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…
I want there to be a Christmas miracle and for my friends to announce they’re not getting a divorce after all.
I’d love a Christmassy date with my physio guy!
Goodness gracious! What a nice Winter Solstice gift! I hope I win!
To kittyfischer & a few others re: the contest to pay off student loans.
I want that too—-I think it’s called the Lotto. Goodness knows my loans are so large that no smaller contest will do it.
I just want to get through with this season! I love a lot about Christmas, but usually wind up so sad. I miss all the people I’ve lost that used to be part of Christmas, my folks are all gone, my aunts & uncles all gone, my beloved brother is gone much too young. More and more Christmas is about loss. If I had a Christmas wish is would be for it not to be too sad a season for me this year.
I want my husband HOME! Three months of playing single mother is long enough.
Peace and quiet so that I can read.
Or does that count as two things?
I’d love to be able to get home to Virginia to see my grandparents and to introduce them to their great-grandsons. I haven’t seen them in years, and it would mean the world to me to see my hero, my grandfather, one last time.
Happy Festive Season to all!
I would like to graduate.
I’m in my third year of my PhD program in Molecular Genetics. My role is to do cardiovascular research under the guidance of my principle investigator (the dude with the money). My fellow students and I calculated our pay per hour (about 7 dollars – less than minimum wage!) for the number of hours we typically work (usually between 50-80). Graduation is generally around 5 years though some less than enterprising people have pushed the average to about 6.5.
Barring graduation (which is extremely unlikely to happen). I’d like to not have to go to the lab on Christmas day!
To quote Jorge Cham (PhD comics) “It seemed better than getting a real job.”
I would love my 6 1/2 month old son to sleep through the night…mmm a full night’s sleep, bliss!
Oh, and Christmas Day to not be too hot.
My word: further71 – There are definitely a further 71 days (at least) of stinking hot weather due!
books! I want books! A kindle would be nice, but maybe for my birthday. I would also like the lienholder to come thru with the vehicle title so that we can register our vehicle in our new state but apparently Wisconsin is pretty snowed in.
Oh, yeah, and I’d love to get the willpower to lose the baby weight from three pregnancies (but I’m not going to hold my breath on that one.
I’d like for my condo to be cleaned by magic cleaning elves. it’s chaos.
For my family to stop being sick!
I would like for my oldest son (he’s 30) to feel less depressed and be happier in his life.
I would love to get a book for Christmas, but it’s the one gift I can count on NOT getting. It’s so special to get a book from someone you love, with a personal inscription inside.
Literally, I’d love to win this prize for Christmas. LOL
I wish Santa would bring me an ereader so I can carry my ebooks with me and do something while I’m always waiting.
Deidre
I would like the highways to be cleared and for my parents to be able to join me and my brother for Christmas.. sigh
I would like enought emotional clarity to get beyond my paralysis and find a good shrink.
I really want my fiance to remember to stuff my stocking for Christmas morning!
What I’d like for Christmas is to see my boyfriend and spend the day with him.
I’d like for our local grocery store to carry some fucking false eyelashes so I can finish my daughter’s knitted mittens with the ‘My Little Pony’ eyes and mane without visiting a fucking craft store 12 hours from hour zero on Christmas Eve.
I’d also like world peace.
Health, wealth, love, and time to enjoy them all. I know that’s more than one, but I wish it for all of us.
I would love to see my family for the holidays!!
I’d like world grudging toleration (as world peace is too much to ask).
Or if we’re going for material items, a PDA/MP3 player that’s like the iTouch in nifty form factor and wireless access and that’ll last for at least five years and is easy to change the battery on. (Or an iPhone that runs on wireless and prepaid cell plans.)
Besides health for my family, I would like to be able to find a decent, new job in the new year.
I would like my workmail to magically process itself.
Alternately, I would like the rest of my work to stop so I can catch up on processing my mail.
I foresee neither event happening.
I would love to know if we’re actually just a swirl in somebody’s marble and while I’m waiting to find that out perhaps all these lovely people will get there wishes too because even lives inside of marbles must matter..
Must78 indeed 🙂
I’d like the ability to stop time (so I could sleep late and get stuff done), make my dog stop barking and sealing and make my seventh graders less nasty. And I’d like a ban on icy sidewalks. I’d also love a book deal.
What I want is a magic bookshelf that stores all my books (filed by category), and can show any four shelves at one time. And includes a search for author or title. And has a big red button (“porn? what porn?”) for when Company is coming over and so it should hide any potentially embarrassing items.
…if we’re talking fantasy rather than reality, I’d also like a body that works and doesn’t freaking /hurt all the time/. But a magic bookshelf is awesomer.
I’d like an extra three hours in the middle of tomorrow, so I can finish the socks I’m knitting in time to give them away on Christmas Eve, and not on New Year’s Eve when I’ll next see their recipient.
After the children all around the world join hands and sing, and after world peace is achieved, I’d like to finish Manuscripts 1 and 3.
i would like for my boyfriend to move and find a job when i now live. i am tired of having a sort-a long distance relationship.
For enough time to get the novel written, the craft projects forward at least a little and for Marsha to get her wish.
I would like to know what I want to do with my life:) Annndd… I would definitely like that bag of books!
All I want for Christmas is my kids to go to bed ontime for the rest of their lives, lol. It seems that as soon as Christmas break hits they decide never to go to sleep before midnight.
All I’m asking for is just one teeny little lottery win – just enough so that I never have to work again, and have time to read (and the money to buy) all the books I don’t have time to read now. Sigh.
I would like healthier joints this Christmas season. 🙂 Cold weather sucks!
Peace and good health for my family. Oh and less family drama.
I’d like harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan. Oh and World Peace.
🙂 Patrice
The one thing I want for christmas this year is a way to read my ebooks without sitting in front of this computer. Im not picky I will take any brand. After seeing this post I also want to win all of those books for Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year