It’s the eighth and final night of the Extrava-Hanukkah giveaways!
I hope you’ve had as much fun as we have with all the mayhem and merriment. It’s just delightful for me to celebrate all of you and to party for eight straight days.
The eighth night of Hanukkah is pretty special for me, too. We can probably heat the whole house with the warmth from all the candles, and we can definitely make s’mores. It’s bright and warm and beautiful while the are lit, too.
On to the giveaway! I know you like the handbag giveaways – I try to pick patterns that go with everything and shapes that are both useful but not too overwhelming. And I have one more bag in the strangely-shaped prize closet!
Today’s giveaway is:
A Kate Spade Blake Avenue Margareta tote in Diamond Dot!
This bag is 11.3″ high, 15.6″ wide, and 6.2″ deep (27.9cm x 39.5cm x 15.24cm), and the handle drop is nearly 10 inches (25cm). You’ll definitely be able to put it over your shoulder.
It’s an open tote with a recessed zipper closure, and it has two inside slide pockets and a zipper pocket as well. You can carry just about everything you need in this bag.
And, since you’ll need to get some new books and possibly other treats for yourself, we’re adding a $25 gift certificate to Amazon as well! Woo hoo!
Ready to enter? All you need to do is tell us about a book you really want to read next year. Maybe it’s a title or a series you’re anticipating, or maybe it’s a book that hasn’t been written yet but you still want to find it? What book are you looking forward to, real or imagines?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age. It’s totally okay to mix patterns while carrying this tote. Honestly, wear whatever you want. You’re going to look fabulous either way! Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Sunday 1 January 2017 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Happy Hanukkah everyone! Thank you for being part of the Smart Bitches community!
Update: Our final winner of our Extrava-Hanukkah giveaway is Jill L.! Big thank you to all the comments and to every one of you who make the community so awesome! Here’s to great things in 2017!
Oh golly, where do I begin? I’m curious to know what direction Nalini Singh’s going to take the Psy/Changelings in next. I’m looking forward to the next book in Anne Bishop’s Others series. I always look forward to what’s going on in J.D. Robb’s “In Death” series, even after all these years. Julie James’ new book, because it seems like it’s been a thousand years since the last one. There are soooo many others, but I’ll stop with those.
I’m especially looking forward to the next Kit Rocha book. Also to reading Iron Cast before I have to return it to the library.
Devil in Spring, definitely!
Looking forward to finishing the Spindle Cove series by Tessa Dare!
So excited that we’ll soon have Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas. There’s also a new book coming by Joanna Bourne, I believe in the summer, that I’m really looking forward to. Thanks for all the wonderful giveaways. SBTB is the best!
Like many readers – Anne Bishop’s Etched in Bone.
I’m adding to my tbr by reading these posts! I am looking forward to Kristen Ashley’s new series The Deep End and Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Spring.
I, too am desperately waiting for Devil in Spring!
Really looking forward to the latest Patricia Briigs, C.S. Harris, and Ilona Andrews. It is hard to number them!
I want to read After the WEdding, the Courtney Milan follow up to Once Upon a Marquess. I also can’t wait to read the second harry potter aloud to our five year old who adored book one.
Looking forward to the next books by Ilona Andrew, Nalini Singh and Lisa Shearin!
I’m anxiously waiting for White Hot, by Ilona Andrews, which was originally supposed to come out earlier. It has been a long wait, but soon now 🙂
Amanda Bouchet’s Breath of Fire and Lucy Parker’s next book. Thanks for the reviews that had me discovering two new authors I now absolutely love!
The second Veronica Speedwell by Deanna Raybourn! It’s called A Perilous Undertaking.
The next Hidden Legacy book by Ilona Andrews. I burn for this one. 😉
I am REALLY looking forward to reading the third book in Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller’s Chronicles…if it is ever released. I’ve been waiting for YEARS now.
So many – but especially the new Kleypas, Singh’s next Psy-Changeling, and anything Laurenston puts out.
Devil In Spring and the next (last) Kate Daniels book! Also, The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch! Oh, and White Hot. The last two were supposed to come out ages ago and kept getting delayed…
I’m waiting semi-patiently for Bellwether by Susanna Kearsley, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon, and the new Gideon’s Riders series by Kit Rocha.
2017 will be another great year in books!
I still need to read Girl on a Train.
I received the box set of Game of Thrones books for Christmas and I can’t wait to start on them!
I somehow got hooked on Lauren Layne’s contemporary books–looking forward to “Love Story” in February. Happy New Year everyone!
The next book in the Others series by Anne Bishop, Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas, anything that Nalini Singh writes next…so many other books that I’m forgetting!
I want to read White Hot by Ilona Andrews, she is my favorite!
My list of must-reads for 2017 is as long as my leg (arm is too short), but the first ones up in January are Laura Florand’s “A Crown of Bitter Orange” and Chanel Cleeton’s “On Broken Wings”. Looks like it’ll be a great year for romance book lovers!!
To Sarah & SB team: thank you for all the giveaways, and for all you’ve done this year. Happy New Year, Bitchery!
I am DETERMINED to finally read N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.
I’m also looking forward to the second trade of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress, which remains tragically far away.
The next book in Amanda Bouchet’s fire series — Amazon tells me it will arrive on my Kindle on Tuesday — the last 3 books in the October Daye series (I’m trying not to read them all too fast), Rise of the Rocket Girls, and (for political hope) The Impossible Will Take A Little While.
I’d like to read The Winds of Winter, but I don’t think George R.R. Martin is on board with that.
Two books, actually – The next Courtney Milan in her cyclone series. I am becoming interested in Adam and I love Tina’s mother. And the next book in Ann Bishop’s Others series.
The next Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Where the Dead Lie, by C.S. Harris
I am most excited to read the new Elizabeth Wein book, The Pearl Thief.
Ilona Andrews & Shelly Laurenston for my personal wins. Team Andrews has the entire 3 book Hidden Legacy series releasing this spring/summer, a new (but last) Kate Daniels this fall AND they’re continuing their Innkeeper series ALL IN 2017! Also, Ilona said something about a Hugh D’Ambray book which, if it’s going to be written [and she’s posted snippets!], has to release before the Kate book. ALL IN 2017!! Be still my heart.
Then there’s Shelly Laurenston- she has a new Crow book in March and should have a new Dragon Kin in the fall.
But, did you see where Ilona Andrews has 4, possibly 5, books AND a serial releasing in 2017? Can you tell I’m excited? Really, really excited.
I’m on the waiting list at my library for Do You Want to Start a Scandal
I’m counting down to the release of Beverly Jenkins’s Breathless. January 31!
Happy Hanukkah! Thank you for all these giveaways!
The book I’m really looking forward to in 2017 is ‘Thick as Thieves’ by Megan Whalen Turner. It’s in her Queen’s Thief series. She writes very slowly (her last book came out in…2010, I think?) so any book by her is a treat!
I just finished Moonshadow by Thea Harrison and I’m excited for Spellbound in summer 2017.
Really looking forward to Ilona Andrews’ 2017 releases, as well as the final Lady Trent memoir by Marie Brennan!
I am really looking forward to Joanna Bourne’s next book (Sevie’s story).
I’m looking forward to reading Because of Miss Bridgerton. I’ve got it, but haven’t had the time to read it yet.
Hmmm… well, the stuff I’m looking forward to is non-romance, but my plan is to re-read the Handmaids Tale. I know that may be masochism.