to be finalized for christmas so I can really have a new beginning for the new year.
Polly said on 12.25.08 at 07:01 AM • [comment link]
I would really like a honking big pile of good books to read (not just a honking big pile of books, which I already have, but a honking big pile of good, fun books).
And a job or postdoc for next year would be pretty fabulous too.
And maybe a puppy.
Bonnie l. said on 12.25.08 at 07:04 AM • [comment link]
Right now? All I wish for is for my Dad to play nice tomorrow so that we can all have a stress free Christmas at our house. That would be great.
amber said on 12.25.08 at 07:04 AM • [comment link]
I would love to know that I have more than enough money in the bank for a honking good down payment on the house I want.
Chris said on 12.25.08 at 07:12 AM • [comment link]
Spring.
katydyd said on 12.25.08 at 07:16 AM • [comment link]
I want…my Mommy to make it all better. For bi-polar to become a suddenly happy disease and not so scary and for a long conversation in English.
In lieu of that I’ll take chocolate love, strawberry ecstasy and an good book to get lost in.
RevMelinda said on 12.25.08 at 07:16 AM • [comment link]
I would love to have a stack of wonderful new books taller than I am (that’s 5 foot 2) the time to read them, and a bathtub (my favorite reading place) where the water never gets chilly!
Amy said on 12.25.08 at 07:23 AM • [comment link]
I hope that everyone has their wishes/dreams/hopes come true!
(Including my wish to win a big pile of books!)
EB said on 12.25.08 at 07:24 AM • [comment link]
What I would really like this holiday season is the time to read all the fantastic books I’m getting:)
Jennifer said on 12.25.08 at 07:30 AM • [comment link]
I’d like confidence. :)
Zulma said on 12.25.08 at 07:33 AM • [comment link]
Just one thing? Well, I would love for no one to be alone during the holidays. I cannot imagine being without my family and friends, and it makes me so sad to know there are so many lonely people out there.
Trish Stanley said on 12.25.08 at 07:37 AM • [comment link]
For Christmas this year I’d love for my grandson to wake my daughter up at 0500 just like she did me when she was a child!
JD said on 12.25.08 at 07:51 AM • [comment link]
To have a home of my very own.
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