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 think the books of Rosamunde Pilcher, especially The Shell Seekers, are my ultimate comfort read, and books that I always have nearby. Persuasion by Jane Austen, and The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart are also books that are always close by.
It’s one of two romances… the Mischief of the Mistletoe or Neanderthal seeks human. Sometimes I just need a book to make me smile, and these two do it every time.
To Kill a Mockingbird. If I could only pick 5 books to take to a desert island this would be the first in the suitcase. Don’t even have to think about it.
I would say the Lord of the Rings trilogy (in case that is cheating because it’s three books, I’d say Fellowship of the Ring). I can think of at least two hard copies of it that are in my house right now, plus a digital copy probably on every device that we own. It’s the ultimate comfort read for me. I can pick it up at any point, and it will take me out of whatever is going on in the real world. It’s also a great reminder for me that sometimes, there is crappy shit going on all around you and the only thing you can do is keep walking toward your goal.
My Kindle goes everywhere with me. This bag also looks large enough to hold a knitting project as well as journal.
I’ve got the Bible app on my phone, and between that and the Kindle app, I’ve got books to cover all situations 🙂
Always have my kindle or kindle app on my phone. I love books with conflict and good dialogue and I a a sucker foe a good ending. Right now I am rereading the ending of the glass kitchen..
My Kindle goes with me wherever I am. I grab it reflexively, even when I’m just going from the kitchen to my bedroom, or whatever. But I always have Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas and Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier in my currently reading folder, because I read those all the time.
The Ideal Wife by Mary Balogh
It’s hard to pick because I have so many books that I love to reread over and over, especially now with a kindle. Pride and Prejudice is an old friend, but I have a fond spot for many Nora Roberts and Amanda Quick classics.
I pretty much need books around me, period. But I almost always have at least one copy of Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I loaned it out a few times, and it kept not getting returned, so now I buy give away copies and just give them out. My oldest copy is tattered and signed and wonderful and nobody can touch it!
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters!
I also have an iPad full of books that goes with me just about everywhere, but if I want a good comfort read, just about any Nora Roberts or Shelly Laurenston, depending on my mood.
This answer would probably vary according to season and day of the week, but today it’s Cordelia’s Honor. (2 for 1! I’m a trick bastid, ain’t I.)
Kindle, Overdrive on my iPad. All sorts of comfort reads lately. Can’t go wrong with anything by Elizabeth Hoyt, Tessa Dare, to name a few.
My go-to book is Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn. I have in it paperback and on my Kindle, which is with me always. 😀
I always have a good mystery and a copy of the Brothers Karamazov, which needs to be read periodically. That bag would hodl them well.
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie. Every time.
Mine are the Blue Castle by LM Montgomery and Persuasion. Maybe Attachments, too.
I like to have one of my kindles which are loaded with books with me at all times. Reading romance is my main hobby.
Since I traded in the flip phone for a smartphone, I have books with me wherever I go with the Kindle app. I’d say 99.99% of my TBR file is romance or I can turn to my Keeper file.
Jane Eyre. And all the books on my kindle. I love not having to carry multiple books with me everywhere I go!
Oh mannnn, I want this purse. The book I like to have near me is Jennifer Crusie’s Bet Me. It got to the point a few years ago that I was moving too much to keep very many books around, and yet this book always made it. I now own the ebook as well, JUST IN CASE.
My comfort flavor that’s actually a constant, and it’s on all my devices plus I have a hardcover, is THE GOBLIN EMPEROR by Katherine Addison (Sarah Monte). Maia tugs at my heart strings but I root for him while he navigates his way through the unexpected ascension to the throne, two (!) assassination attempts that includes a try at a coup and getting past the hurt of his early life and finding his way to peace, affection and acceptance.
It’s been a while since I read it, but I like to have Pride and Prejudice nearby.
Not really any one book but my Kindle is always near by and has a couple historical romances, namely Lisa kleypas and Julia Quinn, that I like to have.
To kill a mockingbird
I always keep A Prayer for Owen Meany on my shelf. It’s my definition of comfort food.
It would be Julianna Keyes’ “Going the Distance.”
Jane Eyre is always with me. Both hard copy and e-book. I also always have my Kindle, and I have a comfort read collection on it.
I generally keep a copy of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens nearby at all times, though my copy is much the worse for wear because of this. It has been dropped in the bath and squished under the textbooks in my backpack more times than I can count. But it’s just such a fun, comforting read. I never get tired of it.
I always have a Mindy Kaling book with me because you never know when you’ll need a good laugh!
When I read I like to be able to sit down for a (relatively) uninterrupted time to fully immerse myself into the book without too many distractions. So I usually like to keep novella anthologies or books of poetry with me, shorter works that I can dip into for just a few minutes before being (forcibly) dragged back out.
Also, The Little Prince, of which I own at least three different copies of and am convinced the world would be a better place if everyone read and tried to be a little bit more like the prince.
Pride and Prejudice is my go to novel!
I always have a copy of Pride and Prejudice with me, whether on my shelf, on my phone, on my iPad, or in my car. (Seriously. Copy in my trunk.)
It’s my ereader that goes with me everywhere. At home, I like having Georgette Heyer’s Friday’s Child nearby, for ease of rereading favorite passages.
I sleep with a small book of Psalms under my pilliw ever since I was little.
It’s a habit from my mom since I was a baby.
Best Man With Benefits by Samanthe Beck – this book is fantastic 🙂
such a tough choice…Skye O’Malley
Actually, not a particular book. But ALWAYS a book. There´s no possible way I leave the house without one, and since my dearest friend got me a Kindle, I never leave the house without at least a thousand.