Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

I’d love to be in Ireland.  It’s always perfect reading weather there: gray and misty.

I’d like to be in Italy, eating some good food and reading All Jacked Up. Thanks.

China. Because in China right now it’s almost bed time, which means its the perfect time to curl up with a good book. (And the food there is excellent!)

Well, I am currently living in Poland so that would be the practical choice…but if I had my preference it would be Scotland ‘cause ya know, men in kilts have always been and still are my weakness.

Oh, Italy for me!

I love Turks and Caicos .  Laying on a beach with turquoise waters and warm sunshine. Sigh.  So much better than MI.  (It was between any warm tropical place (Cancun took 2nd place) and Paris due to Eloisa James tweets.)

Put me down for Scotland; you’ve got the lovely misty weather (perfect for a cup of tea & a hot book), plus castles & kilts.

Oh yeah, Scotland it would be…

I would love to be in Italy, as well. I’ve never been and always wanted to go! Thanks for the opportunity!

I’d love very much to be in Taiwan right now. I miss my relatives there… and the city life.

Put me in a castle in Ireland in front of a roaring fire with lots of free time to read.  That could be heaven :)

Brazil since they’re always celebrating Carnivale (the movies say so - it must be true!). Kinda like it’s always Dia de los Muertos when the hero needs to disappear into a crowd in Mexico.

It’s definitely cold and misty in England today. I have been looking out for All Jacked Up. Lovely to have it on offer.

Rachel

I’m currently not permitted to travel anywhere w/o the spouse-creature because men in kilts, or who have big swords or accents, or really broad shoulders and sharp teeth promptly cause a flare up of a disease I have that is known as Turtle Syndrome. Flair ups involve falling on my back and getting stuck here, just like a turtle. Hence the name.

But if I could go… I’ve got an obsession with Venice right now.

Italy…I want to go back to Italy.

I’m a Welshy, born and bred, but that’s the last place I wanna be right. Minnesota winter is drawing close—get me outta here and into somewhere sunny, hot and beachy.

I think, right about now, I would love to be back in Australia, on Cronulla Beach body surfing in the cool, salty water—hunky lifeguards to ogle at, with the husband off fetching me a yummie ice-cream :o)

SQUASH. Yup, that was my day dream being squashed. I glanced out the window and saw the frost settled on the grass. Bummer.

If I’m going to go anywhere, it’s going to be some place warm. Some place with a beach and clean, clear water. Some place where I can lay on said beach and drink in the sun and forget that it is currently 38degrees at home.
Send me to the Bahamas. Give me a tall, cold drink and then leave me alone with my book.

Norway! I love those crazy Vikings, and with the whole arctic circle thing in northern Norway it is dark, cold and time to be cheered with a good book.

New Zealand -  That’s where I want to be.  The mountain ranges as seen in LoTR are absolutely stunning, would love to see them in person.

I’d be up for another visit to Scotland. Or Wales.  I’m in a UK sort of mood.

I’d love to be in Japan right now since I’m craving sushi like nobody’s business…

(Don’t include me in the giveaway, I just bought and glommed and totally enjoyed my copy of All Jacked Up.)

Australia.  Where there is a lot of space, and not many people to bug me while I’m trying to read.

Put me down for Italy. One of these days I’m going to go meet the rest of my relatives there.

Who can resist Alpha Males in Kilts and bare chested (yes I know it’s rather cold this time of year… but alphas don’t care right!!!) no one that’s who! Give me Scotland any day of the week!  Not to mention the Fay… yummmmm

I would find myself Adam Black (KMM) and steal him… or maybe Cian McKelter he’s a definite hottie, oh there are so many men from so many authors… I’ll take a few!

Sarah,

You kickin’ your own ass with your pink boots today? (ooh look, Lorelei dropped the ‘g’ in that phrase, drives you crazy, don’t it?)

See, I’m surprised you didn’t say South Dakota because we are as foreign as another country to most people

Never been, but Turks and Caicos sounds really good right now.

I’m going to have to go with Australia.  I’ve always wanted to go there, and I might see Hugh Jackman…or not.

I’m just starting a possible story idea based in Beirut - so put me down for Lebanon.  (It’s “explosive” romance, I promise!)

I’d like to be somewhere sunny right now, and there was a bit of sun that shone through the grey today in Ireland but still Novembers in Ireland can be quite hard to work through.

Hmm, somewhere sunny. The Philippines, a quiet island, and diving :).

The weather in Norway is cold and gloomy today :(

England would be my preferred place. It’s rainy. It’s cold. It’s often foggy. Kinda like Wenatchee today! But the beer, food, and company is likely far better!

germany

Well given if I had a choice it would be Greece.

