Sony contacted me about doing a giveaway in celebration of the premiere of Eat Pray Love, which hits theatres this week. A Sony Pocket! In sexy silver! With a leather case (that is really a beautiful shade of blue on the outside) and two download codes for both of Elizabeth Gilbert’s books! Woo hoo for digital reading devices!
I know many of you are paper reading fanatics – which is absolutely awesome with sauce – but if you’re curious about trying digital reading but haven’t gathered all your pennies into one place to buy one, here’s a chance to win one, AND get a beautiful leather cover (can you tell I really like that blue?) with two free books.
All you have to do is leave a comment here and tell me, if you won, which book would be the first book you’d put on your Sony Reader, aside from the two free downloads? A romance? A mystery? A book on how to make your own leather Sony Reader cover with skulls and crossbones? I’ll pick one at random and announce the winner on Friday 20 August (Good Lord willing, creeks don’t rise, etc). You’ve got 48 hours to tell me which book gets to be “FIRST!” in your Reader.
Disclaimer: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. I don’t even get the pretty blue leather cover, much as I love that color like whoa and nelly. Tie your shoes. Machine wash cold, lay flat to dry. Do not dry clean. Not available at salons. Digital ink on 100% post-consumer bytes. Melts in your mouth, not in your hand. Not recommended for children. Prerecorded for this time zone. This broadcast has been reformatted to fit your screen. No solicitors. You can learn more about the bundle at the Sony Style store, and you can really really like Sony Readers on Facebook.
My first book on the Sony would be Sarah Mayberry’s newest, HOT ISLAND NIGHTS, because I just read about it and am very intrigued.
The 1st book would be Sherrilyn Kenyon’s No Mercy. Next I would probably want the entire series of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward.
Wow, I usually never enter these because I never win, but since my Kindle was stolen I have missed having an electronic book reader and this one looks divine! My first book would be the latest in the Merry Gentry series by Laurrell K. Hamilton. I love that series and then I want to start on all the Anita Blakes. Thanks for doing this!
I’m probably download the collective works of Charles Dickens, then Elizabeth Hoyt. 🙂
If I won the reader, I’d put A Scandalous Liaison by Elizabeth Rolls on it first. It’s a novella that’s digital-only and I’ve loved the author’s other books.
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie!
For my first book, I’d have to go with Shogun, because I’d want something long to read that I could pick up at any time to read…. or the Norton Critical edition of Jane Eyre.
If series were allowed, I would also go with the Anne of Green Gables series.
But for a current series, I’d go with Stephanie Laurens Brides series… not so patiently waiting for the last book to be released!!
(gives72?? what gives?)
I think I’d have to go with No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Though, if it’s not out, my celebration book would be Last Night’s Scandal by LC. And then there’s all the other good ideas I’ve read in the comments. Jennifer Crusie, Sarah Mayberry. How about Victoria Dahls’ backlist? All winners!
Normally, I would say Pride and Prejudice, but that was the first book I downloaded on to my phone, so BTDT. Probably the new Chase, it’s next on my “gotta get it” list.
Definitely Kresley Cole’s latest, Demon from the Dark. Can’t wait to find out who is kidnapping from all of the lore factions. Plus, one of my reading resolutions for this year was to finally read an entire ebook.
Definitely… DEFINITELY.. the first book I’d place on my Sony Reader would be The Kite Runner! I know, I know, I’ve read it a thousand times. I just can’t escape the enormity of it, the emotion of it, the truth behind it. Such a fabulous story!
Of course I’d have toa also tack on the True Blood Series, and this book I’ve been dying to read lately but just haven’t had the time to purchase: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.
So I guess that would be SEVERAL books rather than just one!
Free Sony Reader! how awesome!
First book I’d put on would be Pride & Prejudice so I’d always have my favorite book with me.
First books I’d pay to put on would be the Harry Potter series. Thousands of pages to re-read, I’d never be bored. But they are not available.
So the next first book would be Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. Can never get tired of re-reading that one.
After that I might go for a new book like the new Loretta Chase I heard about here.
My first read on the device would be Duty & Devotion by Tere Michaels.
