So I know I just posted a new contest yesterday. but Christmas is a month away and I want to share the spirit of gift giving by giving away a box of books! Plus, it's a nice way to clean out my books before (hopefully) I get a lot of new ones! :)
Here's what the Christmas Box will include:
1. Nobody's Princess by Ester Friesner
2. Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
3. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
4. How to Say Goodbye in Robot (ARC) by Natalie Standiford
5. Give Up the Ghost (ARC) by Megan Crewe
6. Scribbler of Dreams by Mary E. Pearson
7. Owl in Love by Patricia Kindl
8. Night Runner (ARC) by Max Turner
9. Secrets of Truth and Beauty (ARC) by Megan Frazer
10. The Sweetheart of Prosper County (ARC) by Jill S. Alexander
11. A Special Christmas ornament from me!
The great thing about this box is that even if you don't want to read or have read some of the books, you can re-give them as gifts! (I won't tell, hehe)
Here's how to enter:
1. leave a comment with your email address
2. tell me about a "christmas miracle" (or other holiday miracle) you have either experienced or heard about
3. + 2 for following me
4. + 5 for getting someone else to follow me (the person who then follows me will get another +1 but they have to tell me who referred them)
5. + 3 for posting on your sidebar
Contest ends December 10th (and I will send the box out December 11th)!
Sorry guys, but this one is going to be US only because it's such a big box!
Good Luck!
68 comments:
1. zenfoxflowerATyahooDOTcom
2. I have not experienced anything that I would classify as a miracle. But my sis-in-laws baby has been in the hospital for almost a month. I am hoping that she will get better and they can be home and healthy for Christmas.
3. + 2 for following me
5. + 3 for posting on your sidebar
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Elie (Ellz Readz)
What a great holiday giveaway! Thanks for the offer!
My oldest son was due in early January but I went into labor about 5 weeks early. It stopped after a day which made my doctor happy but it wasn't so easy for me. Labor kept starting and stopping for 10 days before he was finally born. He was tiny but healthy and we went home Christmas Eve. That was 21 years ago and he was my best Christmas miracle ever!
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www.wrightysreads.blogspot.com
5wrights1[at]verizon[dot]net
LOVE the colors of your blog! :)
1. Awesome giveaway!
Email: justyourtypicalbookblog(at)hotmail(dot)com
2. I don't have an actual Christmas Miracle, but since I live in Missouri, we always get snow. Every time my car doesn't get stuck in the driveway when I'm already running late for work, I shout out a "It's a Christmas Miracle!" ...does that count?
3. + 2 for following me
Thanks!
Amber
What a great giveaway.
I am going to be a 1st time grandmother somewhere between the Dec 15 & Dec 31.
+ 2 for following
Thanks for the chance.
sharon54220@gmail.com
1. ZombieGirrrl21@aol
2. I'm not sure this counts as a miracle, but one year we had two Christmasses! My dad was deployed, and he missed the "first" Christmas, so we all decided to open only one present each on the actual day, and stashed the rest of the presents away for a month. When he got home, we had our second Christmas. It was great, and we considered doing again the next year even though everyone was home, but our patience couldn't be replicated. Maybe it had been a miracle that we were able to wait that long! XD
3. + 2 old follower
4. + 5 I recruited Orchid!
5. + 3 Sidebar Link!
1. hauntingorchid(at)aol(dot)com
2. I don't have a Christmas miracle story. =\ Unless... Well, I guess being able to celebrate it with my family every year is miracle unto itself.
3. +2 I'm a new follower
4. +1 I was sent by Zombie Girrrl :)
Count me in please!
+2 old follower
Raelena
throuthehaze at gmail dot com
I honestly don't have a christmas miracle really... unless you count my little sister was born the day after christmas.
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:) Erica
thebookcellar@wi.rr.com
Oh, wow, what a great contest!
I heard about this from someone somewhere about this family who were really in debt and could not afford anything, much less a Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving. Miraculously they got a whole Thanksgiving dinner delivered to their house by some organization from an anonymous person or something. Pretty nice thing that happened.
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Anna ♥
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Shawna Lewis
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+1 Thanks for this chance to win these amazing books ;o)
+2 I already follow your blog and I get your e-mails and info from your Google reader
+3 I posted this on my sidebar http://booksequalmovies.blogspot.com/
+2 as far as a Christmas miracle well..I think each Christmas is in it's self a Miracle because Christ was born on this Special day what else would you call that if not a MIRACLE!!
+5 I refereed Blair ;o)
Happy Holidays to you and yours!!!
Blair
blairwlewis@gmail.com
+2 I am a new follower
+1 Shawna L. referred me to you.
I think just making it Alive to Christmas each is a Miracle. A bigger Miracle is having your Family make it with you to Christmas each year. Do I hear an Amen...
