"Guilty Pleasure" summer reading contest - with Borsa Bella prizes

[Harvey]

It's officially summer, and what better way to kick off the sunny season than with our next KindleBoards giveaway!

Helping us with this is Melissa from Borsa Bella. Borsa Bella is one of our longtime KindleBoards sponsors and the maker of fine Kindle accessories. And in our Kindle community, her customer service is legendary.

Here's how to enter:

1. Reply to this post, and tell us what's in your plans for Guilty Pleasure summer reading. Give us a title or two that you plan to devour from the comfort of your deck, your front porch, or your beach chair. Include a book cover image if you wish (here's how). Or, just make the title a searchable link by selecting the text and clicking on our handy AmazonSearch button - that's the one that looks like this:

2. While you're at it, tell us which Borsa Bella product you'd be interested in. Click here to see Melissa's vivid, high-quality selection of Kindle travel bags, jackets, and purses. (And take note, gentlemen: she even has a selection of products "for the guys"...)

On July 1st, we'll randomly draw three of you who will receive $25 gift certificates from Borsa Bella. We'll contact the winners by PM. Duplicate entries will be un-duplicated for the drawing. Winners must have shipping addresses in the U.S. or Canada.

Good luck, everyone. We can't wait to hear about your summer guilty pleasure reading recommendations!

Winners:
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[dnagirl]

1.  Summer vacation is approaching quickly and I'm going to have some beach reading time.  I think I'm going to work my way through the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, starting with Confessions of a Shopaholic.  I've never read these, but they seem to be light and fun, which is what I'm looking for this summer.

2.  I've had my eye on the Borsa Bella original Kindle travel bag, but I cannot for the life of me choose a color.  I think Purple Haze, then I switch to Agatha Crimson, then to Lord of the Greens.  Ack, the choices!!!

[vickir]

I just read The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard and I enjoyed it so much that I'm going to get her other novels: THe Virgin of Small Plains and the Truth series of three.


2. I like the Where the Green Ferns Grow travel bag.

[corkyb]

I am going to be working my way through the remainder of the In Death series by J D Robb.  I am loving those books and keep trying to stretch them out, but I am in the final stretch of about the last half dozen now.

The Borsa Bella bag I now have my eye on is the Let's Do Lunch bag in black beauty and shower clouds.  I saw it posted by another member and it's gorgeous.  Of course, I am also thinking about a bag for my ipad, but haven't picked anything out yet.

Paula ny

[BTackitt]

I love the "Where the Green Fern Grows Roo" bag.
As for my guilty pleasure reading? wow... hard to say, I read so much that I barely plan 3 or 4 books in advance, because inside of a week I will be done with those and on to others...which I may not even have purchased yet.
Let's see...(all in kindle version)
Currently reading
Bond of Darkness: A Novel of Texas Vampires
Then:
Against all Odds
Then Saying Goodbye to the Sun By KB author David McAfee

Saying Goodbye to the Sun

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Edit to say finished all three of those, and for guilty pleasure, I DL all 40+ of thos short stories that are currently freebies at Amazon.. at under 10 minutes to read each one.. They will be fast to get through, then back to my normal summer reading.

[ak rain]

1. Reply to this post, and tell us what's in your plans for Guilty Pleasure summer reading.
my guilty pleasure is sneaking away - outside if warm, back room if not, and forgetting the chores and reading. this is real easy now as my kids are teenagers. the house does not get better so that is the guilty part. its amazing how long it takes the family to notice that I am gone
books read

Charlaine Harris - the sookie stackhouse stories are the first real "chic lit" stories read and first real stories that I read and not recommend to my husband
 
Michael Scott - The secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel series  this one is YA fun series not finished and if the author don't finish he may find me at his door pleading. this is only guilty as I buy the DTB version for my kids and ebook for me as I am too impatient to wait my turn and I like my K! t
careful book3 and not k copy

2. While you're at it, tell us which Borsa Bella product you'd be interested in.
I like the red rocks ereader roo bags  but technoloy skill only got me this far so no pictures.

sylvia

[Vet]

While on my cruise this summer, you'll find me on my balcony reading, My Sister's Voice (Kindle Edition)
by Mary Carter

I'd love the Borsa Bella Midnight in the Garden roo bag in a size that's big enough to fit my Kindle in its M-Edge Platform cover! Melissa's prints are beautiful!

[Steph H]

1. Although I'm more likely to be reading in the comfort of my air-conditioned house (it's HOT in Texas!), I'll likely indulge in some good ol' light-hearted romance/chick-lit books this summer, focusing on books available from indie authors who frequent Kindleboards.  Several I'm looking forward to include:

Go Small or Go Home, by Heather Wardell

All I Ever Wanted, by Ellen Fisher

The Bum Magnet, by K.L. Brady

Reunion, by J.L. Penn

and oh so many more.

2.  As for the Borsa Bella bags, I must admit I haven't paid much attention to those before but oh my, what lovely bags and the choices!  Yikes. I rather like the eReader Roo bag in Mulan...or maybe Midnight in the Garden...or maybe go really crazy with Botany of Desire. The cosmetics bags are nice too, it's so hard to find those anymore it seems, and they're a great size for all sorts of things, not just cosmetics.

Fun contest, Harvey!

[FallenSeraph]

Well I'm excited for summer it means that I'll actually get to read books for fun and not for school and it means I'll actually get to use my kindle (can't use it in school not sure y though) I'm gonna read by my pool and at the beach. I'm so excited. I plan to read Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Shiver by Maggie SteifVater
Shiver
and some books for school like A Picture of Dorian Grey ooh I also plan to finish Phantom of the Opera

2. And I'm absolutely in love with the black London e reader travel bag.

[Seamonkey]

I don't do guilt .. just read what I want to read.

