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This year, the Book Bloggers Holiday Card Exchange is organised by me at Leeswammes’ Blog and by Courtney of Stiletto Storytime. Anastasia of Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog has passed the baton on to us. Anastasia is the originator and ran this very popular event for two years. Courtney and I were sorry to hear Anastasia wasn’t running it this year, so we’re very pleased she allowed us to take over. As we’re a little late announcing this event we’re more or less taking Anastasia’s text from last year, with her permission (thank you so much, Anastasia!).
The Book Bloggers Holiday Card Exchange is an event in which book bloggers send each other a holiday card around the Christmas period (the end of December). This isn’t just for people that celebrate Christmas, though! Everyone is can join in the fun.
Info
1. Sign up for the exchange by November 30, 2012.
2. Emails with partner info go out December 3, 2012 (please check your spam folder if you didn’t get the email, then contact us).
3. You have until December 13, 2012 to send your card(s).
4. Since it’s a book-lovers card exchange you have to include something book-related in your card. Some ideas:
- Write about a book you’ve read recently.
- Give a few book recommendations to your partner.
- Tell a book-related story.
- Something else book-related that you think up yourself.
5. Since this is a book blogger holiday card exchange, you need to be a blogger who blogs at least sometimes about books to participate.
6. The swap is open internationally. It’s too cumbersome trying to pair up people who do/do not want to send internationally, so everyone must be willing to send internationally.
7. You can exchange up to five cards. You won’t always get a card from the same people you send your cards to. It will nevertheless be an awesome thing.
Some Things to Remember
1. You HAVE to send a card. A card is something like this. You can make it yourself or buy it at the store. Everything you write must be contained in the card itself. Letters are not cards. The card doesn’t have to be book-themed OR holiday themed (but it might be nice if it was). We suggest you refrain from sending specifically religious-themed cards, because that sort of thing tends to offend people, even if you didn’t mean to offend them.
2. You HAVE to write something book-related in your card (see above). You can’t just say “happy holidays.” You COULD just write a list of books and that’s all, but I don’t think that’d be a lot of fun, do you?
3. You DON’T have to send anything else but the card, but if you want to stick in something else that’d be fine. A bookmark, for instance, would be really nice. Whatever you send: it has to be flat enough to fit in the envelope– no upgrading into package territory, here.
4. The most you should spend is $5. The point of the exchange is that it’s cheap enough for us money-less people to participate in, so everything should cost $5 and under. I don’t know if you can even buy a card that costs more than $5. Can you?
Oh, and the Twitter hashtag is #bkcardex.
Final book read while sitting on various planes — Dashing Through the Mall. Three holiday themed romances set in the same mall on Christmas Eve. Good fun, predictable, but fun. The book included “Santa, Baby” by Sherryl Woods, “Assignment, Humbug” by Darlene Gardener, and “Deck the Halls” by Holly Jacobs. My favorite, hands down, was “Santa, Baby.” The story might have been predictable, but the characters were real with personalities. The other two stories were good; they just didn’t have the extra little something that I wanted. The paperback ended up being 312 pages long, but I finished it in one leg of my journey back home. Good, fast read to keep the holiday cheer!
Holidays are Hell contained four short paranormal themed, holiday centered stories. I’ve not read anything by any of the authors included, so it was a nice change of pace. Out of the four stories, I really like two of them, one not so much, and just couldn’t get into the fourth.
Wading Through the Ocean of Life 