First would be Erin McCarthy’s Hot Finish.
Lots of good ideas up there… I have the Cryoburn eArc and printed it and read it, so probably (apart from moving all the stuff I’ve already downloaded to it) Crusie’s Maybe This Time.
My first download would be either Kiss of the Rose by Kate Pearce or the new Kristan Higgins.
For me it would probably have to be Lord of Scoundrels because of its hard-core awesomeness.
You mean AFTER I pick myself off the floor?
It would be a mad dash to move all the ebooks I already own and currently read on my desktop. (be still my aching eyes)
But the first book I would buy for the reader is The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.
Where would I even begin on the long list of books I’ve been dying to read? lol I think I’d probably get the new Hunger Games book, Mockingjay as it’s coming out next week and my husband and I are both anxious to read it.
I’d have to download Nora’s “Northern Lights”. That book is my security blanket of books. Whenever I need a comfort read, I turn to that one. If it was on the eReader? I’d have the comfort read with me all of the time!
Wow I’m not sure what I would put on there first. I will say the next book on my calendar is Jenna Petersen’s new book. I’m really looking forward to that one.
I’d get Blameless by Gail Carriger. The cliffhanger at the end of Changeless made me gnash my teeth.
I’d also get Bayou Moon, by Ilona Andrews.
Oh man, that is a tough choice. But you know what, I have to go with Harry Potter (all 7). They are my go to comfort read. So even though I’ve read them dozens’ of times. Yup.
I would definitely download Fever Dream by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, their newest novel in the series featuring Aloysius Pendergast, who reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. He also shares a character trait with my favorite romance hero, Wulfric Bedwyn—that iron self-control which is such a fun challenge to pierce. If Mary Balogh ever writes a sequel to Slightly Dangerous, that would definitely be downloaded 😀 (my exclamation point key isn’t working). But that’s just a pipe dream and I may have to be satisfied with downloading Slightly Dangerous before my paper copy is in tatters.
The first book I would put on the Sony Reader is Suzanne Collins’ MOCKINGJAY. Then I’d give it to my teenage daughter who loves to read.
I’ve been thinking about getting an ereader for awhile now, but I’m not sure which book I would download first. Maybe Persuasion (but I bet I could find a free copy of that) so the first thing I would buy would be the nest Lois McMaster Bujold book about Miles!
After I downloaded the complete works of Anthony Trollope, I would wait for Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall for my next download. In the meantime I would read the 600+ books on my Kindle.
I’m not entering this contest, Sarah. I have the Kindle 2 and have preordered the Kindle 3, so I’m an Amazon captive. I’ve seen the Sony eReader, though, and it is lovely. Congrats to whoever wins. Enjoy. Once you’ve taken a trip with your entire library in your hand, you’ll never look at a dead-tree book the same way.
Speaking of Eat, Pray, Love, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, but immediately get your girlfriends together and go see this movie. I hated the book, forced myself to read it for my book group, but lurved the movie. Lurved it so much, I’m organizing a girl’s day out with coworkers to go see it again on Sunday with Italian food to follow. Don’t read the sour reviews. This movie is a perfect summer movie – frothy, funny, gorgeous costumes and location setting, gorgeous men, you laugh, you cry, you get hungry. It has it all, and I want that green sari she wears in India for my own personal wardrobe.
say93 – I could think of 93 ways to say this movie rocks
After I downloaded the complete works of Anthony Trollope, I would wait for Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall for my next download. In the meantime I would read the 600+ books on my Kindle.
I’m not entering this contest, Sarah. I have the Kindle 2 and have preordered the Kindle 3, so I’m an Amazon captive. I’ve seen the Sony eReader, though, and it is lovely. Congrats to whoever wins. Enjoy. Once you’ve taken a trip with your entire library in your hand, you’ll never look at a dead-tree book the same way.
