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!
White Hot by Ilona Andrews! We all have been waiting sooo long.
There are so many as-yet-unread books on my shelves, and I would really love to read them all…
I am very much looking forward to reading Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell. Not all, but many of Thirkell’s books are great fun to read.
Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
Looking forward to Silver Silence by Nalini Singh.
I just realized that I haven’t preordered the next Mercy Thompson book yet. Claire North has a new book coming out as well. And then there’s the usual summer treat by Ilona Andrews. And a bunch that I’m certainly forgetting.
I want to read whatever books Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews and kresley cole publish 😀
All You Need by Lorelei James. LOVE this series!
I can’t wait to read Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop and the rest of Karina Halle’s books that I haven’t gotten to yet.
Zoe Archer’s new London Underground series!
Ward and Feehan. I’ve been putting off buying the newer releases until they were paperback. Got one, waiting on the other!
It’s not a 2017 book–I’m behind, thanks to grad school–but I’m really looking forward to reading Meg Cabot’s new “boy” book. She (And that series!) was my into into romance 🙂
I can’t wait for Between the Devil and the Duke by Kelly Bowen!
Sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot
Nalini Singh’s Silver Silence which kicks off season two of the “new” Psy-Changeling Trinity series.
There are lots of other books I want set for 2017, but this one tops my list.
The next Patricia Briggs book!
Silence fallen by Patricia Briggs. That stuff is my crack!
Devil in Spring!
I am waiting for the next Anne Bishop.
I’m excited to read the new Hidden Legacy book, White Hot, from Ilona Andrews. Only one book in, but I really love this new world. It’s helping me to accept the winding down of Kate Daniels:)
I’m really looking forward to The Unyielding by Shelly Laurenston. I loved the first two books in the Crow series. Also can’t wait for the new Kristan Higgins, On Second Thought.
Thanks for the great giveaways!
Silence fallen by Patricia Briggs. Can’t wait!
I am really looking forward to Devil in Spring, the new Eloisa James coming later this month and and the next insrallment in the Fusion series by Kristen Proby. I like the friendship among the women in that series. Each girl has her own strengths and while they call each other out on their crazy, they unconditionally support each other and still have their rituals like binge watching shows together without the guys. And the guys are ok with that and don’t throw stupid tantrums about being left out.
Amanda Quick’s newest, set in 1930’s California, sounds intriguing.I am also looking forward to a more consistent reading year.
What We Find by Robyn Carr – really hoping this is the start of a Virgin River type series. Devil in Spring (Lisa Kleypas), Where the Dead Lie (CS Harris), The Thing About Love (Julie James) and the next Colorado High Country book (Pamela Clare) round out my list.
Just finished Lucy Parker’s Act Like It last night and loved it (!) so I’m excited to see she has another book coming out in February. I’m also desperately awaiting the next book in Courtney Milan’s Worth Saga, and looking forward to Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Spring.
I have to second (or actually fifth or sixth) looking forward to new Anne Bishop and Zoe Archer books!
I’m always looking forward to the next Kate Daniels and Mercy Thompson books and this year is no different.
I’m pumped for whenever I get my copy of Goldenhand from the library. It’s the next of Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom books, a fantasy series with necromancy and bells and badass librarians that meant so much to me during my teenage years. I can’t wait to read where the story goes next.
Impatiently awaiting the next Psy-Changling and Iron Seas books.
Sometimes I think it would be very nice to revisit Winnie-The-Pooh. It’s been that kind of year. However, I have put Bitter Lemons by Laurence Durrell on my to read list.
I am looking forward to the next Seanan McGuire October Daye book. I haven’t enjoyed the last two as much as the earlier books, but I am still anxious to find out some of the back story on October and her missing sister. Hopefully, the next book will give a little more insight into the “bigger picture” of the story.
Reading through these comments is very, very bad for my TBR wishlist. My top four:
Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
the next(last) Maiden Lane book by Elizabeth Hoyt
the next Kate Daniels book by Illona Andrews
And the new book by Eloisa James
I can’t wait for Karen Marie Monings book Feverborn to come out! I binged the series last year and I’ve been waiting in suspense lol. Just 17 more days!! Also can’t wait for Lisa Kleypas’s next book, I knew I shouldn’t have started that series until she finished it, her books always leave me wanting more.
Looking forward to reading the Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews.
My biggest goal in 2017 is not to get many new books just read done my tbr pile. That being said, I have The Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas pre-ordered since The Devil in Winter is one of my all-time favorites. I also really want to read An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole, Pretty Face by Lucy Parker, and the super secret Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, and Rose Lerner project. I’m sure there will be a few others I’ll decide I have to have over the course of the year as well.
Well, I just learned that the final Maiden Lane series book is coming out, so definitely that. Also, Devil in Spring and Eloisa James has a new book coming out next month, so I want to read those. As for what I want, I want more Asian hero with a white heroine books. I read Jenn Bennett’s Roaring Twenties series purely for the third book with a Chinese hero and a white heroine, and I read that third book twice in a row. (I really enjoyed the series even though I don’t usually read paranormal.)
I am looking forward to Penny Reid’s The Cad and the Co-ed.
I am definitely looking forward to Pretty Face by Lucy Parker; I finally read Act Like It and loved it!
Happy Hanukkah everyone, Happy New Year too–let’s have a MUCH better 2017!
I’m looking forward to Twist, the latest in Kylie Scott’s Dive Bar series. And the next in Penny Reid’s Winston Brothers series. I love the people in those worlds soooooo much!
I’m waiting for the perfect day when I can sit down and inhale How Not To Let Go, by Emily Foster. I can’t start it in the evening because I’ll get another stripe on my Bad Decisions Book Club patch if I do.