Time for another set of giveaways to celebrate our 10th anniversary on January 31st. Ready?
The others giveaways are still open, but we have two each day so, by the power of mathematics, here are two more!
Each giveaway will be open until 31 January 2015, and each prize pack is open to international residents where applicable by law. Must be over 18 and somewhat fond of yarny things to win. Â Void where prohibited.
This prize pack comes from Elyse, who also send and heartily recommends the bags of Fava Tea, too.
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This prize collection includes 2 oz. of Jello Bello Fava Tea. Elyse says, “This tea is mild and fruity, and makes for a great bedtime tea.” It has no caffeine, either. Also included: Knit Your Own Dog by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne, The Crochet Stitch Bible by Betty Barnden, and skeins! Lots of skeins! Three 50g skeins of KnitPicks’ Wool of the Andes Sport wool in Mai Tai Heather, and four 50g skeins of KnitPicks’ City Tweet DK wool, with one each in Rhubarb, Morning Glory, Basil, and Plush. Also included: a pair of fingerless arm warmers with button flowers and thumb holes, crocheted by Elyse in the City Tweed wool. (I seriously want to not include these because they are adorable. Ready for our second collection of prizes? Of course you are!  a Rafflecopter giveaway
This prize pack includes a signed arc of Susanna Kearsley’s April 2015 book, A Desperate Fortune, a personal library kit from KnockKnock, a copy of Julia Quinn’s, The Secrets of Sir Richaed Kenworthy, a 1000 piece puzzle of vintage Harlequin covers, a small hardcover notebook with a vintage cover from General Duty Nurse, a mini zen garden kit, and a digital copy of Pride, Prejudice and Popcorn by Carrie Sessarego.
I hope you’re enjoying the giveaway-asplosion as much as we are! Good luck!
The Three Musketeers. Humour, tragedy, adventure, love. Everything is there in one perfect book. I never get tired of it.
My go to author for comfort reads is Julie Garwood. The Bride or Ransom are personal faves.
Jane eyre! Surprisingly optimistic at the end…
I love to reread The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
My favourite pick-me-up book? That’s an impossible question! Pretty much anything by Robin McKinley, or Diana Wynne Jones, or Tamara Pierce, or Terry Pratchet (Good Omens especially) or Ilona Andrews. I also like to turn to Loretta Chase, Jennifer Crusie, Nalini Singh and Courtney Milan. So many grat books to chose from – I’m also looking forward to adding to the list from other people’s recommendations!
When I’m down and need a comfort read, I pick up The Vanguard by TA Chase, Snowflakes and Ember by SA Payne or Paksenarrion, the sheepherders daughter by Elizabeth Moon.
I’d go with Connie Willis’ Bellwether. It’s whacky and very screwball comedy in the corporate world that is strangely still mostly accurate after 10+ years. The fads and technology may change, but not so much how companies think and react. And actually has a romantic subplot so there.
Pride and Prejudice, or a contemporary romance filled with extra crazysauce
Pride & Prejudice
And sometimes Desert Solitaire.
Pride and Prejudice, though I second Christine on Anne of the Island. 🙂 Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Sherry Thomas (historical romances in general!) also make for great comfort (re)reads.
Bet Me by Jennifer Cruise is my go to feel good romance read.
Oh, that is terribly difficult. P&P, certainly, and the fluffy comfort of the Bridgertons.
There’s always P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories…
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is my #1 go-to book
Welcome to Temptation by Crusie 🙂
Harry Potter. Once you go through the whole series. It’s just so well-written.
Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie has never steered me wrong; I may or may not have been responsible for all the damage on the library copy simply from reading it so many times.
I reread Diane Wynne Jones and Jennifer Crusie when I need to be cheered up.
I love Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsinger. An old time fave that makes me happy just thinking about it.
I cycle through a lot of my favorite reads, but top of the list is Hidden Talents by Jayne Ann Castle.
I’m not sure I have a “happy” read. I have “comfort” reads, but that’s probably not the same thing. (Now I’m worried that I’m not happy enough.)
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe. It’s one of the few (possibly only) book that A) made me laugh out loud and B) still makes me laugh out loud when rereading. Even though I’ve already read it multiple times.
Looking over at my shelf, I don’t know that I have one clear “happy” book. A few that I am always happy to return to are The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop, and Greenwood by Sue Wilson. None of these are particularly happy books, but they are books where happy endings come out of intense struggles.
You know I have a whole shelf devoted to books that make me emote in someway, whether it is uproariously funny, brought me to tears, or made me extremely feel some other emotion. The one book that popped into mind for making me emote with On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn. When I first read it, I liked it well enough and it made me quite happy (mostly because I was harboring a crush for my friend at the time). Julia Quinn books in general make me quite happy.
Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold works for me.
The book to cheer me up changes with the wind ~ sometimes it’s a Thea Harrison book, sometimes J.D. Robb, sometimes an old Star Trek novel!
My go-to read is Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith.
My go-to read is Daughter of the Forest. Never fails. Also any of the early Night Huntress audiobooks. Tavia Gilbert makes me laugh.
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley or An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase. There’s just something about Rupert and Daphne.
Nearly anything by Jennifer Crusie, Tessa Dare or Jill Shalvis. Probably in that order.
Oh, also, comics, especially Frazz, Sheldon by Dave Kellett, Unshelved, Calvin & Hobbies, or 9 Chickweed Lane.
And old school Julie Garwood historical is always good for a smile.
Immortal Highlander by KMM. I love me some highlanders and supernatural.
Pride and Prejudice, every time.
Happy Books: To Say Nothing of the Dog. Persuasion. Alphabet of Thorn.
Pride and Prejudice, Sherry Thomas’ His at Night or several of Sarah Morgan’s are my go to books these days
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie always cheers me up
Captives of the night by Loretta Chase
All books make me happy. 🙂
I love Beauty by Robin McKinley. Fabulous book that always makes me sigh.