Good luck to everyone!! Blair
Woah, sweet contest! I love Christmas....and boxes, so you have the best of both worlds. Is your contest miley cyrus? (the song, *shutter* not her) :)
A Christmas Miracle? I dont have anything deep but my christmas miracle is my aunts deviled eggs! No seriously, I love those things, and my aunt only makes them once a year, at christmas, and i live for them. Try one and your taste buds will agree that they are indeed a miracle:)
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-Dani.
lightningstreak123(at)comcast(dot)net
Cool contest. Please include me.
1. bacchus76 at myself dot com
2. I dont have an actual story. But I believe getting to spend the day with family all together counts as close.
3. +2 follower
5. +3 sidebar here: http://donnasbloghome.blogspot.com/
Thanks!
1. mj.coward[at]gmail.com
2. 2 years ago today, my youngest son (then 18) shot himself in the foot while cleaning his shotgun. We were told they would amputate at the knee. The miracle was the surgeon being honest enough to say he couldn't save his foot/leg but he had "heard' of someone at Duke. Josh has his leg and foot and was home with us by that Christmas!! Best and worst Christmas ever!!
3. +2 follower
MJ
Awesome books, thanks! And, hm, I'm not sure what Christmas "miracle" I've had. When I was smaller, pretty much every Christmas was a miracle when I woke up and saw Santa's gifts under the tree! :)
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I think it's a Christmas miracle every year that my in-laws make it through the holiday without anyone getting hurt. LOL
(+2) I am now a follower and (+1) EllzReadz sent me!
srfbluemama at gmail dot com
After my mom died Christmas is not a big bright part of my year anymore, so I don't have any Christmas miracles, but I love books and that sure would brighten my Christmas to receive a box of great books!
New follower (referred by Ellz Readz)
I posted about this on my sidebar at http://writesthoughts.blogspot.com
Thanks,
Stormi
booklady2007[at]gmail[dot]com
please include me, cora_litgroup@yahoo.com
1. n_monzyk_27@yahoo.com
2. A few years ago my grandfather had a severe heart attack right before Christmas. Somehow, he recovered and was able to make it to the family celebration.
3. +2 for following!
5. +3 Sidebar Link
foltzsfantasticbooks at gmail.com
I don't know if I'd call it a Christmas miracle but it was a miracle. While having a PET scan for other reason it was found that I had a problem with my my heart. Finding it then was a really big deal!
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1. - HeidiVargas [at] live dot com
2. - My son has healed with no scars from an injury that was our Thanksgiving miracle.
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1. zedster.tbb(at)gmail(DOT)com
2. When I was 4 years old, the ONLY thing I had asked for for Christmas was snow. I prayed for it every day and wrote letters to santa and begged my mom and dad. It hadn't snowed in Central louisiana in over 80 years, apparently (not just on Christmas - it just hadn't snowed). That year that I wanted snow so badly, it snowed. Just a little. Just enough to make a mini snow man. I guess it's not really a miracle, but it seemed like it to me at the time.
3. + 2 follow you
4. referred by Elie from Ellz Reads
5. + 3 on my sidebar under The Contest List
http://brizmusblogsbooks.blogspot.com
I'd love to enter! How fun!
I am going to follow, and EllzReads sent me here! ;)
1. staysil7@yahoo.com
2. I haven't really experienced a Christmas miracle but the closest one to me was when my baby cousin was about to be born. The doctors said he would be born with Down Syndrome, and when he was born on Christmas Day he was perfectly healthy. That's a miracle.
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+ 3 Linked to sidebar
Thanks for the awesome contest!!! :)
-Staysi
justpeachy36@yahoo.com
I think every Christmas is a miracle. It should remind of home and family and what Christmas really means, the birth of Christ
I am also a follower.
+5 referred Aubrey
+5 referred Katy
+5 referred ladystorm
+5 referred Brizmus
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Elie (Ellz Readz)
1. Thanks for the contest and for being so generous.
findjessyhere at gmail dot com
2. I have never experienced or heard of a Christmas miracle. It would be a miracle though if my dad went to my grandfaters for Christmas.
3. +2-follower
this sounds fabulous thanks minsthins at optonline dot net
cool contest!
2. Christmas babies are Christmas miracles!
3. + 2 for following me
4. + 1 Ellz Readz referred me!
kaylajohnson3969@sbcglobal.net
Please count me in. Thanks for the chance.
lizzi0915 at aol dot com
The bset Christmas miracle is the peace and love I feel each year during the advent season.
1. shadygladeATmailDOTcom
2. My brother's birth was a Christmas miracle. My mom was really sick when she was pregnant and was in the hospital for about a week before Christmas. At five years old I thought my world would end if my Mom wasn't home for Christmas. I prayed so hard that year that my mommy would be able to come home for Christmas. And then by our Christmas miracle she was able to come home on Christmas Eve and stay home until about 2:00 on Christmas day. Then it was back to the hospital and 12 hours later I had a new baby brother. :)
+ 2 I am a follower!
