On the fifth night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches gave to me: MORE book store shopping money!
Today's 5th night of Hanukkah gift: a $100 gift card to the bookstore of your choice.
Standard disclaimers apply: I'm not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and a curious reader. Open to international residents. I recommend sweet potato latkes, especially with a little curry and cinnamon.
To enter, leave a comment telling us which book you'd buy as a gift this year. I will choose the winner at random. You have 24 hours to enter.
Happy Hanukkah! (I hope you are enjoying the week of Hanukkah Mayhem.)
Buy my niece the YA books by Kelley Armstrong. They got me hooked.
i am actually planning on gifting a really good friend “succubus blues”
YA books for the “toy” drive.
I would love to buy the new Courtney Milan book or save it until the new J.D. Robb book comes out.
I would buy The Hunger Games and Jane Eyre for my cousin’s daughter. She’s a big reader and in middle school, and I want to make sure she’s introduced to the classics.
I would get my sister _A Good Man: Rediscovering my Father, Sargent Shriver_ written by Mark Shriver.
I’d buy every single “Making Of” Lord of The Rings book. My little brothers b-line to the reference section at the library to scoop them up every single time we go. I love nerd kids.
Overseas by Beatriz Williams for my best friend. It was one of my favorite reads this year.
Just came back from a trip to DisneyWorld, so I’m buying my 9 yo the Kingdom Keepers series http://www.thekingdomkeepers.c…, got my geeky husband a video game art book: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/…, and fell victim to a product plug on Good Morning America and bought my MIL this dog book: http://www.amazon.com/Letter-M…
Howl’s Moving Castle! It’s my favourite!
I would definitely buy Loretta Chase’s “Lord of Scoundrels” for my friend, a Lee Child book for my husband, and “Mr. and Mrs. Bunny, Detectives Extraordinaire” by Polly Horvath for myself.
I would purchase the new Courtney Milan book, The Duchess War.
Cold Days by Jim Butcher for my nephew – just finishing up his first semester at university. He’s planning on catching up on his reading during the winter break and he loves the Dresden series!
I would buy BARED TO YOU or Suzanne Brockmann’s TROUBLESHOOTERS series and get someone hooked. Or, possibly Kelley Armstrong’s WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD series. Or…or…or… *laughs* Choosing for someone else is as difficult to do as choosing for myself. 🙂
Pre-order J.R. Ward’s Lover At Last for my friend that introduced me to the series. We are both so ready for their story!
As a gift…? Probably Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie.
Stephen King’s On Writing. It’s an older book but interesting. I would get it for a young friend who writes.
I’d give Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened.
You know, this is an incredibly difficult question. I think I’d buy one of the piglet winner cookbooks for my sister, depending on which one(s) she already has. And then I’d buy my other friend The Night Circus.
Cold Days by Jim Butcher for my brother.
Steel’s Edge by Illona Andrews – so gooood!
I always give non-romance reading friends “Practice makes Perfect.” I’ve gotten 4 friends hooked on romance that way.
My brother is getting The Book Thief. Also, sweet potato are totally on the menu this week. Happy Hanukkah!
I’d give Charles Finch’s “A Death in the Small Hours,” it’s a Victorian set mystery featuring Charles Lenox as a gentleman detective. It’s his best book in the series to date and it has everything, a little mystery, romance, and history.
I would buy a collection of Christmas Stories!
The Iron Duke, by Meljean Brook. Romance + airship + nanobots + zombie = win!
The next Kim Harrison and Patricia Briggs.
Tara Janzen’s “Crazy Love”
My sister’s apparently dying to read Cloud Atlas. She asks, I deliver.
Paradiss Kiss Manga
I always buy my co-workers books for christmas. The recently retired man liked to travel, so I had got him Weird Places in America for his travels, and another goofy guy gets random Calvin and hobbs or the like, the rest get those little known facts books, or random trivia ones. Hopefully they read them and not regift them!!
Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry! For the academic BB addict.
I don’t give fiction—I typically give nonfiction, cookbooks, etc. This year, I’m looking at The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union by John Lockwood and Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden, among others.
I would have to get an e-book for my son so he can try reading electronically on his tablet and more romance novels for my best friend who is recent romace convert as of this summer 🙂
I would give the Iron Duke to my best friend.
I would buy Silas House’s Eli the Good for my dad.
I would totally gift the Iron Seas series by Meljean Brook.
It’s not a romance, but I would give the Game of Thrones books by George RR Martin.
i woul get my mom Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel she loves that series
I’m thinking about giving my uncle Stephen Colbert’s new book.