Speaking of Eat, Pray, Love, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, but immediately get your girlfriends together and go see this movie. I hated the book, forced myself to read it for my book group, but lurved the movie. Lurved it so much, I’m organizing a girl’s day out with coworkers to go see it again on Sunday with Italian food to follow. Don’t read the sour reviews. This movie is a perfect summer movie – frothy, funny, gorgeous costumes and location setting, gorgeous men, you laugh, you cry, you get hungry. It has it all, and I want that green sari she wears in India for my own personal wardrobe.
say93 – I could think of 93 ways to say this movie rocks
FIRST would probably be a Georgette Heyer. Because you evil smart bitches got me reading her and I spend oodles of money on her books now. Oodles, I tell you!
The first book I’d download is The Man Who Ate the World by Jay Raynor. I’ve been kind of obsessed with wanting that book since watching the last cycle of Top Chef Masters. But the first romance would have to be Jennifer Crusie’s Maybe This Time. I can’t wait – finally another stand alone all in her own voice!
Poison by Sara Poole. I think the Borgias have it all over the Tudors and the Sopranos, and don’t understand why they’ve never had their own TV series….
The Bachelors of Bear Creek Bundle by Lori Wilde.
It’s four books, and they were originally published in the Harlequin Duets line years ago, which my mother had decided were the most risque romance novels I was allowed to read. They were, after all, light romcoms. Nothing tawdry….
But when Harlequin released this digitally, years later, this one was rebranded as Blaze.
Wonder why these stories stuck with my 13 year old brain for more than a decade…..
The first book I would put on there is the next read for the sizzling summer book club!!
What a great give-away! I would love to download “Maybe This Time”, which is Jenny Crusie’s upcoming new release, but I’m guessing it won’t be available in e-format that soon. So probably Welcome to Temptation by Jenny Crusie. Or, if it’s available, Crouching Buzzard Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews.
Really, anything by Jenny Crusie, any of the Maggody series by Joan Hess, and any of the Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews. Throw in Lawrence Block’s Keller books, David Eddings Belgariad, and few select early Stephen King books (Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Dead Zone), and you’ve got comfort reading FOR DAYS.
OMG, Want, Want, WANT! 🙂 One of the first books I would load is probably something childbirth-related, as I am studying to be a midwife. However, a close second would be the long list of books I am dying to read from the YA thread of a few weeks ago. Seriously, I don’t know WHERE I would get romance/other book rec’s without your wonderful site! Thanks for everything you do!!
It’d be Soulless by Gail Carriger. (2nd is Blameless when it comes out—can’t wait! =D) Soulless is such a fun read that I’ve already reread it at least 3 times, and I’m sure I’ll be rereading it again in the future..especially if I have it on ebook. 🙂
I don’t know that I could load just one. Among the first half dozen would be Lord of Scoundrels or another Loretta Chase, one of Georgette Heyer’s possibly A Quiet Gentleman, a PG Wodehouse all of which are funny, Gaudy Night—one of my all time favorite romantic mysteries by Dorothy Sayers, one of Nora Roberts’ JD Robb mysteries as a prelude of buying them ALL. Then I’d start on the Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold for my SF start, add some Heinlein as annoying as he can be. Mysteries, mysteries—well, I’ve already run out of money so….wait til next month.
The new Larissa Ione and Kresley Cole books due out next week. I love me some paranormal romance (well, GOOD paranormal romance), but I hate hate hate the covers of the books. They’re embarrassingly dorky. Yes, I am going home alone to crochet and my two cats, but the entire DC-metro area doesn’t need to know that! I’m dying for an e-reader!
I would start at the beginning…
I would download Persuasion by Jane Austen. Every time I read it, I get something different out of it…whether at the time I need a story of romance and true soulmates or I need social commentary on the early 1800’s or just a strong heroine to look up too.
So definitely Austen.
Just one book?????
Impossible, impossible, impossible!
Here’s a list of must haves:
Outlander—- must have Jamie at my fingertips.
Anything and everything by Jennifer Crusie—must have laughs by the boatload.
Nobody’s Baby But Mine ….. Heaven, Texas ….. Susan Elizabeth Phillips—must have heros who are to die for (but still sometimes need a smack upside the head).
Lord of Scoundrels – must have a book that’s the epitome of romance!
In Death Series—must have Roarke, Roarke, and more Roarke!
Good Lord – there are so many “must haves” out there that I’ll be broke in no time!!! It would be so worth it!