+ 3 I posted on my sidebar: theshadyglade.blogspot.com
1.katieb206
2.Well the only Christmas miracle that happened in my family was last year. My grandpa was rushed to the hospital and they weren't sure he would make it. He was still with us until October of this year. It was a lot longer than any doctor ever would have guessed.
3. +2 follower
5. +3 post in sidebar
www.katiesbookblog-katie.blogspot.com
Katie B
I would LOVE to win this!!
Thankyou!! :D:D:D
+ 2 for following you
-Lindsay
lindsay15photo@gmail.com
I guess my christmas miracle would have to be the year I got my 3 kittens :)
+2 follower
squiggles87(at)aol(dot)com
1. emailthebookworm(at)yahoo(dot)com
2. Hmm... I've never experienced a Christmas miracle, but I do enjoy watching Christmas Movies about it. :)
3. I'm a new follower!
:D TheBookworm
This is fabby!
my email is cassanova6878@yahoo.com
as for a christmas miracle...we always sing happy birthday to Jesus and have a birthday cake. When we finished a few years ago, some of the candles went out by themselves. it was eerie...but really cool at the same time.
+2 I'm a follower
+3 on my sidebar
Cassie
I don't have a Christmas miracle to write about but my dad used to send out a story, every year with our Christmas cards. They always were about a Christmas miracle and the true meaning of Christmas. Everyone looked forward to those stories every year. I truly miss him and the stories.
mamie316(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
Please enter me!
I don't know of a specific holiday miracle, but it seems that the spirit of giving just overflows so much that indeed many people on the receiving end receive their own miracles each year.
krtrumpet [at] aol [dot] com
1. mdondero@sprynet.com
2. I can't think of any miracles... I had a friend who was born on Christmas, but I obviously didn't know here then. :)
3. + 2 for following me
5. + 3 for posting on your sidebar: http://meghansbookblog.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Thank you for the giveaway! I am not feeling creative today so I won't try for any extra entries!
gibbylet21(@)hotmail(dot)com
I haven't really heard/experienced christmas miracles. But I love it when I have a white christmas which I have like every year since I live in freezing cold Wisconsin.
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Megan
bookworm8675309@yahoo.com
Thank you for the giveaway. Rest assured that if I win the books will all find good homes. sharonaquilino at hotmail dot com
Nice giveaway!
1-djeanq(at)gmail(dot)com
2-One December I was very very low on money. I was literally praying for food. About a week before Christmas my sister who I don't see very often just showed up with about 10 bags of groceries and said Merry Christmas. I'll never forget it.
Thanks for the great giveaway. I haven't really experienced any miracles but am happy that my family is all healthy, happy and will be together over the holidays.
Thanks for such a generous, holiday giveaway!
There's all sorts of small miracles in my day to day life, but I think my kids are the best, the ones who have re-introduced the miracles of the season to me through fresh eyes.
+2 follower
Thanks!
JHolden955(at)gmail(dot)com
would be nice to have some winter reading thx for the contest..
thehighflyer3(at)hotmail(dot)com
1. COOL GIVEAWAY :)
cindyc725 at gmail dotcom
2. On Christmas Eve my car broke down in the middle of nowhere. Not only did I lose reception on my phone, the battery was on one bar. At that time I wasn't sure what to do, so I stayed in my car and cried. And on top of that it was freezing, but luckily a highway trooper was out and he literally saved me. Thank God! Christmas Miricle 07!
3. + 2 for following you
5. + 3 for posting on your sidebar
Great contest!
I live in the deep south, and back in 2004 on Christmas Eve it started snowing. We had a white Christmas, my first and probably last. There's even a kids book out about it. My daughter has a copy.
+2 I'm a follower
+3 posted on my sidebar
jjameli(at)cableone(dot)net
+2 New follower
+3 Linked here http://mardel-rabidreader.blogspot.com/2009/12/contest.html
Okay, my very first son was due November 19th. He didn't want to be born. I just got bigger and bigger, he stayed in my belly for longer and longer. Finally he decided to be born. I had him 12 days before Christmas.
Years later, during one of our poorest Christmases ever, (I had four kids by then) I heard a knock on my door. Buy the time I got to the front door there was no one there. But there was a huge basket with toys for each of my kids and even some luxurious bath lotions/soaps and a very, very soft blanket throw for the parents. I never did find out who left it for us, but it was so sweet.
wanda sissle at yahoo dot com
1. scarletamalia@yahoo.com
2. My Christmas miracle was being able to be a part of my late grandmother's last Christmas before she passed.
3. +2 follower
5. +3 sidebar
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1. Oh this is just a cool idea and giveaway! You are awesome my dear :D
lcintocable[a]gmail[d]com
2. It snowed her in Houston yesterday! It like NEVER snows here!! It has only two times before but hey, it's a miracle to me. Unfortunately it was that one day :( It was beautiful and it snowed more than it has ever snowed here before.
