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!Â
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 $25Â 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:Â 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.
The Devil in Winter because you never know when you just need some Sebastian time.
I always have my iPad with me. Always. When I broke it, I cried and then my DH promptly replaced it because he can’t handle it when I “leak”. I make sure that all my Kristen Ashley books are downloaded for when I need my alpha book boyfriend/quirky heroine fix, along with Amelia Hutchins because no character is more alpha than Ryder.
Always a Jo Beverley for comfort, a new scifi for escape…and my ever growing, never diminishing TBR “stack” on the Kindle!
Anything by Bill Bryson, but especially In A Sunburned Country. And of course Pride and Prejudice.
Loving my Kindle. I get to have all sorts of books with me. I am currently on a nonfiction kick. Current title in my queue is Truevine. (Very good.)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Always In my bag and on my Kindle just in case.
Whatever I’m reading at the time. I tend to carry around a paperback in addition to my Kindle just in case of a book emergency. One must always be prepared. I don’t carry it around all the time but if I had to pick one it would probably be Devil in Winter. No, Dreaming of You. Or Heart of Obsidian or Lord of Scoundrels. Ugh, I don’t like this question!
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It’s fascinating!
Landline by Rainbow Rowell is a fave
JR Ward books are my “go to” comfort foods. Read them on a e reader and no one knows your reading racy stuff
JR Ward books are my “go to” comfort foods. Read them on an e reader and no one knows youre reading racy stuff.
Laura Kinsale is always nearby, usually My Sweet Folly. It is wonderful with a side of crazy.
Any book by either Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb or Nalini Singh would be my choice. It really does’t matter which one. I love ’em all!
Welcome to Temptation, by Jenny Crusie. My gateway drug into romance and the book I’ve probably bought the most copies of over the years.
Any of the Harry Potters.
I don’t have just one book, for me as long as I have my kindle with me I have access to want book that strikes my fancy.
Fortunately I have an ipad now so I always carry thousands of books, BUT prior to my electronic awakening I would always have several books with me a couple contemporaries (Krentz, Crusie), and some historicals (Quick, James, Kleypas, Chase). So I could go with my mood at any given time.
My kindle is always with me for those “just in case I find 5 minutes that I can read” minutes.
My trusty pocket Constitution!
I always s have a Tamora Pierce book close to hand.
I always have my Kindle stocked with books!
I always have my Kindle stocked with books, especially romances!
If I had to have a single book with me – it would be Strunk & White Elements of Style. But I’d also like a nice romance along side it.
A Wrinkle in Time, The Hobbit or pretty much any Julie Garwood historical.
My kindle travels everywhere with me (in fact all new handbags MUST accommodate it). On my kindle I have a folder entitled “Survival” for when I have guests that I have to have ***cough MIL cough*** and I need go to books I love. That folder has a range a genres but ALL the books have an element of romance.
I always have a book in print or my eReader with me. Read just about everything, including cereal boxes!
My tablet goes with me, so I carry lots of books. The one I most want with me–and yes, there’s a copy on my tablet–is the Bible. Thanks for another great giveaway.
Honestly… it’s not one book, it’s hundreds 🙂 I can’t leave the room without my kindle fire. seriously, it goes before the cell phone. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I like to have Her Best Laid Plans by Cara McKenna always downloaded on my Kindle in case I need a quick pick-me-up. 🙂
Surrender to the Devil by Lorraine Heath is right next to me. It’s the first “real” book I’ve read in awhile. Most of my reading material is on my kindle which is also right next to me!
Historical romances for when I need a comfort read.
I need to have reading material to hand at all times. I used to always carry a couple paperbacks, but now I just try to keep a few new things on my phone. I read nearly anything so I’m not fussed about what. In fact, a cereal box or shampoo bottle will do in a pinch.
The book that makes me happy just to see it, the one that lives by the bed more often than not is a beat up old poetry anthology that had been my dad’s.
No particular book, but I have to have my kobo with all the books near me at all times. In fact, my husband drove an hour drive back to my dads house after our Christmas with him because I left my kobo there. It was very terrible driving weather, but he knew I couldn’t survive until the next day without it. I was rereading Kate Daniels… I know I should’ve stopped him.
I don’t have a particular book nearby, but, with my phone, my iPad, and various library books, I always have abook nearby.
Thankfully with my kindle…all of them!!
But when I was in my teens and twenties I moved around a lot and Knight In Shining Armor came with. Jude Deveroux was a favorite at this time in my life.
any Harry Potter book
Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynn Jones
The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen – short reflections he wrote during a time of depression. It’s my go-to book whenever I need a bit of wisdom or centering and is always nearby and goes everywhere with me.
Anything by Nora Roberts or Lisa Scottoline
I frequently have my Kindle with me but I always have a hardcopy book of sudoku.