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Holiday Hell Day 11 Winner

Tomorrow when I make this post, I’ll be posting the Kindle winners as well. Can you stand it? I can’t! I’m so excited for two of you to win Kindles. I wish I could be like Oprah and give one to all of you!

I was kind of sorry we had to end this contest, because I found the answers so interesting. Reading through yesterday’s comments about your re-reads, I was struck by how many of them are older books and how a few of the same seemed to pop up. Also, I was surprised to find some of you don’t re-read at all. I can’t imagine! There are some days where I get a particular scene or piece of dialogue from a book, or even an emotion, stuck in my head and I just have to re-read the book then and there. Reading through your comments made me have the mad urge to pick up some of those books you mentioned and re-read them.

For me, I do re-read. Not as much as I used to, but I love to re-read because I think it gives me a chance to really sink into the nuances and depths of a book. It’s why I do several editing passes, because I see things I didn’t see the first time.

Some of my comfort re-reads are the same as yours: Pretty much all of Julie Garwood’s historicals, especially The Secret, Saving Grace, Honor’s Splendour and The Bride. Naked in Death by JD Robb (as long time readers of my blog already know) and probably the first 5 books in that series. The Belgariad by David Eddings (as someone in the comments said, showing my fantasy roots), Warrior’s Woman
by Johanna Lindsey, and Tell Me No Lies (STP – Mira)
by Elizabeth Lowell.

One series that I have HAD to reread, probably three or four times, just to keep up with it, is The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It’s so dense and there are so many plot lines, there’s just no way I could remember everything.

But enough about me. You guys want to know who won. The winner of the Day 11 prize pack was Megan who said:

I tend to turn to Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House books.

It’s been a lot of years since I read those books, Megan! Congratulations on your win. Please contact me using the contact form to give me your full name and mailing address so I can get your prize shipped out next week. If I don’t hear from you by the 15th, I’ll draw a new winner. Congratulations, Megan!

Thanks, everyone and good luck in the drawings tomorrow.

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20 Responses to “Holiday Hell Day 11 Winner”

  1. Nicole December 12, 2008 at 8:15 pm #

    Congrats, Megan.

  2. Karin December 12, 2008 at 8:16 pm #

    Congratulations, Megan!

  3. Dana Marie Bell December 12, 2008 at 9:16 pm #

    Congrats, Megan!

  4. Tabitha C December 12, 2008 at 11:45 pm #

    Congrats, Megan!

    I can’t believe only more day til the end of this holiday contest which seemed to move so quickly…yet while I’m at work, it crawled. Does that make sense?

  5. azteclady December 12, 2008 at 11:49 pm #

    Congrats, Megan!

  6. Lori T December 13, 2008 at 12:37 am #

    Congrats Megan!!

  7. Megan December 13, 2008 at 1:00 am #

    Oh, wow! Thank you!

  8. Kim S. December 13, 2008 at 2:47 am #

    Congrats Megan!!

  9. Tina b December 13, 2008 at 9:45 am #

    congratesss to all winners!!

  10. Crystal Dee December 13, 2008 at 11:22 am #

    Congratulations to Megan and all the other winners thus far!

    Good luck to all of us who entered the Kindle contests.

    Thanks to Angie and her authors for making this all possible. Y’all are the greatest!!!

  11. Julie Robinson December 13, 2008 at 11:27 am #

    Congratulations, Megan!
    Julie R.

  12. ann marie December 13, 2008 at 11:59 am #

    Congrats to all the winners and good luck kindle players. Have a great day everyone.

  13. Dianna Fryer December 13, 2008 at 2:07 pm #

    Congrats to all the winners. I guess I will have to wait til after I get home from work to see who won the Kindle’s (I hope and pray I win one please Oh please oh please.) Have a great day.
    Dianna

  14. Aliviah Sauers December 13, 2008 at 2:28 pm #

    Congrats Megan!

  15. Dana Frye December 13, 2008 at 3:02 pm #

    Congratulations Megan!!

    And….. As far as the Kindle Contest and announcements…..

    Is it time yet? Huh?

    How about now?

    LOL

    Dana

  16. Jennifer Mock December 13, 2008 at 4:46 pm #

    Oh, the suspense is killing me!!!!!! Fingers crossed all day!! I want that Kindle so bad I can taste it!!! Good luck everyone (but I hope the winner is ME!!)

  17. Vivian Deliz December 13, 2008 at 5:25 pm #

    cool… I really want to win this one….

  18. Dina December 13, 2008 at 5:34 pm #

    Tick, tock, like watching the pot boil, I can’t stand the waiting……….

    Jennifer, like you, keeping my fingers crossed also, so I hope you win one and I win the other one, lol

    Good luck to all!!

  19. rebyj December 13, 2008 at 6:05 pm #

    I’ve only clicked to see if winners were posted 3 or 4 times an hour since 9am! LOL

  20. Dina December 13, 2008 at 7:31 pm #

    Just imagine the winners surprise when they see their names posted!!!

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