Hi dear friends!!
It’s almost time for one of my favorite Icelandic traditions… 🎁
I’ve celebrated this tradition these past two years with some very special Jane Austen friends! 🥰
Austenesque Jolabokaflod 2020
Austenesque Jolabokaflod 2021
And it has been such a fun to share this tradition with you all, that I am hosting it again this year! 🙌🏼
*With one slight change*
We will have an EBOOK only option for those Austenesque readers that only read ebooks! 📱
There will be two groups in this years’ Austenesque Jolabokaflod
GROUP 1 – readers that want to GIVE and RECEIVE paperbacks
GROUP 2 – readers that want to GIVE and RECEIVE ebooks
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~ What Austenesque Jolabokaflod Looks Like ~
📗 All are welcome to take part!
📕 Anyone who is taking part will send 1️⃣ Austenesque book and receive 1️⃣ Austenesque book for Austenesque Jolabokaflod.
📗 Gifted books will be paperbacks or ebooks (no audiobooks) and can be gifted from either BookDepository.com or Amazon (depending on country of recipient)
📕 Participants will share their mailing address and a list of 5-10 Austenesque books that are on their wishlist (and that they don’t plan on purchasing or receiving as gifts in the next 2 months!)
📗 I’ll collect all the information from interested participants and then randomly sort and designate who is gifting to whom. (This will be Secret Santa style – meaning you won’t know in advance who is gifting your book!)
📕 Participants will purchase an Austenesque book (from their recipient’s wishlist) and send it to their assigned recipient before November 20th.
📗 Recipients will receive their Austenesque Jolabokaflod book in the mail or via email, but keep it unopened until December 24th.
📕 Recipients will open and enjoy their new book on December 24th in celebration of Austenesque Jolabokaflod! (To really embrace the holiday – read a few chapters of your new book and eat some chocolate!) 🍫
Want to take part in Austenesque Jolabokaflod?
Here’s what you need to know!
🎁 Participants will need to decide if they want to participate in the PAPERBACK or EBOOK Austenesque Jolabokaflod (i.e. if you pick paperback, you will send and receive a paperback, if you pick ebook, you will send and receive an ebook – open to US residents only)
🎁 Participants will need to pick 5-10 books that they would like to receive
🎁 Participants will send the book directly to the recipient in one of these methods:
- Book Depository or Amazon (TIP: Book Depository has free shipping worldwide, this might be the best choice for international friends, or looking up the Amazon that distributes to their country)
- Gift an Ebook through Amazon and date it to be sent on December 24th
Do you want take part in Austenesque Jolabokaflod?
If yes, fill out this form before October 31st!
I loved celebrating Austenesque Jolabokaflod these last two years, and I am so looking forward to all the fun this year! 🙌🏼🎁📚
Yay! I have participated in the Austenesque Jolabokaflood the last couple of years and am thrilled you are continuing the tradition, Meredith! I look forward to it each Christmas and this December will be no exception.
Will definitely get my list together and sign up by the 31st!
Thank you for hosting again, Meredith! This is such a fun tradition.
Thank you for doing this again, Meredith! I am pleased to have the ebook option.
You can count on me, Meredith! I can’t believe it’s time to prepare for Jolabokaflod season! It was so fun to participate in the two last editions 😉
Thank you so much for providing us with this beautiful tradition which celebrates the love for books.
I’ll have my list ready and the form filled out by Halloween!
So excited to do this again!
I’m going to participate this year, yay! I’ve watched while others participated the past two years and cheered along with what they got from their match-up JAFF reader. It looked like fun.