January Giveaway -- Week One

 You all make anticipating future reads sooooo much fun! Love the bookish camaraderie, the bibliophile swoons of excitement and, especially, the mass of Christian Fiction that has my TBR book full to bursting! Oh...and the serenading...in case you missed it, Diana Flowers has created a Reader's Choice theme song so let's open this new year of reading in style. Sing with me now (to the tune of Jingle Bells)

Dashing through the snow,

In a one horse open sleigh,

To Kav's blog we go, 

Laughing all the way!

Books galore we'll see,

Making spirits bright, 

What fun it is to read about books,

Let's simply stay the night...

Ohh, bestreads blog, bestreads blog,

Bestreads all the way,

Oh what fun it is to visit,

Every single day...

Bestreads blog, bestreads blog,

Bestreads all the way,

Kav's a dear, bringing lots of cheer,

Merry Christmas and a bookish New Year!

My, that puts me in a reading mood and I'm just about to start...wait, mustn't get distracted. Winner announcements first, reading time second. And we'll start it all off with our quarterly nerdy statistics: the most popular picks per genre day:

MOST REQUESTED HISTORICAL FICTION

MOST REQUESTED CONTEMPORARY FICTION

MOST REQUESTED SUSPENSE/MYSTERY FICTION

(a tie)

AND

MOST REQUESTED AMISH FICTION

Now onto the good stuff:

Reader's Choice 

New Year's Edition Winners!

HISTORICAL WINNERS

WON BY CC

WON BY DIANA FLOWERS

CONTEMPORARY WINNERS

WON BY TRIXI

WON BY KAY GARRETT

SUSPENSE/MYSTERY WINNERS

WON BY JACKIE SMITH

WON BY KELLY BLACKWELL

AMISH WINNERS

WON BY LUCY REYNOLDS

WON BY BOOKS ARE A BLESSING

GENERAL CHRISTIAN FICTION WINNERS

WON BY TRACEY HAGWOOD

WON BY SYLVIA

LAST HURRAH FOR 2021 WINNERS

WON LORI SMANSKI

WON BY MELISSA OLDAKER

READING GOALS WINNERS

WON BY MARIAN BAAY

WON BY PERRIANNE

But wait, it's not over yet! This 'Vanity' category has become a blog tradition. It's where I choose my favourite cover in each genre and then draw from the names of the readers who entered them...a kind of draw within a draw. Here are the cover-love winners:

HISTORICAL COVER-LOVE WINNER

(I like the way this cover tells a story --

the heroine looking out towards the hero..

so far away -- is he out of her reach? And

the Downton Abbey flare to the estate behind him)

WON BY DIANE ESTRELLA

CONTEMPORARY COVER-LOVE WINNER

(Stunning!! My favourite cover out

of all the genres this time round. 

Love the hint of exotic locale behind her

and that dress!!! Definitely princess worthy.

Stirs up all my girlhood dreams of

happily ever afters.)

WON BY MELMO

SUSPENSE/MYSTERY COVER-LOVE WINNER

(Love the way the cover captures the heroine's

occupation and the way her profile is

set up in the clouds.)

WON BY ELIZABETH LITTON

AMISH COVER-LOVE WINNER

(There's not a lot of variety in

Amish book covers, is there? Usually

the heroine looking off into the

distance -- sometimes the same figure

super imposed over different

backgrounds for different books! But this

one is a little different, with the addition

of the quilt wrapped around her and the

fall backdrop. It sets a pensive mood

that makes me want to know her story.)

WON BY RUBYNREBA

WAIT! DON'T GO AWAY!!

We're still not through 'cause we have another Reader's Choice tradition of picking a random # of entries per day which becomes the 'just because bonus giveaway.' If I'm not making sense, all you need to know is that it means more book giveaways! Woohoo! This time to the 46th entry of each genre day.

HISTORICAL 46TH

WON BY TAMMIE EDINGTON SHAW

CONTEMPORARY 46TH

WON BY WINNIE

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE 46TH

WON BY PAM K.

Phew! That's another RC wrap up. I'll send winners an email stating their book win, publication date and request for mailing address (or email, if ebook is chosen) so that I have everything read for release day. Then I'll email you once again when the book has been ordered.

LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT WEEK'S GIVEAWAYS:

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY