It’s time for the fourth night of Hanukkah, and our fourth giveaway!
The fourth night is usually when I make more latkes, probably spicy sweet potato, and am thinking that toasting marshmallows over the menorot might make for an excellent dessert options.
Today we have a collection of soft, warm, fuzzy, and squishy items to create your own reading space.
Ready?
We have a It’s Book O’Clock pillow, and that’s my favorite time of day, really.
There is also a Pride and Prejudice infinity scarf in ivory from LiteratiClub. It measures 60″ (150-153 cm) inches around and 14″-15″ (36-38 cm) inches wide, and is made of cotton-poly-rayon blend jersey. It is so soft and really snuggly.
There are also Yellow Library Card Print socks and an Alice In Wonderland tote bag, both from Out of Print Clothing.
Ready to enter? Just leave a comment telling us your favorite classic – of any genre!
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents were permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to create a soft and snugglesome reading area for yourself or someone you love. It is always book o’clock, of course. Comments will close Saturday 16 December at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
WINNER UPDATE: The winner of night four of our Hanukkah-palooza is AuntieKristin! Check your email inbox and spam folders shortly!
Alice is my favorite. I collect editions of Alice in Wonderland. I have a couple teasers that friends have bought for me, tarot cards,other little things. She will always be near and dear to my heart. ♥️
I have always loved the Count of Monte Crist’s and The Three Musketeers and over the years, I have read them in many different editions.
Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo gave (still gives) me all the feels!! But I also love Austen’s Emma and Persuasion for a “lighter” reads.
Pride and Prejudice will always be The Classic for me. Nothing is more of a comfort than Elizabeth & Darcy <3
Favorite classic…probably Persuasion by Jane Austen.
Jane Eyre is my favorite classic followed closely by Persuasion.
Pride and Prejudice. I read it for fun one Friday night in ninth grade, then reread it on Saturday when I woke up, before we ever analysed it in English class. (Going over it with a magnifying glass in class didn’t destroy my delight in it.)
Ha! I’m exhausted because we’re in dress rehearsals for a performance of Alice, and I’m Tweedledum!
In Fantasy genre, Anne Mccaffrey’s Dragonsong/Dragonsinger. 🙂
Happy Chanukah, good shabbos!
I love Alice. I have the 50s version of the Annotated Alice, and for a while I read it yearly. I ought to track down a newer version sometime.
Either Anne of Green Gables or Jane Eyre. Both of my copies are gifts over 40 years old.
For me, Pride and Prejudice has to be the classic I love the most. Every time I read it I find new layers to it. But I also have a soft spot for The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Masked heroes ftw!
Favorite classic is Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
My favorite classic is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
I don’t know if it’s my favorite favorite, per se, but I like going back and re-reading Candide by Voltaire. I read it first in one of my favorite high school classes, plus the Bernstein version has great music, so it always makes me happy.
I see that Persuasion is already getting much-deserved love, so I’ll go in a couple of different directions. How about EB White’s Charlotte’s Web for children’s books (so sweet, so heart-breaking) and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night to represent the golden age of mysteries.
It’s gotta be Pride and Prejudice. I read it at least once a year, and I usually watch multiple versions of it on on dvd as well.
True favorite of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird- I re-read it whenever I’m feeling a little hopeless and it inspires me every time.
The Ged trilogy by Ursula Le Guin
The Tenant of wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.
Listening to true crime &etc has made it look more insightful than ever. It’s also funny, and not only in a darkly humorous way.
I was mad about the Stevie Davies edition with Penguin Classics as a teen, and quotes from the intro still jump out at me, eg “the daughter of woman has nowhere to lay her head”.
Recently got the Oxford World Classics one for digital, and liked how child-centred it was.
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin
Lois Lowery’s The Giver series. I’ve read and reread countless times!
Probably Anna Karenina. For some reason, even though they are usually sad and tragic, Russian literature always makes me think of warm and cozy nights.
Anne. It’s been my favorite since I gave in to my grandmother’s nagging and read it when I was 11. Now I am (im)patiently waiting for my daughters to show any interest so I can press it on them
The Secret Garden. I must have read it 20 times as a youg girl, and I still love it despite all its faults.
My favourite adult classic is Pride and Prejudice. I have multiple paper copies, including a graphic version and a counting primer (1 English village, 2 rich gentlemen, 3 houses, 4 marriage proposals etc). And I always carry a digital copy with me in case I get stuck in a lift.
My favourite children’s classic is “The Children of Green Knowe” by
LM Boston. I carry a paper copy of that around, in case I need to alternate books when I am in that lift. It is a brilliant little book about an old house in the English countryside. A boarding school boy goes there to spend the Christmas holidays with his great grandmother and finds a connection with his ancestors.
In an interesting connection between these 2 books, Polly Maberly was in the cast of the BBC miniseries adaptations of both.
Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice …. gah! Can’t choose. Don’t make me!
Gatsby.
My favorite classics were always Sherlock Holmes. I can return to those stories again and again.
Persuasion is tied with Pride and Prejudice for me. They just give my heart the warm fuzzies.
Pride and Prejudice, now and forever. I first read the book prior to it being assigned for an English class I took on 19th century women novelists, and I’ve loved it ever since. I either read it or listen to an audiobook version of it every year.
I love Persuasion.
I don’t know if this counts because it’s a play, not a novel, but I love Hamlet. It’s my favorite Shakespeare play and I used to reread it frequently. I also love watching different film adaptations and the play/film Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
Another vote for Pride and Prejudice. I reread it at least once a year.
Pride and Prejudice or Little Women depending on my mood.
My favorite classic is the Silmarillion, by J R R Tolkien. It was also the first real book (as opposed to a simplified version) that I read in English, back when I was about 14. It took me the entire summer holiday to get through it, but thanks to a truly epic bout of stubbornness (and probably my Asperger’s) I managed.
After that, it was _amazing_ how easy and simple it was to read books in English.
Happy Hanukkah! My favorite classic is the Little House on the Prairie books. I just read Prairie Fires, a new biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose. Shattered some illusions, but I still love the books.
The Great Gatsby, always.
I’ve always liked Pursuasion by Jane Austen
Alcott’s Little Women and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
Pride and Prejudice. Probably my most re-read classic.