A Gentle Awakening (18) beat out Dearest Love (13).
The Promise of Happiness (20) beat Henrietta's Own Castle (11).
This is when, if you were a booster of another title, I slap you on a sweaty shoulder and give you a pep talk about how the greatest reward is a fight well fought and how it wasn't your day and how you left everything on the field and how winners never quit and quitters never win...
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| (Image) Henrietta missed the free throws that would have won the game but #45 volunteered to carry her off the court on his shoulders anyway. |
I hope you won't feel too forlorn to vote for our finalists. Remember when Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed became best friends and ran together on the beach with improbably bulky muscles? Time to dig deep, Betties, and show some love for your former rivals.
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| (Image) Arabella wasn't too upset to lose the crown. She could hold her head high and return to her hometown to headline a parade, wear overalls and throw bubble gum to children lining the parade route, her trusty plunger at her side. |
A Gentle Awakening
and
The Promise of Happiness
See you on the other side, Betties.
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The Promise of Happiness.
ReplyDeleteEasy choice for me. My favorite Betty. Love this one. Love the heroine, love the hero. Love the story. I even love slimy Basil.
A Gentle Awakening
ReplyDeleteEasy choice for me. More carbs.
The Promise of Happiness
ReplyDeleteEasy choice for me, too. 😊 One of my absolute top favourites! I 💖 Becky and Tiele.
Did you realise? Our final vote is between:
RBD
and
RDD
This is pretty exciting!
💌 Dear Betty Keira, 📝
Thank you so much for providing
us with many months of fun!
I hope everyone is well at Huize van Voorhees.
Love and lardy cakes
Betty A.
A Gentle Awakening.
ReplyDeleteNot too difficult a choice for me.
Well, if the first 4 votes are any indication--the final is going to be very, very close.
ReplyDeleteBetty Barbara is cheerfully voting for:
The Promise of Happiness
A Gentle Awakening
ReplyDeleteHa, just six votes so far and already it's dead even. Gentle Awakening for me, but they're both top ten so I'll be happy either way.
ReplyDeleteMy all time favorite! The Promise of Happiness!!
ReplyDeleteI echo Betty A. above - thanks to Betty Keira for all your "blood, sweat, toil and tears" in this long campaign to determine the favorite Betty book.
Easy for me also! A Gentle Awakening
ReplyDeleteBetty Keira,
I so agree with the other two Betties. I only jumped in several weeks ago but what fun I have had voting each week. Thank you for your hard work on this project and I hope you have more coming for us. It is great to know there are other BN fans out there.
Betty Brenda
The Promise of Happiness, my best of the best. So much to just love in that book. And my thanks too, Betty Kiera, so much hard hard work from you and so much sheer fun for us.
ReplyDeleteThe Promise of Happiness -- one of my top ten Betty books
ReplyDeleteBetty AnoninTX
Last comment was under my seller name, got it muddled with the Google thingy, should have been as Patricia M. Maybe I have it all figured out now.
ReplyDeleteThe Promise of Happiness
ReplyDeleteHappiness runs in a circular motion.
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
Happiness runs, happiness runs.
~ Donovan
The Promise of Happiness for me. I do like the other book but just want to give Rosina a talking to about standing up to her father and what's-his-name.
ReplyDeleteGeorgina
The Promise of Happiness!
ReplyDeletePromise of Happiness
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not too late to vote, A Gentle Awakening.
ReplyDelete(I was tossing up, hoped to have a chance to reread both to see which one, then a random pinterest picture reminded me of a Gentle Awakening so I'm taking that as a sign...)
A Gentle Awakening
ReplyDelete--Anonymous Betty Lea in KY
Has anyone ever noticed that the abbreviation of the title "A Gentle Awakening" would be AGA which is the name of those cook stoves used in so many BN books? Kind of appropriate since Florina is a cook.
ReplyDelete--Anonymous Betty Lea in KY
I did notice that, Betty Lea - thought it was quite apropos!
DeleteThat's neat you noticed, too, Betty Pam!
ReplyDelete--Anonymous Betty Lea in KY