This is so! Much! Fun!
Ahem. Lemme put down this latke (curried sweet potato – YUM) and set up a giveaway, since it’s the middle of Hanukkah and we’ve got candles, latkes, chocolate to spare!
Time for the fourth night of our annual eight straight days of giveaways to celebrate Hanukkah!
Today?
A Kate Spade tote big enough to hold everything you need for an excellent reading day in any season, any weather!
The Kate Spade Grant Street in Jules is a large striped tote bag. It’s about 15.6″ long, 11.3″ high, and 6.2″ wide (~39cm x 28cm x 15cm), and has a handle drop of about 9.1″ – so you can put this over your shoulder, no problem. It has a recessed top zipper that goes the length of the bag, so your necessities stay inside.
And you might need to put some books in it, so we’re adding a $25 gift card to Amazon!
You should be able to fit most of the books you buy in the bag, too. WOO!
Plus, we have some creative ideas, too!
Included with the bag we have:
- A spiral bound copy of the What Lifts You: Uplifting Designs to Color and Create coloring book by Kelsey Montague
- A limited edition lined hardcover journal celebrating the Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh.
- I Laughed, I Cried paper bookmarks
Ready to enter?
Just leave a comment below and tell us what book you like to have nearby, or with you at all times? Is it a romance? (I bet it might be. There’s a good chance, right?) What book goes along with you?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to shop and save. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. When in doubt, read. Secondary uses for handbag include shopping, toting, and mobile library management. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Wednesday 28 December 2016 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Update: And the winner is….Mary, who would bring whatever book she’s reading at the moment!
Thanks to all who participated in the comments, and don’t forget to have a book with you wherever you go.
I always have a particular anthology of poetry with me because you never know when you might need a sonnet to feed your soul.
Gone with the Wind. Read it for the first time when I was 16 and loved it. The racism bothers me now, but the rest of the book is still fascinating.
If there is any sort of book I like to have near then it is historical romance, any kind. When I need something light I go for that. That is my escapism genre 🙂
A rotating selection of Georgette Heyer books – These Old Shades, Venetia, Frederica
It would have to be Lord of Scoundrels. Since it’s release I’ve never been without at least 2 copies of the book in my home at any time. One to keep/reread and one to give away to introduce a reader to romance.
Not really any one book in particular, but I like to have a comfort read among the books I’m reading at any given time. Usually that’s a historical romance, but sometimes it’s a YA novel.
For me it’s any Mary Stewart book-I love her writing and reading her books makes me happy.
I always have Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas, and Match Me If You can by SEP close to me in my comfort reads file of my kindle along with a few others. Pride and Prejudice was one of my gateways to romance (I had a few including the two others I listed; it took me a long time to fully embrace my love of romances) and I still love it, but Persuasion is the one that really stuck with me.
I have books in every room. Plus, in a pinch, I can read on my tablet or phone.
I keep my phone with me always so I have my kindle library handy… and I keep Agnes and the Hitman in the house at all times!
My Kindle is with me at all times, and I have a stupid number of books on it – but my comfort-reading titles are all Jane Austen (mainly Emma and Persuasion).
I have my Kindle with me at all times but I always have Pride and Prejudice on there. Most of the time, I’ll have Thomas Hobbes on there as well – a leftover from the school days.
I have had a copy of Anne of Green Gables nearby since I was probably ten years old. I just love the book so much, it’s like a friend of mine. And you, Gilbert Blythe … you have set my standards for what guys in real life should be like really high. REALLY high 🙂
I don’t ever leave home without my Kindle. I have to have it with me, even if I know I won’t be able to read it. It is like my security blanket. I always have a Jill Shalvis book downloaded, even if it is a reread.
I don’t have a specific book I carry with me at all times, just whatever I happen to be reading. But two of my comfort reads from my keepers shelves are Julie Anne Long’s What I Did For A Duke and Lisa Kleypas’ Secrets Of A Summer Night.
Pride and Prejudice for me. And a P.G. Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster book — the ultimate comfort read. If the real world is going to crap (which, well…), nothing worse than a stolen policeman’s helmet happens in Wodehouse.
Kept nearby, as in about 5 feet from where I am sitting right now, are all of my Jean Plaidy books. If I’m truly stuck for something to read I can pull one off the shelf at random. It’s like falling back into a conversation with an old friend and Murder Most Royal gets reread about once a year.
My Robin McKinley books – especially Spindle’s End, Deerskin, Sunshine, and Rose Daughter. They are absolutely indispensible. Ella Enchanted, at least one Jasper Fforde book, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, The Bloody Chamber, Transformations (poetry by Anne Sexton) and Jane Eyre are on the same “will always move with me” shelf.
Not a specific book but I always like to have a print or library e-copy of a romance with me.
I have favorite comedy book “Lesio ” – it’s from the ’60 and completly outdated but the people, ideas and talks stay absurd and funy. I open it on random page or look for my favorite quote and have to laugh.
I have Sunshine by Robin McKinley both in eform on my kindle and in paperback. I love that book so much.
“Dust” by Charles Pellegrino. It’s fiction, but the end notes contain all kind of facts about bugs, and is the reason I never kill any bug (except mosquitoes and wasps), even the centipede who sometimes falls in my bathtub. I’ve named him Melvin. That’s what books can do!
Saving Grace by Julie Garwood since it was one of my first romance novels I read.
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. It’s my favorite in the series and it was the book that we had playing on CD in my mother’s hospital room when she was dying. It gives me a great deal of comfort.
Megan Whalen Turner’s Thief series. I reach for it every now and then.
I have so many comfort reads, but the books I will never, ever part with are the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. Keeper shelf for life.
Gaudy night, by Dorothy L. Sayers. Not so much for the actual whodunnit as for the romantic bits in Oxford. .
Cookbooks! Currently, The Baking Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum. Have loved all her recipes (while dreaming of being on the Great British Baking Show).
I always keep “Bridget Jones’ Diary” close to my bedside table.
Sometimes I have a bad day and go to bed feeling terrible about myself. That’s when I take out this book and randomly read a couple of chapters. It’s impossible not to smile while reading it so it never fails to cheer me up.
I suppose my Kindle is cheating.
Good question. Hmm… for specific book, probably, The Lord of the Rings. I don’t actually, yet, have an e copy, but I’ve bought it twice in paper and own it unabridged audiobook on CD, which I copied to my iPod.
LotR and I go waaay back, so it’s the ultimate soft, cuddly blankie of comfort reads to me.
Persuasion, Ain’t She Sweet and The Passions of Chelsea Kane. Comfort reads that alwys make me feel better.
I have my Kindle or the kindle app on my phone, iPad, laptop so I always have books with me. I just love to read.
I always always always have a (digital) copy of Harry porter on hand. It’s one thing I can always read and reread. I matter what my mood.
any book from jane austen
with “one book” as the criteria, I’m going to have to say a blank book.. then I can write my own romantic scenes.
I can never decide, so I carry an iPad full of books!
I always have The Gift of Imperfection by Brene Brown near me. I’ve read it and heard it many times. So helpful to remind me to fight my childhood demons and NOT try to be perfect. It was also the book to help me embrace some of the things I really enjoy (like openly reading romance!) rather than do what society prefers (e.g. hide the romance and read/talk about only “serious” books).
Always have a book downloaded on my phone Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Ready Player One has become my go-to book.
Well I have most of my books with me, because Kindle, but my go to re-read is anything by Kristen Ashley. Always makes me smile and crack up laughing.