I seem to have 21 books in my "To be read soon" Collection and that will undoubtedly shrink and grow as time advances.. so.. I'll choose the one with "Summer" in the title to feature.

I do feel guilty that I paid $9.36 and it now sells for $8.59.




I've been considering a Large Hobo Bag from Borsa Bella (I have a DX) and while I love so many of Melissa's fabrics, the Red Rocks.. well it ROCKS!  (see it in the Medium Hobo Bag display).  I'd go for a Medium Hobo if it would fit my stuff AND my DX in Oberon cover.  I do own several BB items.

Thanks, Harvey!

 

[cmdixon]

How Fun! My first contest on the Kindle Boards. 

1. My guilty pleasure - well, I feel like I've just discovered reading again since getting my Kindle in April.  I think first on my list is catching up with the "women's murder club" series by James Patterson.  I read the first 6, but there's since been 3 more:





2. I had not ever looked at Borsa Bella products before, but darn there are some really cute things!  I happen to adore bright primary colors, so the one that keeps jumping out at me is the "Water Color Dreams eReader Travel Bag".  Love It!

[Jessica Billings]

I'm re-reading a ton of Terry Pratchett books this summer. I love the hour of reading I can sneak in before the kids I nanny wake up. Best hour of my day. I also have to re-read the Hunger Games books before Mockingjay comes out this August!!

I looove the Botany of Desire bella bag. Gorgeous!

[Gwennie]

Like CMDixon, my next two this summer are:





I already have a wonderful custom 'roo from Melissa; next up I'd love a Let's Do Lunch!

Thanks so much for this opportunity! 

[ladyknight33]

And Melissa has so many nice things on her site. Hard to whittle it down to one but I would go with the Travel Bag. I own 3 e reader bags, so i would like a little more variety.

[eldereno]

I've just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo


and am definitely thinking about following up with the rest of the series!!!!




Also anxious to read



Sorry for the DTB links.  Just haven't quite figured out how to link the Kindle books.  When I go to the Kindle Store and look for these books, I get nothing!

RE: the BB bags I am loving....
To add to the growing collection of my BB bags, I would have to say Midnight in the Garden ereader Roo bag!

[Tuttle]

I have been meaning to read




and keep not getting around to it. I'm going to get to it soon.

I'm also going to go back and finish reading

and the books following that.

My favorite of the Bags is Meet Bag Black eReader Travel Bag. I like the water resistant fabric and the layout of that bag.

[*Flower*]

I'm in the process of reading "Meta Game" and will be moving on to the Sookie Stackhouse series when I finish it.

I can't wait to go out to my screened porch, read and enjoy the pond in the back of the house.......

Of course Eponine is going with me to NYC next Sunday- so that will delay the lazing around for a week or so.

As for which of the Borsa Bella bags I'd like..... I can't choose right now! All of her things are lovely, and Hubby's Albus is carried around in one of her bags too! I convinced him that he HAD to have a 'Man Bag", and he uses it all the time!

[Casse]

1. I can't wait to read Nora Robert's "The Search" - link below. This will be out in time for a long airport layover for my summer trip so I'm actually looking for to that  

http://www.amazon.com/The-Search-ebook/dp/B003NX76BM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&tag=kindleboards-20&s=digital-text&qid=1277164143&sr=1-4

2. I love Borsa Bella's travel bags and the new color 1000 Splendid Sunsets is gorgeous  

[NogDog]

Well, this is very difficult, as I don't think I've ever felt guilty about anything I've read. So I think I'll just list this one from my TBR list, as it looks to be a fun read:



For my prize, I think I'll pick a small "Lady Mariko's Dress" eReader bag for my mother, as her Kindle is still naked (eek!):

[Kathy]

I'm finishing up the Stephanie Plum series. I needed something to make me laugh and they do the job.


I would love to have the Twilight Kindle Travel bag. I've wanted one for sometime. Hope I win.

[Martel47]

I'm a guy, and a basic guy at that, so I'd be interested in something like the Meet Bag Black for my DX.  I might want the travel bag, as I already have a cover, but sometimes need to pack along some other accessories.

As far as my guilty pleasures go, it's all sci-fi mixed in with reading for school.  One that is on my Kindle list for the summer is:

[bevie125]

1. For my reading pleasure, I will be trying to finish the Anita Blake series by Laurell Hamilton. Then maybe add a few classics in the mix, possibly Dracula (since I have yet to read it).

2. I absolutely love Borsa Bella's things, including my own ereader bag and kindle travel bags (2). But I would love to own one of her handbags in the fabric of "flowers in the attic". Hard to say, but I would really like the medium hobo, but I would also love to have the Lets do lunch bag as well 

[therinia]

I'm planning on reading Evanovich's Sizzling Sixteen (which comes out tomorrow, yaay!) and Lorelei James' Raising Kane. 

I've been eying the BB Travel bag in Outlander Orange--I think my K2 would be very snug inside. 

[teanicole]

1. Guilty pleasure summer reading: Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, I'm currently starting book three "The Highlanders Touch"-so I have many more to go.

2. I love the "lady marikos dress" travel ereader bag

[stanghla]

My guilty pleasure this summer is reading Terri Blackstock's "Evidence of Mercy". I enjoy her books and I love reading them when we go boating on the weekends...that way nobody can bother me and I can read and read and read.
I only have one Borsa bag but I did email Melissa tonight and ask her if she could do an extra-large e-reader bag in her new Oceans Forever collection in the "current". If she could do that then I would pick that one for a prize.