Only one more day after this! Can you believe it?
Every day from now to December 12th, I’ll be posting a new contest on my blog to win that day’s prize. Your entry is only good for that day. To win the prize for any other day, you’ll need to come back and enter again.
The grand prize at the end of the 12 days of Holiday Hell Contest is two Kindles, to be awarded to two lucky winners who have entered the Kindle drawings (which are seperate from the daily drawings. Entry into the daily drawings does not enter you into the Kindle drawings).
The fine print: You can win one of the daily Holiday Hell prizes and still be eligible to win the Kindle. You must complete the entry form for each daily contest entirely, double checking that your name and mailing address are correct because this is what I’ll use to mail your prize. If your prize comes back to me due to an incorrect mailing address, you forfeit your prize. Prize winners will be drawn before the end of each day following the contest (ie Day 1’s prize winner will be drawn before the end of Day 2) and will be announced on my blog. Kindle winners will be drawn and announced here on December 13th. All prizes will be mailed by December 20th.
Only one entry into each drawing per household/IP address. Duplicate entries will be deleted and entrants will be disqualified.
International entries are welcome and I will mail overseas, but will not guarantee receipt by Christmas as it will go by dolphin due to the obscene cost of shipping overseas.
I reserve the right to modify the rules at any time.
The Day 11 prize pack is:
Samhain Coffee Travel Mug
Apron
The Write Ingredients Cookbook
Retro Lucy Lu’s Mighty Little Peppermints box
Lords of Ch’i by Ciar Cullen
Signed Sexy Devil by Sasha White
Signed Stranded by Eve Vaughn
Signed Awaken to Danger by Catherine Mann
Signed Worth Every Risk by Dianna Love Snell
My Lady Faire by Emily Hendrickson
Taken: the Spaniard’s Virgin by Lucy Monroe
I can’t stress enough how important it is to read the rules and give exactly the information I ask for, as I will disqualify your entry if it’s not correctly–and completely–filled out and I would guess maybe a fifth of them come in incomplete.
We’re going to use the comments again today. In the comments, tell me what your favorite re-read/comfort read book is. Easy!
Since we’re using the comments and not the form, don’t forget to come back and check if you’ve won so you can send me your address.
Good Luck!
My favorite “comfort read” would probably be the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. (Yes, I’m screwed up. I know this.)
Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander”. *sigh*
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.
The early Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. They are the ultimate laugh out loud novels for me!
I love Colters’ Woman by Maya Banks and I will go back and reread any Hannah Howell book.
Guarantee laughs with her. 
My favorite re-reads (yes, there’s more than 1) are the Mercy books by Patricia Briggs, and the Cast (Kaylin) books by Michelle Sagara. If I’ve gone thru all of these, and still need a re-read, I’ll pick up The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
Comfort reads depend on my mood. When I’m melancholy I pick up Night by Elie Wiesel. Snap me right out of it, because nothing I experience can be that bad. If I’m sad, it’s Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Makes me laugh, makes me cry – Every. Time.
Depending on why I need a comfort read, I have three.
Summer Sunrise by Lee Damon
Wizard of Seattle by Kay Hooper
OR
Timeshadow Rider by Ann Maxwell
In a pinch the Fire Dancer series by Maxwell works too.
As for re-reads, I re-read everything, and since i have 6 bookcases overfull trust me you don’t want a list.
My comfort read is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I fell in love with it as a teenager and over twenty years later it still gets to me. I’m actually going to have to buy a new copy soon … my pages are falling out
My comfort reads are I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Any book of Laura Lee Guhrke, The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen & Twilight by Stephenie Meyer!
There’s so many books out there-who has time to re-read them? I did read Kathleen Woodiwiss- Shana book a couple of times when it first came out but decided there were too many out there that I had not read.
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
anything by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Any of the Shadowsforge series by Jena’ Galifany. They are fun books to read.
My favorite reread would have to be anything that Christine Feehan has written. I have reread all of her books quite a few times already. I absolutely love them/can’t get enough of them. I can’t choose a favorite out of there though.
Happy Holidays!
Anything by Morgan Hawke. She has soo many layers to her stories.
At the moment I am re-reading Lora Leigh’s Breed books for comfort.
