Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, I’ve eaten my body weight in gelt, so it’s time to go lift weights – or books. Or both!
To continue the festive merriment to celebrate reading, both paper and digital, I have a collection of contemporary romance – hardcovers and paperbacks!
All you have to do to win is leave a comment, and I’ll select a winner each day. These contests are open to international winners, and I will do my best to ship this week, provided people send me their addresses promptly.
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. If anything, my gift is exceptional support of the United States Postal Service (Happy Hanukkah, US Mail Carriers!). We r who we r. Edited for television. Keep cool. Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all.
Ahoy! Contest the seventh!
On the Seventh Night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches Gave to Me: A massive selection of contemporary romance and contemporary fiction!
Just leave a comment below, and tell me which contemporary romance setting is your favorite – cities? small towns? cruise ships? space stations? – and you’re entered to win. Comments close in 24 hours, but fear not, there’s another book – paper or digital – giveaway coming soon. Because Hanukkah lasts for eight crazy nights, and I have lost my ever lovin’ mind.
Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Reading!
I choose Space Stations! And any other locations.
I like small towns, which has probably given me a romanticized view of what happens when someone moves to a small town. Because in reality, you pretty much sit at home and watch netflix.
Oooh…..Goodnight Tweetheart is on there. I’ll enter for that one alone (though they all look good)!
I prefer cities in my contemporary romances, because I can relate better to the people that live there and the things they do.
I live in a medium sized city (Seattle) and I like books set in …. Seattle. Also love the small towns and the Southern towns and LA and London and well, anywhere.
Hell, I’m a contemporary ‘ho.
Is it weird that I like a mix. I do favor small towns or rural, but it’s only by a slight edge. I’m eclectic in my tastes (yeah, I’m a Gemini, wanna make something of it?).
they have 68 locations? cool!
I don’t care about the setting, as long as the book has something unique about it that sets it apart from the masses.
Happy Hanukkah!
Another video, have you heard/seen the NCSY Chanukah Remix? The second song/latke song, is hysterical!
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I live in a city, so when I want to escape, I like a small town setting. But I also like books set in cities that are unlike my own (like they’re cosmopolitan, and have no traffic problems).
I just like a good contemporary, setting isn’t the main thing I look for. If forced to chose I’d pick the city because many authors over-idealize small towns in a way that bugs me. I’m currently living in a very small town and it’s really not like that.
I love small town settings so that Suzie who owns the Clip n Curl can be a part of it as well as Marley and Mo the old couple that have run the Big M diner for 50 years and someone’s loony grandmother etc. When done well, I think the side characters in a small town can be a ton of fun.
I love exotic locations—archeologists in Peru or Turkey, diplomats in Vienna or Beijing, artists in Paris, safaris in Africa… That’s not to say I don’t enjoy a big-city or small-town setting, but I love a strong sense of place. I want to believe those characters fit in their locale, if it’s their home town.
I’m all about the cities. I second @Heather’s comment about professional sports teams. Mmm, athletes and uniforms. 🙂
small towns like most of the ones in Maine
Not huge cities like NY but no backward, spit-down towns where everyone is related. A nice middle of the road venue is best for me.
Small towns! But…I’ve only read one cruise ship and the story itself wasn’t overly fantastic. would like to see more of those.
I’m not real picky, but if I had to choose, I like small towns. I think it’s because I’m from a small town, I was born and raised in a small town, oh wait, that’s a song. But it’s true, I am a small town girl and love the gossip and fun of small towns and the love for neighbors. Not that I really have that where I live, but I love it in books.
Small towns….simply because I live in one.
I love the small town full of eccentrics, but not too cutesey.
I’m a NY girl so I love the city all the way!
I like the small town setting, but cities are fine as well.
I like my contemporaries to take place in cities, so I can live vicariously through them and pretend I live in a big city!
Contemporary – I love BIG cities I’ve never visited, and small towns that could be someplace I’d love!
I WANT that Nora Roberts final Bride book!
My love of particular settings comes and goes in waves. Right now, I like reading about cities, maybe because I live in a relatively small town and miss the excitement of the city around the holidays. Other times, I love small town settings, like Susan Wiggs’ series.
Small towns all the way – though I’d like to read a contemporary romance set in a space station, as I just finished Mary Roach’s “Packing for Mars”. After reading the chapter on personal hygiene in Zero G, I can’t think of anyplace *less* romantic than outer space – which actually lends it a certain perverse appeal for a romance, I think.
My favorite setting is definitely space stations—with spaceships coming in a close second. I’ve always been an SF and SF Romance fan.
security word: rooms74—most space stations have at LEAST 74 rooms!
I love books set in cities. But I always seem to find myself reading ones where the hero and heroine are holed up in a cabin in Alaska… how does this keep happening to me?!
I like cruise ships. Or airports romance, also.
This book display is very tempting *_*
“Have another latke, you’re much too thin!”—LOL
I deserve to win this giveaway since I am a one-woman
crusade to Save the Contemporary. I don’t thirst for vampires, I don’t crave Earls, I don’t hunger for shapeshifters. All I lust for is an everyday. down-to-Earth, modern, straight, hot-blooded male.
Ahhhh!
He doesn’t even need to be a billionaire. Or American.
PLEASE enter me! (in the contest, duh!)
Thanks
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Count me for small towns (though, really, pretty much any place done well is cool for me.)
small towns!
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I know Elizabeth Peters is more mystery than romance, but I think that the reason I’ve always loved her Vicky Bliss series is that while Vicky travels to various cities and towns in various countries, she doesn’t become InstaNative (TM); her travels as an American transplant are the close enough to what I’ve actually experienced to make me smile when I’ve been where she is, and start plotting to travel when I haven’t.
Looking through my collection, I realized that most of them are set in cities. I guess that’s my preference!
I don’t care about location but the characters have to be believable and including humor is a big issue for me. Fashionistas are boring. Life’s too short to be serious about much of anything except other people!
I like cities, small towns, forests, mountains, caves, space stations, whatever! As long as the story is good (and hopefully hot!), I’m a happy camper! 🙂
Cities.
Especially London.
One day, I’m going to fall in love in London.
Setting doesn’t matter so much. If the characters are believable, the plot’s good and it’s well written (or even if it’s missing one of those elements). I’ll read it, just for laughs in some instances.
terms93: I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll always have at least 93 books in my TBR pile.
small towns, especially those inhabited by cowboys
I like small town settings the best and sometimes non-US settings.
As long as it works I do not mind, but I do like little English villages