I’m going with Australia.  I’ve wanted to visit ever since I saw the Facts of Life movie where Natalie, Jo, and the rest got to go.

Ahhh - I’d have to say Italy.

Me, myself, and I would love to go ANYWHERE!  I’ve got the travel bug once again, but alas I am stuck in..duh duh duuuuuummm…Nebraska.  If I had to pick, however it would be Nepal.

I would love to be in Brazil. I need some time to recuperate and relax with the hubby.

ICELAND! The home of geysers and tiny Norse hoses. Love it.

I vote for Greece.  But I’d like to bring DH along, none of those Greek billionaires for me, thank you very much Harlequin.

I’ll take Greece, since I’m planning a trip there soon. :)

Indonesia, and that’s where I’m going, on Monday. To see my sister and, uh, totally not go to Bali, not even think of it.

I would love to be in New Zealand.  A friend went there and the pictures were beautiful.  I can be packed in like 15 minutes and the dogs can go to my mom’s house.

LOL, wow, you guys handle the penalty box WAY better than most folks! Thanks a bunch!

Good luck, everybody!!
Dee

Since I’ve traveled the world, right now I wouldn’t mind being in Brazil or Puerto Rico.  Some nice beaches with some nice scenery and a good book would total relax me and make my world complete.  I always have a bag on standby, so all I need is the plane ticket.

I’m going to have to go with the Czech Republic. I have three - count ‘em, THREE! - friends moving there for work by the end of the year. It would be nice to have something to read when I visit them and they are at work. Ha!

Definitely Bora Bora, with sunshine and turquoise waters, staying in one of those bungalows over the water. Absolute serenity!

I’d be happy being anywhere along the UK trip that a friend & I have been planning for the last few years. Although I too have to give a nod to Iceland as one of my friends dreamed of me finding love with a viking there.

Great serie by Lorelei!  Just put me in the Caribbean with a frozen margarita and I’ll be sooooooooooooo happy!

I’d be in Bath - looking for the ghost of Jane Austen.

Well, I’m currently living in the Carribean but would love to go home to the UK where I can have nice hot cup of tea (in a place that understands tea), warm (just out of the oven) scones with clotted cream and small cucumber sandwiches. Or, as someone else here mentioned, perhaps back to Lebanon for great food and a smoke on one of the cafes on the corniche - overlooking the pigeon rock…  Mango flavoured tobacco, methinks. 

I would be All Jacked Up to be reading a book with my tea or nargiley ;-)...

Not having a book would also Burn For Me…

Either on the beach in Italy or sipping a cappuccino in an old style coffee bar in a small mountain town.

Is it springtime yet in New Zealand?  I’d love to go back there and see more of the country.  I spent a fabulous 24 hours there once teaching a class, and really wished for more time.

I would be in Scotland enjoying a nice single malt whiskey!  I love Lorelei’s books

I want to be in sunny Australia.  I’ll bring my electronic reader and be happy on the beach and in the outback.

I’d love to be in southern Spain on my bicycle, ebook reader tucked safely into my packs…. Ahhh….

I would love to be in Ireland taking a peek up the old family tree. Nice apology and fun contest.

I would love to go to Greece.
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Saudi Arabia. Mecca is the most AMAZING place I have ever been.

Plus, there’s all those sheikhs all over the place… =D

Wales, without a doubt!

I would love to go to Australia. I have a friend that lives there and it sounds wonderful.

I’d love to be England checking out some toy stores for early christmas shopping.

Rome…sigh…

Southern Italy, where the light (supposedly) pours like honey over the landscape.  I feel certain it would inspire my NaNo efforts beyond any other location, and I may even crank out a painting or two while I am there….

Falkland Islands!! Wooooo!

I would like to be in greece and loll about in the sunshine.

Currently in Cornwall, UK with the mist and dank outside but a log fire inside.

Hot Water Beach in New Zealand would be the perfect opposite.  It’s a beautiful, remote beach where there are hot water springs in the sand: natural hot tubs for when you come out of the sea.  It’s springtime there now, so just perfect.

come54?  Are they kidding me?  Or is this prescience if I win one of those hot books?

warm, sandy beaches of the Caribbean . . . pick any island . . . hopefully with a fruity drink in one hand (with umbrella) and scorchin’ book in the other!

hmmm . . . wonder if I could find Capt. Jack Sparrow on one of those islands.  Now that’s worth exploring!

I want to be in Edinburgh, drinking tea at the Elephant House.  Or since, I think it is beer:thirty there, maybe at Bannerman’s, having a pint of Tennants.

Or, I’d like to be in Rome, ‘cause I’ve never been there.

I’ve recently saw a picture of Barcelona, Spain and I wanna be there now.

