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!
Flowers from the Storm by Kinsale. I just retread it in ebook format last month.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Newlywed Games by Mary Davis
Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer lives on my keeper shelf. And, yes, it has moved many times!
I am going to say, if I have purchased a book in every possible format? It is on my keeper shelf, with bonus points for squeeling when I found it in digital (whether ebook or audio). In no particular order:
McKenzie Family (less Chance’s story) by Linda Howard
Tinker by Wen Spencer
Once a Hero by Elizabeth Moon (someone please record this one)
Any book at all by Shelley Laurenston
Psycop series by Jordan Castillo Price
Sinners Gin series by Rhys Ford
Granby Knitting Series by Amy Lane
The sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold
Stars and Striped by Abigail Roux
Heart of Fire by Linda Howard
The Charley Daniels Series by the fabulously funny Darynda Jones! Charley and Reyes burning hot smoldering smexy times never fail to make me fan myself!
I love love love Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn. Like seriously. I love it.
All KEW books. I own them each on Kindle, hardbound and paperback.
The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand. So much sensuality and sweetness and a hero that actually goes to see a psychologist when he needs to.
Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas. Total comfort read.
Definitely Outlander. And goodness knows I’ve read all of the books in the Earth’s Children series (which have to count as romances!) MANY MANY TIMES so that’ll have to go on the keeper shelf as well. (Yes, the entire series.)
Outlander, to be sure. And the Earth’s Children (which are at heart really long romance novels) series probably qualifies as I’ve read all of it many many (many) times.
The Deed of Paksenarrion has been with me forever, but that’s a fantasy not a romance.
The stories about Ayla and Jondalar, especially Valley of Horses are only keeper shelf.
I am lucky enough to be able to have a keeper bookcase instead of a shelf. It’s filled with Woodiwiss, Garwood, Robb, Gabaldon, Crusie, Quinn … I would have a serious meltdown if I was forced to pick one.
Too many to list- mostly older books I first read years ago and aren’t yet available in digital format
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series. Yes, old school and technically fantasy, but where else do you find telepathic dragons who share the feels whenever they or their human partners mate?
For me, it’s my three oldest books — three of the first books I ever read. One wore blue, one wore gray, and One rode west. Now that I’m older, I recognize a lot of the flaws In them but it’s a sentimental thing.
Pride and Prejudice–I own three copies of it (hardcover, paperback, and paperback with a lot of underlining in it) as well as the leather-bound edition of all of Austen’s novels. So technically I own four copies. No! Five copies–I have the ebook version…hang on, should I also include audiobook versions???
All of Nalini Singh’s books
Simple Jess, by Pamela Morsi. First romance I’ve ever read where the hero is developmentally disabled.
The Outlander series is always on my shelf and on my Kindle.
I think I’m past the deadline, but joining the fray anyways!
Keepers:
Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale. Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley. Unraveled by Courtney Milan. Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase. And a bunch more!