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!
Water most often, especially if I’m anywhere near a computer. But in the winter time, it’s also hot chocolate or hot apple cider. However, if I’m lucky enough to win this cocktail prize, the first thing I’m making is whiskey sours in honor of my grandmother (her favorite drink).
I love hot cocoa this time of year, or a coke if I want a caffeine kick. If I’m going alcoholic, I generally stay with the simple vodka cranberry or a good spicy bloody mary. Mmmm.
I never thought of stemless glasses as a cure for general klutziness. My husband has a habit of setting his latest wine glass right on the front right hand corner of the sink counter – where I can knock it over with my elbow when I use the the faucet or set a dish down. Stemless glasses would solve the problem!
What I drink when reading? Usually tea, sometimes coffee, and occasionally wine. Only occasionally because then I tend to get too sleepy to read!
We don’t have snow yet, but I’m already in a wintery mood, so lately it’s been hot apple cider with Sortilege (Canadian maple whiskey) cut with straight whiskey, because, y’know, can’t have that too sweet.
I’ve been known to drink coffee or tea while I’m reading. If it’s night time, a beer or wine. Occasionally, I will mix things up in the evening. When it was super cold last winter, I made hot buttered rum. It was so good.
Pumpkin Spice Black Tea, Almond Milk, Irish Whiskey, Irish cream flavored syrup.
Lately I’ve been really into bucks–a gin buck is awesome, but also fun are flavoured-vodka bucks. (Honestly, I just like ginger beer.)
Not much of a drinker, to be honest. If I’m going to indulge, it’s usually something like mead or absinthe or whatever, for the sheer novelty factor.
Tea! Always tea! There are so many potential versions that I can drink whatever best serves the weather and the book.
I would probably drink a very sweet wine like Moscato or Roseate.
I would probably drink a very sweet wine like Moscato or Roscato
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Black tea or white wine!
Usually coffee or tea.
I’ve been on a bit of a Manhattan kick lately, but that’s not really a kick back with a romance drink; more of a nonfiction choice. Usually it’s hot tea in the winter, but summers? That’s sparkling white preferably with peach slices on the patio. Peach slices IN the wine drunk on the patio.
Wine… ginger beer… moscow mules… dirty martinis… High Life… I don’t actually drink that much but I have varied tastes.
Generally water – either straight up or adding the pow to tea. I love teapots, so I make a lot of tea.
A nice cup of tea, usually. But if I were going alcoholic for my beverage, I would be enjoying a Woodchuck special reserve pumpkin cider. I’m not usually a big fan of the fall pumpkin fad, but the mellow pumpkin flavor goes so well with the bright cider taste.
I have an intolerance to alcohol (it makes me really sick, really fast), so I don’t actually ever drink cocktails or other alcoholic beverages. When I read, I usually drink water, Coke or occasionally, in the winter, a nice cup of hot chocolate.
Herbal tea
My sister-in-law makes a wonderful spiced cider with apple brandy this time of year. I’d love to drink some of that while enjoying a good book!
I’d probably end up doing something like an appletini – I’m a vodka girl through and through!
I’m more of a person who drinks socially than with a book. But then, I was at a friend’s holiday party this weekend where someone brought a fruit plate and we all were drunkenly amazed and impressed by it (“Is this what adulthood is like?”) and then ate all of it with our fingers, so maybe it’s just that I’m young and feckless.
I do really like reading about alcohol and how it pertains to social and gender norms though, especially when it comes to this idea that your masculinity and femininity is tied to what kind of cocktail you order. (I think it’s a load of bull.)
That said, since it’s seasonal, I really enjoy mulled wine and have been making it at every opportunity.
In the winter, Irish coffee with Bushmills and Baileys. In the summer, bloody marys and beer.
Depending on the weather, my mood and the book (some stuff just calls for red wine) I vary my drinks, but when I think about curling up and reading at this time of year, cocoa strong enough to be just this side of drinking chocolate with a hit of red pepper is my go-to. If I had this lovely cocktail set, however, I would definitely become a mixed drink maven.
I love my large glass of red, red wine as I am binge reading the fabulous Black Dagger Brotherhood novels by J. R. Ward. I am currently on book 9, and I am crazy loving these vampires and their shellan.
I’m currently reading romantic suspense which just begs for martinis! I love Cosmos and Gimlets. My next book is a Tudor historical…maybe mulled wine?
Depends time of year and, to some extent, what I am reading. In late fall and winter I love to have hot tea by my side as I read. The type of tea varies with what I am reading – black tea for mysteries, green tea for cookbooks, herbal for romances, etc.
This time of year I usually like homemade hot chocolate with vanilla almond milk. Of course if I’m settling in to read something crack-tastic I may have whiskey and coke instead ^_^
Hot chocolate laced with chocolate hazelnut liqueur is the best reading treat (or just treat). <3
At home, white wine or hot tea. At our favorite pub, a glass of sour ale. Or maybe an old fashioned.
Hot tea, or if the book is really good I have cold tea
Negroni
Definitely a Corpse Reviver #2. I got up at two pm.
Wine – Zinfandel, a strong spicy red.
I have been super into sidecars recently. Especially if I can wear some sort of flapper-inspired sparkle whilst enjoying it!
Chocolate and peanut butter milkshake. Straight up. 🙂
I love to have a nice stein of tea while I read. Or coffee. Or cola. Caffeination, basically, I suppose!
Iced tea in the summer, hot tea in the winter. If I’m feeling particularly indulgent, I will have hot cocoa. I love Alton Brown’s cocoa recipe, with cayenne pepper for kick!
I am freezing right now, so a hot chocolate (with or without some Baileys) would be very welcome.
Thanks for doing this again this year. I really love the site and this is just the cherry and whipped cream for my hot chocolate!
Wine….in any kind of glass. Or a cider. Or a beer. I’m pretty easy to please:)