Our pantry of HaBO requests is looking a little bare and we’d love to encourage the Bitchery to send more our way.
To submit a HaBO, simply fill out this form and check the “I’m looking for a book! (HaBO)” option!
When your HaBO is scheduled, you’ll receive an email from me letting you know, so be sure you use a working email address in your request.
And thanks, as always, to this community for helping reunite so many readers with their books!
Personally, I’d love to see some of the unsolved HABOs get a second airing. It might also provide an opportunity for the initial submitters to weigh in, possibly with additional information. I think there might be occasions where the correct books were identified, but the submitters didn’t see the posts or just didn’t respond to confirm. Or maybe they identified the book in question from another source. Well, you get the idea.
I just need closure on some of these burning questions! Please don’t tell me I’m the only one.
@Susan: That is something we could do, though I will warn the odds of the original posters coming back after months/years to their requests are quite slim. I believe we reran Cold Case HaBOs previously. Verification of the right book would most likely have some margin of error and would rely on majority consensus.
Oh, now that you mention it, Amanda, I remember the Cold Case HABOs. I’d forgotten it had already been tried. Guess I need to resign myself to living with unsolved mysteries. 🙂
I submitted a HABO that went unsolved and it still haunts me to this day ;-)but a sample size of one is not helpful.
@Jill Q – I still think of my unsolved HaBo too!
@Jill Q and @cleo
Maybe unsolved HABOs could be repeated only if the original requester resubmits it. That would ensure the original poster is still active and interested, and will follow the new posting. I do look at the cold cases off and on (with no success sadly) but new eyes. . .
Which requests were yours?
Even if the original posters don’t return, it might be fun for those of us who have been reading for years to see if new minds could figure out the unsolved ones? I know if someone could find one of the unsolved books from HABO that I”m sure I’ve read, but for the life of me could not remember the title-that would be great! Even though I wasn’t the original poster I would feel confident saying if it was the correct book. Just a thought!
@Andrea2
Mine was a cheesy mail order bride historical romance I read about 20 years ago. I feel like the writer was Norah Hess or Leigh Greenwood, but none of their books look quite right. Here is a link to the original HABO if you’re curious.
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2017/05/habo-mail-order-alaskan-gold-rush-brides/
I really want to solve a HABO one of these days. It’s really easy to remember the plot of a book but forget the title!
@Jill Q
I’ve been searching for your book and only came up with one that you previously rejected in your original HABO post: “I do, I do, I do” by Maggie Osborne, which Veronica suggested in 2017.
I’ll keep looking, it’s now a challenge and the search was the cause of my most recent ‘bad decision’ episode.
@andrea2 – mine’s from 2012 (!)
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2012/01/habo-thon-a-memorable-book-for-many-reasons/
@cleo
Yours is one crazy HaBO, I have absolutely no idea of where to start the search, since it is not romance. At the time you read the book I was into category romances and I absolutely know I won’t find it in that genre!
But I’ll do some thinking and digging around and let you know if I have any luck.
@Andrea2, bless for you trying! I’ve fallen down the google rabbit hole a few times looking for it.
The only things I can remember that may not be listed in the original HABO.
I think it was a Dorchester book. (It had a very 90s Lovsespell/Leisure look. If you remember, you remember ;-)) Lots of bright yellow fonts.
I think the hero may have been part Native American and I suspect the portrayal of that is just about as cringy as you can imagine.
But neither of those things I could swear to being 100% sure on.