3. + 2 I've been following you
5. + 3 sidebar under giveaways
+2 Follower
A Christmas miracle? That's easy. On Christmas Eve of 1992, my mom went in to labor and my dad rushed her to the hospital. Early Christmas morning, I was born, a Christmas child :) Whenever my mom hears the song "Silent Night" which was playing in the car as they got to the hospital, she begins to cry at the words "mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild" because of Christmas being my birthday.
Thank you for this wonderful contest and for sharing the holiday cheer!
barbrafl737 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Would love to read any of these.
Thanks for the giveaway >^..^<
bloggyig at gmail dot com
1) womackcm@sbcglobal.net
2) I know that there are miracles each day, but it is especially hard for me to celebrate Christmas since my mom and best friend died on December 19, 2002. It has just never been the same ever since that day. My dad is very sick and wants to join her in heaven. The breast cancer may be coming back in my aunt - my mother's sister - and the bone marrow test is Tuesday. I am having surgery tomorrow and will be having another surgery within the next month. My daughter will not come to see me for any reason and so I cannot see my three year old grandson as I am not well enough to travel. I have had to take medical retirement because my body will not heal from the injury that I received at school as I have systemic lupus. But I know that there is a reason for all of this happening and that God knows what is best for me. Maybe that is the miracle of Christmas for me - that I have faith and know in my heart that whatever happens, it will be best for me.
thank you,
Christine
womackcm@sbcglobal.net
+2 I am a follower.
I know that I should have put this on my previous entry but got in a hurry and hit that Publish Your Comment key. I am sorry for messing up my enter but this is such a wonderful contest that I want to get every entry that is possible.
Thank you,
Christine
womackcm@sbcglobal.net
Hmm.. I don't personally know of any "christmas miracles." But I know that our local radio station does listener wishes every year by helping out those families in need. It is very heartwarming to hear those letters that people send in and then have the station give them money or gifts to help out.
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My Christmas miracle was the year before last when it actually snowed in the somewhat southern town I live in.
I follow.
~bella aire~
Thanks - what a great Christmas box. Truthfully most of those books I'd want to keep, but a few would be great stocking stuffers for family.
rae_sunshine4(at)yahoo.com
A Christmas miracle...my son finally started talking this week. We've been just waiting wondering if he was a bit slow, but turns out he just decided to talk when he 'felt like it'. :)
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+ 3 for posting on your sidebar - twoandahalfbooklovers.blogspot.com
Thanks so much!
I'd love to be entered!
+2 I'm a follower
Ladytink_534(at)yahoo(dot)com
1. Bookmac13@gmail.com
2. Miracle...hmmm... oh! My good friend Timmy, who had lukemia, was supposed to pass away on xmas last year, but, he actually lived for another whole year before his canccer killed him. :(
+3 for following
+5 for blog post http://book-mac13.blogspot.com/2009/12/contest-roundup.html
thanks!
1. Awesome contest!
jonesmallory96@yahoo.com
2. The wonderful Christmas miracle i've witnessed has to be when my baby cosin was born. My aunt had lost a LOT of blood and she fainted during the pregnancy and survived. Now isn't that something?
Mallory
1. Fantastic idea! dragonzgoil at gmail dot com
2. Okay, um not really a miracle, but I was born on the 20th of December and went home in a big stocking and I still have that stocking... um something better.. blarg! It'll be a miracle if our family band is in tune for our annual Christmas carol playing on Christmas Day. Yes, we play together.. flutes, trombones, piano, and much more.
3. + 2 for following me
1. whatinabox (at) gmail (dot) com
2. Christmas miracle...hmmm. I can't remember anything particularly exciting happening except that it has gotten icy several times, and every year, we drive past all the wrecks and injuries and somehow make it home unscathed. I've heard that some people have the Christmas miracle of snow, but it hasn't happened here in my lifetime. :-D
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4. +3 Sidebar: http://budgetinabox.blogspot.com/ (under "Book Giveaways")
I do not have a christmas miracle but I am happy that my family can spend Christmas together.
What a great contest
melissa(at)gingerhigh(dot)com
i am a new follower
When our cat Oreo showed up the day after Christmas after having been lost for over 2 weeks. It was great to have her home again. Thanks for the contest!
airalynn@gmail.com
I would love a chance to win this! Thanks for the offer
hmahan_0529 @ yahoo dot com
This is an awesome giveaway! Thank you!
My brother was born on Christmas, if that counts as a miracle.
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