It’s time for night number two of our Hanukkah celebration, complete with eight straight nights of giveaways. Tonight is the second night of Hanukkah, so today there’s fun stuff to win!
As I mentioned yesterday, in addition to readerly items, we’ll be celebrating the different features and contributions from Elyse, RedHeadedGirl, Carrie, and Amanda.
But most of all, we’ll be celebrating you because the site wouldn’t be as awesome fun as it is without you.
So get ready and grabbed some fried food!
The second Smart Bitches Hanukkah Party giveaway celebrates Amanda’s Covers & Cocktails, and invites you to mix up and read! The prize? A stainless steel bar set, martini glasses, and a $25 bookstore gift card – winner’s choice of retailer! I wish it were easier to send liquor, but alas, that’s not an easy option, so we’re going with the accoutrements of mixed beverages, and the possibility of books, allowing you to fill in the libation and the library of your choosing!
The martini glasses are stemless, which I prefer in my glassware because I am klutzy and I talk with my hands. These hold 8 oz. and are 3 7/8″ (9.5cm) tall x 4″ in diameter (10cm).
Aren’t they cute? I think so. I think most of my glassware is stemless at this point. Easy to wash in the dishwasher, too.
So, ready to drink enter to win?
Please leave a comment and tell us what you’d drink while reading! It doesn’t have to be alcoholic – but we welcome your beverage recommendations should you have any!
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to sip, sit, and read. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Action figures sold separately. Add toner. PC LOAD LETTER. All rights reserved. Comments will close on or close to 8:00am EST Tuesday 8 December and winners will be announced soon after.
Cheers and Happy Hanukkah!
We have a winner! The winner of the second night of Hanukkah gift pack as selected by random integer is: Dana!
Congrats, Dana, and thank you to everyone who entered. Two down, and six to go!
If I’m drinking at home, it’s usually wine. I prefer a semi-sweet white or rose for just drinking and a drier red, if I’m pairing it with food. If I’m out, it’s usually a top-shelf margarita of some kind, though I’m fond of sangria, too.
At this time of the year, I would definitely drink a nice cup of tea, and possibly have some cookies to go with it.
Hot chocolate
i’m not sure if i like martinis because i’ve somehow never had one, but if i had martini glasses i’d sure give it a try! and if i didn’t care for it, i’d switch to moscow mules 🙂
Truth be told, I try to drink something ‘appropriate’ for books, usually. Like books set in the beach or something along those lines? Something fruity that I’d love while on vacation. (like a Shipwreck, yum.) Set in winter? Hot cocoa. Lots of nightclubs scenes and so forth? Cosmo or a margarita.
But if it’s a really campy or terrible book I have to put the drink away, I’ve choked and spit out too many drinks to count.
Hard cider, particularly Strongbow Honey Apple. So good and the packaging has the cutest bees on it.
When I’m reading, I like to have some hot tea, either British style, or herbal tea. Of course some cookies, or small sandwiches or snacks are nice to go with it.
I do like a nice single malt scotch, but if I’m reading, I want to pay attention to the book, not my balance which disappears when I have just one drink!!
A cold beer at the end of a long day or a hot cup of tea (with or without a shot of whiskey) or a glass of red wine.
A Manhattan. Made with rye.
It isn’t made with a cocktail shaker, but a brandy old fashioned would be an excellent accompaniment to a good book. 🙂
Well, tonight it was alcoholic butterbeer! But usually it’s a hard cider or a glass of sparkling wine.
I don’t usually drink anything while I’m reading. However I have, on more than one occasion, gone to the school library to cheer myself up. I buy a small, hot, black coffee (the cheapest thing there) and a glazed doughnut and then grab books at random off the shelves. I’ve read about Japanese papermaking (it had real paper samples inside!), feminism and disability in comic books (that book was brilliant), lots of astronomy, one man’s thesis on three different Japanese directors and their films, Greek plays, homosexuality in Japan (I was on a Japan kick for a while), and Sherlock Holmes in Spanish. There is nothing more comforting than being surrounded by four floors of books with a hot beverage on a cold winter day.
I do know what I’d be reading if I was drinking something alcoholic. Tequila Mockingbird! by Tim Federle. Because I have a shameful weakness for puns.
Hot chocolate
Because I can’t stand the taste of most alcohol, I have to hide it in my drinks, like most people hide vegetables from children. I found some Triple Sec in hot chocolate tastes like those chocolate oranges that you got into brawls with your siblings over who got to smack it on the table to break it open has been melted into a mug. It’s delicious and perfect for cold winter nights indoors reading a good book.
A delicious margarita. You can’t go wrong with a classic!
Usually tea. Black tea if its cold or an iced fruit infusion if its hot. With brandy if I’m in the mood for it 🙂
Well mostly I drink water but when alcohol is involved I like hard cider, gin and tonics, and Moscow mules.
Hot chocolate with Horchata. Love this time of year!
One of my favorite drinks is a sunrise, but with a flavored rum (mango is real yummy) instead of tequila. It’s pretty enough to make me smile and barely tastes boozy 😛
If I’m drinking while reading, it’s probably coffee. Maybe with some white chocolate, if I’m in the mood for something special.
I like tea. I used to like only herbal, then I moved to green (mint!!!!), then rooibos, then black, then white. Now I love it all
Mostly hot tea but sometimes a peppermint mocha latte.
in my fantasy, a virginia city mule made up and served.by the cute.Samoan bartender at my local watering hole (except Id be at home and wearing my pajamas) in reality, I drink a lot of water with dried lemon slices.in them.
Oooh, for this time of year I’d drink Irish coffee while reading.
I generally like to drink tea while reading – especially during the winter!
Its getting hot down here so I’m drinking a lot of oolong highballs
I would drink a ginger mule – yum yum!
Happy Hanukkah (cont’d)!
I like Japanese and Chinese green teas when reading – mostly – but if it’s cold outside, I don’t say no to an Irish or Spanish coffee. Just colour me international 😀
Apple cider or hot chocolate
Tea if I’m doing it sober, frozen margarita if I’m not. It’s like an awesome slushie for grown ups, how can you pass on that?
raspberry daiquiri if it’s warm out, otherwise hot chocolate spiked with something.
White tea and fortune cookies.
I don’t drink alcohol. My drink of choice is mineral water with lime or, in the summer, a spicy iced tea recipe I concocted.
Hot tea, because I’m hooked on that.
But if I had to choose wine, I like either Chardonnay or Cabernet Shiraz.
Hot coffee or chocolate with Amarula, a liquor from South Africa. With this set I’d try some of the cocktail recipes that use Amarula,
Tea, only tea. Tea and water, with the occasional coffee, are pretty much my only beverages.
Hey, I just now noticed the snowflake background. Nice.
At the moment I’m drinking a nice fortified wine. I tend to drink sweeter wines (like moscato) or fortified wines. A friend and I went wine tasting a couple of weeks ago so I am now very well stocked up to imbibe while I read 😀
I do like cocktails – my current favourite is a Roman Punch – but if I have more than one it tends to interfere with my reading comprehension.
And in the non-alcoholic line I’m fond of a good hot chocolate made with real chocolate.
A Midori Sour! Seeing that shaker reminded me it has been ages since I have had one and it would pair well with any book I’d want to read right now. But if I’m in the mood for something warm, Earl Grey all the way.
Alcoholic ginger beer (Crabbie’s) is my go to drink 🙂
This time of year, tea. Right now I’m partial to Chai teas.
Hmm… I wonder if that cocktail shaker can be used to strain loose-leaf tea.