Arrrgh, punctuation fail!  Pls omit the comma after since.

Response46: I can probably think of 46 places outside the US I’d like to visit.

I’d like to be anywhere either with real winter and snow or where it is still a warm fall.  Not much further north, though since it is getting dark early and light late.  A safari in Kenya sounds pretty good

While on a complaint about geographic restrictions, what’s up with Barnes and Noble requiring you to be in the US to download books? There’s a huge number of us expats all over the world, living in places where the selection of English language books is pitiful and the prices high. Why can’t we buy books on-line at B&N?

Australia - they get to the weekend a little sooner ;)

The answer to that is Dublin, always Dublin. It’s been 8 years…and I miss it so.

I don’t do twitter…one reason being since I’d probably make a twit out of myself on a daily basis!

not by choice, but currently residing in Kuwait at the Army base, after enjoying a government provided vacation to Iraq.  But if i could pick, any other place, it would be Brazil or Argentina.  Mmmm, south american hotties!

Boyfriend and I desperately want to get away to Barcelona! Or Iceland. Or Scotland. Or Japan. Or Patagonia.

(also64… there are also 64 other places I could put on that list!)

Bhutan. Can I be in Bhutan? or maybe Jordan - visiting Petra, because that’s just cool.

I want to be in Bhutan. Do you know they are almost exclusively Bhuddhist in Bhutan? I’m not, but don’t you think it would be awesome to visit?

Pukhet.  I want to be on the beach in Thailand.

I want to go to Rio de Janeiro.  Put me down for there, but all of this nekkid kilt talk has me rethinking…  Now if we’re going for fictional places, put me down for Isle Esme…yeah, I’m one of those people, hehe.

Please send me to someplace warm, sunny and surrounded by oceans.  Maybe Figi or Samoa.

This is such a great contest! Thanks for doing it :D

Currently in SW Ontario, but would love to be in Montreal.

Definitely Egypt.  Or Greece.  Anywhere where there’s something amazingly historical.

England please… best climate for reading (cool and drizzly - perfect for reading in bed, under a duvet with a great cup of tea) - AND they have the most fantastic books that are way too hard to get in the USA.  I mean, it’s not like they’re printed in ENGLISH or anything… :P

I would love to be sitting on a beach in Australia.

The Camargue in the south of France - white horses, black bulls, pink flamingos and awesome beaches

I’d like to be on Crete, Greece visiting my niece or sightseeing in Ireland.

BTW can’t these titles be purchased directly from Samhain? I’d think that would cut out the middleman issues.

Thanks for the contest! :)

I say Switzerland, curled up in a cozy mountain chalet with a roaring fire and the Alps just outside my window….

I’m in Scotland - currently it is misty (that means it’s raining), damp, grey, and from my picture window I can see - nothing - because it’s dark most of the day…. And all the men in kilts tend to be either over sixty and built like scrawny chickens, or wearing long-johns. Although to be fair, very few of them wear kilts at all outside tourist season. And btw, kilts smell of wet sheep.

It’s not all it’s cracked up to be you know!

I would like to go somewhere warm and sunny to read my book - ANYWHERE warm and sunny, but preferably somewhere with no men in kilts.

A sunny island resort in the Caribbean where I can relax and read a romance without that guilty avoiding-work feeling. The resort might not be in my future, but with this contest I have a shot at half that equation!

(ways83 - I can think of 83 places I’d rather be today)

hm… It’s gloomy out, so I’d have to go with somewhere warm and sunny. A tropical island, perhaps. St. Martin?

I’m having a hard time deciding between Scotland and Tahiti.  I know polar opposites but what can I say.

I’d love to be somewhere in the Carribean. The sun shining.
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I want to be in Scotland—-kilts, mountains, and mists. Oh, to be a bonny lass in Scotland!

Australia. Mostly because summer is coming on there, whereas here in the swamps of Illinois, winter is around the corner. I just had a lovely round of H1N1 and laying on the beach in the sunshine would undoubtedly fix me right up.

Ha! Confirmation word is ill87. I’ve been ill and feel 87.

Aaah - where to go to get away from the dark times here, and read a nice stack of “beach books”...

Spain would be nice, I think.
I also wistfully remember my Christmas holiday a few years ago - I think that on Christmas day we (the family, that is) were on a sailing boat off Whitehaven Beach.

Just about anywhere with some sun will do, though!!

I would love to be walking the moors of Northern England.

Italy is where I’d like to be reading. Preferably someplace sunny.

I’d like to be in the UK, towing my boyfriend around the museums in London and embarrassing him with my squeeing over how neat everything is.

Hmmm.. how about Aruba?  Sunshine, sand, cabana boys…