Winners! – Kav's Best Reads

March Giveaway – Week One

won by Lucy

won by perrianne

won by Elly

won by Trixi

Winners will be contacted if they left their email address, otherwise it’s up to the winner to contact me at kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca (please note it’s ca as in Canada, not com.) From time to time a winner and I do not connect so I have a one month time frame on giveaway wins. If I haven’t been able to reach you within 30 days of your win, it will be forfeited. This has happened a few times now, so please, DON’T BE SHY — CONTACT ME IF YOU DIDN’T LEAVE AN EMAIL OR IF I HAVEN’T BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN REACHING YOU!

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Sunday

Conversations with Kav – a place for us to chat about bookish topics if anyone is so inclined. Sometimes there will be giveaways, sometimes there won’t. It will just depend on the topic of the day. Hope to see you there! Otherwise my inner book nerd and I will carry on by ourselves. Bwahaha!

Conversations With Kav – Olympics Readathon Results

What a thrilling month full of Olympic excellence both on the track/rink/slopes and in the pages of all the books we read. And, as I mentioned before, I got a real kick out of seeing what all of you were reading. Even discovered some new-to-me authors to check out so thank you all for participating and sharing the book love.

And fun fact: a lot of us were reading the same books or authors! Jody Hedlund, Pepper Basham and Laura Frantz were quite popular. It looks like Historical is the favourite genre, no surprise there. 🙂 I’ve made an attempt at tracking all the books but I may have missed a few, so my apologies if I missed one of your Olympic Reads.

The Nerdy Stats

I know, I know, this is all really fascinating but what you really want to know is who the winners are, right? Well, here they are:

Olympian Readathon Champions!

Gold Medal Winner

won by Tammy O. (Cdn)

Congratulations, ladies and thank you to everyone who participated in the Readathon! May all our futures be full of Best Reads!

February Giveaway – Week Three

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February Giveaway – Week Three

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

It’s sunny and warm(ish) and I’m celebrating finally feeling better by going for a walk this afternoon. Woohoo! And I actually made it to the post office yesterday to mail the five (!) books I still owed. So sorry for the delay in getting them out. Everyone should get their books in about a week or so…except for the one headed for Australia – that will be 2-3 weeks. The US has changed the declaration forms…again…making things a bit more complicated but, hopefully all the books will make it to their destinations without incident! Fingers crossed!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS WEEK’S WINNERS!

won by Sabrina

won by Diane Estrella

won by Diane Flowers

won by Tracey

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February Giveaway – Week Two

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January Giveaway – Week Five

First, a bit of housekeeping

Alas, I fell victim to a noxious virus and have been languishing all week. Seriously, 8 days and nary a step out of my house and I don’t even miss the walks or the fresh air (helps that it’s been super cold and snowy all week.) Anyway, I’m afraid because of that, I let most of the wins from last week slide and I haven’t made it to the post office either and I’m not sure if I’ll get there this week. All I’ve been good for is listening to audio books and bingewatching Midsummer Murder episode. 🙂 By my calculations, I still owe:

Paula – your copy of The Golden Braid, the week I got your address it was bitterly cold and then I got sick so no trekking to the post office for me.

Angie, Rebecca and Caryl – you won the gently read books , A Beautiful Love (Angie) Snow on the Tulips (Rebecca) and One Nine (Caryl) – I never sent notifications. Would you mind emailing me your mailing addresses and I’ll get the books packaged up to mail once I’m feeling up to the walk to the post office?

And Marian Baay, you won Love in the Castle Library – your choice of paperback (if in US) or ebook — could you send me your contact info as well? This one I can at least order right away.

My contact info is: kavluvstoread AT yahoo DOT ca

Thanks so much!!!!

Italy books

If you are looking for book with an Italian setting for the Bingo Olympics Readathon, Diane Flowers discovered a nifty one: Runaway Tide by Julie Carobini – a contemporary romance. And I thought of the Waterfall series by Lisa Bergen – a time travel series set in Italy.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled Winner Annoucements!

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Sunday

Monday

Hello February! Time to take a look at the Christian Fiction releasing in February 2026!

January Giveaway – Week Four

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January Giveaway – Week Three

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January Giveaway – Week Two

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Reader’s Choice Week Winter 2026 Winners

Thanks for joining me for another week full of anticipatory bookish delights! Looks like we’re off to a great reading year! My TBR wishlist is looking quite healthy and I’m already debating over what to buy first. Decisions, decisions!

First, allow me to indulge my inner stats nerd (who knew she was lurking inside of me for all these years?!) I tallied all the books mentioned on the 3 specific genre days and came up with the popular pick for each one and here they are:

historical popular pick

won by Elly Cox

contemporary popular pick

won by Jackie

Mystery/Suspense popular pick

won by Kim Hansen

AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE READER’S CHOICE WEEK WINNERS!

HISTORICAL FICTION

WON BY CONNIE SAUNDERS

But wait, it’s not over yet. The Vanity category has become a blog tradition. It’s where a book is actually judged by its cover and I choose my favourite cover art per genre and then draw from a pool of readers who requested that title. Here are COVER LOVE winners!

historical cover love

won by rkkoppen

I’m drawn to the softness that comes through on this cover. Everything from her blouse to the chateau? castle? in the background. And I love the contrasts between the figures in the foreground and the lush garden/house in the background.

contemporary cover love

won by Mark Buzard

Maybe it’s the season, but I love all that snow and the couple embracing front and centre (though they aren’t adequately dressed for an Alaskan winter!) This cover promises pure romance and I love it!

Mystery/Suspense Cover Love

won by Parkand Mom (Tammy)

This cover has all the feels. Eerie, moody, chilling. Leaves my imagination running overtime with all kinds of questions. And I love that background colour!

WAIT! Don’t go away ’cause we’re not through yet. We have another Reader’s Choice tradition of picking a random number which becomes a ‘just because giveaway’ on the genre specific days. If that doesn’t make sense, all you need to know is that it means more book giveaways. Woohoo! This time the number is 54.

54th mystery suspense

won by Tammy hudson

And that’s another wrap on a glorious Reader’s Choice Week. Thanks for participating and growing my wishlist! 🙂

Looking ahead to next week:

This week wore me out and I need to give my eyes (and brain) and rest, so I’m skipping Conversations with Kav this week but we’ll be back to chatting all things bookish next Sunday!

monday