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March Giveaway – Week Two

WON BY ALISHA L.

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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Please remember to check giveaway details (paperback, ebook, either/or, gently read etc.) each day as they will vary and check for the ‘+ giveaway’ notice added after the title . Titles without that addition are review only.

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!

March Giveaway – Week One

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February Giveaway – Week Four

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February Giveaway – Week Three

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February Giveaway – Week Two

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Side Note: I had fun searching for books with hearts on the cover or ‘love’ in the title in honour of Valentine’s Day. 🙂

February Giveaway – Week One

WON BY JACKIE

WON BY CARYL KANE

WON BY LUCY

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HELLO FEBRUARY!

January Giveaway – Week Four

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January Giveaway – Week Three

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Reader’s Choice Week Winter 2025 Winners

Thanks everyone for starting the New Year off right! There’s nothing better than sharing the anticipatory delight of New Releases with fellow readers. So many books, so little time, and that’s okay ’cause we’ll never get bored, right? And now it’s time for…

BOOK NERDY STATS (ha, I bet you thought I’d start listing the winners.) Before we get to all that fun stuff, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the popular picks of the week — as far as genre days went anyway. Here they are:

popular pick – historical

POPULAR PICK – CONTEMPORARY

POPULAR PICK – SUSPENSE

POPULAR PICK – AMISH

And now it’s time to move into the part of this post you will be most interested in (and I thank you for indulging in my bibliophile neediness!)

READER’S CHOICE WEEK – WINTER 2025 EDITION – WINNERS!

GOAL REVIEWS – WON BY ECLITTON

HISTORICAL – WON BY JOLENE

CONTEMPORARY – WON BY JACKIE

SUSPENSE – WON BY CONNIE S.

AMISH – WON BY SANDY AVERY

GENERAL – WON BY DIANE F.

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 KATHLEEN

I love all things Irish so this cover calls to me from the rolling hills to all the shades of green and, of course, the red hair (a bit cliche, but still.)

CONTEMPORARY COVER LOVE

WON BY SYLVIA MILLER

Eye-catching with all those pops of colour and I love the whimsical vibe. Very different from any other cover out there so it really stands out. Plus – light house! How can I resist?!

SUSPENSE COVER LOVE

WON BY CINDY DAVIS

I might have been drawn to this cover due to all the news coverage of the L.A. fires right now but I also appreciate that it’s the fire marshal heroine heading into danger. I think the cover captures the tension and desperation that is undoubtedly part of the story.

AMISH COVER LOVE

WON BY KAY GARRETT

Definitely attracted to the cozy mystery vibes depicted on this cover. And I love Fannie’s wide-eyed shock. The magnifying glass is a nice Sherlockonian touch. This just looks fun and makes me want to dive right into the story.

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 42.

That’s another RC wrap up. I’ll send winners an email stating their book win, publication date and requesting contact info so that I’ll have everything ready for release day. Then I’ll email you once again once the book has been ordered. Oh — and if you didn’t include your email in your comment it’s up to you to contact me.

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Please remember to check +Giveaway in the title and note the book editions available for each giveaway as they will vary.

December Giveaway – Week Three

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Tuesday December 24 – last Net Galley review of the year Irish Soda Bread Murder, novella collection – Review Only. ( the release date is actually December 24th!)

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ll be taking a wee break over Christmas and then we’ll welcome the New Year in with our first Reader’s Choice Week of 2025! We’ll be looking at Christian Fiction books releasing in Jan, Feb and Mar 2025. Woohoo! So the schedule will look like this:

Thursday January 2 – 2024 Goals in Review Giveaway – where we share our annual reading progress and the books that got away. (can include books published any time — don’t have to stick to new 2025 releases.)

Friday January 3 – Historical Romance / Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas set in any time period before 1980. May cross genres such as YA, Suspense, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Monday January 6 – – Contemporary Romance / Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas set in any time period after 1980. May cross genres such as YA, Suspense, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Tuesday, January 7 – Mystery/Suspense Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas where mystery is an important part of the plot. The hero or heroine (or both) are often in peril (more so in suspense.) Can be set in any time period and may cross genres such as YA, Amish etc and may include dual timelines.

Wednesday, January 8 – Amish Fiction – a full length story or novella or collection of novellas where the hero and/or heroine are Amish OR the setting is in an Amish community with secondary characters who are Amish. May cross genres such as Historical, Mystery etc and may include dual timelines.

Thursday January 9 – General Christian Fiction — a full length story or novella or collection of novellas. Any genre, including previous selections you made on other days this week as well as specific genres not covered yet such as Women’s Fiction, Speculative, SciFi etc.

Winners will be announced on Saturday January 11th 2025 .