Good morning and Merry Christmas to everyone who is celebrating!
Time for the second night of our annual eight straight days of giveaways to celebrate Hanukkah!
Today, we’re celebrating Carrie’s love of science fiction, kickass heroines, fantasy, history, subversiveness, and comics!
Some of the items in this giveaway are so awesome, I was seriously tempted to switch them out with something else, but NO.
These are for y’all and… yeah, have a look:
The LoungeFly Black Widow Mini Dome Satchel, which I mentioned in a recent gift guide and recommended by Jennifer Estep.
A Hardcover copy of Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
A selection of three matchbook-style notebooks featuring the original covers of Flowers from the Storm, The Flame and the Flower, and The Kadin, produced to celebrate Avon’s 75th Anniversary.
A spiral bound vintage Harlequin cover notebook, featuring Nine to Five. You can keep all your own not-too-private secrets in there!
Ready to enter! Leave a comment telling us what romance is absolutely on your keeper shelf for ever and ever. Is it an older title you’ve moved several times from home to home? Is it a new book that blew your mind? What’s on your keeper shelf?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to kick ass and take names. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Fierceness is not only advisable, it’s highly recommended. Please recycle any opened cans of whoop ass at the nearest recycling facility. Interested parties should dance on any table they like at any time. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Monday 26 December 2016 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
ETA: Congratulations! We have a winner, thanks to the power of random integers: comment #11 from Elvish!
Thank you to everyone who entered, and come back until the last day of Hanukkah – we’re having mayhem-levels of fun every night until then!
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas!
Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
My Elsie Lee paperbacks (published in mid-60s to early 70s). She was ahead of her times with feisty, smart heroines. I’ve lost a few through some moves but would love to see them available in ebook form.
I could take the easy way and say “Lord of Scoundrels”, but I would say “Faith & Fidelity” by Tere Michaels. It has moved with me four times since 2009 (one of those moves halfway across the country). I love Matt and Evan to bits.
Something Wonderful, Judith McNaught. So much that I also I also bought the digital copy. Just. IN. Case.
Devil in Winter. Hooked me on romance
I have so many! Elizabeth Peters’ Crocodile on the Sandbank, some M.M. Kayes, Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation and Agnes and the Hitman, Rainbow Rowell’s Attachments and Carry On, and Stephanie Perkins and some Julia Quinn on Kindle.
The Duke’s Wager by Edith Layton. I love it when a rake is reformed by true love!
I Love A Lass by Elizabeth Cadell
Persuasion by Jane Austen. I love all of them (except Mansfield Park), but Persuasion has a very special place in my heart.
Elizabeth’s Wolf by Lora Leigh, naked in death by jd robb and Archeron by Sherrilyn Kenyon all have permanant homes!
The Bride by Julie Garwood is a long-time resident of my keeper shelf.
Julie Garwood’s, Ransom. Loved The Secret, but will read Ransom more often.
So many to choose from. Since I’m thinking of my aunt who passed away earlier this year, I’ll go with the one she gave me from her shelf, Spring Fires by Cynthia Wright. I still have the original and all her her books as ebooks. They definitely get reread!
Everything by Kristan Higgins and Deanna Raybourn! I am so happy to have discovered these two authors on this site.
Long term love is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I have loved that book since high school and it is well worn with that love 🙂
Just one book? Really?
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley grabbed hold of me and never has let go.
I recently found Celeste Bradley and her Liar’s Club series. The Pretender had me laughing, Agatha is one of the best heroines ever.
Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series is also a favorite.
Desire, by Amanda Quick.
Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders
Silver Lining by Maggie Osbourne. It’s about a relationship between two people that aren’t perfect in any way but they figure out each others faults and fall in love with all the pieces.
Sarah Maclean, esp Nine Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake
Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn!
Older – Bet Me and Agnes and the Hitman, from Jennifer Crusie, and Natural Born Charmer
Newer – The Shattered Court, by M. J. Scott
There’s loads others, but those were the first to pop into my brain. Happiest of holidays, everyone!
Bet Me by Jennifer Cruisie
It all started with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice but since then some of my perpetual reads are:
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
The Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase
Radiance by Grace Draven
What I Did for a Duke – JulieAnne Long
Hot Head by Damon Suede
And so many more. Obviously I never win anything since I can’t follow directions… 😉
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza and Happy Holidays to the Bitchery 😀
Bet Me, Devil in Winter and the Cynster’s series. Also, Meg Cabot’s Heather Wells series. The first chapter of Big Boned is one I return to over and over when having a bad day because of her description of jogging by a non-jogger. Laugh out loud every time.
Devil in Winter or Once and Always or both, yes definitely both.
Flowers from the Storm, actually! And now I MUST find a copy of the book in original artwork – GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh. It gets read over and over and over again.
Happy Hanukkah!
Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley. I bought it. Loaned and lost it. Bought it again. They bought the ebook.
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh.
Happy Hannukah!
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. Wasn’t sure if the Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery counts as a romance, but I even keep my fallen apart copy. I have another for re-reading.
The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase and The Suffragette Scandal by Loretta Chase. Don’t make me choose between them!
“The Cliffs of Night”, by Beatrice Brandon. Irish archaeology, treasure, harpies and the Cliffs of Moher. And “Welcome to Temptation” – that unforgettable line, “let me give you an orgasm you don’t have to work for”. And Linda Howard’s ”
Son of the Morning”. And all my Harlequin Essie Summers books.
Sorry I posted twice! Phone timed out.
Just One of Those Flings by Candice Hern
Outlander, definitely!
The Secret and Random by Julie Garwood.
Romancing Mr. Bridgestone by Julia Quinn
Rembrance by Jude Deveraux is easily my keep forever favorite.