Gees, easy by big toe! Since it is the season, I’ll say Miracle on 34th St., I just love that story and I am a sap and proud of it! ;-*
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I have many confort reads that I reread dépending on my mood and my needs at the moment. Some of them are the Regency Christmas anthologies with Mary Balogh stories, The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, the Real Deal by Lucy Monroe, and many others including several by Candice Hern, Liz Carlyle, Kathryn Shay, Adele Ashworth, Agatha Christie, etc.
Mine is Murder for her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner. Its a children’s book that I have read every year since I was in the fifth grade.
My bookshelf is full of different comfort reads. But my favorite is any Lavyrle Spencer book. I just pick the closest one to me and read again and again. I also enjoy Nora Roberts and when Im feeling frisky I enjoy Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I read just about anything but prefer a good Love tale. A book I am rereading now is Dangerous Grounds by Shelli Stevens. Thank you1
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EASY this is not easy I guess it depends on my mood Love Only Once by Johanna Lindsey because it is the first romance book I ever read Naked in Death by JD Robb for romantic suspence and for love a first sight but we dont give in easy SMOKIN’ — Carolina in the Storming
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I love to re read any of Janet Evanovih’s plum books, also I just reread Anna Marie Mckenna’s Blackmailed. I just love that book.
My Favorite comfort read is Kiss an Angel buy Susan Elizabeth Phillips or any of Suzanne Brockmann Books!
I love all of Janet Evanovich’s books as well as James Patterson’s series about Alex Cross.
My favorite reread/comfort book is For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn. It keeps me in touch with why my husband does some of the things he does and reminds me that I am not alone because other women are experiencing the same things.
Right now, I have to admit that the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer are my comfort books of choice. The characters are just so real and I find the love story really touching.
My comfort read is Poison Study by Maria V Snyder. Such a great and quick read!
Tempt me tonight by Toni Blake or Voyeur by Lacey Alexander
Margaret Mahy Changeover: A supernatural romance or Maya Banks Colters’ Woman
My favorite re-reads or comfort reads are anything by Julie Garwood, Julia Quinn, or Linda Lael Miller.
McKenzie’s Mountain by Linda Howard or Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh. Both have such strong male characters and their women are equals. I do have others I re-read, but today these would be the two I turn to most often.
(Mercury’s War is also up there.)
A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
Ooooh, an easy one, though I’m not the first to mention it:
Any of the Harry Potter books!
When I was younger, it was the Little House series.
My favorite comfort reads are the first three books in Sarah McCarty’s, Promises series.
Promises Prevail
Promises Keep
Promises Linger
Love reading them all back to back.
Marley & Me by John Grogan
My comfort read is Deceive Not My Heart by Shirlee Busbee.
I don’t have a comfort book, but I do have several authors that I read and re-read. One in particular is JA Konrath. His female detective, Jack Daniels, is more real than many others I have read.
For a re-read, there are few books that I’d consider (too many books, too little time) and fewer still that I have re-read: the Bible and the Lord of the Rings are two of the few that are in that category. But, for a “comfort” read of a new book by a favorite author, I’d include anything by Laurell Hamilton (if only there were any I had not read), Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, or S.M. Stirling
Enchanting Pleasures by Eloisa James
Runners up: Breakfast at Bethany’s, The Longest Night–both by Kathleen O’Reilly; England’s Perfect Hero by Suzanne Enoch; Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
My favorite re-read is Persuasion by Jane Austen.
My new and recent comfort book to read is Nights In Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. I know that there is that special love for me somewhere out there even under the strangest circumstances.
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I have two by the Judith McNaught: Whitney, My Love and Something Wonderful.
I love to read The Phantom of the Opera, I loved the movie version, but still enjoy the book.
Mine is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. It makes me laugh and, for biting satire, has a really hopeful underlying message.
I love re-reading Lucy Monroe’s Ready, Willing, and …And Able series. I love the emotion in the stories.
Maya Banks Colter’s Woman
Favorite comfort read is Gone with the Wind. I can open it anywhere and read to the end.
I love to re-read The Princess Bride. It was one of the 1st books I remember falling in love with and re-read it every year. The other book on my re-read list is Pride and Prejudice.
My favorite re-read/comfort read book is Erin McCarthy’s Heiress for Hire.